Sports Illustrated’s Alexander Wolff has an excellent story, “The NFL’s Jackie Robinson,” on the first African-American football players to reintegrate the NFL. It’s an informative, frustrating read, laying out the dollar signs that underlied the league’s “unofficial” bigotry as well as the unabashed racism of Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall.

(Gee, who’d have thought the owner of the Redskins would have a problem with race?)