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All right, I am technically off for the next few days, but I have recorded some interviews in preparation for being off that I'm going to play for you over the next few days, including today where

Jason Reed, who covered the skins for the Washington Post as a reporter and as a columnist

for several years. He's been a senior writer for ESPN over the last few years, and he's written

a book titled The Rise of the Black

Quarterback, What It Means for America. And Jason and I caught up yesterday, in fact,

and I think you're really going to enjoy this. There are so many good stories in here, including from the very beginning,

Marlon Briscoe, and James Harris, and Jefferson Street, Joe Gillum, and then the first team

in the NFL South, Tampa Bay, drafting Doug Williams in the first round. And the guy that made

that happened, a story that I had never

heard before that you'll hear coming up, Joe Gibbs was responsible for Tampa Bay drafting

Doug Williams. And then so many good Jason reads stories about various quarterbacks,

including several more from Joe Gibbs and from Doug

Williams. But I really enjoyed this interview. It really hits home for me because the 70s were,

you know, I was a child of the 70s and I was an NFL fan in the 70s and the NFL was coming into its own. It was replacing

baseball and boxing and horse racing as the most popular sport in America. It was becoming the

television sport. And I remember names like Joe Gillum and James Harris and Marlon Briscoe, who I talked about on this podcast when he died a few months ago, either on the podcast or on the radio show.

I can't remember specifically.

But I remember what a big deal it was when black quarterbacks were getting opportunities in the 70s.

And so this is an interesting subject.

Jason was really good.

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