Rozelle consulted Pierre Salinger, a personal friend of his who was President Kennedy’s press secretary, within hours of Kennedy’s assassination asking him for his recommendation whether that Sunday’s games two days later should be played. Salinger thought the Kennedys would have wanted the games to be played.

It should be noted the AFL decided to postpone their games almost immediately. Patriots owner Billy Sullivan, who was friendly with the Kennedy family (and of course had his team based in JFK’s native Boston), particularly pushed hard for the postponement.

Todd Christensen (RIP)

Actually, I think those last 5 college football games Bagent played that they showed during the Amazon Prime Video broadcast were 1) the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) championship game (which Shepherd lost to IUP, aka Indiana University of Pennsylvania) and 4) four D2 playoff games (first round, Super Regional 1 semifinals, Super Regional 1 championship/national quarterfinals, and national semifinals).

NOTE: I follow D2 football, especially the PSAC (root for 3 different teams, one of which is IUP, my graduate school alma mater), and Shepherd is the second-closest D2 team to where I currently live. I’ve actually gone to a couple of Shepherd home games (in 2019 & 2021) when they hosted one of those teams I follow. Shepherd has been a strong D2 football program for most of the last 30 years.

That game was the D2 football national semifinals last season.

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