Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts will be the first Black starting quarterbacks to face off in the title game
“We have to sit with history,” says Moore. “For a lot of people, it’s hard for them to sit with that, because sports is supposed to be about merit, right? Even America as a nation is supposed to be about merit. And here, to tell this story, we have to say, ‘No, wait a minute, there’s a history of discrimination, and it’s pretty obvious.’ We have to have this conversation, because it impacts a lot of people.
the first Black quarterback selected in the first round of the NFL draft—in 1978, out of Grambling—received streams of racist hate mail during his pro career. He was also underpaid, so much so that he left professional football for a year, in 1983, to become a substitute teacher. Williams had led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a franchise that went 7-37 in the first three years of its existence, to the NFC Championship game in 1980 after season four.
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