{"id":433,"date":"2011-03-30T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=433"},"modified":"2011-03-30T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:22:10","slug":"jews-and-sports-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/jews-and-sports-ii-433.htm","title":{"rendered":"Jews and Sports II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.profootballhof.com\/assets\/Luckman_Sid_Action_180-220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"220\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">First and second generation Jewish immigrants could not understand the American fascination with sports. When their children got involved, incomprehension sometimes followed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Mindy Portnoy recounts:<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">One of my favorite immigration generation stories is about football, believe it or not, rather than baseball [here one may detect an allusion to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/jews-meet-american-sports-426.htm\">Getsl<\/a>]. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>Sid Luckman, of Colombia University and Chicago Bears&#8217; fame, in the 1930s and 1940s, had a father who was \u2013 what else\u2014a tailor in New York. He rarely got to see his quarterback son play football, but one Sunday the Bears were in New York playing the Giants at the Polo Grounds. Luckman arranged for his parents to have seats on the 50-yard line. For most of the first quarter, things went smoothly. But then on one play, the Bears&#8217; pass protection broke down.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Giant defenders rushed in, and Luckman had to scramble, to dodge the tacklers before they could get to him. As he was running back and forth, trying to avoid these great, big linemen, his father\u2019s voice suddenly called out from the sidelines, \u201cSidney, let them have the ball. I\u2019ll buy you another one.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-433\" data-postid=\"433\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-433 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First and second generation Jewish immigrants could not understand the American fascination with sports. When their children got involved, incomprehension sometimes followed. \u00a0 Mindy Portnoy recounts:\u00a0 One of my favorite immigration generation stories is about football, believe it or not, rather than baseball [here one may detect an allusion to Getsl]. \u00a0Sid Luckman, of Colombia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[494,495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism","category-sports","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}