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When the NFL and AFL merged, the AFL were given....Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers, which helped form the AFC.
The Oakland Raiders came this close to being called....The Oakland Senors
From 1901 to 1905 Michigan football went 57-1, they scored over 2000 points giving up...36, they scored over 100 points in four games and pitched 50 shut outs. The very last game of 1905 they finally lost....Chicago 2 Michigan 0
All black Bedford County HS in Tennessee, won 78 games in a row from 42-49. But the most amazing thing about this streak was this,......from 42 to 44 no opponet crossed the fifty yard line on them. That does seem impossible, but....true.
The Dallas Cowboys came this close to being called....The Dallas Rangers.
The New York Jets started out as....The ans
The first...Cowboys....in the NFL were....The Kansas City Cowboys.
Terry Bradshaw was a national caliber javelin thrower while at La Tech
The first black to rush for a 1000 yards in the NFL...Niner Joe "The Jet" Perry, he was also the first to have consecutive 1000 yard seasons, and still the only Hall of Famer with just a JC education....Compton.
Hall of Fame WR Lynn Swann twice won the Cali State long jump le. He was out of Serra, as was Tom Brady.
When The Beatles first landed here in the USA a reporter stuck a mic in John Lennon's face and asked.....
So, now that you are finally here, what's the first thing you want to do?
Lennon....meet Muddy Waters.
The first record that earned the le....Gold Record.....Chattanooga Choo Choo, 1941 Glen Miller and His Orchestra
The first blues record.....Crazy Blues...Mamie Smith 1920
The former slave who became king....Henri Christophe, Haiti.
The Rolling Stones got their name from a 1951 Muddy Waters record.
The former slave who ended up in Europe fighting for the world le....Tom Molineaux (name of his former owner)
The first sprinter to to be called...THE WORLDS FASTEST HUMAN...Howard Drew, back around 1914, he was also the first black to hold the 100 yard WR...9.6.
Temple sprinter Eulace Pea owned Jesse Owens in the 100, he once beat him five races in a row. But in 1936 at the Penn Relays he pulled a muscle and was unable to compete at our Olympic trials, so...................................
The amazing Gale Sayers had an older bro named Roger who was faster than he was. Roger beating the great Bob Hayes at 100 yards.
Walter Payton had an NFL playing bro....Eddie...a Lion.
The first time Muddy Waters ever recorded was right there on his front porch at the Stovall Plantation, 1941. A must listen.
Panther RB Christian McCaffreys grandpa Dave Sime (Oly silver 1960) is still considered one of the top three/four greatest white American sprinters ever.
Sime is the last white American to win an Olympic 100m medal. And in that race we had future NFLers Frank Budd Eagles and Ray Norton Niners. All three Americans had held the 100 yrd WR. As we saw Lyle Lovett the starter. (I better say...kidding)
This is where Elvis got his very first recording. He also covered a Lonnie Johnson (legendary guitarist) tune and fellow Sun artist Junior Parker tune.
All the above off the top of my head, here I couldn't remember (yes it is possible but rare) the date, so......
In 1890 George W. Johnson became the first African American to record commercially. A common story is that Johnson, a former slave, was discovered singing on the streets of Washington, D.C., by Berliner recording agent Fred Gaisberg. Gaisberg himself perpetrated this myth along with the falsehood that Johnson was later hanged for murdering his wife******
According to historian Tim Brooks, Johnson was a familiar figure in New York City's 's Kitchen and made his first commercial recordings in the spring of 1890 for the Metropolitan and New Jersey Phonograph companies. Previously, Johnson had also made tin foil exhibition recordings. Later in 1890, a group called The Unique Quartette followed Johnson into the recording studio. The Unique Quartette recorded again in 1893, and one of their les, "Mama's Black Baby Boy" survives in stunning fidelity.
****** bluesman Pat Hare only had one real success, his...."Going to Murder My Baby".....well he'd end up in prison, yep.....he murdered his baby.
He recorded for Sun Records which gave us the first Elvis, Howlin' Wolf, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis recordings.
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I own a book by Julius Lester....To Be A Slave. Here we find letters written by the slaves, yes some could read and write. Obviously a must read.
When I find something that interests me the first thing I do is rush back to it's origins, the beginnings and work my way back. I must have it all, ya could call it a phobia. I do get a big grin when I read......ya Googled that.......which is actually....nobody can just know all that.
