Believe it or not, last weekend's draft showed how "diverse" the NFL has become, according to Len Pasquarelli of ESPN and various league honchos:
As the Tagliabue Era winds down, the NFL still isn't as global a professional sports entity as, say, the NBA, and might never be. But the advances made in recent years certainly have been encouraging. And as last weekend's draft demonstrated, although the NFL isn't yet a league of nations, a lot more nations are sending players to the league.
In numbers that are impossible to ignore.
"The diversity [of the draft] was really quite remarkable," said Elie Joseph, father of former Oklahoma Sooners offensive lineman and Tampa Bay Buccaneers first-round draft pick Davin Joseph, and a man who emigrated to the United States from Haiti nearly a quarter-century ago.
And why not? This draft, after all, reflected an NFL that is drawing prospects from far-flung corners of the globe, and in increased volume. Diversity, on the other hand, has long been an NFL calling card.
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"Diversifying" the NFL means replacing the league's small contingent of white players with Africans and other foreign-born non-whites. Of coursethe incessantly repeated lie "diversity is our strength" inpractice means the same thing on a societal scale -- replacing the white race in the U.S. except forthe privileged whiteelite at the top of the financial totem pole, similar to the way many Third World countries are run.Edited by: Don Wassall
As the Tagliabue Era winds down, the NFL still isn't as global a professional sports entity as, say, the NBA, and might never be. But the advances made in recent years certainly have been encouraging. And as last weekend's draft demonstrated, although the NFL isn't yet a league of nations, a lot more nations are sending players to the league.
In numbers that are impossible to ignore.
"The diversity [of the draft] was really quite remarkable," said Elie Joseph, father of former Oklahoma Sooners offensive lineman and Tampa Bay Buccaneers first-round draft pick Davin Joseph, and a man who emigrated to the United States from Haiti nearly a quarter-century ago.
And why not? This draft, after all, reflected an NFL that is drawing prospects from far-flung corners of the globe, and in increased volume. Diversity, on the other hand, has long been an NFL calling card.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasqua relli_len&id=2434221
"Diversifying" the NFL means replacing the league's small contingent of white players with Africans and other foreign-born non-whites. Of coursethe incessantly repeated lie "diversity is our strength" inpractice means the same thing on a societal scale -- replacing the white race in the U.S. except forthe privileged whiteelite at the top of the financial totem pole, similar to the way many Third World countries are run.Edited by: Don Wassall