Race and The NFL Quarterback

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Black, White or whatever people want to call other people it doesn’t matter because as Brown, T. says “There’s No Race on the Playing Field” At the elite level of sports the ability of the person playing no matter the sport or the position is what is in question day to day and game to game. However, ability to play the position and being athletic and playing the position are not to be confused. The ability to play a position will allow a player to play a sport for as long as the athlete can play and feel capable of playing or is thought by the powers in control feel they can. Conversely playing a position because an athlete is athletic will only allow the player to play until his actual physical athletic ability starts to decline. There is no position where this is more evident than in the NFL as a Quarterback.

The Quarterback position is a tough position. This position can make or break a team. If the QB is relying on his athletic ability he will done fine, for a while at least. However if he doesn’t have the skill of a good quarter back and is only relying on his athletic ability to play that position then he has a limited career in this position. He will really struggle if his health becomes a problem McNabb is such a QB. He has had is issues but we want to discuss race related issues and how they effected people involved. My question in regard to this is why race is an issue when two or more men of different skin color don’t see eye tot eye?

“Black people in the US have achieved a lot in athletics since being allowed into main stream sport in the late 1940s.” (Simiyu) The odds of becoming an NFL player are very small the odds of becoming an NFL quarterback even smaller. Simiyu says the odds against this dream comi...

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Whitlock, Jason. Fox Sports News. “Shanahan crosses line with McNabb” November 3, 2010. foasports.com. Web. March 2, 2012.

Brown, S.P. Texas State University. “Sport Sociology”. n.d. txstate.edu. March 1, 2012.

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