'The Black Quarterback Effect' (Rush's defense based on dumb science)

Here's an odd twist on the Rush Limbaugh football kerfuffle: It turns out that an academic paper published last October lends support to Limbaugh's comment, which critics denounced as racist, that "social concern" led people in the NFL and the media to hope Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb to do well. The study, by Duke University economists Peter Arcidiacono, Jacob Vigdor and Eric Aldrich, is titled "Race, Football and Television: Examining the Black Quarterback Effect."

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The three economists analyzed ratings for ABC-TV's "Monday Night Football" between 1997 and 2001 and found that "Monday Night Football games featuring black quarterbacks have Nielsen ratings 11% higher than otherwise identical games with two white starting quarterbacks.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110004140

The actual "study" cached here:
http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?&sub=Search&ei=UTF-8&url=JJjZjwsfih0J:trinity.aas.duke.edu/%7Ejvigdor/nfl5.pdf

Ya think more people watched those games because...

The Eagles, The Titans, The Falcons, The Kordell Stewart-led Steelers, and the Saints are or were ALL SUPER BOWL contending teams?????????????

i watch football to see people get pounded. also, what is the relationship between black quarterbacks and high market shares? i mean more philly fans would watch MNF than say well ok i cant think of any other team with a black qb. i dont know much football but you get my point

you should know that Shawn King was the starter for them for quite some time.

What will the dittohoods say?