They have to be being converted during college recruitment or something. I am pretty sure 80% of our nations high schools feature an all white backfield. But for their not to be one in the NFL at all not even on the practice squad is insane. I can't even remember the last time I saw one in college. Anybody catch any Ivy League football? Does Harvard and Yale have a starting backfield of Washington and Jackson or Fisher and Hoffman?
cause white guys ALWAYS have solid hands, thats why you see em all WR and no DB. @)(joking)
good question though....only one I can think of is Jason Sehorn.
I guess if you are a white WR you BETTER have excellent hands. Just like a black QB BETTER be a mobile one. I can't remember the last white WR in the league who had the dropsies.
Doesn't count he was a converted college QB. Not his natural position. More like a failed experiment. One would think with all of the resin from the weed he smoked the ball sticking to his hands wouldn't be an issue.
Oh shit I mentioned a controlled substance off to the RR in 4, 3, 2, 1....
Because in general white people are slow and can't jump at all and it hurts their abilities. Notice most white players are offensive linemen, quarterbacks and then either mlb or a slot wr. Slot wideouts arent nec. fastest but they are quick and smart. But there are fast athletic white guys but i guess they just tend to play like soccer or baseball who knows
The NFL White Cornerback, Officially Extinct!
By Ed Sheahin
(Correspondent) on December 18, 2009
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It has been six years since the last of its kind was spotted. The last reported sighting was on field turf in urban St. Louis. The seldom seen white cornerback remains secluded. Some would even say the rare species no longer exists.
When former NFL cornerback Jason Sehorn retired from the St. Louis Rams in 2003, little did we know it would be the last time professional football fans would witness a white cornerback.
Although Sehorn played his final game a few years ago as a safety, he was truly the last full time white cornerback to man the position in a league focused on equality.
Equality is something the NFL has strived for in recent years. In 2002, Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney spearheaded the NFL Committee for Workplace Diversity. Designed to promote diversity in coaching and front office positions, the committee instituted a policy that is now known as the “Rooney Rule." The rule calls for one minority candidate to be interviewed for every vacant coaching or executive position in the NFL.
The policy worked as planned, as the number of minority coaches in the NFL jumped from six percent to 22 percent in a five year period.
But the word “equality” is often used as a matter of convenience, rather than its true meaning. If the NFL truly wants equality throughout, it has to be a two way street. The league encouraged (albeit, not publically) teams to give more African-American quarterbacks a chance in the early 1990’s. Today, nearly a third of all starting or reserve quarterbacks in the league are African-American.
So when does the push come from the league to encourage teams to give white cornerbacks a shot?
With the exception of a handful of shut down cornerbacks the league has to offer, there are very few who play the position at a high level week after week.
The white cornerback is not fast or quick enough. They lack the make-up speed or leaping ability to excel at the position. Stereotypes college/NFL coaches and general managers have developed over time.
It all sounds very similar to the stereotypes which often accompanied budding African-American quarterbacks; they aren’t smart enough, they don't work hard enough, they aren’t good leaders.
With the cornerback play in the NFL in recent years, one would think half the league’s corners were drafted from college track teams rather than football squads.
Give me former Redskins cornerback 5’9” Pat Fischer, over current rookie corner Kevin Barnes any day. Fischer, who probably ran a 4.7 40-yard dash at best could cover the likes of former Eagles receiver 6’7” Harold Carmichael and former Olympic star turned Cowboy receiver, Bob Hayes.
Although speed is an important aspect of the game, a hard-nosed knowledgeable athlete is hard to pass on. One who is willing to stick his helmet in an opponent’s chest, should be preferred over a track star whose ideal method of tackling is to dive at the feet of a receiver.
Now this isn’t a cry for the NFL to change its rules or open the flood gates for white cornerbacks in the league, but find a few out of the estimated 50 or 60 million white males between the ages of 20-35 in North America and make equality truly equal.
By Ed Sheahin
(Correspondent) on December 18, 2009
2,350 reads
7 comments
0 likes
Photos
It has been six years since the last of its kind was spotted. The last reported sighting was on field turf in urban St. Louis. The seldom seen white cornerback remains secluded. Some would even say the rare species no longer exists.
When former NFL cornerback Jason Sehorn retired from the St. Louis Rams in 2003, little did we know it would be the last time professional football fans would witness a white cornerback.
Although Sehorn played his final game a few years ago as a safety, he was truly the last full time white cornerback to man the position in a league focused on equality.
Equality is something the NFL has strived for in recent years. In 2002, Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney spearheaded the NFL Committee for Workplace Diversity. Designed to promote diversity in coaching and front office positions, the committee instituted a policy that is now known as the “Rooney Rule." The rule calls for one minority candidate to be interviewed for every vacant coaching or executive position in the NFL.
The policy worked as planned, as the number of minority coaches in the NFL jumped from six percent to 22 percent in a five year period.
But the word “equality” is often used as a matter of convenience, rather than its true meaning. If the NFL truly wants equality throughout, it has to be a two way street. The league encouraged (albeit, not publically) teams to give more African-American quarterbacks a chance in the early 1990’s. Today, nearly a third of all starting or reserve quarterbacks in the league are African-American.
So when does the push come from the league to encourage teams to give white cornerbacks a shot?
With the exception of a handful of shut down cornerbacks the league has to offer, there are very few who play the position at a high level week after week.
The white cornerback is not fast or quick enough. They lack the make-up speed or leaping ability to excel at the position. Stereotypes college/NFL coaches and general managers have developed over time.
It all sounds very similar to the stereotypes which often accompanied budding African-American quarterbacks; they aren’t smart enough, they don't work hard enough, they aren’t good leaders.
With the cornerback play in the NFL in recent years, one would think half the league’s corners were drafted from college track teams rather than football squads.
Give me former Redskins cornerback 5’9” Pat Fischer, over current rookie corner Kevin Barnes any day. Fischer, who probably ran a 4.7 40-yard dash at best could cover the likes of former Eagles receiver 6’7” Harold Carmichael and former Olympic star turned Cowboy receiver, Bob Hayes.
Although speed is an important aspect of the game, a hard-nosed knowledgeable athlete is hard to pass on. One who is willing to stick his helmet in an opponent’s chest, should be preferred over a track star whose ideal method of tackling is to dive at the feet of a receiver.
Now this isn’t a cry for the NFL to change its rules or open the flood gates for white cornerbacks in the league, but find a few out of the estimated 50 or 60 million white males between the ages of 20-35 in North America and make equality truly equal.
Reggie White just gave you two thumbs up from the grave.
There is something to be said though that our destiny is carved out for us at a young age. At young ages we are steered into doing the easy things in life, or you can say what comes "naturally". So we are coached, motivated and encouraged to go that route in life. So maybe if you are white at a young age and aren't large or tall in size but are athletic, exhibit good reflexes and lightning fast you are more or less pointed in the direction of playing tennis or something.
The same can be said for all of us out there, we are tested and put through so many exercises as children that seemed innocent then but when you think back on it now we were being naturally selected to pretty much do exactly what we are doing today. Even the good old military knows where to recruit the best soldiers from. Recruiting officers in high school don't target libraries and shit looking for soldiers they go to the local pizza joints and hangouts looking for kids who could careless about further education.
We can all pretty much do anything and everything within our physical and mental capabilities but because we happen to excel at something we are told that is what we should be doing, so we don't bother to attempt to do something that we aren't quote as good at. Who here has ever been told at work they can't switch job positions at work because we are too valuable where we are at?
That is all part of the process of selection. Sure at a college and professional level the numbers would say that. That is because black QB 's don't get recruited from gifted private high schools. They come for schools that have inferior rewards of education. I bet if you measure IQ tests of all of the black QB's that has come and gone from the league against ONLY the white QB's that came from some small farm town or swamp town in Iowa or Arkansas and the IQ tests would be the same. Can you honestly say that Bret Favre is smarter than Donovan McNabb? But you throw in the test scores of all of those Notre Dame QB's like Rick Mirer and Brady Quinn against Michael Vick and Vince Young and you tell me out of those 4 who would you want as your starting QB.
It is all about where you come from not what you are. If you are a white person raised in a middle class or upper middle class area then I am pretty sure that the only black people you ever encountered in life were of the same walk of life. They took the same classes, dated the same girls, drove the same cars and played the same sports and studied the same playbooks. You can't compare those black people to a black person who was raised in the ghetto, played in the ghetto, and gang bang in the ghetto. Just like you can't compare the same white people with the white kids that lived in motels and trailer parks.
Different resources breeds a different person. Ghettos and trailer parks don't breed doctors and senators. Just like country club kids don't grow up to be a gang banger and deals drugs on the streets.
just because you come from money doesn't make you smarter ( watch the hills ) they become "doctors and senators"
because they have opportunities that others dont...
why mention mirrer and quin but not montana? I didnt just make this up, they are not as smart and im not the only one who thinks this way. if they aren't mobile they dont exist except leftwich and he stinks.
I think if they gave every starting qb an IQ test vince young would be last vick would be right next to him and mcnabb might be in the middle, I dont think black athletes are smart enough to lead a team.
Asian Americans are least represented in this country. Even Bruce Lee had to go to China to be a star there first before becoming an Icon in this country. I kind of feel bad for them because they get stereotyped like no other. Has there ever been a television show that focused on an Asian family? No matter what action flick you are watching every time an Asian happens to pop up in it he is the martial arts expert. Everybody else in the movies are packing guns but the Asian has to get busy with his feet. Even in our recent war movies that focused on the wars in the middle east, there is no Private Chang to be found. Private Martinez, Private Goldberg, Private Collins, Private Wahington yes. But no Private Chang.
I mean all of the collective races in this country pretty much do their part to make it work well. But Asians seem to have little input into Hollywood at all with the exception of the kung fu flicks or the hot asian chick being cast. Give props to John Cho from Harold & Kumar from breaking the Asian typecasting mold.
