Full Discloser:
1. Black
2. Played high school football
3. astute NFL fan
4. Sadly a Buffalo Bills fan.
With that said, allow me to add my $.02 to the mix:
Quarterbacks get benched when they don’t perform. Since 2014, off all the QB changes that have occurred to about 18 teams - only two black QB’s were benched: R. Griffin (Redskins) and E.J. Manuel (Bills). Both deserved it, and that’s an understatement (Hey, did you see the 6 minute show E.J put on in London?). Also note that during this same time, every black coach has and is still starting a white QB.
Whatever idiot bothered to do this survey should have added up the salaries of blacks vs white players. Really? This fool doesn’t even realized the NFL has made more black millionaires than ANY other business in America, or do they care?
And since when did Mr. Nelson become an expert on football anyway? Lemme guess: Teddy Bridgewater breaking your heart these days up in Minnesota?
The way the 2015 season is going, pumping out lies like this cheapen the success of Cam Newton and Russell Wilson.
Mr. Nelson should know that like the music business, there’s no room for affirmative action or quotas. If you can’t get the job done, the other black players will be the first to lobby the coaching staff to get him off the field.
On a personal note, I think stories like this are only written to see how many white people they can piss off. It made no sense and had no substance, whatsoever. Frankly, I think all of us would do better ignoring stories like these and focus more on the war that is being imported to American soil.
jimjohn - OUT.
Exactly. The coach and front office are going to do what wins games, end of story. Any of them that don’t wind up being unceremoniously unemployed in short order.