| fatboy |
I'm getting my butt chewed on some other board for pointing out that shit like the NFL helmet rule --
>In order to reduce taunting and excessive celebrations, no player may remove his helmet while on the playing field except during timeouts and between quarters. This is known as the "Emmitt Smith rule" after the Dallas Cowboys' Running Back's habit of taking his helmet off every time he scored a touchdown.
Is to keep black faces off television. My hypothesis is that Too Many Negroes in the NFL alienate white people. So the curtailing of mistrel-style end-zone dances and the helmet rule are put into place. I mean, if you saw Ray Lewis strutting down the street, you'd take the fucking safety off, oui..?
Black Players
A few blacks played, and even starred for professional football teams in the American Professional Football Association and other early leagues as well as the APFA's successor, the NFL. But shortly after the entry of George Preston Marshall to the league in 1932 as owner of the Boston Braves/Washington Redskins franchise, blacks disappeared from NFL rosters. In the mid-1940's, following the lead of the All-America Football Conference, a few NFL teams signed blacks as individuals, but there were no blacks included in the NFL college draft until 1949. Though five blacks were on the draft list, the first of those to actually play NFL football was Wally Triplett, a halfback from Penn State who played for the Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears. In those years, black players who did manage to make NFL rosters were subject to unwritten but stringent "quotas" for the number of black players on a team and the positions that could be filled by blacks. At that time, there were no black quarterbacks, centers, or middle linebackers in the NFL. One source of talent that had been traditionally ignored by the NFL was small, historically black colleges.
The American Football League, in contrast, actively recruited from the black colleges, and used black players at positions not permitted to them in the NFL. For example, in 1963, the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs became the first team in pro football history to use the first overall pick of a draft on a player from a small black college – defensive tackle Buck Buchanan of Grambling State, while the NFL's New York Giants relegated Buchanan to their 19th round pick that year (Buchanan was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1990). The effect was cumulative, and more and more outstanding black players opted for the AFL, recognizing their chances to play were greater there. Willie Lanier (also destined for the Hall of Fame), for example, became pro football's first black middle linebacker with the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs; Marlin Briscoe became the first modern starting black quarterback with the AFL's Denver Broncos, etc. Thus, the expansion of the role of blacks not only as players but as assistants, and finally head coaches, in the NFL is traced to the more equitable treatment of blacks pioneered by the NFL's rival, the American Football League.
African Americans make up the largest racial minority group in the United States, numbering 34.7 million individuals, or 12.3 percent of the U.S. population in 2000. The 2000 Census was the first census to give respondents the option of reporting more than one race. An additional 1.8 million people (0.6% of the population) reported black in combination with at least one other race. (The terms black and African American are used interchangeably in the census and in this report. The data presented is for the "black alone" population)
The black population increased by 4.7 million (15.6%) between 1990 and 2000.
If the black alone or in combination is used, the African American population increased 6.4 million, or 21.5 percent.
Among Blacks to play quarterback in the NFL were Willie Thrower, the first Black quarterback in the league (1953), James Harris, Marlin Brisco, and Doug Williams, the only African-American quarterback to lead his team to a Super Bowl win. Although African-Americans have excelled on the football field they have not been welcomed in management positions. While 67 percent of all players in the NFL are black, there are no African-American owners and one general manager. Ozzie Newsome became the first Black General Manager of an NFL team in 2002. He works in the front office for the Baltimore Ravens.
Art Shell became the first African American head coach in the NFL and the second in professional football history when he was hired by the Los Angeles Raiders in 1989. Ten years later, head coach Ray Rhodes and his assistants with the Green Bay Packers became the first all Black staff in the NFL. Currently there are six African-American head coaches; Marvin Lewis at Cincinnati, Herman Edwards of the New York Jets, Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears, Romeo Crennel of the Cleveland Browns, Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts and Dennis Green of the Arizona Cardinals. In 1980, there were 14 Black assistants in the NFL, none of them coordinators. By 1997 there were 103 Black assistants. Today 154 of the 547 assistants (28 percent) are Black. Twelve of those are coordinators, compared with five in 1997. |
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| Gindaloonatic |
| whoa...hold on negroid...I aint readin all that shit. |
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