06-21-2016, 10:08 PM
(06-19-2016, 11:49 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: Paul Brown was the first to have a "Practice Squad" which he called the "Taxi Squad" since he got players jobs driving a taxi to keep them around just in case a player on the team got hurt.Stanley Wilson was stoned on the floor of his hotel bathroom the morning of the game. There wasn't enough black coffee in the world to get him ready to play by kickoff.
Like you posted about the first African American in football but I do believe it was the first African Americans in professional sports, but I'm not clear on that.
He held his players and coaches to a higher standard than the rest of the world. If you screwed up, you were out. I believe if the Cincinnati Bengals were owned by any other owner, Stanley Wilson would have played in the Super Bowl and the Bengals win that game plus, the rest of the world wouldn't have know the truth about Wilson except for rumors. Although I'm sure the truth would be out by now.
