nj816
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While I agree, as most do on this site that the most glaring and obvious discrimination against white players is at the skill positions, the discrimination against white players at the offensive line positions is fairly egregious also.
A microcosm of this took place during last night's Colts-Giants game.
Giants left tackle Luke Petitgout and Colts right tackle Ryan Diem totally shut down pro bowl defensive ends Dwight Freeney and Michael Strahan respectively. Freeney was held to one assisted tackle all night by Petitgout.
Petitgout has been vilified and scorned by the NY media for years, even though he has been a quality shut down tackle. Meanwhile, the NY media fell in love with Kareem McKenzie, the Giants mediocre right tackle, who is grossly overpaid and was the weak link last year on the Giants otherwise all white line.
When the Giants signed McKenzie, you would have thought they had just signed John Hannah by the way he was portrayed in the the media. They immediately called it a great signing and said that he was an immediate upgrade and the most "athletic" of the Giants lineman. The only thing most of these idiots saw was that he was black, which immediately qualifys him to be a great player.
It is comical how the caste system applied to the o-line. Fat, black offensive lineman such as the now retired Randall McDaniel and Larry Allen are lauded by the media and get a free pass to the pro-bowl every year even though they are well past their primes and at point in their careers where they should have been replaced long ago.
I can remember last year, Jonathan Ogden, getting eaten alive be Freeney on a Sunday night game. Yet Ogden is perceived by many to be the best tackle in the game while Petitgout is cast as your typical mediocre, replaceable white lineman.
The real pathetic part of all this, is that the majority of white, jock sniffing fans buy into the raves about the Ogdens, Orlando Paces an Lecharles Bentleys of the worlds as the best at their positions simply because the media says it is so.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not an expert at watching the game in the trenches, but very few, media included, are either. The only way to truly assess the performance of an offensive lineman is to break down game film. However, the short cut route to this is easy. If the offensive lineman is black he must be better than his white counterpart.
I'm sure that Ogden will get his free ride to Hawaii this year as long as he is breathing, while fans and media alike will be calling for Guy Whimper to replace Petitgout after one false start penalty.
A microcosm of this took place during last night's Colts-Giants game.
Giants left tackle Luke Petitgout and Colts right tackle Ryan Diem totally shut down pro bowl defensive ends Dwight Freeney and Michael Strahan respectively. Freeney was held to one assisted tackle all night by Petitgout.
Petitgout has been vilified and scorned by the NY media for years, even though he has been a quality shut down tackle. Meanwhile, the NY media fell in love with Kareem McKenzie, the Giants mediocre right tackle, who is grossly overpaid and was the weak link last year on the Giants otherwise all white line.
When the Giants signed McKenzie, you would have thought they had just signed John Hannah by the way he was portrayed in the the media. They immediately called it a great signing and said that he was an immediate upgrade and the most "athletic" of the Giants lineman. The only thing most of these idiots saw was that he was black, which immediately qualifys him to be a great player.
It is comical how the caste system applied to the o-line. Fat, black offensive lineman such as the now retired Randall McDaniel and Larry Allen are lauded by the media and get a free pass to the pro-bowl every year even though they are well past their primes and at point in their careers where they should have been replaced long ago.
I can remember last year, Jonathan Ogden, getting eaten alive be Freeney on a Sunday night game. Yet Ogden is perceived by many to be the best tackle in the game while Petitgout is cast as your typical mediocre, replaceable white lineman.
The real pathetic part of all this, is that the majority of white, jock sniffing fans buy into the raves about the Ogdens, Orlando Paces an Lecharles Bentleys of the worlds as the best at their positions simply because the media says it is so.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not an expert at watching the game in the trenches, but very few, media included, are either. The only way to truly assess the performance of an offensive lineman is to break down game film. However, the short cut route to this is easy. If the offensive lineman is black he must be better than his white counterpart.
I'm sure that Ogden will get his free ride to Hawaii this year as long as he is breathing, while fans and media alike will be calling for Guy Whimper to replace Petitgout after one false start penalty.
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