Sherman Lewis, New Washington Redskin Thought Police

I read Jason Reid's Analysis Behind the Sherman Lewis Hiring and shake my head. Leave it to Daniel Snyder to make the wrong move at the wrong time. In Lewis' case, he's the right candidate for something, but comes, oh, two training camps and 20 games too late. In the days when a black guy could play football but not hope to coach, Sherman Lewis was Exhibit A of the foolishness of that ancient custom. Tony Dungy would supplant Lewis in the 'Eighties as the symbol of discrimination against a good man, but Dungy made his break-through. Lewis did not. The Michigan State University Athletics web site has the Sherman Lewis story in all its historic dimensions and it is worth the read. I know Sherman Lewis, by reputation. Though he had departed by the time I arrived at Michigan State University back in 19-long-ago, Sherman Lewis was mentioned with reverence in occasional stories in the student newspaper. There was a picture of Lewis as a Spartan football player in the old J...