defensive backs in football. Quarterback and pitching positions usually associated with intelligence and decision-making skills went to whites.” These “stacking” patterns prevented most blacks from playing the positions that “would identify them as good candidates for coaching positions after retirement” (p.308). These patterns are slowly changing. We now have the opportunity to watch players of both races in positions that were once predetermined by color. Football now has Black quarterbacks leading their…
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