The statement was certainly boneheaded, but when you visualize someone in the NFL being called a thug, do you visualize a white person or a black person? Are white players called dirty players or are they called thugs? If people answered honestly, I think they would likely visualize a thug being a black person coming from a ghetto environment and who had been involved in trouble while in school, maybe even gang activity, drugs, and weapons. Just my initial thought.
sometimes a mind can get itself so smart it has the ability to make issues where there are none.
just play the game, Richard, play the game.
and spare us the melodrama .. we have enough of it already.