I have no other explanation, but I was wrong.Dead wrong.It was the kind of unforced blunder that requires only forthright contrition.Here it is.Last week in this space, I referred to an NFL team called the Baltimore Colts.There is no such team.There hasn’t been a team in Baltimore named the ...
On Sept. 23, 1956, 44,932 “bug-eyed” fans (as Bob Prince would say) squeezed into Forbes Field, which had seating for only 34,249 of them.How the Pirates managed to accompany a crowd that was better than 10,000 overcapacity can hardly be imagined. Where did those without seats stand? How ...
It seems like it was only yesterday that Donald Trump declared war on many pro football players.In September of 2017, he appeared at one of his (pep) rallies in Alabama, and he asked, “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that ...