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Uptown Slim πͺπ¨π©π΄ retweeted
Before his final game, in Oct 1977 at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., PelΓ© took the microphone at the center of the field, his father and Muhammad Ali beside him, and exhorted a crowd of more than 75,000 βSay with me three times, for the kids: Love! Love! Love!β π§π·ππ
Uptown Slim πͺπ¨π©π΄ retweeted
"Now in his third and final season with the Cosmos, it is Pele who has done the most to attract new American fans to the game."
July 1977 NBC News report on the explosion of interest in soccer among Americans that coincided with Pele's late-career stint with the New York Cosmos:
Uptown Slim πͺπ¨π©π΄ retweeted
On Christmas Eve 2006, MF DOOM hosted a night of Holiday programming on Adult Swim. The bumpers were legendary:
Uptown Slim πͺπ¨π©π΄ retweeted
Grant Wahl, formerly of 'Sports Illustrated', died last night in Qatar at the World Cup. He was 48.
This his piece on how black footballers are stereotyped will live forever.
Rest in peace, Grant.
π₯ Sports Illustrated
Uptown Slim πͺπ¨π©π΄ retweeted
Do I think the Qatari government assassinated Grant Wahl?
No.
Theyβre authoritarian but not reckless.
But that doesnβt make his death any less suspicious.
Grant pissed off a lot of people and there are many nefarious actors in Qatar right now.
Uptown Slim πͺπ¨π©π΄ retweeted
Anyone who has any power who cheered for America with the fervor they did for the World Cup should put just as much energy into getting Grant Wahl's body home.
Uptown Slim πͺπ¨π©π΄ retweeted
Sports illustrated fired him for challenging their pay cuts during the pandemic.
He ran to unseat FIFAβs president.
He challenged human rights abuses in Qatar.
RIP Grant Wahl, whoβs career was as much about great reporting as it was about speaking truth to abusive power.
Uptown Slim πͺπ¨π©π΄ retweeted
This was Grant Wahlβs last story. β at Texas, USA
NEW: World Cup Daily, Day 25. They just don't care. Qatari World Cup organizers don't even hide their apathy over migrant worker deaths, including the most recent one.
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Uptown Slim πͺπ¨π©π΄ retweeted
A healthy man in his 40s with no underlying health issues, committed to his fitness & posted rowing workout results on Insta constantly⦠just dies while in a country notorious for human rights abuses & trafficking that he used his pen and platform to rightly criticize?
Nope. β at Charlotte, NC
Uptown Slim πͺπ¨π©π΄ retweeted
The amount of death that has occurred because of having the World Cup in fucking Qatar is horrific. From the migrant workers to Grant Wahl. Itβs the most corrupt event on the goddam planet. None of these deaths had to happen.
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Grant Wahl wrote that he had visited a hospital while in Qatar earlier in the week for upper chest pain after battling a cold for 10 days.
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Uptown Slim πͺπ¨π©π΄ retweeted
Too many Americans only care about what to happened to Brittney Griner because it happened in Russia. Kalief Browder was held without trial for 3 years on suspicion of stealing backpack before the charges were dropped. 700 of those days were spent solitary. Thatβs torture.