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Jack Kemp was ahead of his time in football

To Jack Kemp, the conversion from star quarterback to U.S. congressman (and candidate for president and vice president) was easy. "I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy," he once said. Kemp, who died Saturday at age 73, was a staunch Republican. But he was also one of the most respected across-the-aisle politicians of his time, largely because of his personal commitment to inclusion in race relations. He credited his time as the Buffalo Bills' star quarterback for opening his eyes jordan basketball shoes VIIand making him what he at various times called a "bleeding-heart conservative" and a "Martin Luther King Republican." He wasn't just sitting back, either. He was an activist: In 1960, while playing for the San Diego Chargers, Kemp noticed at a Houston movie theater that his black teammates had to sit in the balcony. He told Coach Sid Gillman, and the team left the theater immediately. In January 1965, the AFL went to New Orleans for an all-star game. Players were shocked that black teammates couldn't get into restaurants and couldn't hail cabs in the city, and the black players organized a boycott. Kemp, founder and president of the AFL players union, wasjordan basketball shoes VIII equally appalled. "The only white who would take a stand was Jack Kemp," former player Ernie Ladd once told the Washington Post. "He made it known he wasn't for that type of activity." The AFL moved the game to Houston at the last minute.

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