On January 16, 1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, the CBS NFL Today commentator for 12 years, is fired for his racial comments during an interview the previous day with WRC-TV in Washington. Snyder predicted the scores of NFL games, which sports bettors used to determine the point spread. One of Snyder's more controversial responses to the question was that African Americans were naturally superior athletes at least in part because they had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery. Acc

🏈On January 16, 1988 Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder, the CBS NFL Today commentator for 12 years, is fired for his racial comments during an interview the previous day with WRC-TV in Washington. Snyder predicted the scores of NFL games, which sports bettors used to determine the point spread. One of Snyder's more controversial responses to the question was that African Americans were naturally superior athletes at least in part because they had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery. I