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    Rise of the Black Quarterback.    Jason Reid. What It Means for America.   The NFL has been featuring a league of football playing teams since 1920.     In those years many great quarterbacks have graced the gridiron leading their team to victories, championships and much fan-fare.    For the first fifty to sixty years the majority of those quarterbacks were Caucasian.    It wasn’t until the 1970’s and 1980’s when teams of the league started to let black players lead their franchise as quarterbacks.     While the number of black quarterbacks still may pale in comparison to their white counterparts across the league, things have changed.    More black quarterbacks are drafted now, become all-pro players and lead franchises to championships.   Most importantly, the young black quarterback is no longer asked or expected to change positions in order to make a team.   Hence, The Rise of the ...

    A Season of Homecomings.   Ron Lang. Living, Learning & Loving Every School in the SEC.      When considering the ultimate road trip some may like to visit the many great monuments around the United States.   Others might hit the open highway and see how far they can go from one coast to another.     Others may simply head for the nearest beach to relax for a while away from home.     Ron Lang decided to visit every college stadium of schools that participate in the Southeastern conference.    He did this during the 2019 football season in attending a home game for all fourteen member schools.    As the title of the book, A Season of Homecomings, suggests this was a weekly adventure from one stadium to the next to observe and commemorate the 2019 college football season---southern style, of course.   Lang, a Louisville Kentucky native and University of Kentucky graduate, uses his ...

  The Forgotten First.    Keyshawn Johnson and Bob Glauber. Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier.   Most sports fans may know that Jackie Robinson was the first African-American major league baseball player.     Fewer sports fans may know who and when the first African-American NFL football players were to break the color barrier.    Former NFL star Keyshawn Johnson wonders early in the book why he was unaware of these players despite the fact that they came from a nearby community to his own hometown.   The Forgotten First attempts to explain and describe just who those players are.      Co-authors Keyshawn Johnson and Bob Glauber do a masterful job of reminding and in many cases informing us of the four players credited for breaking the color barrier in the 1940’s NFL.    The four main characters are listed and seen on the cover.  ...