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I was bothered by Dave Granlund’s colorful cartoon amongst your opinion content on Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 7).
A lineman from the Buccaneers and Chiefs is each holding the trophy situated between them. Well done, except for two things: both players are depicted white, when the NFL is about three-quarters Black and February is Black History month.
Being aged I have watched the NFL since the late 1940s, when the league champions were the Philadelphia Eagles. Surprisingly, they occasionally played on Saturday night, using a white football with black stripes. The games were shown on the new medium, television. Fewer than 10 Black people were in the 10-team league at the time.