{"id":573891530,"date":"2019-09-09T22:41:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T02:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891530"},"modified":"2019-09-23T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T19:15:36","slug":"just-some-videos-to-fill-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/09\/09\/just-some-videos-to-fill-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Just some videos to fill the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the rare day indeed, this year, that I get out in front of The Yankee. The closer I got to the end of yesterday&#8217;s ride, the more I felt like this: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G8QNX_tYwIM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I just knew she would pip me before the end, and so I pushed and pushed as hard as I could, and somehow I managed to stay away, but only just.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re here for a different sort of video, this is the funniest one of the weekend:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Da Superfans meet Brett Favre. It&#39;s hilarious. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gD8qxN2w9t\">https:\/\/t.co\/gD8qxN2w9t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1170480757506228230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And this is a cool little bit of something cool the Indiana athletic department cooked up:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Catch the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IUFB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IUFB<\/a> intro video. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jPWoqqpJNF\">pic.twitter.com\/jPWoqqpJNF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Indiana Football (@IndianaFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndianaFootball\/status\/1170421198527827970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s something important in there:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndianaFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IndianaFootball<\/a> intro video includes the late, great, George Taliaferro, who led the Hoosiers to their only undefeated season, became the first African-American drafted by the NFL, and spent a lifetime lifting up others. That&#39;s top class. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YIqJQrzhJO\">https:\/\/t.co\/YIqJQrzhJO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ADKZxGp8Jn\">pic.twitter.com\/ADKZxGp8Jn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1170534896852525056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>George Taliaferro&#8217;s story defies excerpting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/college\/indiana\/2018\/10\/08\/first-african-american-drafted-nfl-george-taliaferro-dies-91-iu-hoosiers\/1574059002\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but let&#8217;s try<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the first day of school approached, Taliaferro asked the football coaches when he was going to be moved on campus. He was told black students didn\u2019t live in dorms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I called my father and told him I didn&#8217;t want to be in a place where I couldn&#8217;t live on campus, where I couldn&#8217;t swim in the pool and where I couldn&#8217;t sit in the bottom section of the movie theater,&#8221; Taliaferro said. &#8220;My father told me there were other reasons I was there, and then he hung up the phone on me. I was never so hurt because I thought the one person who could understand being discriminated against was him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That tough love stemmed from two things his parents, neither of whom went past sixth grade, told him every day as he grew up. &#8220;They&#8217;d say, &#8216;We love you,'&#8221; he recalled. &#8220;And, &#8216;You must be educated.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/columnists\/gregg-doyel\/2015\/03\/09\/doyel-george-taliaferros-amazing-life\/24651887\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">And then<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He played seven seasons of pro football, six in the NFL with New York, Dallas, Baltimore and Philadelphia, three times making the Pro Bowl. He became a volunteer with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Baltimore, advised prisoners adjusting to society upon their release, got his master&#8217;s in social work at Howard University, taught at Maryland, was dean of students at Morgan State, returned to Indiana as a professor and special assistant to IU president John Ryan, and helped start Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Central Indiana in Bloomington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can&#8217;t put that in a gif or a football video, but you certainly oughta try. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the rare day indeed, this year, that I get out in front of The Yankee. The closer I got to the end of yesterday&#8217;s ride, the more I felt like this: I just knew she would pip me before the end, and so I pushed and pushed as hard as I could, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,36,73,3,31,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-football","category-iu","category-monday","category-twitter","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573891530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891532,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891530\/revisions\/573891532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}