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Why No Asian Quarterbacks? Huhhhhhh?!?!?!?!


PhillyB

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Is the NFL 60% asian? Does the NFL have a long history of denying asian QBs and converting them into WRs, special teams players, and waterboys? You guys are a sad bunch. Deflection is your middle name, and rather than address the obvious problem at hand you'd rather act like it aint there.

the problem i see is people who let race become a determining factor in their thought process/decision-making. that, KT, is you.

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I thought the sarcasm was pretty lame, but that is a legitimate question to me. Where are the Asian players in general? Granted, the US is only about 3% Asian, but I still think that there should be more represnted in US sports. Outside Timmy Chang(who's is a free agent in the CFL), Haruki Nakamura(whose on the injured reserve of the Baltimore Ravens), and a Chinese-American O-lineman somewhere in the Big 12 whose name I can't remember(but he is a high projected pick for fututre drafts), the group isn't really represented in the football ranks. And American Samoans don't count. I'm surprised that some football(college specifically) coach in the offseason hasn't gone to Hawai'i or even Japan to try and covince some up and coming sumo wrestler to switch professions, like that guy off The Replacements.

Hell, a much better question would be where are the Hispanics? Hispanic people are the second largest ethnic group in the US, but yet they make up fewer than like 1-2% of the NFL. I really don't think the idea that 'football is soccer' to most Hispanics really flies nowadays, at least to the ones who reside in the US from a young age. The strange thing is, there has been plenty of successful Hispanic players despite the lack of flow. Tom Flores, Anthony Muñoz, Junior Seau, Donnie Edwards,Tony Gonzalez etc.

If the Roger Goodell wants the NFL to be a legitimate international hit over the general joke it is outside the US and Canada, then he needs to address it.

And I swear, if I see one more post in a forum from some European saying football players are pansies because they wear pads while Rugby players don't, I will throw something.

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I'm thinking it's the genetic makeup. Asians are generally smaller-framed. I saw a special on Discovery or TLC about the genetic makeup of people of African descent having muscular tendencies that enable superior running and jumping ability - and that the area of Africa from which they come impacts that muscular structure.

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I'm thinking it's the genetic makeup. Asians are generally smaller-framed. I saw a special on Discovery or TLC about the genetic makeup of people of African descent having muscular tendencies that enable superior running and jumping ability - and that the area of Africa from which they come impacts that muscular structure.

Are you Jimmy the Greeks daughter? :D

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