10-02-2021, 12:22 PM
If someone wants to do a statistical analysis of what positions (and races of those positions) people bought based on their race across the NFL, then maybe we can have this conversation. That would show if black people, generally, favored only black players or if they favored good players. For example, if black fans of Indianapolis had nothing but Reggie Wayne jerseys during the Manning years but black fans of Seattle overwhelmingly wore Wilson jerseys, there may be something to discuss.
Until then, it's just confirmation bias and anecdotes.
Dalton jerseys were not common around the Bengals fandom because he was purely mediocre player (he was fine. But not someone you would spend 100 dollars to represent anywhere). He didn't wow people with his escapability, his arm, his personality, his leadership or his swagger. He was, all in all, the perfect personification of an average QB.
Before Dalton was Palmer and, while Palmer had all the potential in the world, he really only showed it in 2 years back in 2005 and 2006. A pretty small sample size, so it's understandable if fans, white and black, didn't fully embrace him for very long before or after that 2 year stint. And, granted, I didn't watch press conferences back then because I was in high school and the internet wasn't what it is today, but I would not be surprised at all if Palmer came off as an asshole in his pressers. He certainly does whenever he talks today.
And then before those two, we had a cavalcade of mediocre and bad QBs all the way back to the early 90s.
I think what you're seeing is the whole fan base embracing Joey B because he's a star, but your confirmation bias is causing you to only focus on the black fans who you perceive to not have been supportive of white players in the past.
And, for what it's worth, most people buy jerseys of skill position players. QBs, TEs, WRs, RBs, etc. because they are, more often than not, the faces of any given franchise. And QB is the only skill position on an NFL team that are more often than not white, with TEs maybe being 50/50 (with the obvious exceptions being the occasional white WR or RB like Christian McCaffrey or Wes Welker). So rooting for a team that hasn't had a genuine star QB in 15 years (and that star QB was a bit of a flash in the pan and a douche bag off the field) or at TE ever, really, I don't think it's unrealistic that ALL fans of the Bengals have worn the jerseys of black players at a higher degree than white players. Over the last 15 years if I were to have bought a jersey, I know it would have been either Chad Johnson or AJ Green and I'm a white guy.
This OP is cringe.
Until then, it's just confirmation bias and anecdotes.
Dalton jerseys were not common around the Bengals fandom because he was purely mediocre player (he was fine. But not someone you would spend 100 dollars to represent anywhere). He didn't wow people with his escapability, his arm, his personality, his leadership or his swagger. He was, all in all, the perfect personification of an average QB.
Before Dalton was Palmer and, while Palmer had all the potential in the world, he really only showed it in 2 years back in 2005 and 2006. A pretty small sample size, so it's understandable if fans, white and black, didn't fully embrace him for very long before or after that 2 year stint. And, granted, I didn't watch press conferences back then because I was in high school and the internet wasn't what it is today, but I would not be surprised at all if Palmer came off as an asshole in his pressers. He certainly does whenever he talks today.
And then before those two, we had a cavalcade of mediocre and bad QBs all the way back to the early 90s.
I think what you're seeing is the whole fan base embracing Joey B because he's a star, but your confirmation bias is causing you to only focus on the black fans who you perceive to not have been supportive of white players in the past.
And, for what it's worth, most people buy jerseys of skill position players. QBs, TEs, WRs, RBs, etc. because they are, more often than not, the faces of any given franchise. And QB is the only skill position on an NFL team that are more often than not white, with TEs maybe being 50/50 (with the obvious exceptions being the occasional white WR or RB like Christian McCaffrey or Wes Welker). So rooting for a team that hasn't had a genuine star QB in 15 years (and that star QB was a bit of a flash in the pan and a douche bag off the field) or at TE ever, really, I don't think it's unrealistic that ALL fans of the Bengals have worn the jerseys of black players at a higher degree than white players. Over the last 15 years if I were to have bought a jersey, I know it would have been either Chad Johnson or AJ Green and I'm a white guy.
This OP is cringe.
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