Inside Conditions: Black quarterbacks in some people’s eyes are ‘temporary’ and ‘disposable’

Merriam-Webster de­fines temporary as, “one serving for a limited time.” Webster also defines the word disposable as, “de­signed to be used once or only a limited number of times and then thrown away.” The old saying used to be, “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.” However, in the case of the “free sling­ing” Pittsburgh Steelers, “March came in like a lamb and is departing like an ‘entire pride of lions.’” In just a matter of days the Black and Gold pulled off player acquisitions and trades that, less than a month ago, would have been viewed as unreal­istic. They retained the services of two top-tiered NFL quarterbacks for less than the cost that most teams pay for inviting a star NFL QB out to lunch. However, instead of laud­ing and applauding such great business decisions, (as they did in the case of the Atlanta Falcons new 180-million-dollar QB Kirk Cousins), many right-leaning sports pun­dits are strangling the Black and Gold QB room before the QBs take a sin­gle snap in 2024. A few of these “storytellers” are not fly-by-night scribes trying to hack into the NFL da­tabase, these are so-called “legitimate” sports report­ing outlets....