White Coaches, Black Referee

[ronny mulkey]

Rainmaker,

Two or three years ago, Rut lampooned a mechanics issue regarding the non-calling official informing the coach. That was fine but what he did to personalize it was to question people's (mine especially) manhood. i.e. "if you are scared of the coach, you can't ACA. I'm a man and I am not scared to go over there and stand by my call. You must not be a man. You must be stupid". It went on and on. Of course, the Fed finally changed that mechanic to reflect what had already become a good game management technique practiced in a lot of areas (outside of Chicago). Then, he question's your schedule or your ability. Eventually, you do lose sight of the intent of the original post. My part in this thread is not about race. It is about Rut's great schedule that we all have to hear about all the time. Rut played the race card.

Race relations have come a long way down here. To illustrate I'll tell you this story:

3 guys are in the maternity ward awaiting the first child of each. One is white and from rural Georgia, one is a black man from Atlanta and one is white from Chicago. The doctor comes out and tells them we have 3 healthy baby boys in there but we have misidentified them. Let's all go in and see if we can straighten this out. The good old rural boy runs in there and claims the black kid. The black guy looks at him and the good old boy exclaims "there is no way in hell I am going to even take a chance that my kid is from Chicago"