Tag: John F. Kennedy

One of JFK's major civil rights victories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN5Ez2F_X_k February is Black History Month and in 1962, there was a very significant change in...

The results are documented.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8PMWYSjpoQ It is President’s Day. The chief executive of the United States has an impact on just about every facet of...

Cellar should be a Hall of Famer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd9RHqkiLJk It is Emanuel Cellar Day around the offices of United States sports franchises. Cellar, who was a...

The bully pulpit worked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJEOdJkFVgM Washington’s D. C. Stadium will be gone within two years but it should have been designated as a historical site defining...

And so it starts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dLZl51my_Q It is the National Football League opener and to celebrate the NFL’s 100th season the league’s two oldest rivals, Green...

The feds made the NFL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4uREGIK3U0 NFL training camps are opening kicking off the NFL’s celebration of its 100th year. Along the way, the NFL...

McNeil was a smart guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7oUiAQal-Y   Let’s not pretend betting on football is a relatively new exercise. Legalized sports betting in a number of states is...

The Greatest Game Ever?   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p0TNKUQ75c&t=4s   December 28, 1958 was the day that the modern NFL started. The Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants in overtime...

Not every President of the United States leaves a sports legacy. But John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated on November 22, 1963, did leave one permanent impression on the sports world. He created a massive revenue stream for sports owners from television by signing The Sports Broadcast Act of 1961.

JFK's big contribution to $ports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYp8essm7-o&t=57s Fifty four years today, President John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin on a Dallas street. Historians are still...