In January of 1988 a first happened in the history of the Super Bowl. That being a black starting quarterback led his team to the Lombardi Trophy.
Doug Williams led the Washington Redskins past John Elway’s Denver Broncos in a lopsided rout.
Three black quarterbacks have now won Super Bowl championships… Williams, Russell Wilson, and Patrick Mahomes. Six different black quarterbacks have started in the Super Bowl…Williams, Wilson, Mahomes, Steve McNair, Colin Kaepernick, and Cam Newton.
The misnomer that blacks lack the mental capacity to play the position has been laid to rest.
The same trend has evolved at the college level as well with Cam Newton, Jalen Hurts, Cardell Jones, DeShaun Watson and Tua all winning national championships.
The notion non-white quarterbacks can quarterback championship teams is a thing of the past.
Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers are no longer the best in the NFL. Those two slots are now solidly occupied by Patrick Mahomes and Russell Wilson.
Both OU and O State will have black starting QBs this season with Spencer Rattler and Spencer Sanders.
The probable leading candidate for the Heisman is a black quarterback in Columbus named Justin Fields.
Even though the world under Trump has revolved back to the early 60’s racially—football has evolved and progressed.
My son was born that very January of 1988. Twenty years later Barack Obama was selected as the Democratic nominee at the Pepsi Center in Denver. If you would have told me then America would have regressed this much racially since the election of Donald Trump I would have said no way.
But here we are pretty much back like the racially charged days of LBJ, George Wallace, and Richard Nixon.
You know why this trend in black quarterbacks isn’t going to revert?
Simple. NFL general managers and scouts want to give their teams the best chance to succeed.
The NFL is about winning. Tiger Woods in his day had an even larger impact perhaps in golf.
But sports are about winning…not about the color of your skin and ingrained bigotry.