You couldn't make it up!! Says a lot about the US education system?

Question

Just announced on SKY
"Miami Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder has admitted not knowing people speak English in London.
The NFL player might want to check a map before he gets on board a plane for Sunday's prestige game against the New York Giants at Wembley Stadium.
Crowder, who comes from Atlanta in Georgia, may be praised on the field, but confessed geography was not his strong point.
He admitted he did not know until now where London was - or that Londoners spoke English.
"I couldn't find London on a map if they didn't have the names of the countries," he said.
"I swear to God. I don't know what nothing is. I know Italy looks like a boot. I learned that."
Crowder added: "I know (Washington Redskins linebacker) 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."
The Miami Dolphins are play the New York Giants at Wembley

da3rdxsa... For your info, the statement was a cut and paste of the news release from Sky. Hadn't been edited by me. And I could whoop your miserable ar*e anyday when it comes to engineering and calculus. Redneck

ceadmile... - The entire statement was a cut and paste, including the black reference.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20071026/tuk-nfl-star-they-speak-english-in-londo-45dbed5.html

Answer 1

I just posted the same link to some other question.
I knew Americans were mostly ignorant about what happens outside the USA, but this has to take the biscuit.

"He's black so I'm sure he's not from London"!!!!!!

And thanks for the laugh Roy M - how typically American! Don't care what's happening in the world, only what's going on in your own land. Don't you want to have your horizons broadened? Seems to me that a basic knowledge of world geography is a very important thing.

Answer 2

You think THIS is bad? Where I live (a large ghetto in a deep Southern city) they have barbed wire around the schools! And it's not because the kids there are angels.

Very, very few kids make it out of there with any hope of living a productive normal life working a regular job, let alone continuing on to higher education and entering any professional field.

They sabotage each other, even making outcasts of their fellow students who DO want to study and get good grades, accusing these kids of "acting white". This attitude is extremely widespread in schools where most of the student body is black.

Perhaps Mr. Crowder will feel a bit of shame at his remarks and realise his shortcomings. Maybe he will even decide to use the opportunity to study the way he should have the first time around.

Answer 3

History is and will always be based on the Olympics
Good Sports Man ship Word Wide,
its the Strength of the Body no Involvement in arguments
of the Mind So leave it to the One Whom deserves the
GOAL..for the real Sport it Represents
practice makes Perfection,,,the very best to all of You,!!

Answer 4

Umm...if you actually watch the interview, he was joking. Somone posted on this elsewhere -- he went to class with Crowder at UF at some kind of political science/geography class and said that Crowder was a great student, fun guy.

Answer 5

Well Geography obviously isn't his strong point but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt for not knowing people in London speak English, as last time I was in London most of the people I passed on the street were speaking in foreign and every shop, cafe and bar I went in to, not one person working there was English and I struggled to understand what they were saying to me.

Answer 6

I would say it is more of how athletes are treated instead of the whole education system. Athletes with promise can do whatever they want, as they are never told no.

That is pretty ridiculous though. The PR person for the Dolphins must have pooped him/herself.

Answer 7

Yeah I just posted that link on another answer!

Christ, that is really bad!!! He should be ashamed for not knowing that the language he speaks which is called ENGLISH is from a country called ENGLAND, the capital of which is LONDON!!!

Wow I know they say that Americans are oblivious to life outside America but this really takes the biscuit!

Answer 8

um um Drugs are bad mmkay ...

Just more proof these big name colleges hire tutors to take these athletes tests granted he does'nt have to no geography .

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say he does'nt say another word to a reporter for the rest of the year
And if i was his mama i would slap the Stupid right out of him

England already hates us and they are going to use this to prove there point yes 1 guy makes the whole country look dumb

Answer 9

Ask the same guy whether or not to rush the quarterback if the offense lines up in the shotgun formation.

Ask him to describe how he "reads" an offensive formation and knows where the quartback is going to put the ball.

Ask him if he knows his own defensive playbook backwards and forwards and upside down.

We don't ask him to know geography. we ask him to line up and hit guys really really hard, sacrificing his own body for our entertainment.

I betcha he can't answer any questions about quantum physics or relativity theory either. I bet he can't diagnose the symptoms of liver disease. Why should he?

Answer 10

Obviously the University of Florida only recruits the smartest of people to play there.