Irvin says Romo's athleticism due to black ancestry

[Quasimoto]

http://nfl-gossip.aolsportsblog.com/2006/11/22/michael-irvin-says-tony-romos-athleticism-is-due-to-black-ances/2

On Dan Patrick's radio show on Monday, ESPN analyst Michael Irvin was discussing what he sees as the great upside of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. About three and a half minutes into his appearance on the show, Irvin said Romo is a good athlete, then suggested that must mean he has an ancestor who is black.

    "He doesn't look like he's that type of an athlete," Irvin said of Romo. "But he is. He is, man. I don't know if some brother down in that line somewhere, I don't know who saw what or where, his great-great-great-great-grandma ran over in the 'hood or something went down."

Patrick tried to suggest to Irvin that he shouldn't go there, but Irvin was having none of it, continuing:

    "If great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandma pulled one of them studs up out of the barn, 'Come on in here for a second,' you know, and they go out and work in the yard. You know, back in the day."

I don't particularly enjoy watching Irvin on ESPN, but I also don't think he's as bad a guy as he's often made out to be. His well-documented legal problems seem to be behind him, and that picture you see of Irvin at a benefit for the Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis shows a side of him that most fans haven't seen.

Having said all that, I'm a little surprised that we haven't heard much of anything about these comments. Although Pro Football Talk has mentioned this, a Google News search shows that no mainstream media outlet has. Given that racially insensitive remarks usually create a media feeding frenzy, doesn't that strike you as strange?

[MDS]

he was joking.
he was on crack.
nobody cares what he says.
enough.

[Feva]

Can't Michael Irvin just shoot himself?

[Rome]

If Irvin was white and made a crack like that, his ass would be unemployed faster than you could say Jimmy The Greek.

[Feva]

Let's not miss the point here.  The point remains that Irvin, no matter what... should be unemployed.

[Rome]

If by unemployed, you mean lying crippled on the Vet turf, then I accept your definition.

[Quasimoto]

Let's not miss the point here.  The point remains that Irvin, no matter what... should be unemployed.

Exactly.  He should have been fired way before this.  In fact he should have never been hired.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

<insert IGY klan hood smilie here>

[Diomedes]

being black in these times confers few privelages.  freedom to say racist shtein is one of them.

[Drunkmasterflex]

When Irvin was first an analyst I actually thought he was enjoyable.  However the last two years with his continual blowing of his boy TO, I have realized that he sucks. 

[dis12]

Can't Michael Irvin just shoot himself?

if Romo shoots him, would that qualify for black-on-black crime?

[Feva]

I would think it'd qualify as ridding the world of one of it's bottom feeders.

[The BIGSTUD]

I hate Irvin, but I don't see anything wrong with it. Blacks are way more athletic than whites, so all he is saying is he might have some black genes in him somewhere down the line.

[Father Demon]

Is that becauase blacks were bred for strength and to have bigger thighs, Jimmy?

[The BIGSTUD]

Blacks are just more athletic. I don't know why, it's just the way it is. Anyone who argues otherwise is in denial. There are a lot of athletic white people, but there are way more blacks who are extremely athletic than whites.