College Football Compared To Boxing

Boxing in the United States has largely followed a pattern of domination by different ethnic groups. There have always been outliers in each of these time patterns but there will always be outliers here and there in any field.



The heavy presence of Eastern European and Russian boxers can't be left out either, as they have done very well in the heavyweight ranks comparatively lately. In this same very recent category, Tyson Fury could be listed in the Irish column.

Overall though, the list above is a good representation of the overall flow of ethnicities in boxing.

And so it goes with football to a fairly similar pattern. Not exactly the same, but close.

Whites, which included English, Irish, German and Scandinavian Americans dominated the early years of the sport.

Next came a spattering of Italian and Jewish players, not that many though overall.

Blacks then took over for the most part and have held that position of dominance for quite a while.

Now, though, it seems Mexicans are starting to gain a foothold and will perhaps soon be controlling the sport, as with boxing.

For easy examples, look no further than Anthony Munoz, Tom Flores, Tony Romo, Jeff Garcia, Diego Pavia, Fernando Mendoza, and in the coaching ranks people like Mario Cristobal, Ron Rivera, Dave Canales and Brian Flores and Dave Flores again as a coach too.

In fact, several of the above were both players and coaches, demonstrating the versatility of Mexicans.