Another phenomena, related: in rap songs, blacks will occasionally make reference to white icons in a positive or glorifying light (i.e. "I'm a terminator like arnold schwarzenegger", "is your game MVP like Steve Nash"). Granted, these lyrics aren't emanating in every case from the most gansta or hardcore "artists" but nevertheless...This is largely an instinct for diplomacy and a desire for a larger audience i.e. a greater will to power (again a USEFUL diplomatic concession).
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actually the Terminator reference was used first by House of Pain in Jump Around, a White group who boasted Irish Pride and the main guy later did "blues" Whitey Ford i think? but I get your point. Lil Wayne (who is supposed to be gangsta but was a nerd in high school) has referenced many White guys, usually in mix tapes which are more popular than the actual albums. Something about "im like something? like Steve Largent." "Peyton Manning flow I just go no huddle", Brett Favre but a few non qb references like Largent , I think he mentioned Nash as well. When I wasnt well aware of the caste system I was like "this guy is cool he mentioned Steve Largent"
Manziel is great, but all of these comments saying people will be done if he doesn't get a fair shot, I have a feeling that a lot of people arent going to be watching football. He is just too good of an athlete, if he is given a fair shot, he will excel and it will hurt the caste system by having such a great dual threat qb be White. I mean he is better than all of the dual threat qbs I have seen, and he doesn't really need to run to succeed. He stayed in the pocket the other night and had success, but they announcers were saying the coaches were going to work on him staying in the pocket and making plays anyway. I wonder what thats about?
I am worried about his knee, thats the 2nd time it got aggravated. He needs to balance his body out so he is not putting too much weight on one leg, which is the common reason why one leg is more prone. Also, affletes are going to be targetting it, it already happened last night, twisting it when he was already down, tackled by tripping up his good leg.
I mean Manziel has the full package. I feel like Tebow needs the read option in order to excel, he often locks onto his primary read and struggles reading defenses. I think he should have tried switching to rb but that wouldn't have been allowed.
With all of these failed experiments of dual threat black quarterbacks and Manziel comes in and makes them look like the journeymen game managers that they are, that would be a big blow, so they are just using the same old "won't translate", which isn't new. It has been used for many White athletes, like Burkhead going into college (game won't translate to college level), yeah they sure hit that nail on the head....
I wouldn't be surprised to see him go to a team that has a star qb in his prime, kind of like they do to our runningbacks.
