There are many layers to the Shedeur Sanders saga, so let's begin to unpack a few. Let's start with the number of black owners in the NFL. While you are spending useless time counting something that doesn't exist, maybe you can shift your focus to digesting that since 1942 the NFL was a non-profit organization.
Commissioner Roger That Goodell sent a letter to the all-Klan NFL team owners alerting them that: "the league’s nonprofit status is a 'distraction' and said the league office and its management council would file returns as a taxable entity for fiscal year 2015. More impactfully, the league is currently classified as a 501(c)(6) under the Internal Revenue Code. Think about this quote: “The change in filing status will make no material difference to our business,” Mr. Goodell wrote in the letter.
e-BONIC TRANSLATION:
"Homies, let's change our filing status before these new nigg--s decides to "Target" us after church." After all, the last thing we need is for our image to be burnt in a Tabitha Brown fryer."
Notice I have not mentioned one thing about Sanders' talent or how he, two-way phenom Travis Hunter, along with (roughly) 37 black transfers 180-ed the Colorado Buffalos.
That's right, a football program that was 5-18 (a 27% wining ratio) two seasons before Sanders and Hunter arrived -- flipped to a 2-year record of 13-12 (92% winning clip, including a 9-4 playoff run).
Now from a purely sports perspective you can argue that Deion's senior seed has very similar traits to the senior Sander's college alum, Charlie Ward. And those sports facts could've played a major role in Shedeur's NFL projection and subsequent dip in the draft.
That is an absolutely fair critique, especially considering that their (football) style and stature. Ward, despite winning the Heisman Trophy (college football's top honor), was never drafted by an NFL team. Instead, he went on to spend 10 years turning the ball over for the New York Knicks (SMDH). At least you can't blame Ward's dismay on his dad flying in helicopters between NFL and MLB games showboating how far more superior black athletes were, are and always will be..., unless you put a big black baby in Karen the porn star.
Side Bar: I think Shannon Sharpe's last name is very misleading.
Sanders was eventually plucked by the Cleveland Browns in the 5th Round of the NFL Draft, and based on the projections 5th Rounders will (generally) sign a four-year contract worth approximately $4.6 million or 1.9 million less than what Shedeur made in college.
Epilogue:
It's really hard to feel sorry for a 23-year-old that can subtract $1.9M from his college "earnings" and still be a multi-millionaire. One that works 4 hours per day, 16 days per year while avoiding rush hour traffic or walking home sipping a cold beverage eating Skittles. Or maybe, just maybe this is a lesson for us to clean our version of our societal lens and remember how the slaves' talents were evaluated by their owners who didn't feel like their value was even worth feeding them from the best part of a pig.
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