So, apparently Rush Limbaugh came up with this, relating to Rex Grossman’s poor performance in the Superbowl.<\/p>\n
“The reason that the media has been kicking Rex Grossman so hard and pointing out his mistakes is because he’s a white quarterback.”<\/em><\/p>\n Going into this Superbowl, I was under the distinct impression that Rex Grossman may just possibly be the worst starting quarterback ever to appear in the Superbowl.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes he played\u00c2\u00a0well — which the Bears generally won, and other times he played beyond horribly — and as often as not the Bears won off of special teams and defense.\u00c2\u00a0 There was this game during the season where he had a QB rating of 3, which the Bears won with some turnovers returned for a touchdown and a kick-off returned for a touchdown.<\/p>\n The game started with the Bears returning the opening kick-off for a touch-down.\u00c2\u00a0 The Colts promptly adjusted and kicked short,\u00c2\u00a0forcing the game to\u00c2\u00a0be won by Grossman and not\u00c2\u00a0off of great kick-off returns.\u00c2\u00a0 Grossman promptly fumbled the ball, threw interceptions, and was generally inept.\u00c2\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0Bears played their way into the fourth quarter — where a big play might have allowed the team to “steal the game”, still in the game largely because of that seven cheap points given up at the beginning of the game — but Grossman never proved himself up for that one big play, or multiple small plays.<\/p>\n Peyton Manning, the winning quarterback, is white.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m a bit disappointed that the Colts won, because I always liked the neat and tidy comparison between Manning and Marino — quarterbacks who have all the records, but never won the Big One, and those two facets of their career seem intricably tied.\u00c2\u00a0 But I wanted the Colts to win simply because I find good offenses more entertaining than good defenses, and I’d rather have an offensive model of a football team as the team to emulate for future success, and I don’t want NFL teams to get it into their head that they might be able to get away with a quarterback like Rex Grossman.<\/p>\n The last black quarterback to lose a superbowl, Donavan McNabb, did not play as horribly as Rex Grossman did, but nonetheless his fairly weak performance was picked apart.\u00c2\u00a0 McNabb is where Limbaugh was initially hunkered down when he said that McNabb was over-rated, and over-rated because the Media wanted a Black Quarterback to succeed.\u00c2\u00a0 When he’s played well, McNabb has been hailed, when he’s played poorly — or more succiently become a injury hazard– \u00c2\u00a0he’s been pillored a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 When he was drafted, the Eagles fans booed McNabb, and if you go back you’ll see he was far from rated highly.<\/p>\n Limbaugh is an idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, apparently Rush Limbaugh came up with this, relating to Rex Grossman’s poor performance in the Superbowl. “The reason that the media has been kicking Rex Grossman so hard and pointing out his mistakes is because he’s a white quarterback.” Going into this Superbowl, I was under the distinct impression that Rex Grossman may just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}