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Russel Wilson's mom is black, they showed her in the stands during the 49ers@Seahawks game.
Russel Wilson's mom is black, they showed her in the stands during the 49ers@Seahawks game.
Foobar75 said:I've been watching all the adulation that's been given to Ray Lewis on various shows all day. It's sickening to see a double murderer be hailed as some sort of mythical figure with off the charts praise and respect from everyone. Here's hoping the Broncos destroy BAL next week before this story gets anymore press.
Those DWFs are going to be devastated if some news reports about RG3's injuries are true. A torn ACL takes what - close to a year to be rehabilitated? He might miss next season. Bring on Kirk Cousins! Though given the RG3 hype one can only imagine the pressure he'd be under next year as starting QB from the unforgiving DWFs.
BTW Ray Lewis is said to be in negotiations with ESPN to become one of their pundits. Maybe they'll replace Mike Ditka and have Chris Berman as the lone pale face on NFL Countdown.
Overrated black players do not implement the CF. Running them down or wishing them injury just makes us look like drunk bigots bookends to the DWFs.
I agree that it's classless to wish injury on someone but it wouldn't make any difference to the DWF's, they still see us as bigots because of what we believe.
Overrated black players do not implement the CF. Running them down or wishing them injury just makes us look like drunk bigots bookends to the DWFs.
Don Wassall said:As far as Lewis, he's definitely a "company man" and that's not meant negatively. He worked hard, played very hard, and always rallied his teammates to play hard. He did his thing and exercised his leadership in a distinctly "African" kind of way, but that's today's NFL and today's America. Roger Goddell was saying the other day on the NFL Network that he and Lewis spoke on the phone often and that he consulted Lewis on various issues. The much replayed hug on the sidelines between Goddell and Lewis before the Ravens-Colts game yesterday was highly symbolic.
Lewis seemed to lead a good life after the "incident" that resulted in him being charged with murder. Of course the media lionization of him has always been much higher than it deserved to be, but at least he wasn't a repeat felon or prima donna. Won't be surprising at all if he quickly moves to ESPN or the NFL Network and becomes yet another grammar-challenged former player to have to listen to.
I once saw portions of a documentary on Lewis’ day-to-day life, which gave the impression that he was friendly, deeply religious, trained very hard, was relatively well-spoken (even in the presence of other blacks) and was a positive influence on his younger black teammates. Despite Lewis having 6 children with 4 different women (I’m not sure how many times he was actually married), he seems like a good father.
Despite what occurred during the “incident†some 13 years ago, I’d easily take Lewis over the myriad of violent, obtuse thugs littering NFL rosters.
Here's my take on the RGIII situation. The league went to the owner of the Redskins and told him to draft RGIII second overall. The owner told Shanahan and Shanahan hit the roof (Shanahan of course, knows what every other NFL coach knows -RGIII has a bum knee). The owner went back and told the league what happened when he told his coach. So the league said okay, here's the deal. Draft RGIII like we said and we'll make sure any QB you want will be on the board when you want him. So the owner goes back and tells Shanahan and Shanahan says, okay I want Kirk Cousins to be still around in the 4th round. The leagues says fine, they'll arange it.
The league gets what they want, a black QB drafted second overall and all the attedant publicity. Shanahan gets what he wants, his QB of the future (Cousins), and everyone is happy. Oh yes, RGIII gets a nice piece of change to hobble away with.
Tom Iron...
"Am I the only person quite happy to see the Colts out of the playoffs. Apart from an amazing young quarterback I don't see a great deal to support in that team.
No more Dallas Clark, Austin Collie, Blair White, Jacob Tamme, Anthony Gonzalez, Brandon Stokely etc.
The Bill Polian era has ended. To me they are just another NFL team."
Well, they started 7 whites to the Ravens paltry 3 whites (a Harbaugh family trait apparently).
So, yes, I would have liked them to win yesterday then get destroyed by the Broncos.