It's not an official rule but it's how a talentless ex-jock without a personality gets invited to do "color commentary" for the Super Bowl: he's proven to be a trustworthy shill for the NFL brand.

The announcers aren't allowed to tarnish the NFL on CBS brand by questioning a game-deciding call in the sport's biggest contest.

Yeah they tried to snark it up in the headline but a more appropriate title would have been "OMG free food and famous people!"

Another Gawker site ran pretty much the same story last summer:

I definitely never said anything like that but enjoy arguing with your straw man.

No, you're absolutely right: the fact that 70 percent of NFL players are black but only 10% of starting quarterbacks are has nothing to do with racism. We have two black senators now! Post-racial America is here to stay!

Right. And some of the white ones even get to keep playing quarterback in college!

No, you're absolutely right: today's ignorance is mostly just rooted in the racism of the past. There are probably very few college coaches actively discriminating against black players, but they're resistant to change and still hold on the most of the ideas that their actually-racist predecessors had about the…

No, as I mentioned in another thread, I have no idea whether or not Bobby Petrino actually hates black people or intentionally discriminates against them. That was hyperbole. My actual point was more that the college coaches are collectively (whether consciously or unconsciously) discriminating against black…

Actually if you look into he's on the record. He was extremely pissed about the situation and claims he was lied to in order to get him to not transfer.

What's the issue then, if not the eagerness of college coaches to convert black high school quarterbacks to other positions in favor of guys like John Parker Wilson, Ken Dorsey or David Ash?

Right, I wasn't actually making a claim about how Kaep's agent feels about race and the quarterback position. My point is that Colin Kaepernick is going to make several times as much money over the course of his career as Bush. Maybe that's a result of him being a much better quarterback talent, but we'll never know.

So it's just a coincidence that the NFL is 70% black but the percentage of starting quarterbacks at the NFL or level is usually around 10-15% or lower? Why did everyone want to convert Kaepernick and Griffin but not Luck?

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Yeah, though I've never been able to find an image of him in his uniform. He was also apparently offered baseball contracts:

I wouldn't specifically call Petrino a racist if he weren't a known scumbag who seems to be hated (specifically by his black players) wherever he goes. Maybe he isn't a racist. My point is that the larger trend of college coaches refusing to use athletic (especially black) quarterbacks IS racism. Even if the coaches…

As a matter of fact I am a huge lifelong Buckeyes fan.

Another interesting fact: before he was a civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson was a black quarterback who was told to switch positions at Illinois. He transfered to a black college instead so that he could play quarterback.

Kaepernick's agent strongly disagrees with that logic.

College coaches look at fast black high school quarterbacks and see safeties, running backs, WRs, KRs... anything but quarterbacks. Did you know that Michael Bush threw for 468 yards and six touchdowns and ran for 116 yards and another touchdown in his high school state championship vs. future NFL legend Brian Brohm?…