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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 276650, member: 780"] Almost complete nonsense. Ask Floyd Little or Jim Nance or John Mackey or even Jim Brown if Ben was a racist. About all you might say is that Ben might not have been as sensitive to their newly heightened sensitivity as they might have liked. And that's what the whole thing was about. Ben was a tough old guy. Unyeilding. And a WWII paratrooper and disciplinarian. In the players defense, they were caught up "in the times". This sort of thing was in all the papers on all the TV channels. They wanted to be part of a national movement. The part about Ben using the "N" word is too ludicrous to comment on. At that time Ben had been at SU almost 20 years. Do you really think the guy had been getting away with that for 20 years? Ridiculous. One of their top complaints was that no Blacks were considered for QB. At that time that complaint would have been true at all 119 Div I schools. [/QUOTE]