In the late 80's, SI ran a controversial story about a scientist who looked at the origin/insertion points of muscles around the knee. He found that blacks generally had insertion points about 30% farther from the joint than whites on average.

Someone with an insertion point 30 percent farther from the joint, gets a 30 percent torque advantage, even if they have the same muscle capacity, to generate force. Hence, said person will probably run faster and jump higher.

A number of black athletes took exception to this article, because they thought it was just another way to dismiss their athletic success based upon physical superiority and to diminish their hard work and intelligence in playing the game.

Yet, if this research is accurate, it could go a long way to explain why blacks dominate track and field events on the international level, yet don't dominate in events like shot put and javelin throwing.

Applied to football, it could explain why quarterbacks and o linemen have higher percentages of whites than any other position. Quarterbacks don't need to run fast, their primary skill is throwing the ball. Since the majority of people in the US are white, you will end up with more white QBs.

O linemen need size, and quickness, but don't need hte explosive speed that top d linemen need. In every other position, speed is very important.

Even so, safeties don't need the speed that corners require, hence you see more white safeties than corners.

Think about this on a street level: how many white guys can run with the black guys in pickup basketball? In my experience, the answer is "not many".

You are wrong, blacks dont stay away from these sports these sport cost money to get envolved with so it is strictly economics. If you had told me i could make millions playing golf and gave me the money it takes to get good i would have loved playing and competing in golf. Today you have more blacks playing golf then ever I being one of them. Think about sports and then the economics behind it. If i had the means I would love to be a race car driver in nascar. Soccer was never my thing but i know alot of black people who love to play. Young black men gravitate to basketball and football mostly because it cost very little to play all you need is a football or basketball a goal (which you can find at almost every park) and some land.

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I agree with your post 100%. But the thing I find interesting is that the truth is being reported and no racism is being called. The truth being that black athletes are superior in many different ways than white athletes and the white posters can accept this. If the posts said the opposite I don't believe this topic would be as civil. I find that a bit sad.

maybe the league should institute a rule requiring teams to try out black kickers, just to get their numbers up...

addressing the OP, i think it has to do with the physical requirements of the position. i don't think its racist at all to say black people are faster than white people. i think thats pretty much a given. players with more athletic talent are going to play positions that demand more speed and agility. speed is very important to a wr who is running down field, not so much to a guy who is being asked to stand back there and throw a majority of the time. so logic would tell us to put the speed at wr and rb on offense. just my opinion. don't take me for a racist, i'm not. i just call it like i see it.

I am sure this has been posted but I believe there are zero white CB's in the NFL.

Thats interesting too.

Most of the black guys I know tell me that the reason they don't swim is because their parents don't put them in swimming lessons as kids. (talking on average here) The swimming lesson stuff is mostly a white deal.

I couldn't remember that dude's name!

Don't care to read the entire thread but aren't most starting centers in the NFL white as well?

Thank you.

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Interesting topic. Nice way to break away from work for a minute. My experience is that leadership among youth is more likely to show up earlier in families where the father is present and involved. Well many (certainly not all) black kids grow up without. Aside from physical attributes, the QB of note is the one who has leadership skills. Secondly, most coaches are white and are probably more prone to select a QB with whom they relate. On the physical side, learning how to throw a football is more difficult than learning how to catch one (at least for me-- still can't throw worth a damn). So more white kids end up being selected or targeted to play QB because of parental involvement/pressure and cause most coaches are white and end up investing/catering to their preference, ie their son, son's friend or someone who looks like them. These subtleties play a large part in our decisions than we realize. On my highschool team, the varsity QB was black. His dad was a lawyer and was in stands since the kid was 9 y/o forward. He (the QB) was a pretty good leader if not that talented. (WE SUCKED). He was also my best friend. In this day and age of uber competition in youth sports once you're pegged for a certain sport or position it typically follows you throughout your career. The other obvious explanation is stereotyping or "self fulfilling prophecy" young kids who play see that the QB is typically white, they then decide either that's who i want to be like or it isn't. I never wanted to be QB so I never tried. I loved Staubach and Stabler (white guys) the Harris dude who played for the Rams and Vince Evans ...not so much. I wanted to be OJ Simpson or Ronnie Lott. Lastly, I think blacks excell at positions which require a certain level of aggression vs. analysis which may explain the Offensive lineman v. Defensive linemen anomoly as well. I'm rambling now but I will never forget goin into my sophomore year the varsity FB coach asked me how tall my dad was. I was abt 5/10 (my father's height). When I responded it almost seemed like a light bulb (in his head) went off. In hindsight I think he was/is a good guy but i wasn't the kid sitting around after two-a-days shooting the shit with him.

Why do whites except that garbage? Maybe because if they protested or got angry they would be getting mad at white scientist who madeup the story? If they wanted to study something maybe they should study why a chimp is 2-3 times stronger then a man. I would like to know that. Until we realize we are all human with just different pigment and the only differences we have really are just how we are raise and where, we are all DOOMED. We all need to understand and respect the differences without all the stereotyping.

ROFL

My best friend got a job flying for an airline out of Dallas a few years ago. He showed me a group photo of all the company pilots.

To put this in a politically correct manner, he stood out.

I picked him out of the crowd instantly and smiled at him.

He laughed and told me to go **** myself ROFL.

I think it's because chimpanzees' parents spend time with their kids and teach them to swing in trees and peel bananas with their feet and rip apart rhesus monkeys when they're young. It's all about role modeling.