The Rise of The Black Quarterback and What It Means For America: A conversation with Jason Reid, a senior NFL Writer for ESPN’s Andscape

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Episode 230 of the Sports Media Podcast features Andscape senior NFL Writer Jason Reid. His new book is the “Rise of the Black Quarterback: What it means for America.” In this podcast, Reid discusses the black quarterbacks of the 1960s and 1970s in the AFL and NFL and what they experienced; the hate mail players such as James Harris had to deal with; the positional segregation regarding Black athletes when it came to the quarterback position; the anonymous scout quotes that exist today; the modern Black quarterbacks including Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson and Kyler Murray; the importance of Doug Williams and Randall Cunningham historically; the impact of writing about Colin Kaepernick; whether young Black quarterbacks would up to play for HBCU’s and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.7	everybody this is richard dutch and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:42.3	The guest this week is Jason Reed. He is a senior NFL writer for ESPN's Anscape. And his new book is The Rise of the Black Quarterback, What It Means for America.
0:53.4	And in this podcast, Jason discusses the black quarterbacks of the 1960s and
0:57.9	1970s in the NFL and the NFL and everything they had to go through.
1:02.6	And you'll hear about how horrific it was, including bagfuls of hate mail that players
1:08.8	received.
1:09.5	The idea of positional segregation, which existed for black
1:14.0	athletes for a long time, pushed not to play quarterback, or you got a lot of, you know, they couldn't
1:19.3	handle the position, you know, weren't the right, didn't have the right temperament or weren't the right
1:23.5	leaders. The history of that position when it comes to black athletes is pretty brutal.
1:30.3	Thankfully, we are in a better place today. Jason does discuss the current star African-American
1:35.6	quarterbacks like Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Kyler Murray. We get into the importance of Doug
1:40.2	Williams and Randall Cunningham, a little bit on Kaepernick, and how that situation was
1:46.1	covered.
1:46.8	I think you'll find this really interesting.
1:48.8	I certainly did.
1:50.1	The book, again, The Rise of the Black Quarterback and What It Means for America.
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