There is a similar photo on an ESPN magazine cover showing Luke Walton spinning a ball on his middle finger, and it could be interpreted as an obscene gesture, too. I think there's kind of this unspoken rule in professional sports where, if you're white, you're held to a higher standard of behavior expectations than black athletes. Example: Bill Lambeer is considered one of the nastiest players in the game but a lot of black players play much rougher than him and they never get accused of playing dirty.
Same double standard in other things, like stand-up comedy, where black "comedians" make race -- specifically, ridiculing whites and other races, including themselves -- the focal point of their routine, and we're expected to laugh. That's okay, because sometimes they're actually being funny and it's good to have a sense of humor about yourself.
But blacks clearly don't have a sense of humor when it comes to whites ridiculing blacks, even though it's "okay" for blacks to make fun of whites.
Back to Csonka. If he grew up in the world today he'd smash high school records left and right as an RB, but when he got to college he'd probably sit on the bench, assuming he even got in anywhere.
A white man I know from work and I were talking about whether or not Csonka could be a force in today's NFL as an RB. He contended that Csonka would be mediocre, because today's game is "tougher."
To which I contended -- Csonka played several games with a broken nose bleeding onto his jersey. He's certainly big enough (6'3"). Today's game is different, but then, Csonka would benefit from the alleged superior training programs of today, too. He could adapt and be like Mike Alstott (another great who, good as he was, could have achieved more if given the ball).
I don't think Csonka would put up HOF numbers today because he wouldn't be trusted with the ball in 2007 like he was in 1972. Coaches, fans -- many of them white, who demean their own people with phrases like 'white boy' -- would think a coach was crazy if he ran plays for a white halfback.
That's the problem with football. It's ingrained in fans' minds that whites can't play RB or other positions, and the media now wants to make us think whites are obsolescent at the QB, too.
Ridiculous, yet I believe that blacks won't be happy until there isn't one white player left in the NFL. The media seems to give every culture a free pass when it comes to selfish, self-promoting behavior, but white men's balls have been cut off, and it seems that our world won't be happy now until all white men are either gay or some black man's personal assistant, or both.
Edited by: yanling
