Dcat
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Dcat
@dcatty.bsky.social
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Historian, writer, professor. I work on race, politics, sports, & pop culture in the US and South(ern) Africa. Go Sox/Pats/Cs/B's/Boks! Part-time sports broadcaster. Author of 5 books, editor of another. [All opinions my own.] Will talk or write for food.
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In which I argue that Joe Namath was a slightly worse Steve Grogan with less mobility but with a Super Bowl ring and better publicity. Please consider subscribing!

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A Tale of Two Quarterbacks
On Hype, Style, Substance and Nostalgia
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Jarod Mayo sitting on his couch right now saying "not so fucking easy, is it?"
In which I cover a lot of territory on a host of topics while watching the Patriots eke out a somewhat disconcertingly narrow win against the Dolphins.

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Random Thoughts While Watching Football
Dashed Off Opinions During the Patriots Game
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It goes without saying that we've had years to prepare for required voter ID and now for no vote by mail. Of course it's all intended to be voter suppression. But we need to be planning carpools and ID drives yesterday.
Thank you! I am trying my best ...
I'm just going to point out that if someone commits a murder-suicide in a small town, that makes the murder rate there far, far above anything in cities. Small towns are no more or less virtuous than urban areas.
Knee. We'll know more by Tuesday as to whether he'll play next week.
Yeah, he's a monster. They're isn't doubting the quality of the players. I think maybe they just began to believe their own hype.
I also felt like Siya's injury - even though he continued playing for a while - marked a break point. He was so good in that first 20 or so minutes.
Rassie said in the press conference that they played like dogshit. Hard to argue against that.
I think that we've (if I may) gotten so confident on the attack that we've left ourselves open to counterattacking strikes.
Yeah, I'm in for a long few days! Thanks!
I can't figure out if the massive defensive failures in the second half were the result of being undisciplined, failures in execution, or revealed flaws in the plan.
Well that didn't work out as planned.
At Ellis Park for the Boks-Wallabies Rugby Championship opener. It'll be the last test I cover before heading back to the US this coming week. My prediction: Boks 39 Wallabies 15.
Jesus, I'd entirely forgotten what a gut punch of a movie "Million Dollar Baby" is.