00:00Black QBs are the future of modern football.
00:03We want Lamar Jackson.
00:05We want Patrick Mahomes.
00:06That's what you expect now from a quarterback.
00:09But it's easy to forget how new the idea is.
00:14There was an unspoken prejudice that there
00:18were thinking man's positions.
00:22They thought blacks did not have the mental capacity
00:25to play the position.
00:27They just weren't accepted based on their talent.
00:31What happens on the NFL field isn't about the game.
00:35It's a mirror of America's attitudes about itself,
00:38of who's perceived to belong and not to belong.
00:41Coaches were saying, I'd rather not
00:44have this weapon at my disposal.
00:46We had Lamar Jackson before Lamar.
00:49Marlon Briscoll.
00:50James Harris.
00:51Joe Gillian.
00:52But you're just being told right away, not good enough.
00:55All we prayed for was a chance.
00:59We still go through things ourselves,
01:01but theirs was another level.
01:03Security says there's been a death threat in your life.
01:06Somebody wants to kill me over a football game?
01:09I'm not going to be intimidated by this.
01:11I want to go play.
01:14What does it mean to be the first black quarterback
01:17to start the Super Bowl?
01:18I realized right then I made it to the mountaintop.
01:22Black quarterback revolutionized the game.
01:25It's very difficult to defend something
01:27you don't know is going to happen.
01:29I had fun creating my own image.
01:33History is everything.
01:36And it was our job to pass it on to the next.
01:42It's an epic story.
01:44If it hadn't been real life, it would have
01:46the power of a myth.
01:50That was dope.
01:55This is truly a brotherhood.
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