Tell me about Jack Kent Cooke

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

hey that rhymes!

Anyhow, I think maybe he's confusing JKC with GPM

Definitely. Marshall was the owner who tried to keep the team "white" as long as possible.

Of course, we can't know if he personally was racist or was trying to sell the team to his Southern fanbase as effectively as possible. Marshall WAS the best salesman in pro sports, he had circus acts elephants for halftime shows, started the marching band we still have, did special military days at the game (which happened to fall on Pearl Harbor Day in '41) and was the ultimate businessman in football. Dan Snyder fits his mold of success well, although it's scaled down A LOT from George.

With the Redskins being the southern-most team and had a large fanbase in VA, NC and the south, perhaps he was trying to give them what they wanted or was being pressured by them...who knows. I'm not giving him a pass, I'm glad he finally realized that his promise to buy the BEST players and put he best team he could on the field could not be achieved without black athletes.

Anyways, it wasn't Jack Kent Cooke.