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The Jersey: Jersey of Dreams

 
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Air Date

Thursday February 8, 2001

Production Code

227

Episode Summary

Coleman starts to sit in the park next to this old African-American man. The man could have easily played in professional football in his prime but since he was black, he could only et up to semi-pro. So Coleman decides to give him one more shot. He puts the Jersey on the old man and he becomes Stephen Davis of the Washington Redskins! He won the game obviously and he thought he died and went to heaven. When Coleman comes to visit him the next day, the old man's daughter comes and gives Coleman a note from her father. He died. Coleman was sad yet happy to give the old man a shot. He left the bench forever.
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  • The show gets many of the historical details correct. However the Rams also signed Woody Strode in addition to Kenny Washington in 1946. And Kenny Washington was not the "first African American" pro football player. As Simms said "the league didn't let" blacks "back in until 1946." There were a few black players in the NFL up until 1933. Additionally, in 1946 the Cleveland Browns of the new AAFC signed Bill Willis and Marion Motley. (The Browns moved to the NFL in 1950.)
    There are various web pages and at least one book covering the segregation and the re-integration of football for anyone interested in finding out more. []
  • The onscreen credit of the director reads Hayma "Screech" Washington. []

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