TIL There are currently zero left-handed quarterbacks in the NFL

I think this the issue of bias the NFL needs to focus on. It's not a white/black thing, it's a righty lefty problem.

This has been a thing

Left handed QBs require a big adjustment for receivers, OL and playcallers. Tons of receivers have said it’s much harder playing with a lefty.

Makes sense.

NFL likes control...and it starts at the lower level, play it safe...one is highly more accurate.

You have to be truly great to be a left-handed QB to succeed.

Even Jerry Rice said it was far more difficult to catch passes from Steve Young than Joe Montana.

Montana, the ball came to you, Young it tailed away...from both sides. More tendency to be ahead or behind.

Plus 90% of the population is right-handed.

They use to make kids switch to right-handed in school and tape their arms back to force them to write right-handed.

Left-handers were seen as a societal pariah except for pitching of course.

Being left-handed in China is awesome. I get totally undeserved intelligence bonus points.

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Left handed QBs require a big adjustment for receivers, OL and playcallers. Tons of receivers have said it’s much harder playing with a lefty.

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That's interesting. If an NFL GM had invested heavily in a LT, and then a lefty QB became the starter, would they flip the OL? Or is that impractical or unnecessary?

It was a real thing:

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In the early-twentieth-century United States many educators and physicians believed that left-handers more often exhibited mental and cognitive disabilities. To reduce this risk they advocated “retraining” left-handers to become right-handed. The methods employed were often tortuous, including corporal punishment, tying a child’s left hand to immobilize it, and humiliation of children resisters.

Psychoanalyst Abram Blau, chief psychiatrist of the New York City Board of Education, summed up the views of advocates of retraining in his influential 1946 book, The Master Hand: A Study of the Origin and Meaning of Left and Right Sidedness, warning that, unless retrained, left-handed children risked severe and life-long mental and cognitive deficits.

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There's been a long stigma of being left-handed and in sports it might be beneficial but not in football.

Being lefthanded in basketball can be an advantage, too. My favorite player was Ginobili, and of course Harden is the best lefty in the game now.

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The last person to throw a left-handed TD pass in the NFL was... Dez Bryant

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Until today

Lefties rise up