CROWDER IS PLAYIN' DUMB . . . OR PLAIN DUMB
Maybe Dr. Mickey Collins should also check the noggin of Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder. Because Crowder is talking like a guy who has had a couple of dozen concussions. Or who never went to school. Or who never paid attention while he was in school. Or who never pays attention to anything.
For starter, Crowder said on Wednesday that
he didn't realize that people in London, England speak English.
And that was just the opening act. Here's some of the rest of it.
"I couldn't find London on a map if they didn't have the names of the countries," Crowder said. "I swear to God. I don't know what nothing is. I know Italy looks like a boot. I learned that.
"I know London Fletcher. We did a football camp together. So I know him. That's the closest thing I know to London. He's black, so I'm sure he’s not from London. I'm sure that’s a coincidental name."
There's a chance that Crowder was just trying to be funny, and that he isn't so ignorant that he doesn't realize how ignorant he really is. But even if he was simply playing around, then at a minimum he's too ignorant to realize that his attempt at humor makes him look like the stereotypical dumb jock -- and the stereotypical backward-*** American who thinks that the only country that matters is ours.
And that's not quite the tone that his employer is trying to set as the NFL attempts to expand its fan base beyond the borders of the United States.
