The 2014 TSL Season in Sports was another action-packed, multi-layered experience with athletics once again crossing over into national news and sparking social and political conversations on race, wealth privilege and homosexuality in pro sports. Conversations that are offspring of the emotionally-charged fabric of athletic competition and our country's dependence on it.
Records were broken on the field and revelations were made off of it, as the changing dynamics of a far-reaching sports landscape forced Americans to look into the mirror and evaluate their own morals, beliefs and character.
Here's another TSL piece I wrote that I consider a must-read as we reflect on the most important sports stories that we covered with our bold, culturally unique, eloquent and impassioned flavor.
Russell Wilson became the second black QB to win a Super Bowl, and he did it in just his second NFL season with an accurate and clutch passing game and elusive wheels that complemented an awesome Seahawks defense. Wilson tossed two TDs as he officially took the baton from the originator Doug Williams; the first African-American signal caller to dismiss outdated myths about the cerebral inefficiencies of black QBs. In 1988, Williams masterfully led the Washington Redskins to a win over Hall of Famer John Elway and the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXII.
