Donovan McNabb’s Race Comments Were Correct
September 19th, 2007 . by DellPhiladelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb has come under fire in the last 2 days over his controversial comments regarding black quarterbacks. According to McNabb, white quarterbacks such as Carson Palmer and Peyton Manning don’t receive the same scrutiny, and black qb’s “have to do a little bit extra”. The outrage we’ve been seeing over this is funny to me, the collective sighs from mainstream America saying “oh god, here they go with the race card again”. The most common rebuttals I’ve seen to McNabb’s stance is:
“Look at Rex Grossman and Joey Harrington! They get ripped to shreds weekly!”…… Nah…. we don’t play that.
While Rex and Joey do get ripped to shreds, neither one of those quarterbacks are even CLOSE to McNabb’s caliber. Donovan McNabb took philly to four straight AFC championship games. Donovan McNabb has the second best touchdown to interception ratio in NFL history, only second to Steve Young. So if you want to go around comparing Joey Harrington to McNabb, you might as well make it an even bigger stretch and draw some comparisons between Cleo Lemon and Joe Montana. Rex Grossman was carried to the Super Bowl by his defense and Devin Hester (and then singlehandedly lost the game for his team by fumbling four times). When healthy, McNabb is definitely within the upper echelon of NFL qb’s along with Carson Palmer and Peyton Manning.
While we’re on the subject of Peyton, I’ve heard him used as a defense also. “Peyton used to get ripped to shreds before he won the super bowl!!”
Which is true. But what is also true, is… the overwhelming majority of people and sports writers had Peyton Manning locked into the hall of fame before the Colts won the championship earlier this year. I can count a zillion times when I heard “Manning will definitely be in the Super Bowl one day, but he can’t win the big one like Dan Marino”. Sure, the media would have nipped at Mannings heels for the rest of his career if he had never won the big one, but you can best believe Manning would have been a first ballot hall of famer regardless of what he did on the field from this point forward.
Another example of black quarterbacks heavy scrutiny is Michael Vick, before the dogfighting fiasco broke out, Vick was constantly ripped apart in the media. Its rarely pointed out that Vick actually had one of the highest winning percentages among active quarterbacks for a few years. When Vick broke the single season record for rushing yards by a quarterback, it was sort of glossed over by the media.
“Vick broke some rushing record but wait.. THE FALCONS LOST, when is this guy gonna start being a real quarterback?”
We haven’t even touched the fact that Donovan isn’t even fully healed from a major injury right now. In all honesty he shouldn’t even be playing right now, but Jeff Garcia left the team, and that rookie isn’t ready to get in there just yet. McNabb is the best thing the Eagles got right now.
And for those wondering, I’m in no way an eagles fan.
its not even worth trying to make these sports writers see their own racial biases anymore…they know exactly what they are doing and they are ten times worse than the neo-cons on political talk shows. Sportswriters honestly are much worse because in sports there is truly supposed to be pure abillity that should be uncontroverted, it should be obvious who is the best…but now that the most popular sports (football & basketball) are not only majority black, but now the most coveted position of all sports, the Quarterback is under “assault” in their eyes. The racism is becoming more and more glaringly obvious to those of us with the eyes and ears to see their comments for what they are. They, like many of us, still think that unless they called you a nigger, they didnt call you a nigger. Trust…when they say “he can’t read defenses” or “he’s relies on his athletic ability”, what they are saying is “niggers shouldn’t play quarterback”. Its loud and clear.