Airplane!
Photo Credit: Paramount Pictures

Back in 2007 a website called The Lang Report published an article entitled “JEWISH NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS…..Why So Many?,” wondering why Jews have won so many Nobel Prizes, 178, compared to Muslims who have won so few, a mere 9, despite the fact that Muslims outnumber Jews 117 to one.

I answered that question in my article Why Jews Win So Many Nobel Prizes and Muslims Do Not and you, dear reader can read my article if you are interested.

But the purpose of this article is not to discuss that question. In the comment section to The Lang Report a reader asked the question:

By Jacob on May 17, 2008

Why not make your next article
“Jewish Athlete’s… Why so few?”

I responded: "Jacob, Let me tell you why there are so few Jewish Athletes: teams owners rarely want to play."

In the early decades of the 20th century Jews in America made their living in rough and tumble sports. And just as Jews today excel in government, law, business, Hollywood, medicine and other professions, Jews a hundred years ago not only excelled in but dominated basketball, boxing, track and field, and almost every other sport.

One of the enduring stereotypes about Jews, other than their cheapness, is that they are physically frail. Consider the following clip from the 1980 film Airplane!: