NFL

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• SOURCE: Substack
  2/13/2023
  

  Militarized Super Bowl Abuses Truth of Pat Tillman's Life and Death

  by William Astore

  Tillman’s statue captures the essence of a man full of life. His death by friendly fire in a misbegotten war, made worse by the lies told to the Tillman family by the U.S. military, reminds us that the essence of war is death. The NFL, as a sponsored partner of the Pentagon, would like us to forget.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/11/2023
  

  Medical Historians: We've Been Taught to Forget What We Used to Know about Head Injuries in Sports

  Stephen Casper, Emily Harrison and Jeremy Greene argue that league-affiliated researchers who claim the jury is out about whether head injuries in competition contribute to long-term cognitive and mental deterioration are ignoring a long archive of medical studies that solidifies the link. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/30/2022
  

  1957 Jerry Jones Photo Shows How Close The Past Really Is

  "We know, at least in the abstract, what happened in the days and years after this photo of Jones was taken. He was there and he is here."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/5/2022
  

  Former Star Keyshawn Johnson: Football Hall Must Honor "Forgotten Four" Integration Pioneers

  Kenny Washington, Marion Motley, Woody Strode and Bill Willis reintegrated the NFL in 1946, breaking a "gentlemen's agreement" among the owners not to sign Black players. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/13/2021
  

  Ryan Russell: Jon Gruden Emails Should Have Shocked Me. They Didn't

  "The long delay in disclosing these emails, coupled with their conversational nature, suggests that others in the N.F.L. are, at best, tolerant of these divisive views. At worst, they share them."

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• 7/11/2021
  

  The NFL Must Learn Lessons About Inclusion from Women's Sports

  by John Howard

  If the NFL is sincere in wanting to fight against entrenched homophobia, it should follow the example of women's sports (and be prepared to make partnerships and investments with LGBTQ organizations inside and outside of sports.

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  7/13/2020
  

  Where Did The Term ‘Redskins’ Come From?

  Monday’s announcement that the D.C. region’s football team would be abandoning the Redskins brand marks the end of a decadeslong push to shift the team away from the historically racist and oppressive term.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/3/2020
  

  A Brief History of The Word ‘Redskin’ And How It Became a Source of Controversy

  Its origins extend back to the 18th century, long before it became the name of a football team.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/4/19
  

  100 Years of NFL History in Objects

  100 years of football history through artifacts from the Pro Football Hall of Fame

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• 10/28/18
  

  Would Frederick Douglass Take a Knee?

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  What the answer to that question should tell us.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9-14-18
  

  Battles over patriotism, Pledge of Allegiance in schools span a century

  by Randall Curren and Charles Dorn

  Seventy-five years ago, at the height of America’s involvement in World War II, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that guaranteed public school students’ right to refuse to stand in patriotic salute.

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• 5-29-18
  

  Donald Trump’s Shameful Use of the “Star-Spangled Banner” Is, Alas, an American Tradition 

  by Michael J. Pfeifer

  It’s one we should have put to an end long ago.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-25-18
  

  Trump said protesting NFL players ‘shouldn’t be in this country.’ We should take him seriously.

  by Martha S. Jones

  Black Americans have been threatened with deportation before. It never ends well.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  5-23-18
  

  The NFL Told Teams to Stand During the National Anthem in the 1960s

  Here's how one player protested.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  1-2-18
  

  The Forgotten Origins of Politics in Sports

  by Kenneth Cohen

  Black athletes didn’t “politicize” American sports. They’ve been a battleground from the very beginning.

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• SOURCE: LikeTheDew
  11-12-17
  

  Cheerleaders taking a knee aren’t dishonoring the flag

  by David B. Parker

  Why the president of Kennesaw State University might want to reconsider his criticism.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10-2-17 (accessed)
  

  Flip-Flopping on Free Speech

  by Jill Lepore

  The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.

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• 9-28-17
  

  Trump’s NFL Tirade Is a Distraction from Real News – Like the World Hunger Crisis

  by William Lambers

  Hunger threatens Puerto Rico and famine threatens 4 other nations.

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• SOURCE: Axios
  9-26-17
  

  The history of singing the national anthem before NFL games

  The history of playing the national anthem before sports games has strong ties with honoring the armed forces.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  9-22-14
  

  The Forgotten Story of the Men Who Broke the NFL’s Color Barrier

  “No one has bothered to tell this story,” Mr. Greenberg said. “So I said, we’re telling the story through them, and their families.”