Electric Slide, thanks for posting the Hartline article. The only receiver that I ever hear about from the east coast media on Ohio State is Robiskie. Hartline looks to be more explosive than the last white receiver from OSU to be given a chance to play in the NFL, Brian Stablein. I remember Stablein gettingvery little attention from the national media despitedemonstrating excellent receiving skills as a Buckeye. Stablein playedbriefly for theIndianapolis Colts, he was in the end zoneandone of the receivers in the vicinity of Jim Harbaugh'sHail Mary attempt on the last play of the 1994 AFC Championship Game versus San Diego. Stablein was one of many white receivers in the 1990s whodidn't get a fair shake in theNFL.
As was mentioned in the Hartline article, I'm definitely noticing that more and more white players (Hartline, Sharp, McGuffie, Kevin Curtis) have strong track backgrounds. This is worth examining moving forward. Whites are told pretty much from birth that they are slow and clumsy and will never be capable of being able to sprint with blacks. I know that in my high school (which was 95 percent white), we would play football in the fall and baseball in the spring. Our fastest athletes never ran indoor track during the winter. A few guys played basketball, but most of us prepared for baseball indoors (batting cages, etc). Looking back, I can really see how the caste system led our best athletes to pursue baseball. Four of the guys I played with played in the minor leagues, only one guy played Division I football (as a walk-on).
Back to my point, I feel that as more and more young white athletes run track in combination with football, we will continue to see a greater number of whites as starting tailbacks at high levels. We are already seeing white track stars excel in football. This is only the beginning.
