Vince Young Remembers That He’s a Black Quarterback
July 6th- In a recent interview with Esquire Magazine, Titans quarterback Vince Young expressed his opinions on football and life.
Looking towards the future, the 2006 NFL Rookie of the Year and current back up to Kerry Collins spoke about coming to grips with the loss of his mentor, Steve McNair, his future finding himself enshrined in Canton and how he wants to be the second black quarterback to win a Super Bowl.
Wait a minute. Isn’t this the same Vince Young who two years ago when asked to respond to Donovan McNabb’s comments about Black quarterbacks being judged differently said:
“That is his opinion. I really feel like myself, black or white quarterbacks, we all go through something because that is the life of a quarterback. You have to be able to handle all the pressure and you have to be able to handle the losses and you have to be able to handle the media saying this about you. If you can’t handle it, then you have to get off that position and go play something else.”
One can surmise that during the short lived success Vince was experiencing at the time, he forgot that he was a black quarterback. Addressing that reality was way too much of a distraction at the time.
But now that he’s lost his job as a starter, viewed as mentally fragile (and deficient), and has been written off as a bust, he's come to the stark conclusion that he is indeed a black quarterback who now carries the history and experiences of former black quarterbacks before him as his personal source of motivation.
It’s funny how when one is down and out on their luck, blackness conveniently appears, and they suddenly see things a little clearer.
Reggie’s Ready To Carry The Load
Coming off a 2008 season where a knee injury limited him to nine games, New Orleans Saints Running Back Reggie Bush took precautionary measures to protect his surgically repaired left knee, keeping it wrapped yesterday afternoon during practice.
The 2006 Heisman Trophy winner required microfacture surgery on his knee during the offseason after injuring it last October against the Panthers. Not wanting to rush himself too quickly, the former USC Trojan said that he’s preparing himself to get back into football shape and getting his knee back to "carrying the load again."
Unless we're off somehow, punt returners and third down backs rarely have the term "carrying the load" tied to them. Reggie should be reminded that the term is typically reserved for running backs who are asked to do things beyond catching swing passes five yards within the line of scrimmage and aren’t inspired by Alvin Alley when asked to run between the tackles.
The last load Reggie carried was hitched on to his ex-girlfriends caboose.
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