I have to admit that most of the black quarterbacks who come to my mind ARE scramblers, or else option guys in college.
Notre Dame is getting two frosh qbs -- Demetrius Jones and Jimmy Clawson. Guess which one's the athletic one?
And then Tony Rice and Kevin McDougal were both option guys too, but Rick Mirer and Ron Powlus (ugh) were not.
Warren Moon of the Oilers comes to mind as an exception, and of course Brett Favre is a white guy who won't hesitate to run, although it's not pretty when he does.
I don't know, maybe we need a movie about this -- White Men Can't Scramble?
The guy I had in mind was Tarkenton; he had the same rap on him, some of it deserved, that he would take off too fast rather than wait for an open receiver. Then, when he got old and tired, they started praising him for learning how to stay in the pocket.
You will see a couple of white QBs scrambling around tomorrow when the Eagles play Dallas ...
heh...yeah...and his offensive line knows that too so they know where the q-b is "likely" to be and they can protect him. When he off running and scrambling around, he's on his own. The only white guy I knew that was a great scrambler was Tarkenton..and he never won "The Big One".
Roger Stauback wasn't bad but he had all the other skills to go with it.
Fran Tarkenton was black?