coachingspot.blogg.se

• Anthony schwartz football highlights series#

“There’s four or five Jews in the NFL,” said Schwartz, who with his brother Mitchell, a star of this year’s Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, wrote a book about being Jewish in the NFL. Most of the players, who spoke during three separate panels, said many of their teammates had either never met a Jewish person before or knew practically nothing about Judaism. Society has to have those uncomfortable conversations.”Īnd Bob Stein, who in 1970 became the first Jewish player to play on a Super Bowl-winning team, called Jackson’s posts “a spectacularly ignorant set of comments.” Stein, who attended law school while playing in the NFL and later became the first president and CEO of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves, said he hoped Jackson’s apology was sincere and “more than just ‘oops, I want to get out of the way of this problem.’” “We have to have these conversations about racism, and about anti-Semitism,” added Mike Rosenthal, who left the NFL in 2008 after nine seasons. “At the end of the day, if he was educated and he knew the history, he probably wouldn’t say those things,” Josh Miller, a 50-year-old retired punter, said of Jackson. Schwartz said he agreed that it was better to go “the education route” than “the cancellation route” - and many of his colleagues said they shared his instincts. Jackson also had a conversation this weekend with a Holocaust survivor. Holocaust Museum and Memorial in Washington, D.C.

More than one rabbi has offered to meet with Jackson, and Julian Edelman of the New England Patriots, who is Jewish, said he spoke to Jackson and invited him to visit the U.S.

He later walked back the inflammatory comment.)

(Stephen Jackson, a former NBA player and now a leading Black Lives Matter activist, had defended DeSean Jackson, no relation, and later used an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. The reaction of most leaders of the Jewish community, in Philadelphia and nationwide, has been to reach out to Jackson in order to educate him rather than pushing for his release or suspension from the NFL. Jackson later apologized, and was admonished and fined - but not suspended or released - by the Eagles, a team whose owner (Jeffrey Lurie) and general manager (Howie Roseman) are both Jewish. Jackson, a veteran NFL player, had posted a page from a book that quoted Hitler as stating that “because the white Jews knows that the Negroes are the real Children of Israel and to keep America’s secret the Jews will blackmail America” and “The will extort America, their plan for world domination won’t work if the Negroes know who they were.” The quote was not genuinely said by Hitler. “But, I mean, the timeliness of DeSean Jackson’s comments, and apology, and then Stephen Jackson, obviously showing that there’s an ignorance.” I wanted a way to connect, whether it’s yeshiva kids, or anyone, to get inspired,” Neuman said of the original idea. “I had this idea for the Jews in the NFL Summit. Weeks ago, Neuman began planning a live discussion among current and former NFL players who are Jewish in keeping with his mission to highlight “strong and powerful Jews.” But after the news broke that Jackson had posted anti-Semitic quotes falsely attributed to Adolf Hitler, the event took on both a new urgency and tone.

Neuman wanted to continue to inspire Jews to push boundaries - “When I was a 10-year-old, I would have wanted to see a strong, powerful Jew with a yarmulke on,” he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency - so he founded a nonprofit organization, the Jewish Inspiration Foundation, aimed at doing just that.

Anthony schwartz football highlights series#

NFL footage © NFL Productions LLC.The event, streamed live on, was the brainchild of Michael Neuman, an Orthodox Jewish psychologist who gained a measure of fame last year when he competed on, and won, the LeBron James-produced athletic competition series “Million Dollar Mile” while wearing a kippah. All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football League. NFL and the NFL shield design are registered trademarks of the National Football League.The team names, logos and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the teams indicated.