There’s never been a Super Bowl, though, with a Black quarterback starting for each team. Until now.
There’s been an overtime game. There’s been a power outage. There’s even been a player on the losing team named MVP. There’s never been a Super Bowl, though, with a Black quarterback starting for each team.The Feb. 12 matchup in Super Bowl 57 between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles marks the
Doug Williams completed 18 of 29 passes for 340 yards and four touchdowns in the 1988 Super Bowl, as Washington routed Denver.Two Black quarterbacks starting in the game has never happened, while one has been a rarity. Steve McNair played for the Tennessee Titans in the 2000 Super Bowl and Donovan McNabb for the Eagles in the 2005 Super Bowl.
Jalen Hurts, left, and Patrick Mahomes, right, will be center stage when their teams take the field in the Super Bowl on Feb. 12. "I want to see a good game," Williams said.“I think for Black quarterbacks, it is sad for us to just be getting here because a lot of guys didn’t get an opportunity,” he says.
The season opened with 11 out of the 32 teams in the NFL starting Black quarterbacks, yet Black players make up more than half of the players in the NFL. There were 954 Black or African American players in the NFL during the 2022 season, according to, published by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport in November, with 56.4% of the players being Black or African American.
“Let me be as brutally honest as I possibly can. Some people you ain’t ever going to open their eyes. Let’s forget about it,” Williams says. “So you can’t worry about the ones you’re not going to open. But I think as a whole, I think not only Black America, I think there’s a whole lot of Americans out there going to look at this as progress. And I think that’s the only way we can look at it.”
Is there a correlation between having two Black quarterbacks in the Super Bowl and getting more Black head coaches in the NFL? Williams says no.
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