Aside from the fact the show overall sucks now that they don't show highlights of all the games there was another racist interview that goes unnoticed. Much like the Michael Irvin comments were swept under the rug what happened on the show will as well. Beetlejuice's brother(Cris Carter) interviewed KC RB Larry Johnson and the interview turned to Larry having a black HC and Larry said he plays harder for a black coach and he can accept discipline from a balck coach b/c they understand him better. of course beetlejuice nodded in agreement. Imagine if they interviewed Chad next week and he says "I can accept discipline from mangini more than Herm b/c Eric is white and he understands me better, I give a better effort for Eric b/c of that". Anyway, check out the interview as it will be replayd the next couple of days.
I saw it. Larry Johnson has to stop with this Vermeil stuff. All right, so Vermeil made one unfortunate diapers comment. BFD! He apologized.......now we have to see endless interviews about how LJ was depressed. The guy was a rookie playing behind Priest Holmes....and he still got carries, and when Holmes went down he became the guy. That season! Plenty of players have to sit when they first get to the league. Get over it already, LJ. You didn't even sit. LJ should be more worried about Herm threatening the back end of his career by giving him 400 carries this season. He has 40 more carries than Chester Taylor and the next guy has 60 less carries. The thing that pissed me off was that in a 1 hour NFL show there was nary a mention of the NY Jets. Aren't we in the NFL? Aren't we on the playoff bubble as of this week?
This is from PFT: JOHNSON REMARKS STIR RACIAL STEW At a time when racial issues have been thrust back into the limelight by guys like Michael "Kramer" Richards and Michael "The Greek" Irvin, there's brand new grist for the black-white mill. We've received several e-mails from readers regarding an interview of Chiefs running back Larry Johnson, which aired Wednesday night on HBO's Inside the NFL. Johnson, per the readers, made some remarks indicating a preference for a black coach over a white one. The Florio family doesn't get HBO (since Florio Jr. already learns enough salty language from his father), but an article regarding Johnson's remarks appeared in Wednesday's Kansas City Star. Regarding his former coach, Dick Vermeil, Johnson candidly admits that he routinely ignored him. "I wouldn't pay attention," Johnson said. "My eyes, I would be up in the sky. You know, I would be sleeping in my locker. I wouldn't carry my playbook because I was just trying to get away from this building, you know, when Dick was here." So Cris Carter asked Johnson: "Do you think Herm Edwards, being an African-American and you being raised, of course, by an African-American, that you see a lot of similarities in Herm that you saw in your dad that made you open up to him?" Said Johnson in response: "I think so. I could relate to Herman. I couldn't do that with the other coaches I had because they had not done it. You know, they haven't put those pads or they haven't been in the situation as a young black athlete and know what we had to go through. "You know, when we go out, you know, we like to go out. You know, we like to hang out. We like to have fun. But then you got to worry about the guy around the corner with the gun. You got to worry about this girl on the block. You got to worry about, you know, your parents. You got to worry about your homeboys taking advantage of you. "There's so much things you got to worry about being a young black athlete. And to be able to have a father like mine and have a coach like Herm, I was able to escape a lot of those realities and find myself in a new ray of light." We're not sure we completely understand all of what Johnson is saying about his preference for a black head coach, but it sounds a lot like the reasons that were given in the past as to why there were so many white ones. The owners and General Managers, who in past years exclusively were white, supposedly chose white coaches over minority coaches in part because the owners and General Managers could better relate to the white candidates, due to common life experiences. We suppose it's just another situation in which racial biases and preferences are prohibited when demonstrated by members of the "majority" race and accepted when stated by members of the "minority." But if we're striving as a society for equality, doesn't a double-standard regarding acceptable words and beliefs provide an inherent impediment to that goal? If and when this society is ever to be truly equal, there will be true equality -- both as to the perks, and as to the punishments.
I saw the interview and basically the only valid point i took away from it was that Chris Carter is an asshole. I remember watching another interview for him on ESPN and he blew up on Tom Mortensen i think when they asked a question of the same nature. I think he's as narrowminded as they come.
