A new Prime Video docuseries which reveals the history of Black quarterbacks in the NFL, includes the stories of three men ...
It was tough for him coming out of high school because nobody gave him a shot,” Huntley’s high school coach Dameon Jones told ...
Marlin Briscoe's football career is a remarkable story of breaking barriers and achieving milestones in the face of adversity ...
It wasn’t long ago that the notion of a Black starting quarterback in the NFL was shocking to some. In The Evolution of the ...
Two-time Super Bowl champ Marlin Briscoe has several cards. However, none of them show him as quarterback as all were made after his (then commonplace) conversion to all-pro wideout. A strong ...
Williams was joined on that panel by James “Shack” Harris and Marlin Briscoe, who in 1968 became the first Black starting quarterback in modern pro football. “Who’d ever thought back ...
The Denver Broncos made Marlin Briscoe their starting quarterback in 1968, and the Bills followed with James Harris in 1969. The NFL, meanwhile, had no black quarterbacks between 1956 and ’72.
With the emergence of young, talented quarterbacks in the NFL, such as Jayden Daniels, C.J. Stroud, and Jordan Love, the often difficult and painful bias faced by Marlin Briscoe, James 'Shack ...
The NFL didn’t have a Black official until 1965. Marlin Briscoe, the first Black starting quarterback of pro football’s modern era, didn’t get an opportunity until 1968. The long and arduous ...
When it comes to experiencing life’s highs and lows, it could be said that Michael Vick wrote the book. The first overall pick in the 2001 NFL draft as a quarterback out of Virginia Tech ...