Tom Iron said:
The interesting thing here is that not just Young, but all black QB's at some point do something so outrageous, that they sink their own ship. When one of them comes up, it's only a matter of time until whatever he's going to do manifests itself. It could be fighting with a teamate or lousing up a big throw or fumbling a handoff, you never know. The only thing you do know is that it'll be at the worst time.
For all of football's history up until the late 1960s, when one thought of a football player, he was almost always white. This was reinforced by the media, including cover stories in Time, Life, Look and other magazines, of white quarterbacks, running backs, receivers, defensive players, all positions. In World War II especially white football players like Glenn Davis, the amazingly talented running back for high-flying Army, was unabashedly portrayed as an inspirational hereo, as he should have been in what was for all of its history until a generation ago a white country.ÂÂ
As Col. Callan has detailed, 1968 was the year the old revolutionary guard that took over completely by FDR's New Deal was overthrown by the "new left" -- 80 percent Jewish the sons of the privileged who refused to serve in Vietnam, as even Reader's Digest admitted in a rare slip-up -- and the counterculture went into 24/7 overdrive. Overnight, the white athlete as hero was replaced in football, sprinting, and basketball by blacks.
But the Caste System was never able to enthrone the American Negro in baseball other than a brief heyday during all of the 1960s through the mid-1970s, which is the cause of the present all-consuming media rage against the fact that American whites are still a bare majority of MLB employees instead of a tiny minority ala football and basketball.ÂÂ
Americans are now well-trained to visualize only a black when they think of a football player, while regarding any white player other than a quarterback or offensive lineman as inferior, and even those two positions are constantly being pushed blackward.ÂÂ
Once one is freed from such constraints, the many buffoons attempting to play a position they are unsuited for is easily seen rather than being a cause for kneejerk hero worship.