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The irony of the controversial “Redskins Name” is that it’s origins where a manifestation of reverence to one Sioux Native American man and the style of football he created. William Lone Star Dietz July 5th 1933, George Preston Marshall of the National Football League’s Boston franchise is quoted as saying that he was changing the team’s name from “Braves” to “Redskins” to avoid confusion with Boston’s baseball Braves. The name change was apparently necessary because Marshall had entered into an agreement for his team to play in Fenway Park in 1933, rather than in Braves Park, as it had done in 1932.  July 1933, Marshall had decided that he was going to bring “Indian football” back to the National Football League. Indian football was a wide open brand of early twentieth century football, usually played by Native American teams, that featured lots of passing and trick plays. It was most strongly associated with the college teams fielded by the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Ca...

    Since the unification of the NFL and AFL in 1967 only 8 Defensive Tackles have won Defensive Rookie of the Year. The first to win the award as an interior Defensive player in 1969 was rated by the NFL as the 13th greatest player in HISTORY!! “Mean” Joe Greene! Don Shula had so much admiration for Joe Greene that in 1991 he hired Joe Greene to be his Defensive Line Coach. 1994 During the teams scouting process in preparation for the upcoming draft, One of the greatest players of all time, Joe Greene, saw a momentary glimpse from an unknown player with practically no experience. He was so enamored by what he observed that he convinced Shula to personally travel to meet this unknown and dismissed player. That player was Tim Bowens , who only played 9 games in his college career. The GREAT Joe Greene, by himself, traveled to Mississippi to meet Tim in order to verify his conviction. They met at a local dilapidated pool hall often visited by the very private Bowens, and after a...