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Reports: Some teammates think QB Russell Wilson isn't black enough
CBS Sports ^ | Oct 24, 2014 | Ryan Wilson

Posted on 10/24/2014 1:46:09 PM PDT by cport

Earlier this week, Bleacher Report's Mike Freeman wrote about the ongoing saga in Seattle in the wake of the Percy Harvin trade. Specifically, some Seahawks players think third-year quarterback Russell Wilson is too close to the front office, and doesn't always take blame for his mistakes.

Then there's this: "There is also an element of race that needs to be discussed," Freeman wrote. "My feeling on this -- and it's backed up by several interviews with Seahawks players -- is that some of the black players think Wilson isn't black enough."

We talked about Wilson's blackness on the Eye on Football podcast, which you can listen to by hitting play on the episode (10/22) below (and that led to this tweet). But on Thursday's SportsCenter, Kenny Mayne added this to Freeman's story:

“Two sources — one inside the team, one outside of the underachieving 3-3 Seahawks — tell me that much of what was written in Mike Freeman's Bleacher Report column is true,” Mayne said, via PFT. “(Freeman) wrote of turmoil involving since-traded Percy Harvin and the quarterback Russell Wilson that led to a more widespread internal battle pitting those for Russell Wilson and those against.

"And Freeman surmised on his own an issue among some teammates regarding Wilson that quote, 'he isn't black enough.' A certain expected behavior based on color, apparently. One of the sources told me, quote, I don't know how he got all that stuff, but it's pretty much true. We do have a divide. We're working on it. Thursday that notion was not presented to Wilson, but over and again, questions came about Harvin's departure.”

First, as PFT's Mike Florio points out, Freeman didn't "surmise" this. It was his feeling "backed up by several interviews with Seahawks players." Second, "that notion" was presented to Wilson...

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Resentment of success. In another article here, Michael Irvin says its because he won't go out and "make it rain" at the strip clubs with his black teammates.
1 posted on 10/24/2014 1:46:09 PM PDT by cport
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To: cport; All

Hmmmm, my esteem of Wilson just went up a notch


2 posted on 10/24/2014 1:49:18 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Shellback pollywogs! U.S.S. William H. Standley, CG-32 1977-80)
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To: cport

Then they would really have a problem with Peyton Manning.


3 posted on 10/24/2014 1:50:35 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: cport

Here’s a great idea. Put together the best football team in the league, then tear it down with racist comments and locker room dramatics. Great stuff.


4 posted on 10/24/2014 1:50:47 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: cport

Bleacher report is a cesspool of wanna-be sports-writers.


5 posted on 10/24/2014 1:50:52 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: cport

I don’t know why, but for some reason this makes me think of the Religion of Peace.

When they can’t go after infidels, they go after each other over the issue of who is a “true” Muslim.

This issue has set the various sects at each other’s throats for more than a thousand years.


6 posted on 10/24/2014 1:51:15 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: Steely Tom

Not a bad analogy at all.


7 posted on 10/24/2014 1:53:11 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: cport

In other words, Wilson plans on keeping some of his money to live on, instead of letting his “entourage*” burn through it.

If so, I think his teammates have a valid point. He’s not black at all.

*I believe “entourage” to be a French word, meaning “bunch of parasites.”


8 posted on 10/24/2014 1:53:53 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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He's not black enough because he is not a baby-daddy, he doesn't go to the strip clubs, he is a devout Christian and he frequently quotes the Bible on his Twitter feed.

Sounds like another quarterback who will remain nameless, who has no team to play for because he is a devout Christian, will not go to the strip clubs and is not a baby-daddy.

9 posted on 10/24/2014 1:54:35 PM PDT by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read all of Deuteronomy 28)
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To: cport

Charles Barkley went off on Philly sports radio on this subject. To paraphrase, he said he didn’t even want to bother white people with this crap. That blacks can’t be successful without other blacks trying to drag them down. That a lot of black players go broke because of the loser morons that surround them etc. The lib sports guys were kinda speechless.


10 posted on 10/24/2014 1:55:15 PM PDT by Stentor (Maybe the Goldman Sachs thing is just a coincidence. /S)
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*I believe “entourage” to be a French word, meaning “bunch of parasites.”

Another word for it might be "tribe."

11 posted on 10/24/2014 1:56:10 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: Stentor

Charles isn’t perfect, but he speaks his mind and doesn’t give a damn about political correctness.


12 posted on 10/24/2014 1:57:12 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: cport
When keepin' it real goes wrong.
13 posted on 10/24/2014 1:57:12 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: cport

If I told the First lady that she wasn’t black enough, and I wanted a divorce, she would shoot me. Not only for stupidity, but for GP.

5.56mm


14 posted on 10/24/2014 2:00:33 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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Guess they want him to talk and act like Marshawn Lynch or beat up the gf/wife the kids do drugs......


15 posted on 10/24/2014 2:01:03 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: morphing libertarian
Here’s a great idea. Put together the best football team in the league, then tear it down with racist comments and locker room dramatics. Great stuff.

This would go a long way toward explaining some of Seattle's play this season, such as the home loss to the Cowboys. Also, IIRC, it was lack of discipline and control in the locker room like this that got Pete Carroll run out of New England.

16 posted on 10/24/2014 2:03:34 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: morphing libertarian

Isn’t that why Harvin got traded, because he was doing just that, tearing down the team?


17 posted on 10/24/2014 2:04:05 PM PDT by Eva
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18 posted on 10/24/2014 2:04:17 PM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: SkyDancer

Yo bitch, just keepin’ it real cracker


19 posted on 10/24/2014 2:06:10 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: cport

but Barack Obama is??


20 posted on 10/24/2014 2:07:23 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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