What if Tim Tebow were Black?

Check out Vdare.com for a reply to The American Spectator's W. Jim Antle to the piece on Discrimination against white players in the NFL (though he decided to focus on the Tim Tebow aspect of the article). Antle has long been one of my favorite writers, but he failed to address the primary points brought up in the original VDare piece (of course, Jordy Nelson dropped a fantastic bomb on the world after Antle's letter was sent).

How would Tebow be treated if he were Black?

Two important points were left on the cutting-room floor, so we'll re-post them here:

So a final thought experiment: what if Tim Tebow was a Black quarterback? The NFL and the largely liberal press have been desirous of seeing a Black quarterback succeed long before Rush Limbaugh's infamous takedown of Donovan McNabb in 2003. This season, Black quarterbacks have performed poorly.
 How would these same analysts and talking heads who consistently put down Tebow’s ability and playing style react if he were a devout Christian and a Black man? My guess: like they did when Vick came into the league; as a player who was going to revolutionize the game. He'd become the face of the league and Black people would proudly wear his jersey in the manner they currently do Vick's. 

and:

The upwards battle that talented white athletes have faced at securing a college scholarship because of the widespread belief that whites are not as fast as Blacks has been documented by recruiting guru Tom Lemming. It’s obvious this same prejudice carries over to the NFL, as Peyton Hillis told us last year when he was the first white running back to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a season since Craig James did back in the early 1980s. Or as white running backToby Gerhart (and Heisman Runner-up) told us prior to the 2010 NFL Draft, when NFL scouts were questioning whether a white running back could succeed.

Tebow is a winner and a reminder of the type of person that made this country. In a league filled with thugs, criminals, and sociopaths, Tebow is a reminder that character always shines through when surrounded by downright pieces of s&*t.

But Antle's letter pumped me up and has motivated me to finish three pieces today, two for other outlets. One deals with the HBD reality of college football recruiting (and lightly basketball recruiting). Never have we mentioned J. Phillipe Rushton's book Race, Evolution, and Behavior here, as the true HBD stuff is better suited for other sites; until now.

Black males (and women) physically mature faster than white males do, giving them an advantage when Super Prep, Scout.com, and Rivals.com begin targeting potentially FBS football recruits in their sophomore year of high school.  Many Blacks have reached their physical peak by this time, while whites are still growing. Nike, Under Armour, Reebok, and Adidas have already started reaching out to players at this point for exclusive invitations to prestigious camps where top schools like Alabama, Ohio State, LSU, Michigan, Oregon, etc., will evaluate the talent. These schools have recruiting budgets that near $1 million a year, and begin courting these players with phone calls and inundate them with a surplus of mail that might be the reason the US Postal Service still exists.

White high school players continue to grow and develop, but haven't been singled-out by recruiters at this stage of the evaluation process. So the top recruits that coaches -- and fans and alumni of each school who pay $9.95 a month for the privilege of posting at Scout.com or Rivals.com so they can follow the latest, breaking news on each precious recruit who they would NEVER interact with (indeed, they would consciously avoid) in real life -- see are the ones that nature has given an early advantage too.

More on this at Alternative Right by the end of the week. And yes, the long-awaited article that deals with white coaches who abdicated power in the 1970s, 80s, 90s and into today will be published at American Renaissance.

This isn't a college football or sports blog (and judging by a quick glance at Compete.com, people don't want it to go that route), but these are important topics. And I'm nearing the end of this run. There's a method to the maddening -- to many who read SBPDL -- I assure you.

This week you'll see an article on the United States Military Colleges (in honor of the Army-Navy game); you'll see an article called Black Men Can't Throw; you'll see a take down of the University of Washington, as I just finished reading a book about the disgrace that is Black coach Ty Willingham called Bow Down to Willingham: How White Guilt Enabled a Secretly Malicious Coach to Destroy the Once-Mighty Washington Huskies. Having just ordered Return to Glory: Inside Tyrone Willingham's Amazing First Season at Notre Dame , you'll also see an article on Notre Dame.

The goal is to then finish about 10-15 unpublished essays and get all the writings on college football found here and elsewhere prepared for Opiate of America: College Football in Black and White, which will be released on February 1, 2012. For those wondering, that's the same date as National Signing Day in the sport, where high school -- and junior college -- recruits can sign their letter of intent.

Please bear with me as I finish up these articles. It's a passion of mine, and you have to write about what you care about.

Besides, like two of the other books published under the SBPDL (Hollywood in Blackface and Captain America and Whiteness) it's important to dedicate yourself to writing about what interests you.

With that said, tonight expect a long post that describes why Atlanta is the perfect city for The Walking Dead tv show (no, The Walking Dead phenomenon). Tomorrow, you'll get the ultimate SBPDL look at what will be the epic of 2012, The Hunger Games.

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Thoughts on the 2011 NFL Draft: The Caste System Becomes Clearer

 (This was posted at SBPDL.net. We post it here because it is an important piece on the NFL Draft of 2012. Sports, movies and television have provided the primary avenues for creating (manufacturing) positive views of "the Blacks" in the eyes of a public that overwhelmingly avoids contact with them. In July, The Opiate of America comes out. Friday, Hollywood in Blackface comes out. Check out Castefootball.us for an interesting discussion on the 2011 NFL draft and other aspects of sports that you won't find on ESPN).

Last year, we wrote a long post on the 2010 Draft. The landscape of the NFL has changed significantly since that time. A white running back by the name of Peyton Hillis emerged as a fan favorite and was voted by fans to appear on the 2o12 cover of the most popular video game, Madden NFL Football.

Despite running 4.6 40, ESPN questioned 300-pound Zack Clayton's athleticism

The whitest team in the league, the Green Bay Packers, won the Super Bowl over a team that was the genesis for the Rooney Rule, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Quickly becoming the Blackest team in the league (even having three Black quarterbacks) and rarely drafting a white player - none the past two years - the Steelers represent an attempt to turn a football franchise into a facsimile of an NBA franchise.

Soon, the only white players will be the kicker, punter, and holder, though ESPN the Magazine did publish an article asking, "Where are all the Black kickers?":

In the NFL's 91 seasons, very few African-Americans, or black men of any nationality, have earned a living launching the ball with their foot. In the 1960s and '70s, Gene "Golden Toe" Mingo made a career of placekicking (while playing a few other positions) for five AFL and NFL teams. In the past decade, Cedric Oglesby and Justin Medlock had brief placekicking stints. And two Nigerian-born soccer-style kickers, Obed Ariri and Donald Igwebuike, also made the NFL after starring at Clemson.

Equally few African-American punters have secured regular-season NFL jobs -- most notably Greg Coleman and the late Reggie Roby, who between them kicked for seven different NFL teams over 12- and 16-year careers, respectively. Currently, though, the NFL's only black kicking specialist is Browns punter Reggie Hodges (his father is black, his mother white).

Given their pro scarcity, it's no surprise that black kickers are nearly as rare in college. Kicking guru Gary Zauner, an NFL special-teams coordinator for 13 seasons, holds off-season showcases with pro scouts for hopeful kickers. When asked to identify the best African-American placekicking prospect today, Zauner says, "I'm not able to name one."

That's because only one of 120 college teams in FBS had a black kicker or punter appear in a game last season -- Arizona punter Keenyn Crier. Even in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, with its 13 historically black colleges and universities (11 have football programs, including Morgan State), most kickers are white or Hispanic. Which is why, when one of Morgan State's two specialists trots onto the field, opponents stare. "I've heard, 'Man, you're black, you can't kick, what are you doin' kicking?'" says the 20-year-old Adams. "Other teams are surprised to see a black kicker. Then to learn I'm actually good at it ... "

Don't hold your breath waiting for an article published by either Sport Illustrated or EPSN that asks "Where are all the white corner backs?" or "Where are all the white running backs?" for these questions of are immaterial to the direction the NFL is headed. Richard Lapchick publishes a score card for college and professional sports, and only those sports that promote and hire Black people and other minorities get a passing grade.

Those with a "distressing lack of diversity" (read too white) fail to get a passing grade.

Thus the goal of an article on the lack of Black kickers in the NFL is an attempt at interjecting racism into the equation, since the league is 69 percent Black.

Top NFL Combine numbers weren't enough for Jeff Maehl

The NFL, like the NBA, has made it a goal to anoint talents like Dez Bryant and Michael Vick as the faces of the league, though the bulk of fans still identify with Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, and, if the Madden NFL Sportsnation poll is any indication, a white running back who runs over the competition named Peyton Hillis.

In the 2011 NFL Draft, the continued push to turn the league into a Richard Lapchick approved forum for positive levels of diversity went on unabated with Cameron Newton of Auburn University as the first overall pick to the Carolina Panthers. Having had his attitude and character questioned by a white talent evaluator only to have Warren Moon come to his rescue and resuscitate 30-year-old stereotypes of "Black players not being smart enough" to play quarterback as the reason for such criticism, Newton's undeniable talent was enough to secure the top draft slot.

Go here for the 2011 NFL Draft results for all seven rounds. Instead of talking about the entire draft, we will focus on just three players: Stanford's Owen Marecic, Auburn's Zack Clayton and Oregon's Jeff Maehl.

The New York Times did a fantastic story on Marcecic, a white fullback and linebacker who played both ways Stanford, while also majoring in a real degree. NFL.com wrote a piece praising the selection of this bruising fullback by the Cleveland Browns and we concur.

The Browns, quietly becoming a team of rooting interest for many people around the country because of the white running back Peyton Hillis, have now drafted a competent fullback in Marcecic who will - along with quarterback Colt McCoy - comprise the first starting all-white backfield in the NFL since, well, we aren't sure when.

Auburn's Zack Clayton, a white defensive tackle, was picked in the seventh round by Tennessee. Here's an article from the Opelika-Auburn News from from April that discussed Clayton's long road to the NFL:

Zach Clayton’s pre-draft experience has been on the absolute opposite end of the spectrum from former teammates Cam Newton and Nick Fairley.

Instead of publicized, media-only workouts with a professional position coach, the Opelika High grad had sessions in the Hutsell-Rosen Track Complex, nestled into the corner by the equipment shed with his father, Jerry, an Auburn assistant track and field coach.

Instead of appearances on ESPN’s First Take, sitdowns with Jon Gruden or the possibility of gracing a video game cover, Clayton worked four hours a day to improve his agility, balance and other skills that would translate to the next level.

“All I have to do is wake up and work out,” Clayton said. “It’s not like I have to manage time, study, have a social life. I just have to wake up and work out. It’s great. Some would say I’m living the dream.”

Instead of taking a flyer for most of Auburn’s Pro Day and letting the NFL Combine speak for itself, Clayton used the media and scouting crush on hand for Newton and Fairley to make his case as to why a team should take a chance on him.

“A lot of teams came to our Pro Day,” Clayton said wryly. “We had a couple big prospects there.”

The first big test was Auburn’s Pro Day on March 8.

“Basically, the theme was to try and make him more athletic,” Jerry Clayton said. “From what he had done in the past with (Tigers strength and conditioning coach Kevin) Yoxall and the strength program, we knew his Pro Day numbers would be pretty good.

“It was unanticipated by some of the scouts and the other people there. But we all felt he was capable of doing that.”

Clayton topped the 13-player field in the bench press (27 reps at 225 pounds), recorded a standing long jump of 10 feet and a vertical jump of 33.5 inches.

Even more surprisingly, he recorded consecutive times of 4.68 and 4.71 seconds in the 40-yard dash.

The stopwatch and notepad crowd began to take notice.

“The goal was to get some of the teams that hadn’t heard of me or weren’t really looking at me to go and take a second look at the film,” Clayton said. “Make a few of them say, ‘Who is this guy?’ and ‘What did he do during the season?’ I think it worked out real well.”

Running a 4.6 at nearly 300 pounds is scary athleticism. A long jump of 10 feet and a vertical of 33.5 is incredible. So how did ESPN describe the 7th round pick?:

He is a limited athlete who has excellent strength and power at the point of attack.

If Clayton represents a "limited athlete" its only because ESPN didn't spend three months hyping him up as they did plenty of other athletes on their pre-draft shows. If Clayton's 4.6 40 time - when he weighs 300 pounds - is "limited athleticism" I'd hate to see what ESPN defines as "unlimited athleticism."

Which brings us to Jeff Maehl, a walk-on wide receiver (as so many talented white players who play receiver, safety and linebacker for major college football teams are these days) at Oregon who scorched Pac-10 defenses during his career and went undrafted in the 2011 NFL draft.

Before the NCAA Championship game against Auburn, this was written about Maehl (strangely, the Montgomery Advertiser has removed this article from its records, but it is mentioned here):

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The question seemed innocent enough, but Oregon receivers coach Scott Frost didn't view it that way.


When a reporter noted that wide receiver Jeff Maehl has deceptive speed, often turning short passes into long gains, Frost took exception to the perceived implication.


"Unfortunately, he's a white receiver so you give him that stereo type," Frost said. "I don't know why you give him that stereotype, but he's gonna run a better 40 time than three fourths of the receiving coming out in the draft."


Fair enough. Maehl is more than a possession receiver who runs precise routes. His leaping 45-yard touchdown catch in the USC game was highlight-reel material.


Maehl is aware of the stereotype surrounding "white receivers" and if anything it has worked to his ad vantage.


"I guess that's just kind of my advantage if teams think I might be slow or something," said Maehl, a 6-foot-1, 184-pound senior from Paradise, Calif. "I'm guessing it's out there in the media and in the back of some guys' heads, that's probably what they're thinking."


If Auburn underestimates Maehl's wheels in the BCS national championship game, the Tigers likely will pay the price. The Tigers have given up an average of 250.4 yards passing per game, 105th among the 120 FBS schools.


With minimal fanfare, Maehl has put together one of the best sea sons for a receiver in school history. He has 68 receptions for 943 yards and a single-season record 12 touchdowns, and was named first-team all-Pac-10.


"(Defensive backs) don't think he has a lot of moves, (but) he's real quick with his first step and after that he has a long stride," said wideout D.J. Davis.


"Some times we make fun of him, call him a little gazelle or a deer."


Maehl is fourth in career receptions (169) at Oregon and needs nine in the national title game to tie Samie Parker for the season and career mark in receptions. His 24 receiving touchdowns matches a school record shared by Keenan Howry and Cristin McLemore. Not bad for a player who began his college career as a safety.


"He's just a football player. He does everything," Oregon coach Chip Kelly said. "He covers kicks for us. He'll block for you, he runs great routes, he's got great hands, he can jump. He¹s just been an unbelievable player."

Mark Herzlich would have a been a great PR boost for any team

Jeff Maehl, despite putting up incredible numbers at the NFL combine, went undrafted. Like Jordy Nelson who walked-on at Kansas State and was overlooked by college scouts, Maehl has faced an uphill battle his entire career.

At least Nelson got selected in the 2008 NFL draft and shined in the 2011 Super Bowl.

There's not much else to say about the NFL Draft, other then that Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich, who survived cancer to come back and play in 2010 after sitting out the 2009 season. Having put up astounding numbers in 2008, the white linebackers failure to be picked will serve as motivation:

In the summer of 2009, all Mark Herzlich wanted to do was return to the footballfield. But the 2008 ACC defensive player of the year was stuck in a hospital five days a week, undergoing radiation treatments intended to kill the cancer in his leg. The closest he could get to a real football field was a virtual one.

To pass the time, he and Zack Migeot, his best friend since kindergarten, played video games, among them a version of NCAA college football. There Mark Herzlich was, on the screen. The real Mark Herzlich sat on his bed, connected to a machine that was keeping him alive for real, while he was connected to another machine that brought him to life, virtually. “When I made a nice play, I would talk to myself — ‘nice play, Mark,’ ” Herzlich said.

That sounds heavy and full of meaning and symbolism now, but back then it just sounded loud, as Herzlich and Migeot screamed and yelled so much during the games that they had to be moved to a private room so they wouldn’t bother other patients. Herzlich beat the cancer and made a triumphant return to linebacker at Boston College, and today he starts to write the next chapter in his already incredible recovery story.

But this chapter starts on a difficult note: He went undrafted. “It was a disappointing and tiring day. It got to the point when I just felt like things were turning against me and tried to just keep my head up,” he said.

Far from giving up, he is set on proving he belongs in the NFL. “Apparently people are saying I can’t play football,” he said. “Well, I have heard that before.”

Yes, yes he has. And his reaction to it was nothing short of remarkable.

Herzlich’s presence in the draft was a confounding one for NFL teams. To watch Herzlich’s 2008 game tape is to watch a bruising, methodical, smart linebacker destroy the ACC. He was projected as a first-round pick. But cancer cost him the 2009 season, and in 2010, he did not play like a first-round pick. But a big reason was a stress fracture in his foot robbed him of all but three practices before the season. The more he played, the better he played, and by the end of the season, he closely resembled his old self. He and his coaches say by the time the NFL season starts, he will be even farther along in his football recovery, perhaps all the way back.

Herzlich, profiled here in USA Today, would have made a smart 6th or 7th round selection by a team looking to garner not only positive public relations, but selecting a tenacious football player who overcame adversity and cancer. The NFL needs positive role models and the canonization of Peyton Hillis by fans all across the country is proof positive of the type of player they want to see succeed.

Overcoming cancer and coming back to play football is an incredible story. The dude can play at the professional level and the NFL teams just dropped the ball on not drafting this player whose story is a perfect script for a Disney movie.

Unlike Remember the Titans, it won't be made up.

The NFL is a joke. The league is dead-set on becoming the NBA, and yet the fanbase clamors for actual heroes, role models to cheer for instead of the manufactured, ESPN approved players.

Toby Gerhart, the Wonderlic and the Upcoming NFL Draft: a White Running Back Crashing the Party

Toby Gerhart stands as an albatross, carrying the heavy burden of being the lone white running back to be considered a top draft pick for the National Football League (NFL) in years.

The Heisman Trophy runner-up and Doak Walker award winner is the inconvenient beneficiary of genes from a white female and a white male, a lethal combination for any ambitious white high school or collegiate running back hoping for an NFL career:

They will usually accept the backhanded compliments without complaint: "Hey, you're pretty fast for a white dude." They will smile when they get tagged with a nickname like Eminem or K-Fed. (Get it? They're Caucasian guys trying to do what African-Americans tend to do better.) White running backs will take all the good-natured teasing you've got, and they'll ask for only one thing in return -- the football.

Doesn't seem like much, does it? Just give them the ball and with it the chance to prove that productive rushers come in more than one shade. But coaches don't seem to have that handoff in their playbook. You're more likely to see Bill Belichick dance the hokeypokey on the sideline than find a white tailback in the NFL. There isn't a single white feature back on any of the 32 teams; the Bengals' Brian Leonard leads all white rushers in carries, with 25 (for 67 yards). White running backs break through slightly more often on the college level, where Stanford's Toby Gerhart leads in the nation in rushing -- but there is only one other white back, Nevada's Luke Lippincott, among the top 50 ground-gainers. Of the BCS teams Stanford is the only one whose primary running back is white.

Maybe you're thinking that the racial imbalance is because Caucasian backs just can't keep up. You watch Adrian Peterson and Maurice Jones-Drew and say, "Find me a white runner who can do that." But there's plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that white backs haven't been competing just against other players; they've also been battling the perception that they're not cut out for the job. Four years ago Gerhart was a hotshot at Norco (Calif.) High, visiting USC on a recruiting trip with fellow runners C.J. Gable and Stafon Johnson, who are black. The Trojans told Gerhart they would love to have him -- as an outside linebacker or a fullback to block for guys like Johnson and Gable

Thus, Gerhart is a "Great White Hope": that individual who comes along every half century who gives the majority of fans who purchases tickets (white people) hope that they will have someone who looks like them to cheer for, as opposed to a professional baby-maker like Travis Henry.

Strangely, Gerhart was being projected as fullback for the NFL, despite his insane 2009 numbers as a tailback for the Stanford Cardinal. That was until he put up incredible numbers at the NFL Combine, that compare him to 1st Round tailbacks from the past few years:

03/03/10 - Toby Gerhart had heard all the stories about exhausting interviews, endless medical tests and stressful on-field drills — about the NFL scouting combine being a nerve-racking experience for draft prospects. "I thought it was fun," Gerhart said Monday. "I had a real good time." In more ways than one. The highlight of Gerhart's four days in Indianapolis was running the 40-yard dash in 4.53 seconds — fast enough to silence the skeptics, impress the scouts and solidify his status as one of the top tailbacks in the draft.

"For me, there was a lot riding on the 40, because the big question mark was the speed," Gerhart said. —I just told myself, 'Stay relaxed and do what you do. Don't try to overrun.' " Anything over 4.6 seconds and Gerhart, a power runner who weighs 231 pounds, would have been projected as a fullback — and fallen several rounds in the draft. But the 40-yard-dash time, combined with impressive results in the bench press and vertical leap, place Gerhart firmly in the tailback grouping. His time, which he recorded Sunday, was faster than that of former Ohio State bruiser Chris Wells (4.59 seconds), who was drafted at the end of the first round by Arizona last year. - Jon Wilner, The Mercury News

Speed and brawn are a lethal combination, but packaged in the body of a white tailback create a potential marketing sensation for whichever NFL picks him up. Worse, Gerhart deemed the Wonderlic Test (the bane of many Black potential NFL participants) "easy", as he scored a phenomenal 30, a score many deviations ahead of the individuals who run the ball for a living in the NFL:

It looks like that Stanford education is already starting to pay dividends for running back Toby Gerhart.

The Heisman Trophy finalist—who led the country in rushing yards (1,871) and touchdowns (28) in 2009—brought home the top score in the Wonderlic exam among this year’s running back class with a 30, according to a league source.

The Wonderlic test is a 12-minute, 50 question exam aimed at evaluating a prospect’s problem-solving abilities.

There has been much debate (especially from our readers) as to whether or not the test has any real significance in determining how a college football player will perform at the next level.

Some of the other top performers among the running backs include BYU’s Manase Tonga (29), LSU’s Charles Scott (26), Tennessee’s Montario Hardesty (25), Mississippi State’s Anthony Dixon (25) and North Dakota State’s Pat Paschall (25).

Rounding out the bottom of the class was Clemson’s C.J. Spiller, who scored a 10.

Other Notable Scores

Jahvid Best (California): 24
LeGarrette Blount (Oregon): 16
Jonathan Dwyer (Georgia Tech): 17
Ryan Mathews (Fresno State): 16
Dexter McCluster (Ole Miss): 18

The Wonderlic Test is just that, a simple intelligence test that has no true predicative correlation with NFL success but merely provides fodder for sports writers and fans to debate the relative intelligence (or lack thereof) of the heroes they will cheer for on Sunday:

If the NFL draft is a meat market, the NFL draft combine is where the beef is weighed and measured. Beginning today in Indianapolis, and for several days, our future Sunday heroes will take a full physical, sit for X-rays, face an interview, bench press 225 pounds for show and dough, jump broadly and vertically, and run the 40. And, of course, they'll take the Wonderlic. (Click here, and you can take it, too.)

The Wonderlic is an IQ test with only 50 questions -- it's a short version of the longer test routinely given to kids. Players have just 12 minutes to take it, and most don't finish. But, in fact, the average NFL test-taker scores a little above average.

The first questions on the test are easy, but they get harder and harder.

An easy question: In the following set of words, which word is different from the others? 1) copper, 2) nickel, 3) aluminum, 4) wood, 5) bronze.

A tougher one: A rectangular bin, completely filled, holds 640 cubic feet of grain. If the bin is 8 feet wide and 10 feet long, how deep is it?

Some teams consider the test results critical. Others say they dismiss the results, except for players who score at the extremes. What's an extreme? Well, former Bengals punter and Harvard grad Pat McInally scored a perfect 50 -- the only NFL player known to do so -- while at least one player, it is rumored, scored a 1. Charlie Wonderlic Jr., president of Wonderlic Inc., says, "A score of 10 is literacy, that's about all we can say." If that's the case, more than a few pros are being delivered the Books-on-Tape version of the playbook.

Each year, about 2.5 million job applicants, in every line of work, take the Wonderlic. The average NFL combiner scores about the same as the average applicant for any other job, a 21. A 20 indicates the test-taker has an IQ of 100, which is average.

Some people disagree with the whole idea of IQ testing because they believe the tests are culturally biased and inaccurate. But Charlie Wonderlic doesn't make grand claims for the score derived from his test. "What the score does is help match training methods with a player's ability," he says. "It could be a playbook -- what is the best way to teach a player a play? On the field, the higher the IQ, the greater the ability to understand and handle contingencies and make sound decisions on the fly."

In general, says Wonderlic, "The closer you are to the ball, the higher your score."

This assessment roughly corresponds to the averages revealed, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, by an NFL personnel man in Paul Zimmerman's "The New Thinking man's Guide to Pro Football," which are:

Offensive tackles: 26
Centers: 25
Quarterbacks: 24
Guards: 23
Tight Ends: 22
Safeties: 19
Middle linebackers: 19
Cornerbacks: 18
Wide receivers: 17
Fullbacks: 17
Halfbacks: 16

The average scores in other professions look like this:

Chemist: 31
Programmer: 29
Newswriter: 26
Sales: 24
Bank teller: 22
Clerical Worker: 21
Security Guard: 17
Warehouse: 15

Gerhart's score of a 30 places him in uncharted territory for a running back, who average a pedestrian 16 on the Wonderlic (which means most of those tailbacks you cheer for on Sunday would have the luxury of a security guard or warehouse worker as a vocation, save for their gift of running a football).

CJ Spiller's score (a Black running back from Clemson) of 10 is qualified as "literate". Good for him!

Tim Tebow, the universally loathed quarterback from the University of Florida, scored a 22 and was universally chided for his "low" score, a tell-tale sign of his inability to grasp a complex NFL playbook (wait, we thought the Wonderlic was a predictor of NFL failure or success)?

Tebow is hated because he doesn't have the same complexion of Michael Vick and yet performs with a greater drive and determination than Ron Mexico had for his side venture of dog rearing.

Tebow's score of 22 on the Wonderlic is only 2 points off the quarterback average, and correlates to an IQ of between 100 - 105, as opposed to Vince Young's outstanding 15:

A Palm Beach Post writer claims to have the Wonderlic test scores of Tim Tebow and other notable QB prospects from this year's NFL Scouting Combine.

Dolphins beat writer Edgar Thompson has posted the following comment on his Twitter page:

Gators QB Tim Tebow scored a 22 on his Wonderlic, Jimmy Clausen 23, Colt McCoy 25 and Sam Bradford 36 out of 50, per NFL source.

The Wonderlic Test is a 12-minute, 50-question test used to assess the aptitude and problem-solving abilities of NFL players.

If Thompson's source is correct, Tebow scored the lowest of the four big QB prospects in the draft.

Other noteworthy QB scores:

• Matthew Stafford - 38
• Mark Sanchez - 28
• Josh Freeman - 27
• Brett Favre -22
• Michael Vick - 20
• Dan Marino - 16
• Vince Young - 15

Such as the cases of Favre and Marino, a high Wonderlic score doesn't always equal NFL success.

Last year's first round draft pick for the Gators, Percy Harvin, also named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, scored a 12 on his Wonderlic test.

There are those who would ditch the Wonderlic Test as an outdated method of testing intelligence, for when the scores are tallied a racial gap appears that mirrors the racial gap in learning between Black-and-white students at all levels of education.

Eric Decker, a wide receiver prospect from the Big Ten's Minnesota Golden Gopher program, scored a 43 out of 50. He too, has the same calamitous skin condition that plagues both Gerhart's and Tebow's pro chances: white skin.

And with the NFL being a league that is 69 percent Black, continually drafting prospective employees who perform lowly on the Wonderlic Test seems an exercise in futility (considering that 78 percent of NFL players go bankrupt after they retire from the league, it is obvious economic literacy and saving money for the future is a low priority for Black players).

Tim Tebow is hated and bad-mouthed constantly by critics and scouts, because they see in the Heisman Trophy winner all of the hopes and dreams for solid Black quarterback in the frame of a white, overtly Christian gunslinger.

Toby Gerhart, that rare white running back that can't be shuttled to fullback, is not only a talented football player, but also is blessed with cognitive gifts that will rival accountants and lawyers for the franchise that eventually drafts him.

In The Blind Side, Michael Lewis relates a tale from the lips of Tom Lemming (one of the top high school football scouts... ever), and how any white high school tailback or receiver is automatically discriminated against. They have little chance for success and for being recruited by a top college (unlike the virtually illiterate Michael Oher or any Black football player not named Myron Rolle).

Stuff Black People Don't Like wishes both Tim Tebow and Toby Gerhart success in the upcoming NFL Draft. They are both outstanding players and young men who run counter to the prevailing trends noticeable in the league as chronicled by Jeff Benedict in his outstanding book Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the NFL.

Toby Gerhart Wins Doak Walker Award

Well, SBPDL was the first to bring up the interesting idea of the top award for the best college football running back being named for a white guy - when white people rarely play tailback anymore.

We published a piece entitled The Doak Walker Award, the annual trophy given to the best college football running back. We'll quote from it now:

"Sports are the only manner in which many white people come in contact with Black people (largely through their television) and the games help shape people's attitudes toward them in a very positive manner.

Stuff Black People Don't Like, however, includes the "Doak Walker Award" name, for white people playing tailback is a silly notion, considering that Black people dominate the position and how few white people actually play that position now. Remember, the goal in THE AGE OF OBAMA is to make everything Black - coaches and players a like - and any vestige of Pre-Obama America must be swept into the dustbin of history.

Or, if white guys want to play tailback, they can play for the Air Force Academy. We do need fighter pilots still."

Well, one of the players profiled in that piece was Stanford's Toby Gerhart, who just won the Doak Walker Award for the 2009 season:

"Stanford running back Toby Gerhart diligently slogged through two final exams after arriving in Orlando for The Home Depot/ESPNU College Football Awards.

But after he turned in his archeology test Thursday morning, "the day just got 100 times better," said Gerhart, a management science and engineering major.

Gerhart was named the 2009 Doak Walker Award winner, announced by former Cowboys' star Tony Dorsett during the show. The award honoring the nation's top running back will be presented by the SMU Athletic Forum on Feb. 19 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas.

Gerhart is also a finalist for the Heisman Trophy and will head to New York for Saturday night's Heisman presentation."

Once again, SBPDL is proving to be prescient in our ever growing list of Stuff Black People Don't Like.

Congratulations are in order for Mr. Toby Gerhart from SBPDL. Here's a great article on Gerhart from Sports Illustrated:

"Maybe you're thinking that the racial imbalance is because Caucasian backs just can't keep up. You watch Adrian Peterson and Maurice Jones-Drew and say, "Find me a white runner who can do that." But there's plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that white backs haven't been competing just against other players; they've also been battling the perception that they're not cut out for the job.

Four years ago Gerhart was a hotshot at Norco (Calif.) High, visiting USC on a recruiting trip with fellow runners C.J. Gable and Stafon Johnson, who are black. The Trojans told Gerhart they would love to have him -- as an outside linebacker or a fullback to block for guys like Johnson and Gable."

Four years later, Gerhart is poised to win the Heisman Trophy. Why is this so strange, a white guy playing tailback? Simple:

"So, why are there so few white running backs in college and professional football?

"Simple, simple, simple reason,” coaching legend Barry Switzer said. "There’s not that many white running backs out there. They’re limited in number.”

There’s validity in that limited-availability theory. Major-college and pro coaches, after all, are primarily interested in one thing — winning — and if they think a player can help them do that, they’ll go after him. His skin could be white or black, blue or green, orange or purple with pink polka dots.

What matters most is his ability...

"They can’t compete with us,” NFL Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson once said. "The black athlete, especially at that position, is faster, more elusive. That’s a position made for agility.

"It’s kind of like our chosen position.”

That’s as ridiculous, of course, as saying quarterback is a white man’s position.

Jon Entine contends there is a link between ancestral genetics and athletic success. In his controversial book "Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It,” he argues that athletes of West African descent — which would include a sizable chunk of black athletes in America — have a genetic advantage that gives them an edge in sprinting.

Some scientists agree. Others do not.

You can question all of the theories, but you can’t dispute the trend.

White running backs are few and far between.

According to the recruiting Web site Rivals.com, 27 running backs are four- or five-star prospects in this year’s recruiting class."

Others believe Gerhart's race will hinder his chance of winning the Heisman:

"To the voters, Gerhart is, if I can venture the term, a "system runner." A trumped-up fullback in a power-running game who's shown uncommon speed and balance, but is nowhere near the "other" running backs in terms of skill because of his race.

This will be what prevents him from winning the Heisman.

Now, I am certainly not saying the Heisman is biased against white people. That'd be a tough argument to make, given that only two black players have won this decade.

But Gerhart is still the victim of a subtle, persistent racism against white running backs—and against blacks in the quarterback position, for what it's worth. And though this subtle racism can be supported by NFL combines and Wonderlic tests, it harms those small few who are the exception."

When all is said and done, Gerhart has still won the Doak Walker Award, and SBPDL casts our vote for him for the Heisman Trophy.