Apr 27, 2021
Most Cardinals fans are unlikely aware of the long-ago career of Duke Slater, but they should be.
Slater was a dominant tackle during the beginning years of the NFL. He was the longest-tenured African-American player of the era prior to the NFL locking out black players in the 1930s until the late 1940s.
Slater played from 1922-1931 for the Milwaukee Badgers (1922), Rock Island Independents (1922-1925) and the Chicago Cardinals (1926-31). He was named All-NFL four times including twice with the Cardinals in 1926 and 1929.
He blocked for Hall of Famers Fritz Pollard, Jimmy Conzelman, Jim Thorpe and Ernie Nevers, who was with the Cardinals from 1929-1931. Slater played all 60 minutes in the 1929 Thanksgiving Day game against the Chicago Bears in which Nevers scored a still league-record 40 points on six touchdowns and four extra points.
Apr 14, 2021
This time the Twitter statement about Cordarrelle Patterson wasn t an April Fool s joke or a comment by him telling GM Ryan Pace who to sign in free agency.
It was a report by Mike Garafolo of NFL Network that Patterson is expected to sign a contract with the Atlanta Falcons.
It s not an unexpected loss and results from the high cost of paying one of the highest-paid return men in the game. The Bears paid Patterson $10 million over two years, $5 million of it guaranteed, so they could be the fourth team to fail at harnessing his true potential on offense. They got one offensive TD and two kick return TDs in return.
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The best movies to watch with family, from Up and Black Panther to Wizard of Oz Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
It’s difficult to choose the 10 best family movies, and not just because there are so many good ones to choose from.
Although that’s part of it. Also hard is defining “family movie.” In some cases it’s easy. “The Little Mermaid” is suitable for the whole family, for instance. Nothing untoward. Great movie. That kind of thing.
But what about something a little more challenging? What about unhappy endings? Bambi’s mother dies! (Oh. Spoiler alert. Sorry.) Then again, this is coming from the person who showed his son “The Shining” when he was in the third grade. Keep that in mind.
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