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Detroit Lions wide receiver Mike Furrey is on pace for a 1,000 yard season, the only white player with a shot at that milestone this year. He's also on track for over 80 catches. He is ranked in the top 25 by most fantasy football services and the media is begrudgingly starting to give him some recognition for a pretty good season.
What is even more amazing about the season Mike Furrey is putting together is that last year he was playing safety for the St. Louis Rams. Can you imagine the publicity he would be getting if he were black? The media usually engages in a nauseating love-fest for any black football player that even attempts to play both ways on a football team. Remember "Neon" Deion Saunders and the vomit inducing hype that was his pro career? Whenever a black "afalete" gets a couple of snaps on both sides of the ball it is treated like the second coming of Jim Thorpe.
Unfortunately, due to Mike Furrey's lack of outer epidermal melanin, the media has been strangely silent on this rather amazing athlete and the year he is having. Since white athletes are viewed with negative connotations, the media is generally oblivious to the accomplishments of a white player based on his athletic ability.
Even now there are a laundry list of excuses parsed out by the media as to why Furrey has had such a great year in his transition from safety to wide receiver. Furrey is referred to as a "hard worker," he is a "team player," he is "smart," all of the common adjectives affixed to white players to explain their success since as EVERYBODY knows it cannot be due to athletic ability.
While the above qualities ARE possessed by Furrey, he is also fast, quick, a good jumper, has tremendous hands, and is an overall great athlete. If he is not all those things then why are none of the superior black athletes doing what he has done?
Furrey came to the Lions in the off-season, invited there by offensive coordinator Mike Martz, who had coached him in St. Louis. Martz wanted Furrey for the inside slot position since the Lions had stockpiled big, slow, slippery-fingered black receivers with high draft choices the last few years. Matt Millen, the Lions disaster of a GM, has followed conventional wisdom and drafted a ton of black receivers that have little speed, extremely poor work ethics, who lack intelligence, run poor routes, and drop easy passes. In other words the type of player that plays receiver on every NFL team.
Martz, however, wanted something different, a receiver that could catch, was smart enough to understand his complicated playbook, and would play hard. With Furrey he got that in spades.
Martz, considered an offensive "genius" (perhaps because he plays white players at the receiver position and wins), went after Furrey in the offseason. In St. Louis he had Kevin Curtis, as well as Dane Looker and Furrey, which is an astronomically high number of white receivers on a single NFL roster.
Furrey, after catching 20 passes in his first season with the Rams in 2003, only caught one the following season when some healthy draft picks  Kevin Curtis and Shaun McDonald  got more action. Furrey and Dane Looker, another reserve receiver, found themselves wondering if they'd be inactive from week to week.
Martz asked Furrey to move to safety, so in 2005 Furrey, who bulked up 20 pounds to 210 to handle the free safety position, started 11 games, made 55 tackles, knocked down eight passes and had four interceptions. Very good stats for any player, unbelievable for someone making the transition from offense to defense.
Furrey's road to success in the NFL has been difficult. He has suffered from the typical devaluation that is forced upon white college football players. Like nearly all white receivers in Div. I football he was only allowed to make the team as a "walk-on."
For those unaware of the meaning of the term, a "walk on" is a player (usually white) who makes the roster of the varsity football team but does not receive any scholarship money to play. This ploy is essentially an additional tax on the white middle class as universities gladly pay the tuition of black players on the team so as to boost their cherished goal of "diversity." The parents of the white kids get to experience one of the many "advantages" of diversity by having to work two jobs or get a second mortgage so as to be able to send their kid to school.
Furrey originally went to Ohio State, which apparently had no spot for a guy who is capable of playing both ways in the NFL. He put up with being benched for lesser black players for two years before finally finding a school that would pay for his tuition with a scholarship and so he transferred to small program Northern Iowa to finish out his college career. The Indianapolis Colts, the only other "white receiver friendly" pro team besides the Martz-coached Rams, gave Furrey a look in training camp but cut him.
Furrey was the last man cut as is typical of the "purging of whites at taboo positions" that occurs before the start of every NFL season. He then went to the XFL in 2001 during its one year of existence and then to the Arena League later in 2001. He played in the Arena League for two more years, setting records as a receiver in the process, and then went to St. Louis. Why? Because his white skin was the barrier that kept his talent from being acknowledged by the "experts" that do things like rate a bum such as Mike Williams (Furrey's back-up on the Lions) as a first round draft pick.
Furrey's friendship with Kurt Warner, who played college ball and Arena ball in the same places as Furrey, was the only reason that Furrey was not tossed on the mountain-sized scrap heap of white football players. Warner helped convince the Rams scouts to check him out and Furrey was signed as a free agent. He made the team with his speed, route-running ability, hands and special teams work. Now, at 29 years old (and back down to 190 pounds), Furrey finds himself as the No. 1 slot receiver on the Lions after his long odyssey through the lower ranks of football.
It's a great story, former minor league football player, a walk-on at college, using his high work ethic and athletic skills to overcome the tremendous racial prejudice he has faced all of his football life, to become a star in the NFL. His efforts and accomplishments should serve as an inspiration to all young white players that hope one day to play in the NFL. It should also be a warning about the unrelenting bias they will face merely due to their race. At Caste Football, we congratulate Mike Furrey on his great season and hope for many more.
Detroit Lions wide receiver Mike Furrey is on pace for a 1,000 yard season, the only white player with a shot at that milestone this year. He's also on track for over 80 catches. He is ranked in the top 25 by most fantasy football services and the media is begrudgingly starting to give him some recognition for a pretty good season.
What is even more amazing about the season Mike Furrey is putting together is that last year he was playing safety for the St. Louis Rams. Can you imagine the publicity he would be getting if he were black? The media usually engages in a nauseating love-fest for any black football player that even attempts to play both ways on a football team. Remember "Neon" Deion Saunders and the vomit inducing hype that was his pro career? Whenever a black "afalete" gets a couple of snaps on both sides of the ball it is treated like the second coming of Jim Thorpe.
Unfortunately, due to Mike Furrey's lack of outer epidermal melanin, the media has been strangely silent on this rather amazing athlete and the year he is having. Since white athletes are viewed with negative connotations, the media is generally oblivious to the accomplishments of a white player based on his athletic ability.
Even now there are a laundry list of excuses parsed out by the media as to why Furrey has had such a great year in his transition from safety to wide receiver. Furrey is referred to as a "hard worker," he is a "team player," he is "smart," all of the common adjectives affixed to white players to explain their success since as EVERYBODY knows it cannot be due to athletic ability.
While the above qualities ARE possessed by Furrey, he is also fast, quick, a good jumper, has tremendous hands, and is an overall great athlete. If he is not all those things then why are none of the superior black athletes doing what he has done?
Furrey came to the Lions in the off-season, invited there by offensive coordinator Mike Martz, who had coached him in St. Louis. Martz wanted Furrey for the inside slot position since the Lions had stockpiled big, slow, slippery-fingered black receivers with high draft choices the last few years. Matt Millen, the Lions disaster of a GM, has followed conventional wisdom and drafted a ton of black receivers that have little speed, extremely poor work ethics, who lack intelligence, run poor routes, and drop easy passes. In other words the type of player that plays receiver on every NFL team.
Martz, however, wanted something different, a receiver that could catch, was smart enough to understand his complicated playbook, and would play hard. With Furrey he got that in spades.
Martz, considered an offensive "genius" (perhaps because he plays white players at the receiver position and wins), went after Furrey in the offseason. In St. Louis he had Kevin Curtis, as well as Dane Looker and Furrey, which is an astronomically high number of white receivers on a single NFL roster.
Furrey, after catching 20 passes in his first season with the Rams in 2003, only caught one the following season when some healthy draft picks  Kevin Curtis and Shaun McDonald  got more action. Furrey and Dane Looker, another reserve receiver, found themselves wondering if they'd be inactive from week to week.
Martz asked Furrey to move to safety, so in 2005 Furrey, who bulked up 20 pounds to 210 to handle the free safety position, started 11 games, made 55 tackles, knocked down eight passes and had four interceptions. Very good stats for any player, unbelievable for someone making the transition from offense to defense.
Furrey's road to success in the NFL has been difficult. He has suffered from the typical devaluation that is forced upon white college football players. Like nearly all white receivers in Div. I football he was only allowed to make the team as a "walk-on."
For those unaware of the meaning of the term, a "walk on" is a player (usually white) who makes the roster of the varsity football team but does not receive any scholarship money to play. This ploy is essentially an additional tax on the white middle class as universities gladly pay the tuition of black players on the team so as to boost their cherished goal of "diversity." The parents of the white kids get to experience one of the many "advantages" of diversity by having to work two jobs or get a second mortgage so as to be able to send their kid to school.
Furrey originally went to Ohio State, which apparently had no spot for a guy who is capable of playing both ways in the NFL. He put up with being benched for lesser black players for two years before finally finding a school that would pay for his tuition with a scholarship and so he transferred to small program Northern Iowa to finish out his college career. The Indianapolis Colts, the only other "white receiver friendly" pro team besides the Martz-coached Rams, gave Furrey a look in training camp but cut him.
Furrey was the last man cut as is typical of the "purging of whites at taboo positions" that occurs before the start of every NFL season. He then went to the XFL in 2001 during its one year of existence and then to the Arena League later in 2001. He played in the Arena League for two more years, setting records as a receiver in the process, and then went to St. Louis. Why? Because his white skin was the barrier that kept his talent from being acknowledged by the "experts" that do things like rate a bum such as Mike Williams (Furrey's back-up on the Lions) as a first round draft pick.
Furrey's friendship with Kurt Warner, who played college ball and Arena ball in the same places as Furrey, was the only reason that Furrey was not tossed on the mountain-sized scrap heap of white football players. Warner helped convince the Rams scouts to check him out and Furrey was signed as a free agent. He made the team with his speed, route-running ability, hands and special teams work. Now, at 29 years old (and back down to 190 pounds), Furrey finds himself as the No. 1 slot receiver on the Lions after his long odyssey through the lower ranks of football.
It's a great story, former minor league football player, a walk-on at college, using his high work ethic and athletic skills to overcome the tremendous racial prejudice he has faced all of his football life, to become a star in the NFL. His efforts and accomplishments should serve as an inspiration to all young white players that hope one day to play in the NFL. It should also be a warning about the unrelenting bias they will face merely due to their race. At Caste Football, we congratulate Mike Furrey on his great season and hope for many more.
