It is not strange to put pop music and sports together in current changing world. So it is not strange for me to write something about the King of Pop, Michael Jackson and the NFL here.
We never see Jackson taking part in any NFL events, but in these days when millions around the world are mourning the death of him, it just came to me naturely to compare him and the NFL. My first thought was about black and white. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, America was at a pivotal crossroad as racial divisions were not only pervasive in the South, but across this great country. It was Jackson's appearances on American Bandstand with Dick Clark to the Thriller video which broke the racial logjam at MTV. And since then America became comfortable with black faces. No one ever saw Jackson wearing eagles jersey.
Similarly, the NFL has some patriarchs who have been laid to rest that also played a pivotal role in the diversity of this great nation. Pete Rozelle and Gene Upshaw were the brilliant men who forged their version of a contract with America to show that it did not matter whether a person was black, white, purple or green, we are all just Americans.
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