Rush Limbaugh Continues to be an asinine Football Analyst
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 possibly be the worst starting quarterback ever to appear in the Superbowl. Sometimes he played well — 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. 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.
The game started with the Bears returning the opening kick-off for a touch-down. The Colts promptly adjusted and kicked short, forcing the game to be won by Grossman and not off of great kick-off returns. Grossman promptly fumbled the ball, threw interceptions, and was generally inept. The Bears 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.
Peyton Manning, the winning quarterback, is white. 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. 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.
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. 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. When he’s played well, McNabb has been hailed, when he’s played poorly — or more succiently become a injury hazard–  he’s been pillored a bit. When he was drafted, the Eagles fans booed McNabb, and if you go back you’ll see he was far from rated highly.
Limbaugh is an idiot.
February 9th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Come on guy, McNabb was awful in his lone appearance in the big game, and no one said a word about it for fear of ending up in the same situation as Rush.
But the thing is, Rush was 100% right about McNabb, and this. People are just too afraid to stand on his side.
Why all this hate for Grossman? This was his first full year as a starter in the league and he has less then 25 starts as a QB, and people are blaming him for the Bears loss. A game that was played in less hen stellar weather condistions, and one that Rex was forced to try and make plays because the Bears defence couldn’t stop Peyton Manning.
What about Mike Vick? What has he ever accomplished beyond spreading STD’s, giving the fans the finger, and trying to sneak pot onto an airplane? Where’s the hate for him? McNair is another choke artist who’s escaped blame every time he fails. Look how much better the Saints got, and how bad the Raiders became when when Aaron Brooks left NO for Oakland.
The Bears lost. And because of that, someone needs to get blamed. and instead of blaming the black coach, they’re blaming the white kid. Because if you put the blame where it belongs, then you would be called a racist by these special interest groups.
February 9th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Aaron Brooks sucks. I’ll agree with you on that.
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:27 pm
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