Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron.

This week, we are going to talk to former NFL Pro Bowler, current national radio host.

Just give me the damn ball impresario.

Kishon Johnson, about his new book, The Forgotten First.

But alas, that fell through.

I just want Kishon Johnson to know he always has an open spot on this program.

And I'm going to say a couple things about the book, which I read for this episode. I've also got some choice words about why the sports world should maybe consider

shutting the hell down. And I've also got Jake's Takes, the new most popular segment on the show.

Thank you to George Weiss for coming up with the name for this segment, Jake's Takes.

And we have all of that coming up.

But first, just a quick word about Kishon Johnson in his book, The Forgotten First.

Okay, Keeshaun Johnson, along with a sports writer named Bob Glober, has written this book, The

Forgotten First, Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis,

and the breaking of the NFL color barrier.

And I look forward to talking to Kishan about this because we don't speak about this at all.

I mean, Jackie Robinson, of course, is celebrated in Major League Baseball

for breaking the color line in 1947 that had existed really since the end of the 19th century.

But did you know that the NFL had a color line from roughly 1932 to 1946?

That was broken by Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, and Bill Willis.

And it's one holy heck of a story.

And the only reason there was a color line in the National Football League, it was driven by the racism of the owner of the Washington football team, a guy named George Preston

Marshall, whose team also had a racist name.

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