First Black Super Bowl-winning QB Doug Williams compares Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts making it to the Super Bowl to Barack Obama winning the election
Former Washington QB Doug Williams beat the Denver Broncos in the 1988 Super Bowl.
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For the first time in the National Football League’s history, both teams in the Super Bowl will feature two Black starting quarterbacks as the Patrick Mahomes–led Chiefs are set to take on the Philadelphia Eagles led by Jalen Hurts. Following this news, the first-ever Black Super Bowl-winning QB Doug Williams links this historical event with Barack Obama winning the election.
Doug Williams became the first Black Super Bowl-winning quarterback when he led the Washington Redskins to a 42-10 victory against the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXVII. Furthermore, there have been only three Black starting QBs to ever win a Super Bowl for their team, including Redskins QB Doug Williams. The other two are Seahawks QB Russell Wilson and Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes.
And now, in the upcoming Super Bowl, there will be either a fourth Black Super Bowl-winning QB or the first-ever Black QB to win two Super Bowls. Furthermore, Doug Williams got emotional upon hearing this news. He linked this with another historical event when Democratic candidate Barack Obama became the first-ever African-American President of the United States back in 2008.
While talking to TMZ, the 67-year-old said he got overwhelmed with emotions when the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles claimed their spots in the Super Bowl, which will take place in Glendale, Arizona on February 14.
Doug Williams had tears of joy when Barack Obama got elected
Doug Williams said it’s unfortunate that some people don’t understand why it’s a big deal to Black quarterbacks. He further said that some people don’t understand what Black quarterbacks have been through.
“When something like this happens, you gotta get excited about it,” Williams said to TMZ. “It’s so unfortunate that everybody don’t look at it that way. … It’s easy for somebody to say, ‘Why you gotta bring color into it?’ if you don’t understand what we as Black quarterbacks and Blacks as a whole have been through, It’s a big deal, It’s a really big deal.”
Williams also said that he had tears of joy, a similar emotion he had when Barack Obama won the Presidential election in 2008. “Things like that give me joy, give me cheer that make me think we made some steps. We have made a few steps,” Williams said, “But there’s a lot of steps we haven’t made.
This event is without a doubt a historical one for the future of the league and both Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts will leave everything on the field to help their team win the Super Bowl LVII.
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