Joey Teefizz: MISL 1982-Baltimore Blast @ New York Arrows: First Half

Source:Joey Teefizz- The New York Arrows and Baltimore Blast, from 1982.

Source:The Daily Journal

"MISL Soccer in New York-please see the great contest at halftime with Shep messing in goal with civilians shooting on him...then see Zungul go wild..."

From Joey Teefizz

The New York Arrows were around in the early days of the MISL. Late 1970s to mid 1980s or so. Pro indoor soccer has never caught on in New York. Which is a shame, because New York is a great sports market. A great pro soccer market and the biggest sports market in America. And indoor soccer is a great sport when played well and is a very exciting fast-paced game. But only the New York Red Bulls of the MLS an outdoor soccer league has ever caught on and done well in the New York/North Jersey area. Unlike the Baltimore Blast, that have been around since I believe day one in the MISL, which was 1979 and are still in business today. And like the San Diego Sockers are the class of American indoor soccer. As far as the type of fan support that they’ve had and all the championships that they’ve won.

ABC Sports: NFL 1971- Baltimore Colts @ Minnesota Vikings: Full Game

Source:ABC Sports- Minnesota Vikings QB Gary Quazzo.

"The 1971 Monday Night Football Game between the Baltimore Colts and the Minnesota Vikings.

With thanks to the NFL and ABC Sports for the use of their film. We do not own the rights to any of this film. This film is being used for teaching and educational purposes only. No copyright infringement intended." 

From Classic Sports

Joey Teefizz: MISL 1986- MISL Finals- Game 6- San Diego Sockers @ Minnesota Strikers: Highlights

Source:Joey Teefizz- the San Diego Sockers and Minnesota Strikers, for the 1986 MISL Championship.

Source:The Daily Journal

“Game 6 of the 85-86 Championship series in front of a sell out crowd at the MET Center…

Ade Cocker post game interview”

From Joey Teefizz

Two of the best franchises in the Major Indoor Soccer League playing for the championship.

ABC Sports: NBA 1971-NBA Finals-Game 4-Milwaukee Bucks @ Baltimore Bullets: 2nd-Half

Source:NBA-TV- with a look back at the 1971 NBA Finals between the Milwaukee Bucks and Baltimore Bullets.

Source:The Daily Journal 

“1971 NBA Finals Gm. 4 Bucks vs. Bullets (2nd Half)”

From Hal Greer 

With both Kareem and Oscar on the Bucks team, the greatest center of all-time and arguably the greatest player and all around point guard of all-time in Oscar Robertson, that was too much to deal with for even a very good Bullets team. Especially with injuries that they were dealing with, like with key forward Gus Johnson.

The Bullets lost to a team that was better than them in the 1971 NBA Finals. The only time they made it to the NBA Finals in Baltimore. The Bucks weren’t a deeply talented team with a tone of great players in 71. But they had Kareem and Oscar and a very good supporting cast around them.

If anything the Bullets perhaps peaked too soon in 71. With the New York Knicks failing to get back to the Finals after winning the NBA Finals in 1970. The Boston Celtics were in somewhat of a transition in the early 1970s, transitioning from the Red Auerbach/Bill Russell era of the 1960s and transition back to being an NBA Finals contender in the mid-1970s, where they won the Finals in 1974 and 76. The Philadelphia 76ers were awful in the early 1970s. So that opened up the door for the Bullets in the Eastern Conference in 1971.

Johnny Unitas: 'The Unitas Legacy'

Source:John Unitas- the leader of the Baltimore Colts.

Source:The Daily Journal 

“The namesake of the Golden Arm Award has a storied history which has earned him the recognition of being the greatest quarterback to ever play in the National Football League. An 18-year veteran of the NFL, Unitas played his collegiate career at the University of Louisville (1951-1954), passing for 3007 yards and 27 touchdowns.

Unitas began his pro career with the Baltimore Colts in 1958 and played there 17 years until joining the San Diego Chargers for his final season. His career passing figures include completing 2,830 of 5,186 passes for 40,239 yards and 290 touchdowns. Among his many records is one that may stand forever, throwing a touchdown pass in 47 consecutive games.

Unitas was selected as the top quarterback of all-time by the Pro Football Hall of Fame 36-member selection committee. In commemorating the NFL’s 25th, 50th and 75th anniversaries, he was honored as the GREATEST QUARTERBACK OF ALL TIME. Unitas was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1979.

Proceeds from the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Awards help to support the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation. The Foundation provides financial assistance to underprivileged and deserving young scholar-athletes throughout Maryland and Kentucky.”

From Johnny Unitas 

What makes John Unitas the greatest quarterback of all-time is that he was able to do things in an era where the rules benefited the defense that are considered amazing today, in an era where the rules benefit the offense like driving his team down the field in a couple of minutes to win the game perhaps with just one or two timeouts if any, pass after pass, completion after completion.

And the other thing being that Unitas called his own plays and had to make all the decisions as well. So he had both great physical skills with his arm and mobility, as well as vision. But also great mental and leadership skills in knowing what plays to call and when to call them.

NFL Films: NFL 1958- NFL Championship- Baltimore Colts vs New York Giants: Full Game

Source:NFL Films- New York Giants QB Charlie Connerly against the Colts defense.

"1958 NFL Championship Game

Baltimore Colts vs New York Giants

Location: Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York

December 28, 1958" 

From Carlos C

The most important game in NFL history because of all the attention it brought the NFL. And the teams that were involved with how good they were and how well they played. And the fact the game was on national TV and really brought pro football into the homes of millions of Americans. And brought them to the stadiums and wanting to watch more pro football games as well. Not the greatest played game, but the most important game ever played in the NFL.

Kelly’s Life: Fall Outfit of The Day- Skinny Denim Jeans in Boots

Source:Kelly's Life- Fall Outfit of The Day: Denim Jeans in Boots.

Source:The Daily Journal 

“Fall Outfit of the day: Blouse, Boot, Skinny jeans”

From Kelly's Life

Denim is so versatile now that American women can not only go to ballgames in their skin-tight jeans and boots, but can dress like they’re going to the club or a nice restaurant, instead of a ballgame, or going to the club or a party or a nice restaurant after the game. Instead of just wearing t-shirts or jerseys, with sneakers at the ballgame, with the baggy jeans or running pants. As you see with the woman in this photo as she’s sort of dressed up her skin-tight jeans, with a nice top and her brown riding boots. 

Source:The Daily Journal- jeans in boots at the game. This woman looks like she could be going to the club or going to a nice restaurant after the game as well. Or going to a nice party. One of the advantages of denim jeans, is that they're so versatile. You can dress them down like you are just picking up the kids at from school or going to the grocery store. Or you can dress them up and even dress skin-tight, denim jeans up, looking very sexy with your legs, butt, and crotch, while also looking dressy and looking like you are going out or going to the office in them. And they go perfectly with boots, just like shorts with sneakers.

As far as this outfit and to be completely serious (nothing new or no new or real risk taking here) not to put Kelly down, but skinny jeans in boots have been around for about ten-years now. A common look for sexy women especially in the fall and winter for both practical as well as stylish reasons. 

The practical reasons are perhaps less obvious. They keep women warm in bad cold weather. Their legs that is especially the skinny denim because how tight they are and do not leave much in any room for cold air get air to get in. And the boots are great to walk around in bad weather, because you get better traction.

The stylish reasons are obvious. I mean seriously what better way for a sexy woman to show off her legs than in skinny jeans. Whether they are denim or leather, because again how tight they are and how they show off your legs. 

And then you throw in boots either over or under the jeans and you have a very sexy stylish look, that will make women who aren’t as sexy or dressing much more conservatively jealous. And have guys checking you out especially when you’re on the move.

CNN: 'OJ Simpson On The Run- Ford Bronco Chase: June 17th, 1994'

Source:Z-Facts- The most famous Ford Bronco in American history. 

"Football and film star O.J. Simpson led police on a low-speed chase along the Los Angeles freeways shortly before his arrest for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman. This video, aired on CNN, features the sound from OJ's phone conversation with Homicide Detective Tom Lange. Listen as the accused killer tells Lange that he is the one who "deserves" to be hurt."

From Z-Facts

I remember this very well, because I had just graduated from high school. And was in Delaware vacationing with my family and I believe I was watching the NBA Finals on NBC. And then of course NBC News breaks in with live coverage of this chase which was different from other Los Angeles car chases, which of course aren’t rare in Los Angeles. 

What made this care chase different was that it involved a celebrity and NBC News and other news organizations breaking into a championship series, or whatever they were showing and stopped showing, to cover this tabloid story.

This is just another example and perhaps the biggest example of what news has become in America. At least TV news, where it's not what’s important to cover that is important, but what is popular to cover and how you make the most money. Covering that story to spend so much time and energy covering one murder trial. Not that it shouldn’t of been covered, which of course the supporters of the coverage will say. But to cover it basically at the expense of every other news story thats going on.

So-called reality TV, which of course isn’t reality TV, but tabloid TV, didn’t start in the late 1990s or 2000s, with Survivor on CBS. It started in the mid 1990s in 1994 with OJ Simpson. And his famous duel murders and his Trial of The Century. Before social networking and before Google, but right in the early days of cellphones and the Internet. And when cable news was becoming very important with the 24 hour news cycle. 

You also have to remember that OJ, was not just an actor, but an accomplished one and perhaps not someone you want doing your taxes for you, but smart enough and with the personality to get people’s attention and put the focus on him. He knew he was going to jail and perhaps never coming out and had money and a gun in his truck. And I guess was going to make a run for Mexico, but perhaps smart enough to know he probably wasn’t going to make it.

The Ford Bronco Chase, was the ultimate publicity stunt and so-called reality TV. But it wasn’t what is called reality TV, which is not reality TV, but tabloid TV. Where producers of those shows encourage people to act out to get the most ratings possible. 

But this chase was real reality TV. A grown man, who up to this point was a very well-liked and respected man. Who had a Hall of Fame NFL career and one of the top 5-10 running backs of all-time. Who put together a solid sportscasting career with NBC Sports and acting career and did commercials. Who was going through a horrible time, I imagine and perhaps feeling horribly guilty about his two murders and perhaps lost it and didn’t know what to do about it. But again, we are talking about an actor here and this could’ve simply been a publicity stunt. But this was real reality TV and not made up. 

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The Doors: Live At The London Roadhouse (1968)

Source:The Doors- Jim Morrison and The Doors, Live at The London Roadhouse, in 1968.

Source:The Daily Journal 

“Rare color footage of The Doors performing at the Roundhouse, London, 1968-09-06. Not the same show filmed for “The Doors Are Open” documentary. An awesome close-up of Jim Morrison singing When The Music’s Over.” 

From The Doors

I’m thinking the cameraman, or perhaps the camerawomen, really liked Jim Morrison and was really attracted to him. Because in the first two minutes of this show alone, you see several closeups on Jim Morrison’s leather legs and leather suit, sitting on the stool with his legs sticking out in his skin-tight black leather jeans and black leather jacket, with his concho belt. And that's exactly the reaction that The Lizard King (also known as Jim Morrison) wanted. Of course he wanted to be known for his music, but he was playing a character as well which was The Lizard King, a cowboy, rock and roll hero, where his superhero uniform was his skin-tight, black leather suit, where he wanted people to listen to his music, but also bring attention to his skin-tight leather legs and butt. For about two years, the man must have smelled like a luxury car, being in head-toe black leather almost everywhere he went, including to church, weddings, airplanes, the beach, even, etc. 

Source:The Doors- Live at The London Roadhouse, in 1968.

It has been said that Morrison, wore the skin-tight leather pants, (leather jeans. really) with the concho belt, because he wanted to highlight his crotch. Which makes a hell of a lot of sense, because if you watch this show, or Live at The Hollywood Bowl, or The Doors in Copenhagen, or The Doors in London, The Doors on Ed Sullivan, (just to use as examples) there are several closeups upfront of Morrison in his leather suit and right on his legs, butt and crotch. I mean if you’re actually attracted to the man, watching all of this footage is a great way to see him.

As far as this show, I think it’s The Lizard King as it his best. Just wish this show was in color and since it was done in 1968, that would’ve been a fairly easy thing to do. But with Morrison, you get great vocals and his role-playing and acting and moving around and the dancing.

And Ray Manzarek, if anything who had a better singing voice than Morrison, at least singing blues, doing a great job on the keyboards. When The Music is Over, and Love Me Two Times, I think are their best songs in this show.

Love Me Two Times, comes with a great music video as well. And you have Morrison going off the cuff and doing a little story telling as well. And they finish with, well The End, what else. Which is their great war song, even though it wasn’t written directly for the Vietnam War. But considering this was 1968, the timing of this song was simply perfect.

As what can be said about a lot of The Doors performances, I just wish they were shot in color. Which is one reason why Oliver Stone’s version of The Doors, whatever you think of the movie, is actually very important. Because it gives you a very good idea of what The Lizard King was like in color. Even with Val Kilmer, being a much larger and taller man than Jim Morrison.

But it would be nice to see a colorized version of a lot of these performances. But the sound of these performances and how Morrison sounded and how the band played, is very good, even in black and white. Which doesn’t affect the sound of these shows. But the shows would’ve been better had they been done in color. Like with The Hollywood Bowl, Ed Sullivan, Smothers Brothers, Jonathan Winters. And maybe a colorized version of this show, will be available at some point.

CBS News: Walter Cronkite Announces The Death of President John F. Kennedy

Source:CBS News- anchorman Walter Cronkite announcing the death of President John F. Kennedy, in 1963.

Source:The Daily Journal

“As The World Turns” was airing on CBS the afternoon of November 22, 1963, when Walter Cronkite broke in to tell the nation that President Kennedy had been shot. Coverage then went back to the soap opera, but not for long. Charles Osgood reports on how America learned of the shooting of a president.”

From CBS News 

“Assassination of John F. Kennedy, mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. His accused killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the Soviet Union. Oswald never stood trial for murder, because, while being transferred after having been taken into custody, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a distraught Dallas nightclub owner.”

Source:Britannica- from the Chicago Tribune.

From Britannica 

Newscasters and journalists in general are trained to never show their feelings and give commentary. That old Joe Friday saying of just the facts man. (For all of you Dragnet fans) But these people are exactly that, people and they have feelings too.

When you’re reporting on the death and not just death, but the assassination of someone you personally know, like, respect and even admirer, all things that Walter Cronkite felt about John Kennedy and then throw in the fact they were the same age and from the same generation, how you not show your human side in this situation. This was the first presidential assassination during the network news era. Where most if not all Americans, we’re getting at least part of their news from the networks.

And you are reporting on the assassination of someone who is just 46 and you are same age, to go along with all the other factors, I would’ve been disappointed had Cronkite not given people at least a little into what he was feeling about this horrible tragedy.

Cronkite was at the top of his game during CBS News’s coverage of the JFK assassination that he anchored. And part of Cronkite’s greatness was that he was a human being the whole time and not afraid to let others know that.

There was no precedent for network news to cover presidential assassinations. There hadn’t been a presidential assassination since William McKinley at the turn of the 20th Century. When radio hadn’t even been invented yet. CBS News, NBC News and ABC News, was literally learning how to cover this on the fly.

Walter Cronkite, wasn’t announcing the death of a cab driver who was mugged the night before in his cab in New York City. Not that murder is not important, because of course it would be. He was announcing the death of not just a public servant and public official, or politician, or even a Chief of State, or even a President. He was announcing the death of a President of the United States. He was announcing the death of his own President and President of his own country. A President he personally knew and perhaps even considered a friend. The first time this was ever done on network news and hopefully the last, because this assassination was way too expensive and should have never had happen. And Cronkite deserves a lot of credit for how he handled himself.

Tiger Stadium Fan: Tribute to Detroit’s Tiger Stadium

Source:Tiger Stadium Fan- Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame OF Al Kaline.

“Tiger Stadium segment from “The Story of America’s Classic Ballparks,” hosted by Jeff Daniels which aired on PBS” 

From Tiger Stadium Fan

Detroit Tiger Stadium is one of the best looking big ballparks of all time. As well as being a big ballpark yet a park that had a real ballpark feel rather then feeling like you were watching a baseball game at a football stadium like with all the cookie cutter stadiums that were built in the 1970s and were prominent in the 1980s as well.

But Detroit Tiger Stadium even though it was a big ballpark that seated over 50 thousand for baseball, was a great place to watch baseball , even in the upper deck and even in the upper deck in the outfield, because the upper deck over hanged on the field and the seats were so close to the playing field. Great place for the Tigers to play especially when they were winning because of how close their fans were close to the action.

ABC News: Special Report- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination- April 4th, 1968

Source:ABC News- Special Report, covering the assassination of Dr. Martin L. King.

"Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., mortal shooting of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most prominent leader of the American civil rights movement, on April 4, 1968, as he stood on the second floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had come to lead a march by striking sanitation workers. In response to King’s death, more than 100 American inner cities exploded in rioting, looting, and violence. James Earl Ray, a career small-time criminal who became the object of a more than two-month manhunt before he was captured in England, pled guilty to the shooting and received a 99-year prison sentence. He quickly recanted his plea and spent the rest of his life claiming that he had been framed by a conspiracy that was really responsible for King’s assassination." 

From Britannica 

"April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated" 

From ABC News

The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King the leader of the American civil rights movement, was tragic for so many reasons. But the biggest reason why it was so tragic because of the time he died and what left he had to contribute not just to the African-American community, but the American community in general. Because at 39 and with everything he had to accomplish he still had a lot more to accomplish. Which would've started with the upcoming poor peoples march and the poor people's movement.

The Poor People's Campaign, had an opportunity to be a real campaign against poverty that would seek to actually end poverty. And not just create new programs to help people live in poverty, but actually empower people to get themselves out of poverty. Through things like education and job training and really going past the New Deal and Great Society. Not saying that this movement would've developed like this had Dr. King survived. But had he and Senator Robert F. Kennedy survived, this movement would've had an opportunity to develop.

Unfortunately as it turned out, Dr. King, didn't die from some illness he had picked up. Or from some crazy person out their mind who probably should've been in a mental hospital. But he was killed by an escaped convict, a lost soul who had absolutely nothing going right in his life. Who was a career criminal and a loner who was simply looking to be noticed. 

To paraphrase Dan Rather from CBS News: "Dr. King, wasn't even murdered by a professional assassin, or a mobster hit man. James Earl Ray, was at best professional thief. Who wasn't even very good at that and had been in and out of prison most of his life." 

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A&E Biography: The Rat Pack (1999)

Source:A&E Biography- from A&E's Rat Pack documentary.

Source:The Daily Journal 

“Part 2 here: * Unmonetised Fair Use upload, no copyright infringement intended. All ads & revenues attached to.” 

From Emmalee Morrisette

"Rat Pack Documentary" 

“1999 Rat Pack documentary” 

Source:My Travel Clips- from A&E's documentary.

From My Travel Clips

Source:My Travel Clips

Source: My Travel Clips- The Rat Pack: Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis, Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin 

A group of some of the best and funniest entertainers of all-time. And in Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, you’re talking about two of the top singers and certainly comedic actors ever, guys who were also great at dramatic comedy as well. Men who were also two of the top vocalists of all-time. And when you add their off the cuff humor and dramatic ability, to go with the singing and you’re about guys who were born to entertain and act. Guys who combined many different role and styles of entertainment, in their entertainment routine of singing, acting and comedy. That is how you get the title of Chairman of The Board, as Frank Sinatra more than earned because he was the top man in Hollywood and the entertainment business.

Add Peter Lawford, who was a tall muscular 6’2, I would add better looking Frank Sinatra, who was perhaps the best all around actor in this group that also had Joey Bishop and Sammy Davis in it and you’re not just talking about good friends and partners, you’re talking about Hollywood’s real-life version of the firm, or an exclusive private club which they were. Where it doesn’t take being at the top of your game to get in, but the top of the Hollywood game. To not be in your prime, but to be the best of the best in Hollywood.

Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, are probably the two most famous and successful members of this club. But this was a club, a great club, where every member more than deserved to be part of.

And of course Sammy Davis a great and talented musical comedian, who was great at both, who was only a little man in physical stature, who accomplished so much in a fairly short life, despite being a horrible victim of racial and ethnic discrimination, because he was both African and Jewish. Who lost business and work opportunities, simply because he married and Nordic-Swedish woman, May Britt.

The fact that a guy like Sammy Davis is part of The Rat Pack, is two credits to The Rat Pack, but also Sammy. Sammy being good enough to be part of this group, but that The Rat Pack, was a business and the only color that good business’s are interested in is the color green. And I’m not talking about the Irish, but the color of money. Race, ethnicity and color, were not of interest to The Rat Pack.

Actor/comedian Joey Bishop, who I’m not as familiar with and that’s probably my fault, was also a great member of this group. If you watch The Rat Pack movie Ocean’s Eleven, not a great movie, but a very good movie and certainly better than all the Ocean’s that came after it, Joey Bishop was very good in that. Playing the right-hand man of the guy who puts their casino operations together.

This group also had honorable members to it people who weren’t official members, but did a lot of work with them and close friends of them. Actress Angie Dickinson, one of the top Hollywood Goddess’s of all-time both physically, but a hell of an actress (and Police Woman as well) was one of the non-official members of this group.

Of course Ava Gardner, was also part of this group as an honorable member and add Lana Turner to this list, Janet Leigh at least to some extent. The Rat Pack truly was a whose who of Hollywood people who were very talented and very successful, but also all came with a lot of baggage. Where it almost looked like they lived the lives of people they played in films, or others played in films. They literally lived made for Hollywood lives, perhaps especially Frank, Ava, and Lana.

The Rat Pack was their own talent agency. If you’re just friends and associates of this group, you knew you made it because only people who’ve already made it, or in Sammy Davis’s case had a great talent that simply was overlooked (for whatever reasons) by Hollywood, were going to be part of this group.

To paraphrase in what the narrator said early in this video: The Rat Pack defined cool in Hollywood. They were what cool was in a time where that word generally wasn’t used in pop culture terms that it is today. And generally just used to describe ones laid back personality. They defined what cool was, because they set the trends and were the only people that they knew how to be which was themselves. They did what they wanted to do when they wanted to do it and how they wanted to do it.

The Rat Pack were classic individuals in a very collectivist trendy industry where performers were supposed to all be a certain way and always act that way, or risk losing work. But no one owned The Rat Pack, except themselves. And they were very successful at being themselves and always doing what they wanted to do when they wanted to do it. And they could get away with that, because of how good and popular they were.

NBC News: Meet The Press- Dr. Martin Luther King in (1965)

Source:NBC News- Dr. Reverend Martin L. King, on NBC News Meet The Press, in 1965.

“On March 28, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. appeared on NBC’s Meet The Press to discuss his historic five-day march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama…

One week after leading, King said that the demonstration was necessary not just to help push the Voting Rights Bill through, but to draw attention to the humiliating conditions in Alabama such as police brutality and racially-motivated murder.” 

From NBC News 

Dr. Martin Luther King and his movement, wasn’t marching for the exercise, or the fresh air of it. But they were marching for freedom and to have the same constitutional rights and freedom as Americans who were born in America, as any other American that they already had under the U.S. Constitution. But weren’t getting their constitutional rights enforced equally under law as European-Americans and that is what they were marching for for equal rights and equal treatment under law and were very successful with their movement.

African-Americans, in the 1960s, were marching for their freedom that every other American had under the U.S. Constitution, but under law as well. That government discriminating against people based on race like forcing people to go to poor schools and sit in the back of the bus and not be able to eat at certain restaurants, being denied the right to vote and so-forth, was simply unconstitutional. And that they were mad as hell (to paraphrase a certain great actor and movie) and weren’t going to take it anymore and were going to fight back in a non-violent manner.

1964-65 was the Martin L. King’s wing of the civil rights movement’s peak, when they were at the top of their game (so to speak) and were pushing the ball and on the offensive with the anti-equal rights supporters on the defensive at every point in the courts, in the media, and even in Congress.

With the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act after those two laws were passed, the MLK movement sort of went off in different directions and talking about the Vietnam War and other issues. Instead of putting the full focus on equal rights and fighting poverty. 

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NFL Films: NFL 1979- Baltimore Colts Highlights

Source:NFL Films- 20 is RB Joe Washington when he was with the Baltimore Colts.

Source:The Daily Journal 

“Bert Jones – Colts – 1979 – 2 Weeks 8, 9 and 10”

From NFL Films 

The Colts were already in decline in Baltimore by 1979 even though they still had pretty good talent at least on offense. QB Bert Jones and RB Joe Washington in the same backfield and Roger Carr, Don McCauley to throw the ball to.

There was a big reason why Bert Jones only played nine seasons for the Colts, he couldn’t stay healthy. But when he was healthy, he was about as good as any QB in the NFL in the 1970s. And had he stayed healthy the Colts are perhaps still a playoff team in the late 1970s and into the 1980s and perhaps the fortunes change in Baltimore.

With a good Colts franchise and team, perhaps the City of and State of Maryland Baltimore is more open to building the Colts a new stadium which they definitely needed. As great as home field advantage as Baltimore Memorial Stadium was, it was a financial hole that needed to be replaced.

Union Solidarity: Dr. Martin L. King-: On Labor, Wealth & Inequality'

Source:Union Solidarity- Dr. Martin L. King's last great speech. 

“Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Labor, Wealth and Justice” 

From Union Solidarity

Economic policy, is the part of Dr. Martin L. King’s message that I disagree with. And where he was lacking, because he sort of took this social democratic view that came out of the New Deal, or Great Society that judged what we were doing to help the middle class and low-income people based on how much we spent on them. The theory being: “That if we spend a lot of money to reduce poverty, that poverty will go away, because we’ll have all of these government programs to take care of people.”

I mean, if you listen to this video, you’ll see clip from one of his speeches where he says: “We now have the resources that we need to wipeout poverty”. You could spend a trillion dollars a year in America, or anywhere else to reduce poverty and right now the United States is not that far from that and you’ll still have poverty in this country, if that money is not being spent to empower people to get themselves out of poverty. Because government no mater what it spends, or any private organization for that matter, can’t get people out of poverty by themselves. The people in poverty have to do that for themselves. What government and the private sector can do is empower people to get themselves out of poverty.

I love both men (you know, platonically) but where I give Malcolm X an advantage over Dr. King is when it came to economics. Minister X’s message was about education and self-reliance when it came to economic policy. Economically, Minister X was closer to Barry Goldwater than Lyndon Johnson, or Franklin Roosevelt. He wanted to empower the African-American community to get themselves the tools that they needed to be economically independent, self-reliant in life, making it on their own.

I give Reverend King the edge when it came to the civil rights movement. Because without the message of non-violence, the civil rights movement would’ve never have gotten as far as it did, not even come close. Because this movement would’ve been seen as a bunch of thugs, criminals, terrorists by the so-called mainstream media. But taking it a next step forward post-civil rights laws of the 1960s, I give the edge to Malcolm X as far as what African-Americans should now do with the freedom they finally have under law. 

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ABC Sports: NBA 1970- NBA Finals Game 7: Los Angeles Lakers @ New York Knicks: Full Game

Source:ABC Sports- New York Knicks point guard Walt Frazier.

"1970 NBA Finals G7 New York Knicks vs. Los Angeles Lakers" 

From Torontos

The Captain inspiring his team to beat the Lakers in Game 7 to win the 1970 NBA Finals. As many people have said, it wasn’t how Willis Reed played in game 7, but the fact that he was out there and that the Lakers had to try to deal with him, that inspired the rest of the Knicks to do what they needed to do to beat a very good and more talented Lakers team. It’s not like Willis Reed just showed up can scored 20 points and grabbed 15 rebounds and shut down Wilt Chamberlain. That’s not what happened here.

NFL Films: NFL 1960- San Francisco 49ers @ Baltimore Colts: Intro

Source:Pigskin Academy- the San Francisco 49ers vs the Colts, from 1960.

Source:The Daily Journal 

“Rare original TV Broadcast footage from the 1st Quarter of the 1960 Baltimore Colts vs. the San Francisco 49ers. This was the season that Niners Coach Red Hickey introduced the Shotgun Formation which was later popularized by the Dallas Cowboys and is now used by virtually every team in Pro Football.”

From Pigskin Academy 

Interesting matchup between a good veteran San Francisco 49er team who were pretty solid in the 1950s and had the wildcard been around back then, probably would’ve made the playoffs several times, against the two-time defending NFL Champion Colts who were going for a three-peat. 

The San Francisco 49ers of this era were good and again would’ve been a consistent playoff team back then if their were wildcards, instead of just the conference champions making to postseason and then playing the NFL Championship against each other. But the 49ers weren’t a championship team. Good on offense, but perhaps not great and didn’t have a great defense either.

The Colts were going for their 3rd-straight NFL Championship in 1960. So this was a matchup between a good football team in the 49ers, against a proven NFL champion in the Colts.