I'm upset that the ISU coaches are making a clear political statement and not focusing on football.
Clearly, we all saw what happened with ISU's star black player. Not good.
There's a time and a place for everything and I think we can all agree that football is not a time for politics. When I go to a game, I want to be entertained and not be confronted with social issues of the day.
Can we just play ball? Stop shoving it down my throat.
D$#% politics ruining my favorite sport.
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I am, of course, talking about Jack Trice in 1923.
Bloviating politicians of the day often discussed the big, scary NEGRO QUESTION and strongly advocated that the black community needed to be completely separate from the pure, untarnished white citizens of this good country, lest their wily clutches besmirch. (The negro league sprouted up, separate from MLB, etc.)
Football fans sitting in the stands, some of who may have been members of the newly reformed Ku Klux Klan, would have clearly resented Iowa State University (and East Tech) for inserting themselves into a political hot topic by putting a black player on the field, in violation of the "Separate But Equal" norms gathering steam.
Seeing that uppity young black man running around as an equal to white players must've really galled some people.
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Just musing about historical inequality in sport and the forms that protest took.