Former NFL player calls for racially segregated game to replace Pro Bowl: 'Sick of average white guys'

KFOXTV ^ | 12 11 2023 | JACKSON WALKER

[yesthatjallen]

Former NFL running back Rashard Mendenhall took to social media Monday to call for a racially segregated pro football game.

“I’m sick of average white guys commenting on football,” the Super Bowl champion said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Y’all not even good at football.”

Mendenhall, who played for the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers, offered a replacement to the existing Pro Bowl.

“Can we please replace the Pro Bowl with an All-Black vs. All-White bowl so these cats can stop trying to teach me who’s good at football?” he asked. “I’m better than ur goat.”

Former NFL defensive end J.J. Watt entertained the idea, noting that the "All-White" team would struggle to defend against Tyreek Hill, a Black wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins known for his speed.

“We’d get cooked at corner, not gonna lie,” Watt said. “Nobody on our squad is covering Tyreek [laughing emoji].”

Steelers podcast host Christopher Carter alleged the seemingly unprovoked post hints at potential mental struggles for Mendenhall.

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[jacknhoo]

How many black head coaches are there in the 2023 NFL season?
By
Habib Timileyin
Modified Mar 29, 2023

The NFL enacted the Rooney Rule, a principle mandating franchises to interview no fewer than one ‘diverse’ option for vacant head coaching positions in 2003. There were just three African-American head coaches in the NFL when the rule was put into place out of 32 positions.Two decades later, still only three African-Americans have that position: Mike Tomlin, Todd Bowles, and DeMeco Ryans.

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[Schatze]

“I’m sick of average white guys commenting on football,” the Super Bowl champion said on X.”

Average white guys comment on football because they speak English, not Ebonics.

[Jet Jaguar]

Well said.

[MinorityRepublican]

I keep putting off total rejection of football, like I have with basketball already.

I have nothing in common with the basketball players anymore.

John Stockton, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, etc, I could relate to them.

Now? LeBron James? Forget it.

[bigfootbob]

I do and prove him wrong!

[daku]

This guy has always been an asshole

[Wilderness Conservative]

I would only watch if the black team was allowed to throw its feces.

[MinorityRepublican]

Mike Tomlin is a good coach but you could argue that he had a lot more success when he was younger (in his 30s).

The trend for the league is to hire a young hotshot coach like Sean McVay who was 36 when he won the Super Bowl.

[Salvavida]

Mendenfvck couldn’t hold Rocky Bleier’s jockstrap.

[tomkat]

I’ll watch football when we get proportional representation.

To paraphrase: I might actually watch an occasional snippet of TV if/when we get proportional representation.

The 24/7 portrayal of white males as idiots and that misegination is just dandy makes my skin crawl.

Nevermind that we're the very group who made Western civilization possible.

*spit*

[tomkat]

I like curling   :-)

[frank ballenger]

The baseball world had the Negro League with these teams originally:
The Chicago American Giants, the Chicago Giants, the Cuban Stars (New York), the Dayton (Ohio) Marcos, the Detroit Stars, the Indianapolis ABC’s, the Kansas City Monarchs, and the St. Louis Giants.

MLB history item: Home run hitter Josh Gibson-—
He was known as the “black Babe Ruth”; in fact, some fans at the time who saw both Ruth and Gibson play called Ruth “the white Josh Gibson”.

[dznutz]

If all the White people left the NFL, people like Mendenhall would be where they should have been all along, still in the ghetto flipping burgers...

Probably not slinging burgers, slinging dope would be more accurate.

[Rummyfan]

Johnny U was one of a kind.

[IrishBrigade]

‘...potential mental struggles for Mendenhall.’

gee, ya think...? on the serious side, this is just a taste of things to come...

[VanShuyten]

“… NFL are barely tolerable even in mute mode.”

I’m listening to the Manning brothers and their guests right now do the Eagles/Seahawks game. They are so much better at calling the plays than the announcers and color guys that it’s refreshing, and their guests can be a lot more fun and interesting than the sidelines girls.

[Chickensoup]

One of the big mouth’s poems.

A King, not a servant, even if I’m crownless

In this world you’re limited by the views of those around you

But I don’t live by this world’s standards

And that’s why I’m boundless

Not exactly good.

[skimbell]

They would have to have 4-5 minutes between each play to allow for the dancing, muscle making and yelling at the sky.
I haven't watched a pro game in over three years and I've seen only a couple college games.
F'em.
Everything I care to know about the contest, which isn't much, can be had in 5 minutes on the interwwwnet Monday morning.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

We ARE Western Civilization. We made it happen. We created it. The hangers on, misfits, miscreants all had the same opportunity and squandered it.

[MarineBrat]

I haven’t watched a game since the first knee hit the ground. And I guarantee you that the NFL doesn’t have the stones to issue the kind of apology that would bring me back.

And I get things done on Sunday now. What a blessing!