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White athletes tend to be clueless in this regard and others. For example, when free agents, White athletes sometimes go to who offers the most money rather than who would give them more playing time and recognition.

Self-described "conservative" pundits, such as the ones at places like Fox, almost never mention black crime. Black on White crime? Forget it. When Geraldo Rivera had a Fox News Channel show years ago, he ran a story on the Christian-Newsom torture murders. Google it if you have never heard of...

Historically speaking, Cooper Kupp had the best year an NFL pass receiver has ever had.

Collinsworth inferred teams worry about Cooper Kupp's blocking, which supposedly gets him open. Kupp easily beat the DB and caught the TD pass, routine for him.

I remember when Jim Plunkett won the Heisman in 1970 it was occasionally mentioned he was of Mexican extraction, but little was made of it. He seemed not much different from Joe Theisman and Archie Manning. In the early 70s when sportswriters railed about "All NFL quarterbacks are white,"...

Lance Alworth was considered the best WR in pro football during 1965-69. Some NFL partisans downgraded him for the supposedly "inferior AFL defenses." Steve Largent during 1976-89 was "one of the best." Swann and Stallworth, Jerry Rice were rated ahead of him. They played in multiple Super...

It's better to leave football a year too early than a year too late.

So it was Brutal again. He followed the same old pattern. First, pretending to be a friend, then bringing up a topic covered numerous times, finally pointless ridicule of White athletes.

That's the pattern the Cardinals had when they were in St. Louis, though closer to .500 much of the time. The trope of good for a season or two then a bottom feeder was true of the Chicago Cardinals.

I saw an NFL Films segment on Don Maynard of not too many years ago. In it Maynard said, "People said I was one of the fastest runners in football. They were wrong. I was the fastest runner in football." In the early 60s I think he was. In the late 60s, when Maynard was well into his 30s, he...

Both the baseball and pro football HOF are getting more cheapened every year. Around 40 years ago the PFHOF was the hardest to get into.

Yes, Arnold Palmer would be the most recent.

Jimmy Stewart?

The A Football Life episode a few years ago on Terry Bradshaw said he (even after becoming a popular TV personality) was reluctant to go back to Pittsburgh for many years. When he finally agreed to a ceremony, Bradshaw had his two young daughters with him on the assumption the Pittsburgh fans...

That was heard during the 1960s when Mantle was still playing. It was not actually meant as a compliment. The idea being Rose was a Hot Dog.

On Christmas Day, the Kurt Warner biopic, "Kurt Warner: American Underdog," hits theaters. It's a "faith-based" film. There have been several movies about white football players as underdogs; Vince Papale, Rudy, etc. Warner was an unheralded free agent, but played like a superstar when he...

There never was an asterisk for Eric Dickerson breaking O.J. Simpson's record for rushing yardage in a season. Dickerson gained 2105 yards in a 16 game season in 1984, to Simpson's 2003 for 14 games in 1973. Dickerson's record has stood ever since. Adrian Peterson came closest with 2097 in 2012...

Elroy Hirsch, in a 12-game season in1951, gained 1495 yards with a 22.7 per catch and 17 TDs. Over 16 games that would be 1993 yards.

In the late 60s, regarding athletes in particular, the term "boy" was dropped and "kid" took its place. The reason, of course, was blacks didn't like the term "boy" even though it was used equally in referring to whites.

It was Time magazine. Both Time and Newsweek had Simpson on the cover for their June 27, 1994 issue. The MSM bent over and bent over and bent over to keep from admitting the evidence against Simpson was overwhelming. They picked at the prosecution throughout and eagerly made Mark Fuhrman the...

I just saw news reports that J.J. Watt has offered to pay the funeral expenses of the Waukesha victims murdered by a BLM type. Watt is a native of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

One of the few times a black football player had to do serious time was Dwayne Goodrich for a hit and run killing two people and seriously injuring a third. He was sentenced to seven years at first, extended to 13 and paroled in 2011 after serving eight years. This was about what an average...

Any historical perspective I give is intended to be factual.

A question that takes some qualification. Football historians have usually rated quarterbacks apart from other players. They have always preferred running backs as "the greatest player in the game" to quarterbacks. Several years ago Jerry Rice was christened the Greatest Football Player of All...

Since he is a QB, the most important position on a football team, you could say Tom Brady is the most significant football player of all time.