Is it a bad thing that former NFL career sack leader Reggie White died today, and all I can think of is this:<\/p>\n
White said he has thought about why God created different races. Each race has certain gifts, he said. <\/p>\n
Blacks are gifted at worship and celebration, White said. <\/p>\n
“If you go to a black church, you see people jumping up and down because they really get into it,” he said. <\/p>\n
Whites are good at organization, White said. <\/p>\n
“You guys do a good job of building businesses and things of that nature, and you know how to tap into money,” he said. <\/p>\n
“Hispanics were gifted in family structure, and you can see a Hispanic person, and they can put 20, 30 people in one home.” <\/p>\n
THE JAPANESE AND other Asians are inventive, and “can turn a television into a watch,” White said. Indians are gifted in spirituality, he said. <\/p>\n
“When you put all of that together, guess what it makes: It forms a complete image of God,” White said. <\/p>\n
White said later that his comments were about coming together as a society and were not meant to stereotype the races. <\/p>\n
“This is the first time I’ve been at a loss for words,” Assembly Minority Leader Walter Kunicki, D-Milwaukee, said after White’s speech. “You can still tell from the tension in the room that much of this was offensive.” <\/p>\n
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Hearing that for the first time was one of those moments where you can feel your jaw hit the floor, and it hurts. Frankly, I think it’s funny as hell now, but at the time… okay, it was still funny as hell, but I wanted to reach out and shove the words back in his mouth for him. <\/p>\n
Lucky for Reggie, he was too busy being dead to have to watch the Browns game tonight. It was just as ugly as advertised.
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\nYou would think that sometime after a goal line fumble, and two years in the league, that Lee Suggs would learn that it’s okay to put two hands on the football. Fortunately, one of the fumbles went out of bounds, but it wasn’t the one at the goal line. As shitty as William Green has played the past six or 15 weeks, I would have loved to have him in there just for the stiff-arm opportunity on that second fumble. Why is Suggs carrying the ball out so far in the arm next to the defender!?!?! Damn Browns.<\/p>\nWhen Phil Dawson’s field goal attempt in the third quarter hit square on the upright, the Browns should have walked off and headed home. That was moment #2,492 that typified the new Browns’ life.<\/p>\n
Joe Theismann can kiss my ass on so many levels. I’m convinced that he’s brought Paul Maguire’s game down immensely, to the point that they were almost in Brent Musberger territory. A team puts together a couple first downs on a drive, and they’re “really moving along now”. That same drive ends in a punt, and “they just can’t do anything right, it’s horrible”. When Richard Alston fumbled the second half kickoff (on a play that I commend him for, he was hit once or twice and almost broke a seam, but went down and lost the ball in the effort), Theismann said something to the effect of “If you’re a tight end returning kicks and you get hit, go down. Don’t try to be a kick returner.” Um, Joe, I don’t think Alston has done anything BUT return kicks this year. Try reading your game notes, and shut the hell up.<\/p>\n
On the bright side, I learned that when Jim Brown shows up without the hockey puck on his head, I’m actually interested in what he has to say, and he made sense. I bet if mid-interview someone would have slipped his hat on, his responses would have gone something like this:<\/p>\n
Suzy Kolber: “Jim, what do the Browns have to do to get back to the playoffs?”
\nJim Brown: “Well, Suzy, I think they need to get back to their hard work ethic, installing an offense that will highlight their strengths, add a couple key components on the defense, and (hat goes on)… kill whitey. If they can just find a way to stick it to The Man, they’ll do just fine.”<\/p>\nDead Pool<\/a> roster is nearly complete, though I’m still open to suggestions. The deadline is Friday night at 11:59 (or at least it should be), and I’m treating this like college. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Is it a bad thing that former NFL career sack leader Reggie White died today, and all I can think of is this: White said he has thought about why God created different races. Each race has certain gifts, he said. Blacks are gifted at worship and celebration, White said. “If you go to a … Continue reading And the eskimos make kickass igloos!<\/span>