Deion Sanders: (Synopsis) - White guys CAN run!
Interesting story in the vein of the Good White Guy Basketball Player theme: "Not Just a Shooter"...
Troy Apke is turning heads at the combine, with a 4.35 40-yard Dash (along with a 41 inch vertical).
Deion Sanders was impressed, but couldn't tell you exactly WHY he was so impressed:
“Oh man, he can run,” Sanders said, stopping the conversation he was having with NFL Network analysts Mike Mayock and Rich Eisen. “Why are you surprised Deion?” Mayock joked. “You know why I’m surprised. I can’t say it on TV. But he can run run,” Sanders said. Yes, that’s (presumably) a joke about Apke being white and running fast. “You don’t see that much. Let’s call it what it is,” Sanders said.
Along with some of the comments made yesterday about the guy from UCF with one hand, the commentary by some of these talking heads makes me shake my head.
WTF is this nonsensical word soup?
This was the first thing that popped into this white guy's head.
"Everyone thinks it" is only ever given as a justification of dubious race-related comments by people who are more comfortable with racial stereotyping than they ought to be.
This kid. Was he any good? I watched 4 Penn St games and don't remeber his name being called.
I believe that's the most indicative statistic for good safety play. They should have problably made that a statistic already.
He only started one season. You'd think if his technique was any good, he'd have played corner with that speed.
Put Apke on a dance floor to see if he has the hips for corner - then he can really surprise Deion.
Think that's good. Either their D line and LB's made all the tackles, or he just wasn't very involved. Our safties had those stats in 3 games each, and our LB's and D line were pretty good. I'm not really sure about the system they run.
Meh... It loses impact when it has to be asked for, first. Sort of like having to explain a joke. Too bad the OP couldn't get the gif posted - would have been much better.
I know I'm supposed to take offense, but frankly I agree - I wouldn't have expected him to run that fast, either. Deceptive speed!
I did, however, expect him to bring his lunch bucket to the Combine and impress everyone with his grit, motor, and love of the game.
a real gym rat
A great football IQ.
Having said that, I wouldn't doubt that white athletes in certain sports have to deal with some prejudice that may hurt their careers, or perhaps cause them to be steered away into other sports altogether.
It's interesting that there are a number of Europeans who have made it big in the NBA, while white American players are mostly role players. For our white guys, it seems there are two options: the Just a Shooter guy on the perimeter, and the Big Statue in the paint. That silly inside-outside Mo Wagner stuff? Leave it to the Euros.
Heard of Jason Sehorn? Sadly he is the only white corner I can name who played in the NFL in the last 20 yrs.
I had a friend who played at Western. He said he didn't get a fair look on the D-line even though he thought he was better/stronger/faster because the coaches were prejudiced against the white athletes. My friend is super racist and was a walk-on who probably wasn't as good despite all of the steroids.
There are definitely biases, but other than issues with weed, attitude or grades the coaches are going to start the better player 99 times out of 100 regardless of color. Coaches want to win.
With Wesley Snipes
I read that between takes they lowered the rim so Woody would have a better chance of flushing it and he still couldn't do it.
Wait a second. What about our new DE Julius Welschof?
If he pans out I will thoroughly enjoy screaming "Juuuuliuuuuus" after each sack.
Is so appropiate.
Forrest is your typical bama player. Wonder what his 40 was.
racist
WAIT. Do you mean to say that the variation of characteristics within racial groups can be greater than the variation between racial groups and assuming the "on average" attributes at the individual level is going to be inaccurate much of the time and is thus why being racist is an uninformed and unitllegent thing to be? Horly steneard derviartions and berll curvres bertmern!
Yep, lost in all the "The Bell Curve" book controversy back in the day was the spread on most of the bell curves for humans. We are a truly amazingly adaptable and variagated race.
Some statistics wank could tell us about the standard deviation being such that the difference in the medians was statistically insignificant. I probably got that wrong.
And because it's about a white male, it's chuckled at and said to be 'okay'. I'm not offended by it, but IF the definition of racism is judging someone by the color of his/her skin, well then . . it's racist. But it's not called that because it's a white male.
There was something written or stated somewhere in the last several months that racism only exists against minorites or people of lesser means or opportunity (paraphrased). Basically that white people can't be victims of racism. (Not political, just relating the statement)