Bogger McFarland, left, and Washington Football Team quarterback Dwayne Haskins.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A professional athlete with a zillion-dollar contract who’s barely old enough to rent a car from Enterprise gets into trouble. Maybe they’re caught drunk driving (obviously not in a rental car), arrested at a strip club, or worse, accused in a domestic violence incident.
It happens so often we barely pay attention anymore, which was likely going to be the case when Dwayne Haskins, the underperforming quarterback of the Washington Football Team, was cut last week. However, thanks to the brilliance and insight of Booger McFarland, an analyst on ESPN’s NFL Primetime, we now know that Haskins and all other Black quarterbacks are just one missed team meeting away from being poster boys for Scared Straight: NFL Edition.
Dwayne Haskins #7 of the Washington Football Team looks on from the sidelines after being injured during the second half of the game against the New York Giants at FedExField on December 22, 2019 in Landover, Maryland.
It pays to be the anti-Black scold on sports television.
Haskins was cut last week after just over a year of poor performance on and off the field for the Washington Football team. When pictures surfaced of him partying at a strip club without a mask (violating NFL COVID-19 safety protocols for a second time) the team was done with him. While the sports commentariat mostly focused on Haskins’s wasted potential, McFarland saw Haskins as an indictment of most Black men in the league.
“It bothers me because a lot of it is the young African-American player. They come in and they don’t take this as a business. It is still a game to them. This ain’t football. This is a billion-dollar business.
