The Race Card

THE RACE CARD…
IT JUST NEVER GETS OLD…
PHILADELPHIA QUARTERBACK DONOVAN MCNABB IS THE LATEST TO PLAY IT…
ACCORDING TO MCNABB…BLACK QUARTERBACKS IN THE NFL ARE UNDER MORE SCRUTINY THAN WHITE QUARTERBACKS…
IN HIS WORDS…”WE HAVE TO DO A LITTLE BIT EXTRA BECAUSE THE PERCENTAGE OF US PLAYING THIS POSITION…WHICH PEOPLE DIDN’T WANT US TO PLAY”…
WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE MEDIA PRESSURE CARSON PALMER AND PEYTON MANNING HAVE BEEN FORCED TO DEAL WITH…
MCNABB DISMISSES IT…
“THEY DON’T GET CRITICIZED AS MUCH AS WE DO…THEY DON’T”
THESE COMMENTS WERE MADE ON THE HBO SHOW…”REAL SPORTS”…WHICH GOES TO AIR TONIGHT…
LET’S GET A FEW FACTS STRAIGHT…
MCNABB IS TAKING A LOT OF HEAT THESE DAYS…NOT BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN…BUT BECAUSE OF HIS PLAY OF THE FIELD…PERIOD…
THE EAGLES HAVE LOST THEIR FIRST TWO GAMES OF THE SEASON AND HAVE SCORED JUST ONE TOUCHDOWN…
MCNABB HAS LOST 6 OF HIS LAST 7 STARTS…
LASTNIGHT WASHINGTON BEAT PHILADELPHIA 20-12…
THE STARTING QUARTERBACK FOR THE REDSKINS WAS JASON CAMPBELL…A BLACK QUARTERBACK…
THE BOOING MCNABB HEARD LASTNIGHT FROM THE FANS AND THE CRITIZISM HE READ THIS MORNING IN THE LOCAL PAPERS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE…
THIS IS ABOUT A LACK OF PERFORMANCE…WHICH GOES WITH THE JOB…
THE TRUTH IS MCNABB IS COMING OFF MAJOR KNEE SURGERY AND IS AT THE BACK END OF HIS CAREER…
QUITE SIMPLY HE’S NOT THE SAME PLAYER THAT TOOK THIS FRANCHISE TO THE SUPER BOWL IN 2004…
THERE THIS ALSO AN IRONIC TWIST…FOUR YEARS AGO MCNABB WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF “THE RACE CARD”…
RUSH LIMBAUGH WENT ON ESPN AND STATED MCNABB WAS GETTING A FREE PASS FROM THE MEDIA BECAUSE HE “WAS” BLACK…
AT THE TIME THE EAGLES HAD ALSO LOST THEIR FIRST TWO GAMES OF SEASON AND MCNABB HAD THE LOWEST QUARTERBACK RATING IN THE NFL…
NEVERTHELESS LIMBAUGH WAS LABLED A RACIST AND FORCED TO RESIGN…
SO WHAT PRICE DOES MCNABB PAY???
DOES HE HAVE TO RESIGN???
DOES HE HAVE TO APOLOGIZE???
DOES HE HAVE TO GUARENTEE THAT HE NEVER SAYS ANYTHING AS STUPID AND DAMAGING AS THAT AGAIN???
NO…HE JUST HAS TO BEAT DETROIT ON SUNDAY