Quote Originally Posted by paulwoods13 View Post
I'm not disagreeing that success by Rourke might inspire Canadian kids to hope they can make it to the CFL. But let's not overstate it -- as long as football has been played, some kids have wanted to play QB, without regard for the realities of how few individuals actually make the pros. And I don't know of any evidence that the success of Black QBs in the CFL had any influence on Black American kids trying to play QB. There weren't many kids of any colour in Florida or Texas or California paying attention to Canadian football in the 1970s and '80s.
I think the biggest factors in more black kids playing QB down south were desegregation, and the good-old-boy coaches getting squeezed out if they weren't smart enough to adapt.