Posted on 09/11/2008 11:23:33 AM PDT by flowerplough
I told you before the 2006 draft that Vince Young was primed for NFL failure. He entered the league with an attitude, mindset and supporting cast totally unprepared to survive the pressure, challenge and responsibility that goes along with the most prestigious and difficult job in all of sports.
When I explained all of this in 2006, my naive and misguided critics called me an Uncle Tom. Yeah, they ripped me for attempting to issue a young black kid a warning about what awaited him in The League and the attitude he would need to cope and excel.
Some people foolishly think it's every black media member's job to assist in the mental and emotional crippling of black youth. We're supposed to blow rainbows up the asses of every black athlete who "makes it" and assure him/her that anyone who utters a word of criticism is a jealous bigot or irrational sellout.
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Too often we pave the road to failure for black boys by believing the cure for bigotry and there is still plenty of bigotry in America is the ability to recognize it in (and blame it for) everything. That cure has more negative side effects than most of the drugs trumpeted by the pharmaceutical companies in television commercials. That cure serves as a convenient crutch, and turns a talent such as Vince Young into a quitter the moment adversity strikes. That cure helped land Michael Vick in jail.
Everyone told Vince Young and Michael Vick the NFL would be easy. They'd revolutionize the QB position with their legs, and they could pop bottles, roll with a posse and pretend to be Jay-Z in their spare time
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I'm sure glad we got Cutler instead of Leinart.
What a disaster that was.
I'd like to see the media eliminate the position of "black quarterback." It was never a position when I played. We simply had "quarterback".
What you said is dead on.
The liberal newsrooms (including sports) love a politically correct story that makes them feel warm and fuzzy about themselves. "The black quarterback who becomes a superstar, a superbowl champion!!" - - is the story they wanted. They wanted that story very badly and their lust caused them to openly root for that story before it became a reality (and it still hasn't, btw). Rush believed that this overhype needlessly put added pressure on McNabb by producing unrealistic expectations, all in the name of white-guilt phoniness.
It's much like the currect Obama story....
VY is a quarterback...period.
VY is a QB who has not been able to master the NFL passing game and the fact that he has not been able to fare well in the mastery of it, just eats at him and affects is game.
God forbid he play in Philadelphia, New York, or Boston!
Not really. He wasn’t talking about McNabb’s attitude or maturity or anything like that. He was talking about on-field performance.
Thanks for informing me. I only knew about Donovan's Mom, since my QB genealogy research was limited to their soup commercials, where Donovan's Dad wasn't present.
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