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Today is the forty year anniversary of Woody Hayes punching the Clemson player. I say the Clemson player because I only learned Charlie Bauman's name today as I began a bit of a deep dive reading some sports columns from the days after this incident. My two takeaways
1. I think this may be at the top of my list of sports events I wished happened in the Twitter age.
2. Some of the "both sides" arguments on this incident are amazing.
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"The blind soldier fought for me in this war. The least I can do now is fight for him. I have eyes. He hasn’t. I have a voice on the radio, he hasn’t. I was born a white man. And until a colored man is a full citizen, like me, I haven’t the leisure to enjoy the freedom that colored man risked his life to maintain for me. I don’t own what I have until he owns an equal share of it. Until somebody beats me and blinds me, I am in his debt."- Orson Welles August 11, 1946
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