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Liberal Sports Writer: ‘Politics Of Race’ Behind Seahawks Horrible Play Call
dailycaller ^ | Feb. 2, 2015 | Alex Griswold

Posted on 02/03/2015 11:13:08 AM PST by PROCON

The Nation’s Dave Zirin (the same journalist who brought us the genius idea that not cheering for the Seattle Seahawks is racist) wrote a post-Super Bowl column attributing the Seattle Seahawks’ horrible decision to throw a pass on the one-yard line in the final seconds of the game was due to “the politics of race” and an anti-Marshawn Lynch conspiracy. (VIDEO: Patriots And Seahawks Fans React To Malcolm Butler’s Interception)

The theory, as relayed by Zirin, is that Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll called a pass because he wanted the young, clean-cut quarterback Russell Wilson to be seen as the game-winner, not the renegade running back Marshawn Lynch. The only source for this theory is a disgruntled anonymous figure in the Seahawks locker room.

“Russell Wilson is your young clean-cut God-fearing media-perfect quarterback…” Zirin writes, “He’s Derek Jeter with a Bible, someone who comes across like he has never spoken out of turn in his entire life. Marshawn Lynch is… Marshawn Lynch.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


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KEYWORDS: looneyleft; nfl; racism; superbowl
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To: Little Pig

The lunacy in this guy’s thinking is so thick you could cut it with a knife. Racism is the obvious bailiwick of the far left; but then, so is the defense of obamacare. In trying to divide even blacks into warring groups, zirin stomps all over the left’s platform. In trying to paint Wilson as a conservative republican in cleats, he ignores the fact he did a PSA encouraging participation in obamacare. He only proves that the idiocy of professional racists is a self-eating disease.


21 posted on 02/03/2015 11:25:58 AM PST by DPMD
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To: dfwgator
The problem The Seahawk's had was EGO

SOMEone wanted a great play, the longest yard stat or some such whatever and THAT was the basis for a throw that got intercepted

It is SUCH a human trait to want to be #1 and SOMEone forgot they were a team

They were so assured of winning ... etc., etc.

God hates pride of self and He took it away from the Hawks and gave it to the Patriots ... which I've mulled over quite a bit ....

At the last moment, God will give Patriots a victory over a carniverous enemy ... America will survive, but we've been .. and will be a little more ... beaten up before the victory

Butler did the right thing ... pointed upward and (I assumed) gave God the glory.

IF we remember it is God who is concerned with the affairs of men, and give HIM the recognition, there's no telling what kinds of messes He'll pull us out of


Yep ... I actually think and believe that way

22 posted on 02/03/2015 11:26:13 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: PROCON

Huh?

I cannot imagine that any Coach...Player...ANYBODY...Would throw the Superbowl over some BS Ideology, regardless of the nature of it.

This is the Superbowl we are talking about.

This is the Onion...Right?


23 posted on 02/03/2015 11:26:21 AM PST by Mr. Quarterpanel (I am not an actor, but I play one on TV)
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To: Little Pig

I guess the writer is accusing Carroll of trying to give the glory to the less black of the two players. Too inane.


24 posted on 02/03/2015 11:26:28 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: McGruff

Newsflash, Richard Sherman- thug refers to BEHAVIOR, not to color. If the shoe don’t fit...


25 posted on 02/03/2015 11:26:44 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Little Pig

Yea but he “acts white”


26 posted on 02/03/2015 11:26:56 AM PST by varyouga
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To: Cowboy Bob
Player who intercepted is also melanin endowed. If only there could be one of those mechanical boxing gloves set up to fly in from the side and punch the crap out of these idiots every time something this stupid comes out of their mouth. Now that would be entertaining.
27 posted on 02/03/2015 11:27:40 AM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: KC_Lion

Rob Lowe should like that one. Good job.


28 posted on 02/03/2015 11:28:25 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

You laugh, but that’s what your conscience looks like, Bookman! </s>


29 posted on 02/03/2015 11:29:00 AM PST by oblomov (White privilege: the contemporary left's way of saying "the Jews".)
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To: KC_Lion

Stealing that....


30 posted on 02/03/2015 11:29:04 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: PROCON

These people are sick in the head.


31 posted on 02/03/2015 11:29:12 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: PROCON

Seriously mentally ill. This guy needs medication, and quickly.


32 posted on 02/03/2015 11:29:26 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Cowboy Bob
From ESPN

Bleacher Report’s Mike Freeman, who explores the trade and locker room dynamic in Seattle, gives several reasons why some players have issues with Wilson, and he even suggests that some players believe the quarterback is not black enough.

33 posted on 02/03/2015 11:29:54 AM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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To: PROCON

Haven’t these idiots worn out the race card yet?


34 posted on 02/03/2015 11:30:07 AM PST by rllngrk33 (Things will continue getting worse until at least January 2017.)
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To: Little Pig
How can it be racism if it’s still a black guy winning the game?

And a black guy making the interception?

35 posted on 02/03/2015 11:31:37 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: PROCON

I wish people would get over it. The call to “pass” was a mistake. Every team makes them, every player makes them.


36 posted on 02/03/2015 11:34:43 AM PST by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: PROCON

Are there ANY Albinos in the NFL?


37 posted on 02/03/2015 11:34:54 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: C19fan
When Russel Wilson sees Marshawn Lynch in the locker room


38 posted on 02/03/2015 11:35:56 AM PST by New Perspective (Proud father of a son with Down Syndrome and fighting to keep him off Obama's death panels.)
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To: PROCON

The strangest part of the article is actually a “correction”:

“I know - and knew - that Wilson is of African and Native American descent and not biracial”

Aren’t African and native American two races?


39 posted on 02/03/2015 11:38:26 AM PST by dangus
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To: PROCON
GUTFELD TIES PETE CARROLL’S 9-11 TRUTHERISM TO GAME-LOSING PLAY CALL
40 posted on 02/03/2015 11:39:26 AM PST by TexasCajun
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