Caste Football Time Machine

Very interesting Don. I had never heard of the Populist Party.
You were right on the money 30 years ago.
I wonder where we will be in another 30 years?
 
You younguns are likely not aware of how American sports fans were for many years forced to suffer the ubiquitous presence on their TV sets of the pompous, insufferable ass Howard Cosell. He was one of the three announcers in the booth for a long time on Monday Night Football -- though it was entertaining the way Don Meredith would slyly play off him for laughs -- and appeared on countless other media vehicles. Cosell almost single-handedly enhanced Muhammad Ali's stature through his many interviews with him, and was the first sports figure to start calling him by his Muslim name after he changed it from Cassius Clay. Clay/Ali was a widely disliked figure in the America 1.0 of the 1960s, because of his name and religion change, his aggressive self-admiring personality, and because he wouldn't enlist to fight in Vietnam. Cosell was likewise widely disliked for his entire career, but DWFs still had to see his homely face and hear his annoying voice for what seemed forever. Thankfully there's no one like him today.

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Don Wassall said:
You younguns are likely not aware of how American sports fans were for many years forced to suffer the ubiquitous presence on their TV sets of the pompous, insufferable ass Howard Cosell. He was one of the three announcers in the booth for a long time on Monday Night Football -- though it was entertaining the way Don Meredith would slyly play off him for laughs -- and appeared on countless other media vehicles. Cosell almost single-handedly enhanced Muhammad Ali's stature through his many interviews with him, and was the first sports figure to start calling him by his Muslim name after he changed it from Cassius Clay. Clay/Ali was a widely disliked figure in the America 1.0 of the 1960s, because of his name and religion change, his aggressive self-admiring personality, and because he wouldn't enlist to fight in Vietnam. Cosell was likewise widely disliked for his entire career, but DWFs still had to see his homely face and hear his annoying voice for what seemed forever. Thankfully there's no one like him today.

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Cosell had become a bit of a cartoon character by the late late 70's with his persona portrayed by various level comedians from Billy Crystal to the class clown in the back of the room in school.

I can still pull off a mediocre Cosell but beyond people in my age range the cornball imitation crashes and burns like the Hindenburg as you said he hasn't been relevant for about 40 years around the time he quit covering professional boxing live on the air when Holmes fought Randall Cobb and he openly questioned why professional boxing existed on national tv.
 
I didn't watch many Woody Allen movies but one I did like and found quite funny was Bananas (1971) in which Cosell made a cameo. Also remember this scene from Sleepers (1973) which takes place 200 years in the future and was on the mark satirizing Howard Cosell and his nauseating impact on society at the time:

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Best Cosell imitation is from the 80s movie "Better Off Dead" by the Asian guy. And Ali for all his faults was totally correct about Vietnam and race mixing.
 
wile said:
Best Cosell imitation is from the 80s movie "Better Off Dead" by the Asian guy. And Ali for all his faults was totally correct about Vietnam and race mixing.
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Agree with that, I was writing about how he was viewed in the '60s. Over time Ali developed into almost a saint, much like another very controversial and divisive figure from the 1960s, Martin Luther King.
 
I have had the misfortune of trying to get Cossell's autograph. He was calling the USA VS Cuba boxing matches in Charlotte, N.C. I approached him walking to his seat at ringside and he called the security guards over and they made us leave. The matches hadn't even started. It was 43 years ago and I am still mad about it. Cossell was a much taller man than I thought he was. He walked hunch over, but he still looked like he was 6'2" or better.
 
Don Wassall said:
Agree with that, I was writing about how he was viewed in the '60s. Over time Ali developed into almost a saint, much like another very controversial and divisive figure from the 1960s, Martin Luther King.
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I'd say both "were" developed into secular saints. My WAG going forward few people in a few decades will know who either were, they have their use in the degenerate Liberal/Conservative debate but that is winding down IMO.
 
booth said:
I have had the misfortune of trying to get Cossell's autograph. He was calling the USA VS Cuba boxing matches in Charlotte, N.C. I approached him walking to his seat at ringside and he called the security guards over and they made us leave. The matches hadn't even started. It was 43 years ago and I am still mad about it. Cossell was a much taller man than I thought he was. He walked hunch over, but he still looked like he was 6'2" or better.
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I attended a Pirates game in Three Rivers Stadium that was nationally televised circa late '70s early '80s. Afterwards, as the fans were walking en masse down the diagonal ramps that led to ground level, we spotted Cosell a level below us, also surprisingly using the public ramps to make his exit. The fans were mostly well lubricated and there were lots of fairly good-natured insults loudly directed his way. And yeah, I remember how unexpectedly tall he seemed.
 
I first noticed Howard Cosell in the 60s when he wrote a monthly feature in Sport Magazine on famous sporting events. It was pretty good, neutral in fact.

I heard him on the radio doing the 1964 Clay-Liston fight in which Liston quit on his stool after Round 6. Cosell shouted, "HE's NOT COMING OUT! SONNY LISTON IS NOT COMING OUT!"

I first remember him on TV doing highlights of late 60s World Series games for ABC news. Cosell wasn't a household name until fall 1970 when ABC Monday Night Football became a big hit. There wasn't a national Pro and Anti-Cosell thing until he was on Monday Night Football.

Howard Cosell's self-proclaimed trademark was, "I tell it like it is." A big feature was how Don Meredith would slap Cosell down when he said something stupid, which was a frequent occurrence.

I remember when Ali briefly retired in 1979 after winning the rematch with Leon Spinks. I read that Ali was going into doing commercials big time but the corporate sponsors had to back off. Why? It was found Ali had a sky-high NEGATIVE rating among the general public despite being worshipped by the Establishment Media. Opinion Makers, etc.

I specifically recall Toyota was about to sign Ali for Toyota ads but had to cancel. This might account for Ali deciding to fight Larry Holmes for big money in 1980 although he had nothing left.

The result was Ali did TV ads aimed at the black audience. Remember those Roach Spray commercials Ali did? Black folks were the market for Roach Spray.

Howard Cosell was Sugar Ray Leonard's main media booster. This actually made Leonard unpopular to people who loathed Cosell. The anti-Cosell people rooted for Sugar Ray Leonard to get beat.
 
In honor of MLK Day, just wanted to add some stuff my dad told me. Young people don't realize just how unpopular MLK was back in the 60s. He was widely (and correctly) seen as a divisive, agitating figure rather than the "great uniter" he's worshipped as today. Even some blacks thought MLK was a lot more trouble than he was worth and that he would make things worse for them.
 
Gator Dad said:
In honor of MLK Day, just wanted to add some stuff my dad told me. Young people don't realize just how unpopular MLK was back in the 60s. He was widely (and correctly) seen as a divisive, agitating figure rather than the "great uniter" he's worshipped as today. Even some blacks thought MLK was a lot more trouble than he was worth and that he would make things worse for them.
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My dad simply referred to him as a “rabble rouser.”
 
Ali's famous line about Vietnam and the draft could be used to inspire a modern-day version should the Soros/Biden administration try to send young conservative white men off to die in a globalist war: "Ain't no Russian ever called me deplorable."
 
I was told the script with MLK was he showed up somewhere gave the peace and love speech and then when he left the riots would be uncorked, so not every American was fooled by that BS I guess.
 
Gator Dad said:
Ali's famous line about Vietnam and the draft could be used to inspire a modern-day version should the Soros/Biden administration try to send young conservative white men off to die in a globalist war: "Ain't no Russian ever called me deplorable."
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Or equally relevant, “Ain’t no Palestinian ever called me goyim”.

Regarding Cosell, I’m guessing this fella didn’t celebrate Christmas…
 
^ I went on the authors X feed. Full of fools critical of him for being too hard on Tomlin.
 
Don Wassall said:
Thanks but I'm no hero, just someone who for a long time tried to awaken folks to what was going on while offering solutions and ways for them to get involved. That to me is the American Way.
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I think you certainly deserve some credit. After reading that article you saw it all coming. To be able to see it all coming and essentially foretell the future and the current dystopia in which we live. Did you think it was going to get so bad so fast? The Great Replacement seems to have really picked up steam in the past 15 years. I certainly noticed it growing up in the 90s and seeing a slow burn through the early to mid 2000s. Really seems to have picked up steam around 2010 and then 2015 went into overdrive to overwhelm.
 
The "Scorecard" section of the November 21, 1966 issue of Sports Illustrated has an item worth reading. The Scorecard was featured in the beginning of each SI, consisting of a few pages of brief summaries of what SI considered to be interesting news bits that had taken place in the previous week, some straightforward, some opinionated, and others pretty much pure snark, even back then.

The item called "Most Likely to Succeed" reads:

"This week the Dallas Cowboys are second in the NFL's Eastern Division. Their eminence is not so much attributable to signing All-Americas as it is to culling the overlooked, unappreciated and unwanted -- the free agents, 15 of whom are now on the Cowboys' roster. Two regulars, cornerback Cornell Green and split end Pete Gent, played basketball in college, while safety Mike Gaechter was primarily a track man. And Dan Reeves, who is second in the league in scoring, wasn't even picked on the 20th and final round of the draft. What, for example, did Dallas see in Reeves that the other 14 teams didn't? 'Just say we're lucky,' says Gil Brandt, the Cowboys' scouting director.

"Some luck. Brandt and the Cowboys have a system -- a $250,000 computer system that catalogues and analyzes every prospect. In addition, Dallas relies on an intelligence test and a four-hour motivation and personality exam -- lately shortened to 45 minutes. 'The motivation exam is uncanny,' says Brandt. 'Nine times out of 10 it will accurately predict which player will drop out or be dropped because he lacks the drive or toughness to compete in the big league. Some of the hardest-nosed prospects have failed to fool the test. I frequently disagree with its findings, but you can't argue with accuracy.'

"Dallas has further discovered that a football player is most likely to succeed in the pros if his IQ is between 90 and 124. If it's below 90 a player is just not sharp enough to master the intricacies of the game, and if it is above 124, the player is apt to be too inclined to think for himself, to be overly creative.

"We suppose the exception proves the rule: St. Louis is first in the Eastern Division, thanks to [quarterback] Charley Johnson, who has an IQ of 'over 137,' and Cleveland is third, ditto to [quarterback] Frank Ryan, whose IQ is 155."

Reading that it's not hard to see why the Wonderlic test was first downplayed and then eliminated, with 40 times becoming the foundation of the Caste System and all its lies and exaggerations. And Brandt himself later "grew" to become a reliable Caste Clown.

Of the Cowboys' four free agents mentioned, three are White. Peter Gent, an early White counter-culture flakey athlete, became famous after his career for writing the book "North Dallas Forty," loosely based on his experiences with the Cowboys. The book was later made into a movie of the same name starring Nick Nolte.

Dan Reeves of course later became a long-time NFL head coach with the Broncos, Giants and Falcons, taking Denver and Atlanta to the Super Bowl once, both ending in losses. His teams were relatively White friendly but safely within Caste System boundaries. A good example is Bob Christian, who would have been a very good starting NFL tailback but who in his long career with Atlanta was limited to being a blocking fullback who caught a fair amount of passes for the position but was greatly underused as a runner.
 
I’m curious what the motivation test entailed? Seems like creative out of the box thinking by the cowboys back then and certainly something all organizations should do
 
jphoss said:
I’m curious what the motivation test entailed? Seems like creative out of the box thinking by the cowboys back then and certainly something all organizations should do
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Whatever it entailed back then, you can be sure it wouldn’t be allowed now.
 
Robin Earl for me was a player who slipped through the cracks with name recognition as he played on awful Bears teams prior to the hiring of Mike Ditka and was in the doghouse with new head coach Ditka and eventually was cut before the Bears flourished to a championship level in 85'.

He was coke machine with legs who was 6'5" and weighed 250 and was probably the biggest running back in his era and he wasn't just a pure short yardage handcuff for Walter Payton as he averaged 4.1 yards per carry for his career and he eventually was switched to tight end and was a respectable starting tight end on some stone age Bears offensive teams.

Anyway here's a piece on his career and how it fizzled out with Ditka who when he took over in Chicago cleaned house and tended to make examples of veterans.
 
Snapshot of the NFL's Caste System courtesy of The Sporting News issue of May 22, 1971:

The Sporting News was a full-size newspaper long known as the "Baseball Bible" by hard-core baseball fans until it was sold by the Spinks family to corporate interests and was quickly ruined. For many years it almost solely covered baseball, but by 1971 it had small sections for football, hockey, basketball, golf and track. The May 22, 1971 issue had 56 pages. The first 44 pages was baseball coverage. Every box score and every imaginable statistic could be found along with weekly articles on each MLB team, and even the best-known minor leagues had their own page that gave all the scores of the preceding week along with in-depth lists of batting and pitching leaders.

But it was the football section that caught my eye in this particular issue. "Scouts Turning to New Prospects" is the title of the American Football Conference column written by Larry Felser. He writes: "The 1971 scouting file is bulging with notes already. Judging from observations made off this spring's college practices, these are some of the most likely names to appear on the premium first round of the NFL common draft next winter."

22 likely first round players are then listed. 14 of them are White. The league had 26 franchises at the time. Here's Felser's descriptions of them in the order he listed them (some have been shortened a bit):

-- John Reaves, Florida quarterback -- The best of the senior quarterbacks. It's not an impressive list, as last year's was. Reaves has been a fine passer since his sophomore season and should be among the early picks.

-- John Vella, Southern California offensive lineman -- The best of the offensive linemen. . . Vella is a fine athlete who might play any position in the offensive line and probably could be a good defensive lineman, too.

-- Tommy Casanova, LSU defensive back -- Most scouts say he's sure No. 1 and probably would be an even more outstanding prospect if his team's needs would allow him to be left in one spot on either offense or defense.

-- Gary Kosins, Dayton fullback -- Carried 51 times in a game against Louisville last year. Scouts conclude he has enough speed to blend with that strength and endurance.

-- Jim Bertlesen, Texas running back -- LBJ's favorite. The pros like his kind of durable, hard-running style.

-- Dan Yochum, Syracuse offensive tackle -- Some scouts question his all-round skills, but with offensive linemen in short supply, he should go quickly.

-- Bobby Majors, Tennessee defensive back -- Quick and attracted to the ball. He had 10 intercerptions, best in the nation last year. He's the type the pros put at free safety.

-- Royce Smith, Georgia guard -- Some say he's the top offensive line prospect.

-- Joe Colquitt, Kansas State linebacker -- Not a good year for pro-sized linebackers. At 6' 2" and 226, he has the dimensions.

-- Mark Arneson, Arizona linebacker -- Ditto Colquitt.

-- Walt Patulski, defensive lineman, Notre Dame -- Huge, willing, strong, a surefire No. 1.

-- Greg Marx, defensive tackle -- There's only one catch with Marx. He may receive another year of college eligibility.

-- Mike Kadish, defensive lineman -- The only question with him is how well he rebounds from knee surgery.

-- Fred Swendsen, defensive end, Notre Dame -- He's 6' 3" and 250 and he can motor.

Also mentioned are two players from the University of Montana as possible first rounders -- tackle Steve Okoniewski and guard Wolfgang Posler.

The NFL was still majority White in 1971 albeit a fast shrinking majority, as the Caste System had begun in earnest several years earlier and an article on the facing page of Felser's was a strong harbinger of what was going to take place with increasing speed through the rest of the 1970s and ever since. A piece by Bob West was given the awkward title "Beaumont Talent Pipeline Coupled With NFL Camps." The following gives a nice sampling of the drooling found throughout along with commentary by me; in fact this article could easily have been written in 2024:

"Green Bay was billed as 'Titletown USA' during the Vince Lombardi era. . . but the actual Football Capital of the World is this southeast Texas community of 115,000.

"Although best known for its oil industry, Beaumont's real gusher has been the turning out of professional football players. When NFL training camps open this summer, 15 products of five city high schools will be on the payroll." All were Black as best I could tell.

However, the "scouts" were only interested in two of the five high schools: "Chief supplier of Beaumont's pro talent have been the city's two black high schools, Hebert and Charlton-Pollard. . . Whenever the two schools meet, an overflow crowd and a press box full of college scouts are always a certainty. The game, dubbed the 'Soul Bowl, became so big it finally had to be moved to the Lamar College stadium, which seats 17,000. With standing room, 20,000 can be squeezed in for the classic."

"Southern Cal, Michigan State, SMU and UCLA are a few of the major colleges aware that Beaumont is the 'Football Capital of the World.' They have been the most prolific recruiters of Hebert and Charlton-Pollard talent in the past."

Hebert over the previous 12 years had compiled a record of 102-24-4 and won one Texas state championship, back in the first of those 12 seasons. Charlton-Pollard was 97-38-7 over the past 14 seasons, making it to the state semifinals in 1962 but no state championships. Good records, certainly, but hardly unbeatable dynasties. And what about the other three high schools in Beaumont, presumably all White or nearly so? Given how popular high school football was and remains in Texas it's hard to imagine those schools weren't producing players worthy of football scholarships.

But all glory to the two Black high schools. The slobbering over them by the White establishment was beyond cringeworthy. From the article:

"It was [Jerry] LeVias (one of the black Beaumont players in the NFL) who labeled Beaumont the 'Football Capital of the World.' Appearing on the 'Tonight Show' a couple of years ago, that's how he answered Johnny Carson's query on what city he called home. The designation was quickly seized upon by the Chamber of Commerce. For a time, all Chamber correspondence bore a 'Football Capital of the World' label.

"On May 16, the city paid tribute to its unique asset by holding a Pro Football Honor Day. All 15 homegrown pros were flown in to participate in a golf tournament and gala banquet. One of the tri-chairmen for the event was Beaumont adman Tommy Vance, who also happens to be public relations director for the National Football League Players Association.

"Among those invited to help honor their fellow pros were John Mackey. . . Alex Karras, Bill Munson, Bill Curry, Kermit Alexander, Dick Butkus, George Webster and Duane Thomas. Astronauts Alan Bean, Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Jack Swigert. . . also were invited. Texas Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes attended."

Tody Smith, the coach of Charlton-Pollard, gives the party line indirectly justifying the Caste System, variations of which we're heard ever since: "For a long time, teaching was about the only field the Negro could look toward. Then along came pro football and its big bonuses. I think that, more than anything, has been the incentive. Even though the kids now have a better chance in other professions, they see money can be made faster in pro football, if they are good enough.

"Having so many outstanding players from here has been a tremendous help. The kids can relate because they know most of them. Whereas the more affluent youngsters can find plenty in the way of entertainment, ours can't, so they spend most of their free time on the playgrounds throwing a football around."

Apparently no Black kids can afford any kind of "entertainment," while all the White kids are "affluent." Really? So there are no poor, forgotten dead-end towns and cities in Texas filled with Whites, such as the fictitious one portrayed in "The Last Picture Show," which came out in that same year of 1971 and in which almost all the White characters were shown in a derogatory manner?

The Caste System not only justifies its existence by wanting to "uplift" Blacks, but does so at the expense of deserving Whites and doesn't have, and never has had, any empathy at all for the Whites who are victimized by it. Always remember Rule No. 1 of the regime's media: Whites as a group can never be shown in a positive light or as having any redeeming qualities at all.
 
Don Wassall said:
Snapshot of the NFL's Caste System courtesy of The Sporting News issue of May 22, 1971:

The Sporting News was a full-size newspaper long known as the "Baseball Bible" by hard-core baseball fans until it was sold by the Spinks family to corporate interests and was quickly ruined. For many years it almost solely covered baseball, but by 1971 it had small sections for football, hockey, basketball, golf and track. The May 22, 1971 issue had 56 pages. The first 44 pages was baseball coverage. Every box score and every imaginable statistic could be found along with weekly articles on each MLB team, and even the best-known minor leagues had their own page that gave all the scores of the preceding week along with in-depth lists of batting and pitching leaders.

But it was the football section that caught my eye in this particular issue. "Scouts Turning to New Prospects" is the title of the American Football Conference column written by Larry Felser. He writes: "The 1971 scouting file is bulging with notes already. Judging from observations made off this spring's college practices, these are some of the most likely names to appear on the premium first round of the NFL common draft next winter."

22 likely first round players are then listed. 14 of them are White. The league had 26 franchises at the time. Here's Felser's descriptions of them in the order he listed them (some have been shortened a bit):

-- John Reaves, Florida quarterback -- The best of the senior quarterbacks. It's not an impressive list, as last year's was. Reaves has been a fine passer since his sophomore season and should be among the early picks.

-- John Vella, Southern California offensive lineman -- The best of the offensive linemen. . . Vella is a fine athlete who might play any position in the offensive line and probably could be a good defensive lineman, too.

-- Tommy Casanova, LSU defensive back -- Most scouts say he's sure No. 1 and probably would be an even more outstanding prospect if his team's needs would allow him to be left in one spot on either offense or defense.

-- Gary Kosins, Dayton fullback -- Carried 51 times in a game against Louisville last year. Scouts conclude he has enough speed to blend with that strength and endurance.

-- Jim Bertlesen, Texas running back -- LBJ's favorite. The pros like his kind of durable, hard-running style.

-- Dan Yochum, Syracuse offensive tackle -- Some scouts question his all-round skills, but with offensive linemen in short supply, he should go quickly.

-- Bobby Majors, Tennessee defensive back -- Quick and attracted to the ball. He had 10 intercerptions, best in the nation last year. He's the type the pros put at free safety.

-- Royce Smith, Georgia guard -- Some say he's the top offensive line prospect.

-- Joe Colquitt, Kansas State linebacker -- Not a good year for pro-sized linebackers. At 6' 2" and 226, he has the dimensions.

-- Mark Arneson, Arizona linebacker -- Ditto Colquitt.

-- Walt Patulski, defensive lineman, Notre Dame -- Huge, willing, strong, a surefire No. 1.

-- Greg Marx, defensive tackle -- There's only one catch with Marx. He may receive another year of college eligibility.

-- Mike Kadish, defensive lineman -- The only question with him is how well he rebounds from knee surgery.

-- Fred Swendsen, defensive end, Notre Dame -- He's 6' 3" and 250 and he can motor.

Also mentioned are two players from the University of Montana as possible first rounders -- tackle Steve Okoniewski and guard Wolfgang Posler.

The NFL was still majority White in 1971 albeit a fast shrinking majority, as the Caste System had begun in earnest several years earlier and an article on the facing page of Felser's was a strong harbinger of what was going to take place with increasing speed through the rest of the 1970s and ever since. A piece by Bob West was given the awkward title "Beaumont Talent Pipeline Coupled With NFL Camps." The following gives a nice sampling of the drooling found throughout along with commentary by me; in fact this article could easily have been written in 2024:

"Green Bay was billed as 'Titletown USA' during the Vince Lombardi era. . . but the actual Football Capital of the World is this southeast Texas community of 115,000.

"Although best known for its oil industry, Beaumont's real gusher has been the turning out of professional football players. When NFL training camps open this summer, 15 products of five city high schools will be on the payroll." All were Black as best I could tell.

However, the "scouts" were only interested in two of the five high schools: "Chief supplier of Beaumont's pro talent have been the city's two black high schools, Hebert and Charlton-Pollard. . . Whenever the two schools meet, an overflow crowd and a press box full of college scouts are always a certainty. The game, dubbed the 'Soul Bowl, became so big it finally had to be moved to the Lamar College stadium, which seats 17,000. With standing room, 20,000 can be squeezed in for the classic."

"Southern Cal, Michigan State, SMU and UCLA are a few of the major colleges aware that Beaumont is the 'Football Capital of the World.' They have been the most prolific recruiters of Hebert and Charlton-Pollard talent in the past."

Hebert over the previous 12 years had compiled a record of 102-24-4 and won one Texas state championship, back in the first of those 12 seasons. Charlton-Pollard was 97-38-7 over the past 14 seasons, making it to the state semifinals in 1962 but no state championships. Good records, certainly, but hardly unbeatable dynasties. And what about the other three high schools in Beaumont, presumably all White or nearly so? Given how popular high school football was and remains in Texas it's hard to imagine those schools weren't producing players worthy of football scholarships.

But all glory to the two Black high schools. The slobbering over them by the White establishment was beyond cringeworthy. From the article:

"It was [Jerry] LeVias (one of the black Beaumont players in the NFL) who labeled Beaumont the 'Football Capital of the World.' Appearing on the 'Tonight Show' a couple of years ago, that's how he answered Johnny Carson's query on what city he called home. The designation was quickly seized upon by the Chamber of Commerce. For a time, all Chamber correspondence bore a 'Football Capital of the World' label.

"On May 16, the city paid tribute to its unique asset by holding a Pro Football Honor Day. All 15 homegrown pros were flown in to participate in a golf tournament and gala banquet. One of the tri-chairmen for the event was Beaumont adman Tommy Vance, who also happens to be public relations director for the National Football League Players Association.

"Among those invited to help honor their fellow pros were John Mackey. . . Alex Karras, Bill Munson, Bill Curry, Kermit Alexander, Dick Butkus, George Webster and Duane Thomas. Astronauts Alan Bean, Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Jack Swigert. . . also were invited. Texas Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes attended."

Tody Smith, the coach of Charlton-Pollard, gives the party line indirectly justifying the Caste System, variations of which we're heard ever since: "For a long time, teaching was about the only field the Negro could look toward. Then along came pro football and its big bonuses. I think that, more than anything, has been the incentive. Even though the kids now have a better chance in other professions, they see money can be made faster in pro football, if they are good enough.

"Having so many outstanding players from here has been a tremendous help. The kids can relate because they know most of them. Whereas the more affluent youngsters can find plenty in the way of entertainment, ours can't, so they spend most of their free time on the playgrounds throwing a football around."

Apparently no Black kids can afford any kind of "entertainment," while all the White kids are "affluent." Really? So there are no poor, forgotten dead-end towns and cities in Texas filled with Whites, such as the fictitious one portrayed in "The Last Picture Show," which came out in that same year of 1971 and in which almost all the White characters were shown in a derogatory manner?

The Caste System not only justifies its existence by wanting to "uplift" Blacks, but does so at the expense of deserving Whites and doesn't have, and never has had, any empathy at all for the Whites who are victimized by it. Always remember Rule No. 1 of the regime's media: Whites as a group can never be shown in a positive light or as having any redeeming qualities at all.
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The only White people shown positively have to be rich or a celebrity along with the proper attitudes.
 
Postcard from 1967

Review of Sports Illustrated, December 4th, 1967 issue. Those who experienced living in the U.S. in the 1960s know that mainstream sources of information were very limited then. We walked across the room to change the TV channel, and our choices pretty much consisted of the local CBS, ABC and NBC affiliates along with PBS, which was mainly for the upper crust.

The local and national news broadcasts were similar in content, especially the three national shows. Lots of Americans grumbled about liberal bias but there was nowhere else to go. Then as now, corporations, NGOs, foundations and the federal government poured money into “mainstream” and left wing media and publications, while the right wing press was mostly underground and very difficult to find.

The same liberal bias was reinforced by the weekly magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Life and Look. When it came to sports, Sports Illustrated was the undisputed king, having started in 1954 and by 1967 had a weekly paid circulation of three million. The initial issue in 1954 had a circulation of 350,000, showing that SI had substantial backing from the get-go as well as establishment approval.



The cover of Sports Illustrated’s December 4th, 1967 issue

SI’s only semi-serious competitor was Sport magazine, which ran from 1946 to 2000 but was always second fiddle to Sports Illustrated. The Sporting News, owned by the Spink family of St. Louis, was another weekly, but concentrated mostly on baseball for much of its existence before being bought by corporate interests, which fairly quickly ruined it by turning what had been a serious publication into worthless fluff. What’s left of Sporting News (the “The” in its title was dropped in 2002) is now online and read by just about nobody.

Sports Illustrated similarly declined in recent decades. Its circulation fell and it eventually went from a weekly to a monthly, and stopped printing altogether for a while in 2024 but its present owners claim that the print issue will continue.

The question is, does anyone care? SI was known for its photography, its generally high-quality journalism (albeit always echoing the mainstream liberal party line of the time), and its annual swimsuit issue, which came out each year while much of the country was in the midst of the worst of winter weather. Which model was going to be on the cover was always a matter of great interest, as were all the models, featuring beautiful girls wearing seemingly less each year. Models like Heidi Klum, Cheryl Tiegs and Christie Brinkley were propelled to fame after appearing in SI’s swimsuit issue.

But the leftist radicals eventually destroyed SI, just as they did everything else in society. Within recent years, SI’s swimsuit issue has featured old women, fat women, trannies and men, which fast-tracked the publication’s already quick descent into irrelevance.

So looking back through the pages of an old Sports Illustrated is much like opening a time capsule, a look at an America that is now long gone, but not forgotten by those who experienced it. I have a number of Sports Illustrateds from the 1960s and ‘70s and if the interest is there I will continue to feature these brief looks back in time.

The cover of the December 4, 1967 SI shows a drawing of a basketball court from roughly the free throw line to the basket along with five stick-type players, two wearing red and three wearing blue. It cost 40 cents. Three of the stick figures are White, the other two Black. Even though the stick features have no other identifiable features including no facial features, SI was careful to represent their race.

And of course, spoken or unspoken – perhaps written or unwritten is a more apt way to put it – race has always been extremely important in the way it’s portrayed to the general culture, the mass consumers of sports, entertainment and politics.

In 1967, Whites were still 88% of the U.S. population, and were generally shown in that ratio in advertising, movies and television. In 2025, the White population is now estimated at just 58%, and Whites, especially White men, have been all but eliminated from most forms of media, all part of The Great Replacement supported by the entire regime outside of a few dissidents in Congress and segments of the alternative media.

The 12/4/67 SI is thick with advertising. The weekly feature found in the front of each issue called “Scorecard” doesn’t begin until Page 17. Scorecard featured a short, usually not serious, look at various stories from the previous week. This issue starts off by quoting an Argentine leftist, Juan Jose Sebreli, who believes football (soccer) “educates the masses for passivity, for nonaction and for non-participation in public life,” adding, “Mussolini, Hitler and even the senile Petain were promoters of sports, and their example has been followed by most of today’s world leaders. Monopolistic, capitalistic and fascist regimes use it as a means of psychological control of the masses by means of conditioned reflexes.” Ah, the obligatory Hitler reference, something that hasn’t changed in the intervening 58 years.

But there does seem to be a connection between sports fanaticism and having little to no interest in politics. Rooting for sports mercenaries – who now make upwards of $60 million and more per year – and the cities they supposedly represent is a safety valve form of pseudo-tribalism that actually diminishes real tribalism, especially among Whites who thanks to the anti-White Caste System in sports (think DEI if you don’t know what the Caste System is yet) have been well trained to root and cheer for Blacks over their own kind.

There’s a mountain of direct and indirect evidence to support the reality that DEI came to sports in a major way just as the Permanent Cultural Revolution was fully implemented in 1968 and thereafter. To cite just one example, here are the athletes who have appeared on the most SI covers: Michael Jordan (50 covers), Muhammad Ali (40), LeBron James (25), Tiger Woods (24), Magic Johnson (23), and Kareem Abdul Jabar (22).

After Scorecard, some of the weekly featured articles were about the New York Giants, Yale defeating Harvard in their annual football matchup, a preview of College Basketball 1968, a car race in Daytona Beach, and a speedboat race at Lake Havasu, Arizona.

There was a weekly wrap-up of college football results from the previous week, and a column on Bridge by Charles Goren. At the back of the magazine was “For the Record,” a small print summary covering the week’s news in basketball, boating, football, handball, harness racing, hockey, horse racing, motor sports, and track and field. The right hand column displayed “Faces in the Crowd,” notable athletic achievements by mostly young people, a few of whom later became famous athletes. “The 19th Hole,” letters from readers, always occupied the last few pages of each issue in between the endless pages of advertisements.

The most interesting article to appear in this issue was titled “A Step to an Olympic Boycott,” by Jonathan Rodgers. About 200 people had recently attended a meeting of the Western Regional Black Youth Conference at a Baptist church in Los Angeles, for the purpose of deciding whether or not to call for a boycott by Black Olympians of the upcoming 1968 Summer games in Mexico City.

Reported SI: “The workshop was an orderly one, although outside the church a bloody fracas erupted between militant Black Power followers. . . and a group of self-styled Communists.”

The workshop was organized and led by Harry Edwards, a then 24-year-old part-time instructor of sociology at San Jose State. If his name sounds familiar, it’s because Edwards, now 82, has been publicized and praised time and again by the corporate media as a militant agitator on behalf of Blacks, or Negroes as they were still called in SI. It wasn’t until early 1968 that the term Negro was dropped, seemingly overnight, and replaced with Black and later African-American, though that seven-syllable tag never really caught on like Black did and still does.

Whether Edwards was an outright communist like some of those engaging in skirmishes outside the church isn’t clear, but there’s no doubt that he was very militant, although he doesn’t seem to have ever been criticized by anyone in the establishment. Curious how that works, isn’t it? Among others quotes, Edwards says of Black athletes and the Olympics: “It’s time for the Black people to stand up as men and women and refuse to be utilized as performing animals for a little extra dog food. You see, this may be our last opportunity to settle this mess short of violence.”



Harry Edwards, now in his 80s and still at it

For a “performing animal,” Edwards seemed to have attained a position of privilege even then at the age of 24. He was a center on San Jose State’s basketball team, then went to Cornell and obtained two advanced degrees and was working on his Ph.D. at the time of this issue of SI.

As it turned out, there was no Black boycott of the memorable 1968 Mexico City Olympics. But the most remembered event to this day was when two Black U.S. sprinters, John Carlos and Tommy Smith, who had finished first and second in the 200 meter sprint, looked down and raised clenched fists in the air while the national anthem played. Harry Edwards, the life-long militant who was always embraced and promoted by the system he was supposedly fighting against, played a large role in bringing about Carlos’ and Smith’s act of protest.



Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right) after receiving their medals

Looking at the advertisements and comparing them to today is always instructive. The majority of the ads in the 12/4/67 SI featured a picture of the product being pushed. When people were shown they were invariably White, usually young or middle-aged, well-dressed and looking complacent but not giddy unlike today when Whites are rarely seen in advertising and when they are they are often shown acting orgasmic after biting into a hamburger or candy bar.

The car ads are always fun to look at, cars like the Toronado with its cool name and looks. The headline for that one is “Toronado. Built for leaders, not followers,” with a picture of White man about 40 years old in a suit standing beside a burgundy colored Toronado.



1967 Toronado

Sports Illustrated in late 1967 was still geared primarily to middle class White sports fans, mostly men. That was reflected in the articles and ads. But the article about Harry Edwards and the proposed Black boycott of the Olympics was an important harbinger of what was to come as the Permanent Cultural Revolution was fully unleashed in 1968, perhaps still the most fateful year in American history.

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