Word: limbaugh
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...over Heisman-trophy running back Ricky Williams as the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft, Philadelphia's raucous fans booed McNabb before he took a single practice snap (Williams has since retired from football to travel, study holistic medicine and, by his own account, smoke weed). Rush Limbaugh thrust an unwitting McNabb into a firestorm in 2003 with his idiotic statement about black quarterbacks being overrated. Among veteran quarterbacks, McNabb has the highest winning percentage. But before this year, he had lost three straight NFC title games, sending Philly fans to the edge of the Schuylkill...
...McNabb has shaken the doubters as if they were lumbering linemen. "I smile about it," McNabb tells TIME about his skeptics. "People think I'm crazy. But it's like, 'Hey, thanks for trying to bring me down, trying to upset me, but that just can't happen.'" When Limbaugh said the liberal media hyped McNabb because he was black, it was his father Sam who spoke up, calling Limbaugh "insensitive." Donovan just played football. "I tried to show class, show that you can't let someone else's mind-set change what you set out to do," says McNabb...
McNabb inherited his humility from his parents. Sam McNabb is a retired electrical engineer, Wilma McNabb a nurse. Long before the Limbaugh snub, Donovan got a harsh lesson in racism. When he was 8, the McNabbs moved from the South Side of Chicago to suburban Dolton, Ill. They were one of the first African-American families to settle in Dolton. Shortly after they arrived, someone vandalized their home. Neither McNabb nor his parents carried a chip. They sent him to Mount Carmel High School, a diverse Catholic school on the South Side, where he honed not only his passing game...
Franklin was nonplussed. “If he wants to think I’m a stupid person, that’s fine,” she said of Limbaugh. “I think it’s hilarious...
...self-described friend of Franklin noted on a weblog Wednesday, the Harvard particle physicist is not quite a lexicographic trailblazer. In October 2003, after Limbaugh—formerly an ESPN commentator—drew fire for racially insensitive remarks about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, a Limbaugh fan on a conservative website wrote: “even if Rush was just wrong in what he said, why does this rise to a resignable gaff...