Is there such a thing as a fair advantage?

[Kristian Joensen]

The NFL is not dumb?

[One Bad Pig]

As a matter of fact, we had that NFL article earlier showing that certain positions in football are dominated by blacks, and others are dominated by whites. This is obviously not because of some social society org chart, but because certain people perform better in certain roles, and the NFL would be really dumb to assign them playing positions otherwise.

Two of the positions with more whites than not (QB and center) are probably the most cerebral, so you need more practice/study time with those; IOW, there is less opportunity for a poor/single-parent person to play the position because they don't have the time/discipline needed to master the position. Most of the rest are strictly special teams positions which don't command as much money and have less demand (there are typically only one each per team), so they're less desirable; the best athletes will tend to focus on other positions.

[Cow Poke]

The NFL is not dumb?

OK, ya got me!

[fm93]

Especially when I stop taking my opponent seriously.

It disappoints me--not only that, it actually genuinely hurts me--that I've spent all this time taking you seriously and thereby responding to you seriously...only to find that you apparently don't reciprocate that attitude.