Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture

Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture

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The Week's Top Five: Redford, Daniel Jones, and the Fall of Dabo
Plus, a 300-pound punter who plays the cello.
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Rosey Grier, RFK, and What Happens Next (1968)
America at a crossroads, again.
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The Week's Top Five: The All-Quarterback Edition
The golden age of the quarterback is here, from Josh Allen to Lamar Jackson to John Mateer, and man, is it beautiful.
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Is the NFL Too Big To Fail? (1975)
Fifty years ago, professional football buried one of its last true challengers. How long can it last like this?
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The Week's Top Five: The Mannings Are Great Because They Failed (1969)
Plus: Bill Belichick might fail before he succeeds, and Drew Allar (and Carson Beck) might turn failure into success, but it's too soon to tell.
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The Week's Top Five: The Fox Scorebug Is A Watershed Moment for America (1994)
Plus: Preseason Sports Illustrated predictions, bad lists of sports movies, and weird performative nostalgia.
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College Football Makes No Sense. But what Does Right Now?
America is in a weird place. But college football is a reminder that we've always been weird.
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Michigan Embraces the Big Lie (2012)
So much for being "too smart for college football."
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The Week's Top Five: Streakers, Sex Toys, and The (Possible) Redemption of Barry Bonds
Plus: Edward Sharpe and the "Worst Song Ever."
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Charlie Weis and the unforgivable sin of ineptitude (2007)
The unifying theme of coaching and politics: No one wants an arrogant loser.
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The Week's Top Five: Lou Piniella Sells Jeans (and the Patriarchy), etc.
One man's attempt at a notes column.
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Jerry Jones Walks in Circles (1993)
The last hurrah of the NFL's emptiest showman.
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A Watershed Moment for Satire? (1974)
Arnold Roth, MAD Magazine, Colbert...and South Park.
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Football, Violence and Modernity (1976)
It may be a morally complex sport, but it was not better back then.
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Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture
Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture
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