|
Well, with race in sports come stereotypes...
In the NFL, if you're a QB and you're black, most people are going to assume that the black QB is:
More athletic - will tuck and run it and can at times be one of the faster players on the field.
Not as great of a student of the game as a white QB - let's his god given abilities and natural talent take over as opposed to studying the other teams defensive formations, holes and weaknesses.
Not as good of a team leader - Flashier ego, makes stupid decisions off the field, sometimes bad PR, brotha gotta get paid.
Some of which are true given past players histories...but it certainly doesn't mean that ALL black QB's are like that. I even will go to a degree and say that the video game world has manipulated people's thinking. To add to my first stereotype, most black QB's in video games are fast lol. You won't find too many white QB's that are fast in Madden...maybe Tebow but I dunno.
|