Brady grew up watching Joe Montana, the old consensus greatest, as a child in Northern California. Despite being 100% Italian, Montana’s eyes are albino blue:pic.twitter.com/FW8S0MS506
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In 1988 Bob Greene estimated that 26/39 Presidents had been blue eyed. Since then every Prez except Obama has had fair eyes; in fact every white guy from Trump to Reagan has been blue eyed. This suggests that the blue eyed advantage is not so much athletic as mental.
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This is a big subject, so I’ll cut it off now and tweet more later about the underlying mechanism: how some people think eye color is an indicator of behavioral inhibition and the ability to make fast decisions under pressure.
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I recall reading a ww2 book that mentioned that the majority of US WW2 aces were blue eyed, and also had mostly daughters if they had postwar families.
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The list of these guys is so long that I had to cut it off somewhere. Check out Namath:pic.twitter.com/t1gRME707R
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Apollo astronauts: "The blue-eyed outnumbered the brown, 16 to 8, and five had eyes described as hazel or green." Chuck Yeager's blue-eyed as well.
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Couldn’t part of this be the repression of people **ahem** without blue eyes, for a long time? This season’s week 1 had the highest amount of black QBs in the history of the league. Where does that fit in with the research?
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But I think his point here is that they're overrepresented even among the white population where they're endemic.https://twitter.com/crimkadid/status/1305222020087590912?s=19 …
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Very interesting, thanks for the info. Just bought that book!
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The most successful racial group in the most popular sport in the world are Meds. Just checked and yes, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have brown eyes.
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