Tag: JFK

America’s (Most Hated) Team: ’63 Cowboys vilified by mourning nation after JFK assassination

From @ToddBrock24f7: The tragic events in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 turned the city’s fledgling football team into the unfortunate target of a nation’s ire.

The Dallas Cowboys are an inextricable part of late November in America. The football game hosted by the team nearly every Thanksgiving Day since 1966 has become, for countless families, a centerpiece of the holiday that’s as integral to the beloved celebration as turkey and pecan pie.

But 60 years ago this week, the franchise now commonly referred to as “America’s Team” suddenly- and shockingly- found itself the unfortunate target of an entire nation’s disturbingly palpable ire.

As hard as it may be to believe by today’s standards, there was a period of time, in 1963, when the Dallas Cowboys were publicly shunned, spat on, harassed, and even threatened with bodily injury and death- not for anything that had taken place on the field, but for an unspeakable tragedy that just happened to have occurred in the city they represented.

This is the story of how the assassination of President John F. Kennedy devastated a country… and how much of the country blamed the Dallas Cowboys for it.

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Darren Rovell shared footage of JFK’s assassination at 7:30 a.m. and his followers weren’t happy

“The Zapruder film goes great with eggs, D. Thanks.”

Looking to see some up-close footage of an assassination with your morning coffee? Then, dear friend, Darren Rovell has got you covered.

The former ESPNer, current Action Network “reporter,” who can find the dollar value amount of just about anything, has done so with one of our nation’s great tragedies on Friday morning.

It is the anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and to celebrate (?) that, Rovell shared a clip of the infamous Zapruder film, which shows the president being shot in the head.

He did this at 7:30 in the morning. He also shared the dollar amount that the Zapruder film sold for (including subsequent sales) because that’s what is really important here.

(Listen, I’m not going to go holier than thou and say that the footage is inappropriate. It’s a part of our nation’s history, etc. etc. HOWEVER, trying to tie in the bizness angle by including the dollar amounts of what the Zapruder film sold for makes me earnestly doubt that Rovell was trying to share an important moment from our history, and makes it seem much more likely that he was just doing this to tie it to his beat and get some Internet Clout.)

I’m not going to share the original tweet, but if you want to see a president get shot in the head with your eggs, by all means, go visit Rovell’s Twitter page.

What I will share was the reaction to the tweet:

Don’t worry, though: Rovell had a very good explanation for why he did what he did. See, there’s never a convenient time to talk about horrific parts of history … or share what the Zapruder film sold for.

Thanks, Darren!