With one of the NFL’s greatest rivalries on display this Sunday it’s worth remembering that in 1959 would-be Cowboys owners secretly purchased the rights to the Redskin’s fight song just ahead of a vote to ‘quid-pro-quo’ hesitant Redskins owner George Marshall to vote to allow the Cowboys an expansion team license or risk legal action if he ever played the fight song again. Ultimately the tactic worked – Marshall relented and voted in the Cowboys as a franchise as ransom to finally release “Hail...  Read More...

Native American Thoughts of Unity, Brotherhood, Redmen'ism during Martin Luther King's WeekJust west of Killingly Connecticut a youthful Martin Luther King came up from the deep south and not only worked in tobacco fields but attended mixed-race dances and ate in nice restaurants – all unmolested.It was this singular demonstration of a colorblind America far away from the Jim-Crow-era South that inspired the 15 year old to write…"We went to church Sunday in Simsbury and...  Read More...