“71.5 % pro football players are non-white. Almost all kickers and punters still are white. Does that mean we're designed to kick their balls into their throat?”
Good question Shayne.
Since most NFL positions benefit from speed, blacks fill many of them. If we take away the Polynesians it’s a two race sport, featuring three body types:
Mesomorphic, or muscular men, on the black side tend to be running backs and line backers as they develop a lot of muscle mass in the upper leg and hips. On the white side your stronger ankles and less injury prone shoulders and greater height among muscular men, gives you kickers, quarterbacks and tight ends. Black men have delicate shoulders, hands and ankles relative to their muscle mass.
Endomorphic or fat men are giant-sized in both varieties, with the blacks generally showing more hip and the whites thicker hands and arms, making guards tend to black and the guy hiking the ball very often white. Tight ends will usually be black, generally an endomorphic-mesomorphic hybrid, with long arms and wide shoulders.
Ectomorphic, or thin and elongated body types, strictly speaking, are for the NBA and have no place on the gridiron. However, an ectomphorphic-mesomorphic hybrid, is generally what you see in your wide receiver. Shorter versions of this type generally serve as defensive backs.
There are, of course, exceptions to these general tendencies, with this year’s best quarterback a light-skinned black man and one of the best linebackers a Viking playing for Green Bay.
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Shayne, you trained with them in the army, how do they compare in combat? I lined up against a few on the field, they be strong. Never hunted with them, they say Karl Malone is a great Hunter.