The Friday Link for 9/3/21

A few years back on the Friday Link I featured the original Ted Lasso promos created when NBC started covering Premiere League Soccer.  They featured a perfectly cast Jason Sudeikis who absolutely nailed the clueless American football coach getting hired to coach an English Soccer club. If you can find it, enjoy!  You can also find those original promos on You Tube.

Apple TV came up with the brilliant idea of making a series out of the bit, and it's worked great.  The cast is perfect and Sudeikis is all charm. They should clean up at the Emmy awards, but let me give you a little taste of why this show works so well.  This clip has got a little rough language but this is a spectacular synopsis of why Ted Lasso is a great show.  This is a darn near perfect scene. 

Also tonight I want to feature two bits of Native American History.  Once again, you can not learn from past mistakes if you don't understand the history of a subject.

When I was a kid in Rhode Island, we learned extensively about the King Philip's War, but when you get away from the New England area, King Philips War is hardly mentioned.  This was the first large uprising the Native Americans staged agains the encroaching (at this point) British.  For some Native Americans, it was becoming clear the settlers were never going to stop, and so they put forward what ended up being a fairly vicious, and at times, wildly successful war to push the colonists back into the ocean.  

In the end, it didn't go their way, and the repercussions of King Philip's War set the stage for the horrific treatment of Native Americans for the next 300+ years. 

And finally tonight, Native American ingenuity and engineering helped create what was at one point the largest city on the North American continent, and a city which might have been larger than London.  And you probably didn't know it was right outside of St. Louis. 

Let me introduce you to the great ancient Native American city of Cahokia.  

Stay healthy and stay safe.  

Get vaccinated and wear a face mask! 

Have a great weekend!