I chose this photo because these stock action poses always make me smile, but then I learned that Kenny "Kingfish" Washington is actually a pretty significant figure in football history. A teammate of Jackie Robinson at UCLA (baseball and football), he went on to break the NFL's color barrier in the modern (post-WWII) era.
"What Kenny had to go through was in some ways harder than what Jackie Robinson had to endure. You could dodge a ball in baseball. But the Rams handed him the ball." Forgotten hero: Washington broke NFL's color barrier in 1946
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