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The seven returned for Wyoming’s Black History

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San Francisco head coach Kyle Shanahan will be back in Washington on Sunday Womens Dwayne Haskins Jersey , returning to the place where he spent four years as offensive coordinator under his dad, Mike Shanahan. That brings back mixed emotions.Both Shanahans have made clear in the past that they didn’t see eye-to-eye with Washington owner Dan Snyder, and when Shanahan was asked today about his experience in Washington, he didn’t hide the fact that he didn’t think much of the owner.Asked what the best thing about working in Washington was, Shanahan answered, “Being able to work with my dad, and be around some other good coaches.”Asked what was the worst part, Shanahan answered, “Everything else.”After a brief pause, Shanahan added, “Oh Dwayne Haskins Jersey White , and I liked a lot of the players. Some good people.”Shanahan is getting the last laugh this year. His team has the best record in the NFC, while Washington has the worst. LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Seven of 14 black players summarily dismissed from the Wyoming football team nearly 50 years ago returned to the university Friday to dispel myths about their experience and show other black athletes that they can successfully overcome major obstacles.One of the myths that the players, who are known collectively as the “Black 14,” wanted to dispel was that they had walked out on the team and refused to play back in the fall of 1969 when they were kicked off the team by coach Lloyd Eaton for wanting to wear black armbands in a game against Brigham Young over the treatment of black players by that team during games and the discriminatory policies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints back then.“We wanted to wear the armbands as a display of protest that, ‘Hey, believe what you want but don’t bring it on the gridiron,'” Guillermo Hysaw said.The truth, they said, was Eaton had gathered them together and dismissed them en masse before the players could even ask permission to wear the armbands.Wyoming, which had lost only one game the previous year to LSU in the Sugar Bowl Wes Martin Jersey , was undefeated at the time in the 1969 season, but eventually lost four games after the episode. Wyoming won only one game the following season, and Eaton was forced out with the school’s reputation being scarred for years afterward.Month and Martin Luther King Jr. Days of Dialogue events this week.Before this week, the seven players had never appeared together on the Wyoming campus since 1969.Among them was Tony McGee, who played for the Washington Redskins when they won the Super Bowl in 1983.McGee said the players want to show others that they persevered in life despite the traumatic event that left them labeled as “rabble-rousers and troublemakers” and cost some of them possible careers in the NFL.Hysaw said his biggest disappointment was that Eaton died before he could ask him why he acted as he did with the players.“I really wish, more than anything else, more than going to the NFL, is having that conversation with him, and not a monologue but a dialogue,” he said.

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