{"id":7909,"date":"2019-12-05T22:15:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=7909"},"modified":"2019-12-05T22:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:15:42","slug":"has-tim-ryan-ever-watched-a-football-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/nfl\/has-tim-ryan-ever-watched-a-football-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Tim Ryan Ever Watched A Football Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BY ADAM GREENE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In case you missed the news, the voice of the San Francisco 49ers, Tim Ryan, was suspended for this weekend\u2019s game against the New Orleans Saints for saying something so profoundly stupid that I\u2019m shocked Donald Trump didn\u2019t immediately retweet it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In trying to explain how the team in which he broadcasts for could lose to the Baltimore Ravens 20-17 last Sunday, Ryan, in between, I\u2019d imagine, popping wedges of brie and sipping on a Sauvignon Blanc, announced that he\u2019d figured it all out. He\u2019d studied the film and deciphered exactly what was so different about quarterback Lamar Jackson and what makes him so difficult to defend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson, you see, is black. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know. Right? Stop the presses! Hit that \u201cx\u201d button in your browser to keep the rest of the page from loading so you can take in this important information that you, the NFL fan, is learning for the first time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what Ryan discovered that the rest of us, not currently downing a Chardonnay followed by a cube of Asiago somehow missed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s really good at that fake, Lamar Jackson,\u201d Ryan said on KNBR\u2019s critically acclaimed sports information, sommelier and fromager broadcast called\u2026 (checks notes)\u2026 \u2018The Murph & Mac Show\u2019 Monday. \u201cBut when you consider his dark skin color with a dark football with a dark uniform, you could not see that thing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes. I hope you\u2019re all sitting down, because Tim Ryan certainly is because he has nothing better to do. Apparently, according to the \u201cVoice of the Niners\u201d Tim Ryan, Lamar Jackson is the first African American in all of history to play football. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know. I am as shocked as you are. How else can you explain how any ballcarrier in the NFL\u2019s history is ever located and tackled carrying one of these invisible \u201cdark\u201d footballs? Lamar Jackson has broken the league\u2019s color barrier in 2019. He\u2019s desegregated the league, finally, here in the 21st century and Tim Ryan is the guy that\u2019s blown the lid off all of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have news for Tim, who, as a guy that\u2019s paid to watch and talk about a weekly football contest to people on the radio who have no desire to hear Chris Myers and Moose Johnston wax poetically about fullback blocking techniques, not only have African Americans played professional football for a while now, since at least 1902 when Charles Follis suited up for the Shelby Steamfitters, but they currently hold at least 70 percent of every player position in the league. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson isn\u2019t even the first black guy to play quarterback in the NFL and certainly isn\u2019t the first to run a fake. That would be Marlin Briscoe, who played for the Denver Broncos in 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That, I\u2019m sure is all news to Tim Ryan, who I guess just thinks that Richard Sherman, Emmanual Sanders and most of the Niners team just have really deep tans and maybe sweet endorsement deals with Hawaiian Tropic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TONIGHT\u2019S GAME<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

DALLAS COWBOYS AT CHICAGO BEARS (+3, O\/U: 42.5)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As much as the Bears have struggled this season, nobody seems to be calling for head coach Matt Nagy\u2019s head as the blame has fell squarely on his quarterback, Mitchell Trubisky. That\u2019s not what\u2019s happening in Dallas. The Cowboys are too good to keep playing so bad, so the law of averages say they get the job done tonight. COWBOYS 24, BEARS 13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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