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I've always thought that with most coaches, when it comes down to it, they will go with a white QB. If the QB fails, the coach will usually lose his job. This is why the QB position has stayed heavily white.

David Climer is a long-time sportwriter, now columnist, at the Tennessean newpaper. His column praised Mariani. I presume Climer guests on radio shows.

The Tennessean journalist, David Climer, didn't say it. A commenter did.

As of now, Rep. Giffords is still alive. The suspect is a 22-year old white male named Jared Laughner, according to first reports.

I just saw a column on Marc Mariani in The Tennessean newspaper. A DWF commenter wrote that Mariani "lacks the speed and quickness to last 5-6 years as a returner.

Stanford has always had academic requirements that other big-time programs did not. This is the case no matter who is Stanford's coach. Bill Walsh went from Stanford to the 49ers in 1979 and his Super Bowl winners had many white players. Walsh did seem to like intelligent players. Many...

"Ath-uh-lete" is a pronunciation sometimes used by white mid-westerners, the late President Gerald Ford, for example. I once read that Red Grange would say it that way as an announcer.

A Washington Post writer thinks Young would be a "good fit" on the Redskins.

The NFL Network has a Top 10 show called "The 10 Best Coaches Never To Win a Super Bowl." Fisher, or course, is one of them. The commenters praised Fisher lavishly. One said that if Fisher lost his job with the Titans, he would have another job the next day. Incidentally, a friend of mine is...

Funny thing, the 1979 Rams were strong on defense, but weak at WR. I recall a Pro Football Weekly columnist writing, "The Rams have no wide receivers." He was talking about Billy Waddy, Preston Dennard, and Ron Smith. Not exactly legendary names.

Cleveland, today at least, doesn't look like a very good team. I expect Holmgren to make a lot of changes.

Tennessee fans are taking the loss to North Carolina in the Music City Bowl hard.

Yes, Jack Johnson won the title legitimately and his reign was as legitimate as the other champions of the period. He didn't defend against black heavyweights Joe Jeannette and Sam Langford because the promoters shut them out against Johnson and the white champions as well. It was hard to...

Yes, she was black.

Drew Brees threw a BAD pass that was run back for a TD. He then had another interception off a batted pass. Brees then led a winning TD drive to beat the Falcons 17-14. He showed the mental toughness a great QB needs.

Even if it "seemed" the majority were white, they were not. Golden Richards ran a punt back for a TD in the 1973 NFC Championship game. He also had a TD punt return againt the Eagles in the 1975 regular season. Edited by: sport historian

I just checked the leading punt returner for each team for 1975 and 1979. By my count 20 out of 26 team punt return leaders were black in 1975. In 1979, 21 of 28 were black (two teams had been added). There were some white punt returners who attracted attention like Eddie Brown and Dino...

I agree.

My guess is more than 40 years.

Fifty years ago, some in the sports media were saying that Jim Brown was "wearing down." For a Christmas present in 1960, I got a subscription to Sport magazine. The December 1960 issue had a story called "Is Jimmy Brown's Career in Danger?" The piece speculated that Jimmy Brown was being...

Long-time Sports Illustrated writer, Dan Jenkins, in the second of his Billy Clyde Puckett novels, had an interesting paragraph on the subject of white tight ends. With his fictional protaganist as the narrator, he wrote that coaches like white tight ends because the TE has to do a lot of...

A troll who sounds like our old friend Brutal has taken over a thread at Stuff Black People Don't Like about Peyton Hillis. His theme in post after post is that white running backs, Hillis in particular, are never as good as black running backs.