According to FOX, NFL teams have "a justifiable reason to whiten their rosters."

[Pale Blue Dot]

...all thanks to a few bad apples who happen to be black.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7343980?CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=5

You get one NFL Truth today. Watching Chad Johnson and Larry Johnson undermine their respective head coaches, Marvin Lewis and Herm Edwards, on Sunday gave me a singular focus, forced me to contemplate an uncomfortable truth.

African-American football players caught up in the rebellion and buffoonery of hip hop culture have given NFL owners and coaches a justifiable reason to whiten their rosters. That will be the legacy left by Chad, Larry and Tank Johnson, Pacman Jones, Terrell Owens, Michael Vick and all the other football bojanglers.

In terms of opportunity for American-born black athletes, they're going to leave the game in far worse shape than they found it.

It's already starting to happen. A little-publicized fact is that the Colts and the Patriots — the league's model franchises — are two of the whitest teams in the NFL. If you count rookie receiver Anthony Gonzalez, the Colts opened the season with an NFL-high 24 white players on their 53-man roster. Toss in linebacker Naivote Taulawakeiaho "Freddie" Keiaho and 47 percent of Tony Dungy's defending Super Bowl-champion roster is non-African-American. Bill Belichick's Patriots are nearly as white, boasting a 23-man non-African-American roster, counting linebacker Tiaina "Junior" Seau and backup quarterback Matt Gutierrez.

[rucky]

1. It's shocking and not surprising at the same time.

That's FOX for ya.

[Middle finga]

2. Wasn't the Patroits just caught cheating recently.

They are a good team but I wouldn't call them a model.

[devilgrrl]

4. And their White All-American Boy of a quarterback has a child out of wedlock

What a positive example for today's youth. :sarcasm:

[1000evorlrak]

5. Yeah, he has zipper control problems

But, I guess when you bring as much to the table as he does.....

[KAZ]

3. "Whiten"? WTF. Jason needs to be strung up.

We're regressing by the moment.

[tom_paine]

6. The Bushies are getting restless. They can't hold back their true selves much longer.

I wonder what Kristallnacht is going to look like this time around? A Kinder and Gentler Kristallnacht, wholly taking place in cyber space? Somehow I doubt it.

[KAZ]

11. They won't shut down the net. They'll make people afraid

to post on it. And board owners afraid to host. Happening as we type.

[maximusveritas]

7. Whitlock discovered he could acheive fame

by catering to the closet racists.
And he's milking it for all it's worth.

[Coexist]

8. what the hell does race have to do with football?

the best players play, if they screw up off the field, they are suspended, fined, or released, and the next most amazing athletic talent fills the slot.

Trying to fill a roster with a certain race is absurd.

[lpbk2713]

9. Sounds like this piece was written by OxyRush.

If it wasn't I would not be surprised to learn Faux asked him for some input.

[splat]

10. What an unpleasant thread -- so superior... n/t

[jmm]

12. So when former NFL player Bob Buczkowski was recently

convicted of running a prostitution ring or when Brett Meyers beat his wife on Newbury St then started for his team that was the "hip hop" culture infecting sports.

[Bluebear]

13. Yes, let's "perfect" those football teams.

I can't believe what this society is becoming.