Basketball wasnt as popular among blacks in the 70's as it was in the 90's
People act like the NFL and NBA were big back then, they weren't. Basketball back in the 60s and 70s was pretty much a fringe sport. NFL, that sport wasn't even on the radar. To put it in perspective, horse racing was bigger than NFL in the 70s.
Plus there's many black heavyweights from African countries and some from Latin American countries (Solis, Gomez, etc) and European countries (Skelton, Sprott, Levin, etc).
There are at least 25,000,000 big men in the US between age 20 and 39, including at least 3,000,000 black men that size and age. But there's only a total of about 1000 or fewer in the NFL plus the NBA.
Where are the other 24,999,000 big American men? Where are the other 3,299,000 black American men of that size between 20 and 40?
Don't forget all the one's who play College Football and College Basketball, but never make it to the professional leagues. Which is only about around maybe 10% of all the collegiate athletes(If that).
Very few NBA players are 7 feet tall. Most are around the same height as the Klitchkos. Sure, you can claim all that but I think throughout history we know African Americans are far more athletic and just have better genetics(longer arms, more coordinated) than whites. Aren't the best soccer players black? I'm saying this as a white person btw.
Where were these uber-athletic seven (or six foot seven) footers in Ali's era? Or Louis's era? Or Tyson's era?
No, the best soccer players aren't black, though Ronaldo's fake tan might make you think otherwise.
People act like the NFL and NBA were big back then, they weren't. Basketball back in the 60s and 70s was pretty much a fringe sport. NFL, that sport wasn't even on the radar. To put it in perspective, horse racing was bigger than NFL in the 70s.
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