My thoughts on Joe Louis Ringside:

[Abe Attell]

Just look at the NFL, the games are on regular television and the sport is huge.

I like what Max Kellerman says:
{not sure on the exact quote}

If you are driving down the road, you stop at the red light, the street to your left there is a football game, the street to your right there is a fight, which one are you going to watch?


Just like in the school-yard, everybody seems to run when they yell "FIGHT, FIGHT"

[Abe Attell]

Jack Dempsey was compared to a Tiger....a Bengal White Tiger? I don't know and it doesn't matter. Comparing Louis to a Panther in that fight is a compliment. The fact that it was 1938 probably played into the "black" adjetive to describe the panther; but what is "The BROWN Bomber" supposed to imply?

Some people need to quit taking things so seriously and looking for something negative and offensive at every turn...aka...get their heads out of their own asses. (there, how offensive was that? I didn't say what the race of the ass-owner was; but merely that certain people have there heads in a place never meant for their face..their own ass)

Translation: Get over it and quit bothering me with such childish dribble.


(none of this was directed towards the thread starter, who's opinions I agree with...just to clarify)

Didn't know that about Jack Dempsey, thanks for the information.

So you tend to agree...as long as the writer was a true "Writer/poet", I will give him the benift of the doubt and say it was symbolic, a tribute in his favor.


It is not like the writer who wrote about the "Boston Tar baby" when describing Sam Langford, but like I said, I don't know the writer so I would have to look into it further...but you can still take a positive side out of it if you really wanted to.