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Welcome to the Bezy book Club,
Jordan. Here and with football season upon

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us. There are many amazing books
about the NFL. Here's one of historical

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relevance. It's called Rock at Me, The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football.

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It took many, many years for
black quarterbacks to be accepted, even

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though the book sites won Frederick Douglas
Fritz Pollard born in eighteen ninety five,

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who became the NFL's first black quarterback
and the first blackhead coach in the NFL.

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Most of us haven't heard the name
because his career ended in the mid

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nineteen twenties, and for many decades, black players were frozen out of the

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game, particularly at the quarterback position. Many reasons, of course, including

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racism and the thought that black players
didn't have the quote unquote intelligence to captain

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of football squad. Eventually, in
nineteen seventy four, James Harris of the

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Los Angeles Rams became the first black
quarterback to start an NFL playoff game.

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Rock at Me The Black Quarterbacks Who
Revolutionized Pro Football? The author John Eisenberg,

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And that's the book Club. WBZ, Boston's news radio