Your “Everybody’s History Is History” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

• Julian Edelman, noted by nfl.com as “one of the few active Jewish NFL players”, has offered to take DeSean Jackson to the Holocaust Museum in DC to help educate each other.
  • In exchange, he wants Jackson to take him to the African-American Museum of History and Culture so Edelman himself can learn more about why Black Lives Matter.
  • He even put out a video message and – trigger warning – do not read the comments.

Compassion, empathy and love.

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Link to full video: https://t.co/pNkLg9s44V pic.twitter.com/LspyPKzCC3

— Julian Edelman (@Edelman11) July 9, 2020

• People are asking former [Redacteds] players about the possible name change, and their responses have mostly been, “Hey – is that Dracula over there?” and running away.
  • Brian Mitchell – “I played for the organization, I played particularly for the fans, I played for my family, I played for my pride.”
  • Mark May – the name shouldn’t change in response to a “mob mentality”.
  • Mark Moseley – believes “most” former players would prefer to keep the name as it is, and that a change would “take away” from the efforts and achievements of players like Darrell Green and Art Monk.
  • Joe Theismann declined comment.
  • The team declined to make Doug Williams available for comment, as he is an employee.

• A follow-up to the MLS post from yesterday’s Open Thread: another team has pulled out of the tournament due to COVID.
  • Nashville has had five players test positive, and another four are being re-tested due to inconclusive results.
  • It’s forced a rejig of the tournament set-up, with the teams now slotted into six groups of four teams each.
    • No word on how it’ll effect betting odds; sorry Hippo.

I am NOT a fan of having to clear my search history & cookies, but when I was researching what the hell DeSean Jackson said, I looked up “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion“, a fun little faux-history treatise put out by anti-Semitic Russians in the early 1900s designed to enhance their anti-Jewish riots by inflaming the populace against Jewish elites who were plotting in secret to take over the world.

^{Apparently, very little proof was required for propaganda to be created.}

Fun fact: Eastern Europe had so many campaigns against local Jewish populations, they came up with the word for it – Pogrom. The first is said to have occurred in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1821. Since then, there have been countless other examples of eastern European anti-Semitism. For example, the Odessa pogroms of 1881 and 1905.

^{(I could have cheated & used the same picture, just flipped around. Who would have known?)}

Anyway, when looking up historical references, I now have the “Protocols” come up as a search term when I go to reference “ProFootballTalk” for my NFL news searches. I’m too lazy to go find the individual search & remove that from my history so instead I’ll just blame an NFL player for why my search history looks like an incel’s Saturday night.

Tonight’s … entertainment?:

• Soccer:
  • MLS Is Back:
    • Montreal Impact vs New England Revolution – 8:00 PM | TUDN / TSN / Twitter Live
• Left turns:
  • NASCAR XFINITY Series:
    • Shady Rays 200 – 8:00PM | FS1 / TSN3
      • The Shady Rays 200, start of a two-night back-to-back from Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky.
• Fisticuffs:
  • Top Rank Boxing on ESPN:
    • Takam-Forrest (heavyweight) – 8:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
• AFL:
  • Collingwood vs. Hawthorn – 5:30AM | FS1 / TSN

That’s it for this week. I’ll be back Saturday & Sunday nights, with the soothing sounds to lower your heart rate after you see what Balls has in store for Friday night. Toodles!