Name: The History of Native Americans in Football
Uploaded: 2022-03-08T19:36:06.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The History of Native Americans in Football' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-03-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The History of Native Americans in Football' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-03-08. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience well sports are basically a proxy of war right right
it's kind of like it's a it's like fake war yeah it's like in a replacement
yeah
it's like a replacement yeah yeah it's like when when the Raiders are gonna
play the Dolphins it's basically now it's Vegas right right right it's
basically Florida is going to war with Las Vegas right exactly we get it out of
our system on in an hour and a half you know that's what it was invented for
that's what football was actually invented for oh yeah yeah there was an
article I read about I think we might have even talked about it on the podcast
at one point in time about how football was invented to be like to give people
something to do that was like a replacement for war right when there
was it when they were in between when there's no war to fight yeah and in the
beginning of it it was a lot of it was like Native Americans playing and like
some of the best early players were Native Americans right yeah I was reading
this this whole thing about the history of football I wish I could remember
more
details but again I don't really follow football either so yeah casually was
glancing at this article and I gave up on it yeah but when you see how people
are
so passion and passion by it it's like well would Cleveland be marching on on
Pittsburgh if they didn't have the Browns and the Steelers like with all these
young
men be just I think you know right give people things like that to do yeah I
think legitimately when you get an enormous mass of people like the United
States is United States is 300 and whatever million people they need some
things that they can root on yeah they root for and they need some things that
are
like very important and serious to them yeah it takes you out of your every day
it takes all that aggression and puts it towards something yeah it does yeah it
does were you ever a hockey fan no I was a hockey fan for a while and then what
happened they did you wrong yeah they just went into I was with the Rangers
like as a
kid and then they won the cup and it was like this huge thing and then for the
next like decade they were just so bad it was just like I saw you're a fair
weather fan is that what you're trying to say it was pretty fair they yeah I
guess
so I didn't just show up when they won the cup but I bailed at a certain point
well
when I you know that one day that I went to see the Red Sox game yeah got into
Taekwondo from that day on all I really cared about was martial arts mm-hmm
combat
sports yeah all I was interested I was always interested in boxing I always was
a big boxing fan right but then I got really into martial arts and that that
became my obsession so I didn't watch any sports after that right now you were
doing it you were anticipating but it's also like the stuff that I watched I'd
only
watch combat sports I'd watch boxing or kickboxing right there was no MMA at
the
time and no YouTube by the way yeah nothing but I get VHS tapes right you get VHS
tapes back
when the VHS came out yeah I would record like say if Marvin Hagley was
fighting on
HBO I'd record it and watch it later get back good oh my god oh my god did you
find
the thing on the origins of football I remember there's I think there's two
different stories there that you there's definitely a story about the Native
American roots and football I know yeah because there was some it's like how
Jim
Thorpe got involved all right right you see the picture of Jim Thorpe when he's
running in the Olympics no and he had one shoe that was a shoe that he found
and it
didn't fit him right so he had to put like two socks on like yeah and he won
any one
gold medal oh my god fucked up shoes and they were like shoes
yeah oh like dress shoes yeah they look like shoes like that's all that's all
people had back then right shoes they ran in yeah like look at the image of
them
like look oh my god it's like a wingtip yeah I mean it looks like it fucking
barely
fits him Jim Thorpe legendary Native American athlete had his shoes stolen just
before he's about to compete in the Olympics he found a mismatched pair of
shoes in the trash can and went on to win a gold medal wearing them he's also
the
first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States well let's show
a
picture of his face like that is a hard man yeah that's a guy's not gonna get
stopped by a fucking pair of shoes yeah you know he should have played Batman
he's
dead look at his shoe there look at the vintage yeah it's oh my god that's what
they ran in it's just like a piece of leather it looks like there's some kind
of
traction on the bottom yeah some kind of thing on the bottom I can you think
about
just the the number the stuff that like regular people could wear now compared
to
that oh no god everything oh like everybody had like one one pair of pants one
shirt one
sweater you know what I mean and that was it whenever they show like baseball
games and you show it like wow they really dressed back then they wore suits
and ties to the baseball game it's all they had right it wasn't casual clothes
you weren't putting on board shorts and it was also a teacher and to go to
something that was a big event there was no television right yeah do you ever
see
there was a thing we watched the other day it was when Jack Johnson fought Jim
Jeffries in Reno Nevada and you looked out at the audience first of all there's
no
ladies there right it was almost all men and everyone was dressed in a suit
with a
hat on right and we're watching this we're saying like imagine if you were a
hat maker
back then you're like this business is never going away look at the audience
look at the audience everyone has a hat on it was priced fucking sunny as shit
right oh for sure
for sure you know it changed the hat you know it you know it put it out of
fashion no uh JFK
what yeah what he when he came on the scene he was he didn't wear a hat and he
looked so great
and he had that head of hair really and that changed the fashion and yeah hats
fell out of
favor no kidding after Kennedy yeah he was the guy yeah they talk about it all
the time i love hats
i wear hats because i'm bald oh look at that the beautiful hat yeah but look at
the the image i mean
that's amazing everyone every single person everyone has a hat on and there was
etiquette there was
rules you took your hat off when you saw a lady you took a hat off when you
went into in inside
somewhere they all have the same kind of hat too yeah isn't that basically all
white hat because
they're all outside yeah i guess so and this was a famously uh hot day it looks
it yeah pretty crazy
pretty crazy i think this is the article about the oh native american team that
rev revolutionized
football oh wow yeah it didn't there wasn't even a lot of forward passing back
then i remember this i
i think it's the coach carlisle indian school 1879 right then that had to do
with pop warner too
that's a big guy in the history of football it's a whole long thing but what
does it have to do
with uh the military there was a different story well yeah so then that's the
other part of where i
thought like you're maybe mixing two things up there's like a history of just
the strategy of football
as like army navy it's a big thing back like they would compete to do like
strategies and just
have stuff to do in the off off time here listen to this pratt knew that
nothing could stop the
westward expansion of whites and he knew the native american way of life was
coming to an end fearing
that native americans might actually die out pratt opened up the carlisle
school to save them from
extinction the idea was to teach native american youth how to survive in this
strange new world
wow of course platt wasn't interested in preserving their culture after
convincing parents to send
their children to pennsylvania pratt gave his students haircuts instructed them
in english and ordered
them to dress as white people after all his motto was kill the indian save the
man wow that's crazy