After a few days of writers block I'd like to thank Donovan McNabb for opening his mouth and inspiring me to write again. Evidently on HBO probably Real Sports (a title stolen from Greazy and I in college) he alleged that black quarterbacks are scrutinized more than white quarterbacks because the NFL as a league is behind other sports in racial equality or some shit like that. I don't think anyone denies that there was a period in time where black quarterbacks were unfairly criticized because they were black. The Doug Williams and Warren Moon's of the world can probably attest to all the hassle they put up with.
Now a days quarterbacks are criticized ritually based on performance fairly or unfairly. Maybe the fact that the Eagles are 0-2 has something to do with McNabb being criticized in the media. Or maybe he has just flat out blown for the first two weeks of the year. Look around the league, the likes of Drew Brees who is white as well as Jay Cutler or Chad Pennington have all taken their lumps two weeks into the season. It just gets old hearing the race card played in pro sports especially the NFL. It's bad enough every time a coach is fired the search for the next black coach is on and we endure months of discussion on why more black coaches aren't hired. So McNabb, quit passing the buck and play better and you might not have to deal with the criticism so much although it doesn't help that you're in Philly the city sportsmanship forgot....
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