Gives great background on the (re)integration of the NFL, which I knew nothing about. The league is lauded for today's progressive policy, but there's no exploration of what racial problems still exist.

A nice and informative article that tells of the first black players in the early football years. The reason it's not more of a bigger story is pro-football was in it's infancy. Still interesting.

this is a summary of when african-american players and coaches became part of football leagues in the u.s. the article offers some explanation why this history is nowhere near as well-known as the jackie robinson story yet perhaps not enough. bringing up the (informal) ban on that integration for a number of years offers no discussion about why the l.a. coliseum mandated it nor if the war had an effect. still it's important that a newspaper's sporting news begins to point out this part of our history which may bring it into more widespread knowledge.

Well done, interesting time line, very good content and context. I for example had NEVER heard of Fritz Pollard..sounds like a good movie or better yet a book.

I'm not terribly interested in football, but I found this article quite informative and-- I daresay-- a good read!