Foolishness
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This is silly. But this stuff catches my eye. I coached youth football for many years. Some of my teams wore all white uniforms. I hated that because the ball was very visible. Some of my teams wore all dark jerseys. It was great because the ball was much less visible. Is this a major consideration? No. But it is a consideration.
I wanted my QBs and RBs to wear dark sleeves when the weather was cold (or if they wanted to have sleeves) to make it much more difficult for defenders to pick up where the ball was. This is all just accepted fact among folks involved in football. In youth football you can many times choose the football you used so long as it met the size standards. I always tried to choose a football that was light colored if we had light uniforms and dark if we had dark uniforms.
Striping was also an issue. Our league required stripes. Some coaches wanted to use no stripe footballs, like the NFL, and the complaint was visibility for the defenders – that is, FB is hard enough but the lack of stripes would impact the defense.
The fact is, dark skin on dark football without a doubt provides the handler of the ball an advantage over a player with lighter skin when engaged in play fakes, fake handoffs, or even regular handoffs (where a hand or hands could be mistaken for a ball).
This is high speed stuff where defenders many times only get a glimpse of what is transpiring.
But a broadcaster gets suspended for simply stating the truth. Our society continues to go to hell because of the hypersensitivity by leftists to truth, or even to debate or discussion. Solely because it invoked skin color meant it was off limits. Foolishness. Leave it to San Francisco – they should be busy cleaning up the feces on their streets.
Meanwhile, of course, comments by an NFL player about Christian McCaffrey being “the most skilled white dude in NFL history” or “a bad white boy” are just deemed funny (and of course, I think it’s funny. Maybe true. Not offensive.)
But if someone said that Lamar Jackson was “the most skilled black quarterback ever”, or that’s “a bad black boy”, the world would come to an end.
And I would be willing to bet that most black folks that know football would agree with my comments on the truth of the comment on Lamar Jackson’s dark skin color and would think the suspension of the announcer was silly. It’s the white leftists that think they have to protect and lay down the law on what can be discussed. The same ones that claim any discussion of race is founded in “ignorance.” They can’t win a debate so they attack it that way, along with the “racist” complaints.
Foolishness.
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It’s not silly at all. I think the uniform that a team steps out onto the field with says a lot. For instance, I almost threw up when we had the red/grey/blue/white “uniforms” that looked like somebody’s grandma stayed up late on Friday night to make because they had to have something to wear on Saturday.
As sad as it is to say, I also have an extreme hatred for the Foghorn/Leghorn stupid looking chickens on the helmets. HATE THEM.
The Blue or White Uni’s with the KU on the helmet - nice. Not great, but nice. I wish we would come up with some radical badass change - ie; like K-State going from the Willie the Wildcat (Wile e Coyote) cartoon to the powercat. You don’t think that gave their players a boost? Not their fans, because they’re too stupid, but the players had to feel much better about the powercat.
I also believe that in Synder’s tenure, K-State probably would have won at least 2 National Championships if they had worn black uniforms instead of the stupid purple ones.
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HighEliteMajor said:
This is silly. But this stuff catches my eye. I coached youth football for many years. Some of my teams wore all white uniforms. I hated that because the ball was very visible. Some of my teams wore all dark jerseys. It was great because the ball was much less visible. Is this a major consideration? No. But it is a consideration.
I wanted my QBs and RBs to wear dark sleeves when the weather was cold (or if they wanted to have sleeves) to make it much more difficult for defenders to pick up where the ball was. This is all just accepted fact among folks involved in football. In youth football you can many times choose the football you used so long as it met the size standards. I always tried to choose a football that was light colored if we had light uniforms and dark if we had dark uniforms.
Striping was also an issue. Our league required stripes. Some coaches wanted to use no stripe footballs, like the NFL, and the complaint was visibility for the defenders – that is, FB is hard enough but the lack of stripes would impact the defense.
The fact is, dark skin on dark football without a doubt provides the handler of the ball an advantage over a player with lighter skin when engaged in play fakes, fake handoffs, or even regular handoffs (where a hand or hands could be mistaken for a ball).
This is high speed stuff where defenders many times only get a glimpse of what is transpiring.
But a broadcaster gets suspended for simply stating the truth. Our society continues to go to hell because of the hypersensitivity by leftists to truth, or even to debate or discussion. Solely because it invoked skin color meant it was off limits. Foolishness. Leave it to San Francisco – they should be busy cleaning up the feces on their streets.
Meanwhile, of course, comments by an NFL player about Christian McCaffrey being “the most skilled white dude in NFL history” or “a bad white boy” are just deemed funny (and of course, I think it’s funny. Maybe true. Not offensive.)
But if someone said that Lamar Jackson was “the most skilled black quarterback ever”, or that’s “a bad black boy”, the world would come to an end.
And I would be willing to bet that most black folks that know football would agree with my comments on the truth of the comment on Lamar Jackson’s dark skin color and would think the suspension of the announcer was silly. It’s the white leftists that think they have to protect and lay down the law on what can be discussed. The same ones that claim any discussion of race is founded in “ignorance.” They can’t win a debate so they attack it that way, along with the “racist” complaints.
Foolishness.
I thought this was a silly story and an overreaction for sure.
But I have two points.
One, Lamar could still be better than average at hiding the football. There are plenty of black QBs in college who don’t have similar success or things said about them hiding the ball well.
Two, it could entirely be possible his skin color does hide the ball well.
Both can be true.
I didn’t think it an outrageous thing to talk about when considering how well Lamar is at hiding the ball.
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Once again using the white man’s skin against him.
️ suck it up, the system they run is something most have never seen or haven’t seen since high school. Lots of misdirection. Lol no one thinks the Browns have any sort of advantage, but their uni is the same color as the ball. It’s just a stupid conversation (I mean nationally) and a silly thing to get suspended over (think before speaking on tv).
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I think it’s been blown outta proportion at this but agree with @dylans Jackson is doing a splendid job, he is the issue more than the uniforms or his skin color. We as Americans have to stop alienating each other. I refuse to read any article that has someone’s skin color in the head line. Evil knows no bounds and doesn’t discriminate on race, religion or occupation. I’m gonna sit on my couch like baby yoda, watch Jackson and Mahomes all while not giving a flying f**k what they look like put on a show. Because they are most exciting players in the league right now.
