I denounced RadioLab last week for cowardice (a deserved charge), but this week's show on American Football was excellent. Especially interesting was the football play of the Carlisle School when American Football was in its infancy.
Some of this I knew already, but there is a lot I did not know. While I knew Carlisle had a formidable football team (and about Jim Thorpe), I had no idea how important Carlisle was for the development of football as we know it today.
There is a lot of criticism for how Carlisle forced assimilation on Native American kids, but what about more recent manipulation of kids at Harvard? AoSHQ posted about how Ted Kaczynski was tested at Harvard through a series of stressful, humiliating experiments, and then went on to become the Unabomber. The book is not available (except for $60), but this radio podcast is.
EBL: Cop Killer Assata Shakur: One of Colin Kaepernick's heroes, Why Isn't Anyone Taking A Knee For Black on Black Violence?, Did Trump bait Goodell and the NFL?
Instapundit: How one doctor changed football forever (although what prompted intervention back in 1907 was 19 deaths from play that year--and this is when football was not that wide spread), A war they can't win (maybe Burns can do a documentary), NFL made the worse branding move ever and Goodell was behind it, How Trump beat the NFL, Who could have seen this coming?
90 Miles From Tyranny: I haven't seen this many cowboys on their knees since...
Rush Limbaugh: Colin Kaepernick in his own words and NFL Fail
Blazing Cat Fur: This is not a good poll for the NFL
Lem's Place: Alcohol and Native Americans
Some of this I knew already, but there is a lot I did not know. While I knew Carlisle had a formidable football team (and about Jim Thorpe), I had no idea how important Carlisle was for the development of football as we know it today.
Radio Lab: American Football
NPR: Football at Carlisle
Young Pop Warner when he was coaching at Carlisle
There is a lot of criticism for how Carlisle forced assimilation on Native American kids, but what about more recent manipulation of kids at Harvard? AoSHQ posted about how Ted Kaczynski was tested at Harvard through a series of stressful, humiliating experiments, and then went on to become the Unabomber. The book is not available (except for $60), but this radio podcast is.
EBL: Cop Killer Assata Shakur: One of Colin Kaepernick's heroes, Why Isn't Anyone Taking A Knee For Black on Black Violence?, Did Trump bait Goodell and the NFL?
Instapundit: How one doctor changed football forever (although what prompted intervention back in 1907 was 19 deaths from play that year--and this is when football was not that wide spread), A war they can't win (maybe Burns can do a documentary), NFL made the worse branding move ever and Goodell was behind it, How Trump beat the NFL, Who could have seen this coming?
90 Miles From Tyranny: I haven't seen this many cowboys on their knees since...
Rush Limbaugh: Colin Kaepernick in his own words and NFL Fail
Blazing Cat Fur: This is not a good poll for the NFL
Lem's Place: Alcohol and Native Americans
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