"Deacon Jones, 74; considered prototypical defensive end" by Richard Goldstein | New York Times, June 05, 2013
NEW YORK —David Jones was born in Eatonville, Fla., where an incident he witnessed as a youngster remained seared in his psyche and fueled his determination to escape the segregationist Dixie.
Following Sunday church services, members of an all-black congregation were mingling on a lawn when white teenagers in a passing car heaved a watermelon at the group. It hit an elderly woman in the head.
“I was maybe 14 years old but I chased that car until my breath ran out,” Mr. Jones said in 1999. “I could hear them laughing.”
The woman died of her injuries a few days later, but there was no police investigation, as Mr. Jones remembered it....
In an interview with the Times, he provided his imagery of the sack: “You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them, you’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.”
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And it's almost football season, meaning basketball mornings and forced socialization in the afternoons. Looks like the end of Sunday Globe Specials soon.
