Call Dave Chappelle.
If there’s going to be an “All-Black vs. All-White bowl,” as former NFL running back Rashard Mendenhall suggested, Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers said you have to bring in the comedy legend who popularized the idea of a comical racial draft 19 years ago.
“I think just off the top of my head, spitballing, we need to have a draft and it has to involve Dave Chappelle,” Rodgers said Tuesday on “The Pat McAfee Show” in reference to the famous “Chappelle Show” skit.
“We should have a draft because there’s a couple people that we’re not sure which team they’d be on, so we need to have a draft.”
Mendenhall set the internet on fire Monday with his post on X suggesting there needs to be a racial football game while going after commentators.
“I’m sick of average white guys commenting on football,” Mendenhall tweeted. “Y’all not even good at football. Can we please replace the Pro Bowl with an All-Black vs. All-White bowl so these cats can stop trying to teach me who’s good at football. I’m better than ur goat.”
Naturally, plenty of folks compared the idea to Chappelle’s racial draft that centered on the idea of different races selecting bi-racial individuals.
The draft even included a trade, and featured Tiger Woods as the first pick and the legendary Wu-Tang Clan as the final selection.
LIke in the skit, Darius Butler tried to create some controversy by saying the “All-Black team” would have Patrick Mahomes as quarterback and Mike McDaniels as the head coach.
”That depends if you’re first pick or not. We’ll see,” Rodgers said after stating earlier he hopes to play for the Jets beyond 2024. “As we saw in the racial draft with Chappelle, it just matters where you’re picking, not who you pick. I think we should probably have some sort of draft.”
Rodgers understood what Mendenhall attempted to say with his post, even if it came across in a peculiar way.
“What is he really saying? He’s really talking about who’s allowed to speak and not speak,” Rodgers said. “I think a lot of current players who are getting criticized hold onto that, like, ‘oh, that person never played, so I don’t really give a s–t about what they said.’ ”