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Doug Williams Is Lifting HBCU Athletes Toward Their Own NFL Dreams

The first Black quarterback to win a Super Bowl helped launch the HBCU Legacy Bowl. He spoke with SI on the event, the state of HBCU football and more.

Sports Illustrated

Chicago football fans thrilled to see historic Super Bowl duel between two Black QBs. ‘It’s amazing.’

Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes make history. For decades, white owners and coaches assumed Black players couldn’t grasp the technicalities of the position.

Chicago Sun-Times

Antwan Staley: Representation matters, which is why two starting Black quarterbacks in the Super Bowl is groundbreaking

NEW YORK — Super Bowl LVII will pit the Kansas City Chiefs versus the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Two Black quarterbacks in Super Bowl LVII is another big moment

We are now in the middle of a Black quarterback renaissance in the NFL. Yet this latest milestone doesn’t erase the stigma that has stained the NFL’s evaluation and treatment of Black quarterbacks.

Chicago Sun-Times

Historic moment not lost on Super Bowl’s first pair of black quarterbacks

When Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs made it to the Super Bowl, Doug Williams was welling up.

Evening Standard

Washington quarterback Doug Williams made history 35 years ago

Remember the question Doug Williams was asked ahead of Super Bowl XXII?

USA Today Sports Media Group

Mahomes v Hurts: America’s fear of a Black quarterback begins to fade

Super Bowl LVII shows that football is more willing to see Black men as leaders – although that doesn’t apply to other levels of US society, or the NFL

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Super Bowl LVII: ‘Special moment’ as Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes make history as first Black QBs to face off

EXCLUSIVE: NFL legend and Pro Football Hall of Famer Charles Woodson told Mirror Sport it was 'a matter of time' before two Black quarterbacks contested the Super Bowl

Daily Mirror

No matter who wins, the first Super Bowl with 2 Black quarterbacks will make history

With Jalen Hurts under center for the Eagles and Patrick Mahomes helming the Chiefs, Sunday's game will mark a milestone after decades of effort by Black quarterbacks to overcome discrimination.

WEKU

Many Super Bowl records are still held by Washington: part 2

Check out some of these record numbers from Washington's Super Bowl history, which still stand.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Doug Williams is so pumped about Patrick Mahomes and the future of Black QBs in the NFL

Williams was beaming with joy!

USA Today Sports Media Group

Many Super Bowl records are still held by Washington

Several Washington players still hold Super Bowl records.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts know the significance of the first all-Black QB Super Bowl

Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts will be the first Black quarterbacks to start against each other in a Super Bowl, and they both know what that means.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes proud to be part of first Super Bowl with two Black QBs

#Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes opened up about the cultural impact of two Black starting quarterbacks starting in Super Bowl LVII. | from @EdEastonJr

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

Marcus Hayes: Two Black QBs face off in the Super Bowl for the first time. It was inevitable. This is progress.

PHILADELPHIA — Sixteen years ago, Tony Dungy and the Indianapolis Colts beat Lovie Smith and the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI. You might remember it because Peyton Manning won his first ring, or because Prince delivered the greatest halftime show in history. You also might remember it because it…

The Independent UK

Analysis: Mahomes, Hurts set for historic matchup

Black quarterbacks have come a long way in the NFL since Fritz Pollard became the first to play in the league in 1923 and Doug Williams was the first to start and win a Super Bowl following the 1987 season

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Remembering Washington football at RFK Stadium in the 1980s

The greatest decade in franchise history. We share some of the most incredible memories from RFK Stadium in the 1980s.

Nottingham Post

Plans announced for huge Nottinghamshire solar farm that would power 14,000 homes

"From our point of view, that will keep houses off it for the next forty years"

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Hate mail, unofficial bans and Super Bowls: Long journey of the Black QB

In his new book, Jason Reid looks at the often painful – and sometimes triumphant – history of the NFL’s most important position

Sports Illustrated

Real Progress in the NFL Is Made in the Offseason

Cardinals DC Vance Joseph writes that from players and coaches to the league office itself, work done over the summer is what drives the game forward.

Miami Herald

Quarterback pioneer and former Dolphins ’72 team wide receiver Marlin Briscoe dies at 76

Marlin Briscoe, the first Black starting quarterback in professional football history and a key wide receiver on the Dolphins’ 1972 undefeated team, died on Sunday night in a hospital in Norwalk, Cal. He was 76.

Tribune News Service

Texas superintendents want safer schools. But money and logistics stand in the way

DALLAS — Even as Republican state leaders stressed “hardening” schools and increasing security measures as a response to the state’s deadliest shooting in Uvalde, educators stressed the community aspect to their campuses.

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Art Briles resigns OC post at Grambling State after less than a week

Art Briles has resigned at Grambling State in the face of huge backash to his hiring

Sports Illustrated

Grambling State Legend Doug Williams ‘Not a Fan’ of Program's Hire of Art Briles

Williams: “I’m not a fan at all... I’m very, very disappointed in Grambling.”

Sports Illustrated

Legacy Bowl Provides New Platform for HBCU’s NFL Prospects

The inaugural HBCU all-star game provides a new opportunity for current HBCU athletes and those to follow in the years to come.

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