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IDKMYDE: HBCUs 1st Football Game · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give a big congratulations to Jackson State
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  Speaker 1: University football program for being the Black College Football National champions.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know. You didn't. No, I didn't know. I
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  Speaker 2: did No, I didn't know. You didn't I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. I did. We know who the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four HBCU champion is. But let's take it back
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty three years ago, eighteen ninety two.
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  Speaker 2: It's freezing, snow is everywhere, and.
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  Speaker 1: What do these brothers decide to do start black college football? Yep,
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  Speaker 1: in less than a football field of snow. Because when
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  Speaker 1: life gives us blizzards, we make history.
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  Speaker 2: Baby. Now, I live in Charlotte and to.
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  Speaker 1: Get to Salisbury, it's about forty five minutes in the car.
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  Speaker 1: But back in eighteen ninety two, it was Mason Bethe
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  Speaker 1: and Cameron Horse and carriage five hours. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: how long five hours is in the cold. That's what
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  Speaker 1: you're hoes start questioning their life choices. And they wasn't
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  Speaker 1: rolling up in luxury carriages. No, this ain't cinderellam. It
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  Speaker 1: was more like hold on tight y'all, one of these
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  Speaker 1: wheels is wobbling.
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  Speaker 2: But here's where it gets good.
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  Speaker 1: Because the women at Livingstone College, they like to say,
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  Speaker 1: l see, let me tell you, these ladies were the
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  Speaker 1: real MVPs cause they didn't just make their uniforms. They
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  Speaker 1: tailored them. I'm talking custom fits. I can see them
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  Speaker 1: now over there on campus of LC. No Jerome hold
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  Speaker 1: steal your chest is lopsided and cleats or they didn't
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  Speaker 1: buy no cleats. They customize them. Probably have some brother
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  Speaker 1: in the workshop, like, hey, y'all, y'all want some spikes
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  Speaker 1: or some glitter on y'all's cause you know, sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: got to pop out in shows.
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  Speaker 2: So game they comes, and what do they play?
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  Speaker 1: No? Not a stadium, not even a field. A lawn, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: somebody's front yard. I mean you out there dodging defenders
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  Speaker 1: and daffodil bushes. I don't even know if daffidil bushes
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  Speaker 1: are a thing. And let's talk about the final score.
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  Speaker 1: Biddle Institute five Livingstone College zero. Biddle Institute is now
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  Speaker 1: Johnson C. Smith University. They like to say jays c
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  Speaker 1: as you, but that was the finals car five to nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And I know what you're thinking, was that even a game?
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  Speaker 1: But it's somebody tripping a the end zone. But it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't about the score. It was about the statement. These
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  Speaker 1: dudes weren't just playing football. They were saying, yeah it's snowing,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah we got ten hours of carriage ride round trip,
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  Speaker 1: but we still gonna make history.
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  Speaker 2: And they did that.
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  Speaker 1: That game laid the foundation for everything we love about
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  Speaker 1: HBCU football today. The women supporting the team, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: getting the uniforms out cheering in the stands, the bands,
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  Speaker 1: the halftime shows, the energy. It all started with some
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  Speaker 1: brothers in the snow and some sisters with.
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  Speaker 2: A kneeling thread.
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  Speaker 1: So next time you're watching a game sipping your hot coco,
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  Speaker 1: remember this December twenty seventh, eighteen ninety two, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty three years ago. These folks was out there
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  Speaker 1: and freezing weather. The no gloves, just grit, and the women, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they on the sidelines like.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all better win.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't stay up all night sewing these uniforms for nothing.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.
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  Speaker 1: I