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  • Blacks at QB? No big deal (Warren Moon interview)

    01/22/2005 6:07:42 AM PST · by randita · 20 replies · 1,066+ views
    Seattle Times ^ | 1/22/05 | Greg Bishop
    Saturday, January 22, 2005, 12:00 A.M. Pacific NFL Blacks at QB? No big deal By Greg Bishop Seattle Times staff reporter Wherever Warren Moon went, death threats and hate mail and racism were never far behind. The reasons for it were at once simple and complex, ignorant and prevalent, a dark side of American sports culture that somehow missed the civil rights movement. Warren Moon is black. He played quarterback. And two decades ago, when Moon was starting his legendary NFL career, that was a big, big deal. Something about a black man lining up under center made people uncomfortable,...