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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (470732)	10/3/2003 7:50:18 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Jim Armstrong on rush: According to Rush Limbaugh, Donovan McNabb is your basic overrated, overhyped phony, a guy who owes his fame, his fortune and his Ferrari to the media's desire to have black quarterbacks make it in the NFL. Uh, OK. Sports writers don't try to effect social change. Most sports writers don't know who the prime minister of Canada is. They think Roe v. Wade was George Washington's dilemma on the shores of the Delaware. The only political agenda most of us have is government-regulated pricing on six packs. But even if we really were a bunch of social scientists in bowling shirts, it wouldn't matter. George Dubya might listen to your radio show in the Oval Office, but football coaches couldn't care less what the media think. And last time I checked, they were the ones in charge of who plays quarterback. A football coach being influenced by the media. Right. Bill Parcells would rather adopt Jeremy Shockey than listen to some mustard-stained geek in the press box. The average head coach in the NFL lasts two years, maybe three. And he's going to entrust his life, his livelihood and his legacy to a black quarterback not because the kid can play, but because the media want to make him a star. Sure he is. Football coaches have always been famous for their humanitarian endeavors. Vince Lombardi for instance. Remember that famous saying of his? "Furthering social causes isn't everything, it's the only thing." Jim Armstrong is a sports columnist for the Denver Post.