Tag: John F. Kennedy
The Kennedy White House Forced The NFL To Totally Integrate
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...
Presidents Have Impact On American Sports
The results are documented.Â
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...
It Is Emanuel Cellar Day
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...
D.C. Stadium And The Civil Rights Movement
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...
Old Rivals Start The NFL’s 100th Anniversary Season
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...
NFL 100: Kennedy And Cellar Helped Create The Modern NFL
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...
How Charles K. McNeil Helped Make Football More Popular
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...
Sixty Years Ago Today, The National Football League Became Very, Very...
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...
JFK’s Gift To The NFL Was Made Possible By Emanuel Cellar
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 Sports Legacy: Boosting the NFL
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...
