Myth or legend?

“How long have you been a black quarterback?”

According to Snopes.com, citing Michael Wilbon of the Washington Post and Bob Kravitz, then of the Rocky Mountain News and now of the Indianapolis Star, the question was actually: “Doug, obviously you’ve been a black quarterback all your life. When did race begin to matter to people?”

According to that account, Williams misheard it and responded, “How long have I been a black quarterback?”

But Williams said this week the question actually was asked the way he heard it and the questioner later called him to explain that he had worded it poorly.

“I knew where he was coming from,” Williams said. “There were so many questions like that that he was trying to phrase it differently and it came out the way it did.”

Associated Press