The first week where Jackson looked MVP like everybody he connected with looked like Saturday morning touch football open, the safeties were never to be seen and the cornerbacks looked like 40 year old guys covering 20 year olds.
That's exactly how he looked last night against the Rams, which has led the "
hype train" to get really out of hand, particularly "
Dried Nasal Mucus McFardland" from ESPN. I actually unlocked ESPN last night on my TV to watch the game, but watched very little of it and had the "mute" button on. I wonder if McFarland has ever heard of
Jackie Slater?
Long before there was a clown named Tony McFarland in the booth at ESPN, there was a Rams' legend named Jackie Slater doing NFL commentary. He was much brighter, a bit more articulate and not remotely as militantly anti-white as Tony McFarland. Nonetheless, at the end of Rams/Titans Super Bowl, Slater looked straight into the camera and
said something like this (don't recall the exact words): "
The Rams might've stopped McNair one yard short today, but that young man will be back and even better. McNair, and other quarterbacks like him, are the future of the game and no one can stop that. There will be no room for the same type of traditional, drop-back quarterback that played during my career (1976-1995)
. That ERA is over, McNair and others like him are the future".
Okay, Slater is long gone from the public eye. If he's still broadcasting, I don't where? For some context, nine months prior to that Super Bowl, NFL teams selected 3 black quarterbacks among the top 11 picks in the
1999 NFL Draft. Two other black quarterbacks (Shaun King & Aaron Brooks) were "
handed" starting jobs early in their career, so it seemed Slater's prediction was going to come true, whether anyone else liked it or not! Add to that, white first round quarterback's like Tim Couch, Cade McNown, Jim Druckenmiller, ex-N.C. congressman Heath Shuler and Ryan Leaf looked like "relics" from a former, outdated era and total busts. After turning around his career, even Trent Dilfer was flopping and benched. Dozen's of whites drafted after round one from 1994 to 1999 offered very little hope. Aside from Jake Plummer, it was an endless string of nobodies like Danny Wuerffel, Stony Case, Eric Zeier, Danny Kanell, Dave Barr, Jeff Lewis, Pat Barnes, Perry Klein, Doug Nussmeier, Chad May, Steve Stenstrom and Brock Huard, who were clearly lost in the
utter avalanche of "affletic quarterbacks" coming out!
If you believed Hall of Fame offensive tackle/former Fox broadcaster Jackie Slater and the overwhelming evidence at the time, white quarterbacks would have been a
small minority by the year 2009, perhaps? Did it happen?
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Below, I posted this regarding veteran
New York Times writer and ESPN race agitator William Rhoden in another thread this year. Does it sound familiar to what we are discussing today in the
year of the black quarterback? I think 1999 or 2000 was the last
year of the black quarterback and how long did that last
?
According to Rhoden, "
athletically superior blacks" have been on the verge of "
taking over the quarterback position" since the mid-1990's, or even prior? That group included Kordell, Philanderer McNair, Jeff Blake, Randall Cunningham, Warren Moon, Rodney Peete, Tony Banks, Charlie Batch and dozens of other enormous upsiders in high school and college at that time that were deemed ultra athletic and future NFL prospects that never did much -- Akili Smiff, Aaron Brooks, Marques Tuiasosopo
, Spergeon Wynn, Henry Burris, Quincy Carter, Micheal Bishop, Tee Martin, Five-Star phenom Chris Lewis (Stanford) the list can go on and on. The
Don King of Dog Fighting (Vick), Duante Culpepper and "
Big Don" (McNabb) were good to varying degrees, but none really
changed the position.
Back in 2000, 4 of the 6 starting quarterbacks in the NFC playoffs where black: McNabb; Shaun King; Jeff Blake and Duante Culpepper. Was almost 5/6... Actually should have been 5/6, as Charlie Batch and the Lions barely missed making it after losing to a bad Bears team in the final week by a field goal. In the AFC you had only one black quarterback make the playoffs -- McNair, who led his squad to the Super Bowl in 1999. Kordell and the Steelers, like Detroit, barely missed. So that was 5/12 Upsiders in the 2000 playoffs. Very easily could've been 7 of 12 and I'm sure
Rhodent types thought
white quarterbacks would soon be extinct then. None made it to the Super Bowl that year and very few have made it since 2000.
This is nothing new, Gentlemen and Lurkers.
