ESPN Announcer Says White Redskins Fans Will Support White QB over Black one

[LynneSin]

24. I think you are way off base.

Sorry but it's true.

First, if anything the Redskins were the first team to win a Superbowl with an African American QB (Doug Williams) so if anything Redskin fans know firsthand that it's all about the win and alot less about the skin color.

Second, understand that DC is a very fluctuating town in regards to it's residents. A large population of the people who live there that could possibly think like what you described are people who are there either as an elected official, his/her support staff, lobbyists & staff and reporters. Most of those people go home and cheer on their own football teams. Those that are permanent residents of DC are diehard fans and majority are very supportive of whomever is running the team provided they get the win.

I live in a city where the last 3 major QB to run our team have all been African-American (Eagles - Randall Cunningham, Donovan McNabb and now Michael Vick). When these guys don't bring home the win, they can be orange with lime polka-dot skin color and we'll still give them hell for not getting the job done. But when one of them is slimed in the media for their skin color (about a decade ago when Rush Limbaugh hosted ESPN football he made a similar racist comment about McNabb) the fans were united as one calling bullshit on the racist comment.