1.   Akins also has said he was mistaken about getting hate mail for living with black teammates.

2.   For whatever reason, he reportedly was undermining Aikman with his black teammates all along.

3.   He ignited a racial firestorm with the use of a slur, albeit in jest, as he joked with black teammates on the Carolina Panthers.

4.   He turned down product endorsements, because he felt they were coming to him instead of his more talented black teammates because he was white.

5.   He was jeered in Carolina, partly for asking out of the lineup and partly for exchanging vernacular with his black teammates and uttering a racial slur.

6.   He refused commercial endorsement contracts, saying that he was getting more offers than his black teammates.

7.   In the Little League, he said he learned about racism when a black teammate was denied service at a restaurant.

8.   It continued during Super Bowl week when Aikman had to defend himself against charges that he was racist because he was supposedly harder on black teammates than white ones.

9.   Kemp often attributes his ability to work with blacks and his strong views on racial equality to the years he spent playing football with black teammates.

10.   Members of the Michigan team were adamant that their black teammate take the field, Ford wrote, but in the end, he chose not to play.