Four years ago, Donovan McNabb got off to a lousy start and Rush Limbaugh said the media propped him up because it was “very desirous” to see black quarterbacks succeed.
In an interview recorded almost three weeks ago but aired Tuesday, McNabb said people wanted to see black quarterbacks fail.
Who’s right?
Both, if the benchmark is a disgruntled few; neither, if the sample is larger than that.
Whatever opinions the rest of us harbored about the topic were pretty much exhausted a decade or so ago, around the time black quarterbacks became commonplace in the NFL.
It’s a measure of progress that most of us understand a coach would play Satan at quarterback with the tacit approval of everybody from the team owner to the team chaplain if he thought it improved his chances to win.
We also understand the opposite is true, that Eagles coach Andy Reid would yank McNabb the moment he found somebody he believed could run the offense better.
