[triplejake]

If you step away from McNabb, and look at all the black QBs, I just don't see how you get "black QBs get special media treatment":

McNair -- overlooked because small-market, unflashy
Culpepper -- similar to McNair (although I like McNair much more)
Vick -- (correctly) hyped because unequalled excitement factor
Stewart -- ridiculed because terrible
Carter has also caught lots of flack, but less so now that the Cowboys are improving.
McNabb -- lots of credit when team was doing well, plenty of questions now that he is having crappy season

[KarlInOhio]

Blake (Arizona) - While with the Bungles he proved that laying on your back or running for your life is no way to QB a pro football team. I haven't paid attention to how he is doing in Arizona this year.

[motzman]

How come no one cared, in fact most thought it was funny that Jason Sehorn was constantly mocked about being a white cornerback?

Why, I distinctly remember watching a Fox segment a few years back when Sehorn was asked about this multiple times, numerous black teammates and opponents all talked about how they joked around about it and made fun of him, calling him "white-boy" this and "white-boy" that...

And Sehorn had to maintain an "aw-shucks" attitude the whole time. I guess having Angie Harmon as a wife can keep you calm.

Wrong or right, it's a good topic of discussion, and the Eagles player(s) that had been threatening Rush should be fined.

[JohnnyZ]

If you step away from McNabb, and look at all the black QBs, I just don't see how you get "black QBs get special media treatment":

First of all, that is not a quote of mine, and that was not the jist of what I said, or Rush said.

A comparatively small %age of NFL QBs have been, and are still, I believe, black. For a long time there was a prejudice, held in some circles, that blacks couldn't play QB because they weren't smart enough. So every time a decent black QB comes along and has any kind of success he is likely to be talked up as a counter-example, and this will likely happen until blacks make up X% of NFL quarterbacks. Sorry, haven't done an extensive media study to prove that, but I'll bet you haven't done one to disprove it either, and it's at least an arguable assertion based on existing sports/race mindsets.

Sure, everyone gets hype when they do well, but there's that extra thing with black QBs where people feel the need to rectify the no-black-QB thing. You've never heard people talk about the "black QB" thing???