Donovan McNabb is a whiny, coddled Latino that eats Jewish babies.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

The whole Donovan McNabb interview is getting a lot of attention. I posted an article on it earlier in another thread, and it has been talked about in several. Figured I'd put it all into one. Figured it might be a could place to track him throughout the season, and watch his career fade into nothingness.

McNabb pulling the race card? How ironic ... and ridiculous 
Sep. 18, 2007
By Gregg Doyel
CBSSports.com National Columnist
Black quarterbacks look the same to me. Every last one looks like a guy who should be playing running back. Or defensive back. Or receiver. They look like anything but a quarterback, which used to be an all-white position and should have stayed that way.

Right, Donovan McNabb? That's what you think I'm thinking. That's what you think lots of people are thinking. We don't like black quarterbacks -- never have, never will. So implies McNabb, who went on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on Tuesday night and slapped the race card on the table.

   
Donovan McNabb has been taking some punishment on the field, and now he's inviting more off it. (AP)   
The Eagles' McNabb said: "There's not that many African-American quarterbacks, so we have to do a little bit extra. ... Because the percentage of us playing this position, which people didn't want us to play this position, is low, so we do a little extra."

And McNabb said: "I pass for 300 yards, our team wins by seven (and critics say), 'Ah, he could've made this throw, they would have scored if he did this.' "

And of white Carson Palmer and Peyton Manning, McNabb said: "Let me start by saying I love those guys. But they don't get criticized as much as we do. They don't."

Granted, McNabb has reasons to be bitter. He plays in a vicious sports city where some of the dumber citizens have probably said racist things to him over the years. He was once attacked clumsily by Rush Limbaugh, who said McNabb was overrated but protected by media that "has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."

Limbaugh is the living, breathing, lying, painkilling proof of the difference between sounding smart and being smart. He talks fast and uses big words and can lead a group of lemmings over a cliff more effectively than George Wallace ever could.

But Limbaugh isn't smart. Can't be. To say what he said about McNabb in 2003, when McNabb was a dominant quarterback, was stupid. Limbaugh paid for it by losing his side gig with ESPN. America -- black America, white America, our America -- didn't tolerate his racial stupidity.

So why are we going to tolerate racial stupidity coming now from McNabb? Toleration in the name of entertainment allowed racist blowhards like Limbaugh and Don Imus to spew invective over the airwaves. But toleration in the name of political correctness has allowed white-bashing demagogues like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson Sr. to inflame racially sensitive cases like the ones starring Tawana Brawley and Duke lacrosse.

You go ahead -- tolerate McNabb's comments. Or be like my colleague Mike Freeman and embrace McNabb's social commentary. Me, I'm calling McNabb on it. I'm calling it stupid. I'm calling it intellectually lazy. And I'm calling it cowardly.

His career is sinking, and instead of facing it head on, he pulled out that big, ugly race card and tried to hide his decade-worst 68.8 passer rating behind it.

McNabb is myopic. He thinks he has it rough? Try being Rex Grossman, the quarterback of the Chicago Bears, who gets ripped even as he is leading the Bears to the Super Bowl. The next two most critiqued quarterbacks in the NFL are probably the Jets' Chad Pennington and the Giants' Eli Manning. All three are white.

McNabb? He's old and fading, and judging from his HBO appearance, he's not taking it very well. In his own city, columnist John Smallwood called out McNabb in the Philadelphia Daily News on Tuesday. McNabb, Smallwood wrote, "is like a batter with warning-track power." The old McNabb "is gone." This McNabb "looks bad."

Will McNabb call Smallwood a racist? That would be ironic. Smallwood is black.

McNabb? He's weak. He says black quarterbacks have it rougher than white quarterbacks, and he says it in a way that makes my skin crawl: "They don't get criticized as much as we do."

Lovely. How nice and segregating. And how ridiculous. If it's so much more difficult being a black quarterback than a white one -- please stop chuckling, Grossman -- McNabb has to give us examples. Don't just sit there and say that nonsense with a smirk and assume we're going to nod along, because lots of us won't. Not any more.

Enough is enough. This isn't the 1970s, when Tony Dungy was moved to defensive back without getting a chance behind center, and when Warren Moon was having to start his Hall of Fame career in Canada.

This is 2007, and NFL teams and their fans just want to win. In Oakland, the Raiders have a white starting quarterback, Josh McCown, but a fan base that would prefer Daunte Culpepper or JaMarcus Russell, both black. The Raiders drafted Russell No. 1 overall instead of the other quarterback who ended his senior season presumed to be the likely first pick, Brady Quinn.

How far has the NFL come? The three cities with the largest redneck population -- I'm from Mississippi; I'm allowed -- employ black quarterbacks: In Jacksonville, the Jaguars had three black quarterbacks until releasing Byron Leftwich a few weeks ago. In Nashville, Vince Young is the franchise. And in Atlanta, the Falcons gave Michael Vick the biggest contract in NFL history and stood by him through several embarrassing off-field mistakes until he was charged with felony dogfighting. Joey Harrington replaced Vick, but on Tuesday the Falcons brought in Leftwich to compete for the starting job.

Teams no longer care about skin color. It's all about wins and losses, and if there's one color that transcends all others, it's green. In 2004, three of the four biggest contracts in the NFL went to black quarterbacks.

McNabb came in second at $115 million.

Must be awful to be that guy.

PFT on the interview/today's press conference:

POSTED 3:49 p.m. EDT, September 19, 2007

McNABB FACES THE MUSIC OVER HIS HBO REMARKS

At his weekly press conference, Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb got an earful of questions from members of the media who wanted him to explain his now-infamous remarks from HBO's Real Sports regarding McNabb's belief that the media heaps more criticism upon black quarterbacks than on white quarterbacks.

Here's how it's being described on the Eagles' web site, by Justin Kunkel:  "Nearly all of McNabb's 11-minute press conference was a verbal volley between the quarterback and members of the media who were trying to pin down exactly what McNabb meant in the interview.  He said at one point that he feels he was asked questions that would not be asked of white quarterbacks in the same situation, a statement that seemed to bother many members of the media in attendance."

Kunkel also writes that "McNabb would not provide specifics as to what questions black quarterbacks are asked that white quarterbacks are not."

Yeah.  Because he can't.

And it seems that the team is stepping away from McNabb on this one.  Case in point -- the Eagles' P.R. staff included every question, and every answer from McNabb, in an e-mail sent out to members of the media.

All 19 questions and answers can be read right here right here.

Our guess?  McNabb's days in Philly are numbered.  We used to think he'd be gone after the 2007 season; we now think there's an outside chance that he gets traded within the next month.

[Seabiscuit36]

 

[PhillyPhanInDC]

Re: IGY hates white people, especially Jewish ones.

Sure, that too.

[Rome]

Haha.

[MDS]

white america is racist, but doyel is spot on in that article. mcnabb is whiny little girl. blow the whole thing up.

[Seabiscuit36]

An honest question:  What value would Mcnabb fetch as far as a trade?  Obviously he's not healthy, but for QB's he's supposed to be entering the prime of his career. 

[reese125]

its pretty apparent all that talk about just trying to to whats best for the team, lead by example, and just wanting to play the game is all horseshtein. He needs to be in the spotlight, which is a crying shame for someone thats career is fading beyond belief.

Why the hell would he agree to do a report with Gumble knowing damn well it would come to bite him and the team in the ass....again? Sounds like he is trying to get traded to me.

Media circus...take 5

[Wingspan]

its pretty apparent all that talk about just trying to to whats best for the team, lead by example, and just wanting to play the game is all horseshtein. He needs to be in the spotlight, which is a crying shame for someone thats career is fading beyond belief.

Why the hell would he agree to do a report with Gumble knowing damn well it would come to bite him and the team in the ass....again? Sounds like he is trying to get traded to me.

Media circus...take 5

I am not defending McNabb here...I think he thought the eagles would be in better standing at 2-0...him looking healthy...etc... at this point. That he agreed to do the interview to get his message out, a misguided attempt to brake racial barriers. Since he has played like shtein, and the birds are 0-2...this whole thing is backfiring around him.

At this point there is only one way to save his career in philly. For McNabb...this season, it's Super Bowl or bust.

[Wingspan]

I, for one, am looking forward to the ETN specials of Kolb and his bare hands wild boar hunting.

[ice grillin you]

do a report with Gumble

     

[fansince61]

but for QB's he's supposed to be entering the prime of his career. 

Tragically true  

[reese125]

I am not defending McNabb here...I think he thought the eagles would be in better standing at 2-0...him looking healthy...etc... at this point. That he agreed to do the interview to get his message out, a misguided attempt to brake racial barriers. Since he has played like shtein, and the birds are 0-2...this whole thing is backfiring around him.

0-2. 2-0, or 13-0. It doesnt matter. The fact that he is even talking about that crap now makes him look foolish in all aspects.

Save that crap when your out of football, retired and in your 60's doing interviews with Bob Costas...not mid-season where it affects your team

5 = dumb

[fansince61]

Trade him to da bears for 3 # 1's

[rjs246]

PPinDC Seabiscuit just said that McNabb walked out on his presser today. We are witnessing the fiery crashing smashing end of an era. Ouch.


Edit: Oops.

[RezRob]

Why do we care what he thinks or says? Atheletes are just that. I don't look to them for anything more than hard play. Philly media whoring and ESPN/HBO are gonna blow this shtein up so far... It'll be the fans who suffer when/if he leaves. Maybe Gumbel will get an Emmy and Sal Pal can pay for a new vacation home peddling hype and our fan-base's misery.