Setting Tim Brown Straight

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Setting Tim Brown Straight; Al Davis Racist?
Topic Started: May 13 2009, 08:51 PM (24 Views)
Deb	May 13 2009, 08:51 PM Post #1
The resident Cowboys Chick Posts: 676 Group: SUPER MOD SQUAD Member #211 Joined: February 18, 2007	Setting Tim Brown Straight Posted by Mike Florio on May 13, 2009, 9:25 p.m. On Tuesday, former Raiders receiver Tim Brown made a borderline-ridiculous suggestion that team owner Al Davis doesn’t like black athletes from Notre Dame because, due to their education, they’ll be inclined to take the money and run. Apart from the fact that such an attitude doesn’t necessarily reflect the work ethic of someone who is education, Brown should have given more credence to his instinctive reaction that someone was trying to ensure that Brown will give his all to the cause, and not become complacent once he got the contract that goes along with being the sixth overall pick in the 1988 draft. The situation has prompted a league source to remind us of two situations from the early days of the Raiders organization, which coincided with the early days of the civil rights movement. In 1963, the Raiders and the Jets were due to play a preseason game in Memphis. Davis was informed that he’d need two hotels — one for the black players and one for the white players, since the hotel operators in Memphis wouldn’t allow black players to room with white players. So Davis refused to take the Raiders to Memphis, and the game was moved to Oakland. Then, two years later, Davis was picked to coach an AFL all-star game, to be held in another southern city. (We can’t remember which one it was, and we don’t want to incorrectly malign one of the potential cities.) The same issue arose. So Davis refused to participate under those circumstances, and the game was moved to Houston. Given that Brown spent 16 years with the team, we’re assuming that he learned about this at some point during his time there. And, if he knew about it, maybe he should have mentioned it within the context of suggesting that Davis is a racist.



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