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Jim Brown: Stop the end-zone dancing



The legendary Jim Brown, arguably the greatest football player ever, once said that if today?s African-American football players understood history better, they wouldn?t be doing any dancing in the end zone.
Brown was in Kansas City on Wednesday for a morning media roundtable at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, and for an evening town-hall discussion about social and economic issues at the Gem Theatre.
And Brown reiterated why he is opposed to the celebratory end-zone dances.
?If today?s players understood the struggle that went on for African-Americans to be considered first-class citizens,? he said, ?and to have their citizenship recognized and the fight they had just to get a job?If (today?s players) understood the fight against stereotype.
?A lot of the old (movies) portrayed the style of the black prose and the dialect ? this was humiliation and degradation. Then you get a modern athlete, who has benefited from that struggle (to change the stereotype), and they score a touchdown and they go do a buck dance in the end zone.
?They voluntarily take us back to the stereotypical things that we fought so hard to get rid of. That?s why I?m so adamant against that.?
Brown said he would encourage today?s African-American athletes to visit the museum.
?If these young men would come here and study the history,? he said, ?and understand the dignity it took to break these (color barrier) lines?they could help us take it all to another level.
?They could help the schools, help stop the violence. They could become more meaningful than just millionaires dancing in the end zone.?
But the big question is: Will it ever change?
?It?ll change because you?ll write about it and we?ll talk about it and players will step up,? Brown said. ?Guys like Larry Johnson may step up and stand beside a change.?

Entire article: www.kansascity.com | 09/24/2008 | Jim Brown: Stop the end-zone dancing
 
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Interestingly, that phrase ( Let's talk about NFL draft ) does show up here:
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/10/ndaysat.01.html
CABRERA: Joe Carter has more on this morning. Let's talk about NFL draft numero uno.

JOE CARTER, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, here is the thing, guys. Obviously, we get very pumped for rounds one, rounds two. It's very rare that when we head into the final day of the NFL draft, which is round four, five, six and seven that people even pay attention at all. I mean let's - a new vest of inches and a certain player, maybe your family or somebody. It's like, OK, we'll read the headlines tomorrow, we'll find out what happened. But this year, Michael Sam really I think surpasses those sports headlines. He really is that player that everybody wants to know where he's going to go next. Of course, he's the all American from Missouri who came out in February. And he's, of course, has been drawing tons of support on social media and from several players who've been applauding his decision to reveal his sexuality. I really like what retired wide receiver Donte Stallworth said. That if a team can't handle the media scrutiny of drafting a gay player, that team is already a loser on the field. But here's the thing. There's a big knock on him here that scouts say that it's not his lifestyle, it's really his football skills they are concerned about. Because at the combine, he underperformed, he was slow on the 40-yard dash. As a matter of fact, there were several defense attack ran faster than him. He was weak in the bench press. And so, GMs and scouts have said that he may not be selected at all today. That he may actually become an undrafted free agent.

But, there's always that chance that he could go in the final last picks of today's drafts. And we're in the sixth-seven draft. All right, so we know that Johnny Manziel was drafted on Thursday night, of course, 22 pick overall. And Cleveland fans now have something to cheer about. Because listen, they haven't had anything to cheer about for a while. They had 20 different starting quarterbacks of the last 15 years, but now they have got Johnny football who might just turn it upside down. The Browns, we already know, are feeling the impact of Johnny football. They sold more than 1500 season tickets in 12 hours after drafting Johnny Manziel in the first round. Season ticket plans range from 190 to nearly $3,000. But despite the increased demand, the team says that they are not going to raise ticket prices.
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Somebody needs to get bennyy over to the Poli forum, for some real entertainment.

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