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5. Right after college I remember attending a superbowl party where

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #4)

Tue May 29, 2012, 09:39 AM

May 2012

the consensus was that blacks did not have the mental ability to be quarterbacks. That's why there weren't any in the NFL.

I didn't realize that that kind of thinking was common in the area.

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