“I’m talking to America here.”
— Referee Alex Kemp, Seattle vs Detroit, following one of the more stupid calls I’ve ever seen—”intentional grounding” when QB while NOT under duress, threw the ball to Tyler Lockett who was on a different page.
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“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
No, I am not going ten thousand miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would put my prestige in jeopardy and could cause me to lose millions of dollars which should accrue to me as the champion.
But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is right here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality…
If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. But I either have to obey the laws of the land or the laws of Allah. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail. We’ve been in jail for four hundred years.”
Muhammed Ali.
What I’m Reading…
“We all know the quote: ‘They wrote me off, I ain’t write back, though.’
Geno Smith said those words immediately following the Seattle Seahawks' stunning win over the quarterback he replaced, Russell Wilson, and the team that traded for him, the Denver Broncos, in Week 1.
It was a cathartic moment for Smith, who endured almost endless disappointment or embarrassment during his first nine seasons as either a backup to an entrenched starter or the victim of the New York media market. Sometimes he was both…”
Boy am I glad I don’t own a tesla.
-Anonymous
What I’m Reading…
Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her first written opinion as a Supreme Court justice, said she would have sided with an inmate who argued that Ohio suppressed evidence that might have helped him at trial.
The full court declined to take up appeal brought by Davel Chinn, who shot and killed a man named Brian Jones as a part of an attempted robbery.
