I’m a generation Xer, and as you know, the Internet didn’t exist in the 80s,
so the main resources on the history of sports was a Sports Almanac
,an Encyclopedia, and sports cards.

As teenagers we were oblivious to how many titles a team won back in
60s or 70s. It was just simply a generation gap, and we were just focused on
the current state of sports, and we weren’t interested in old former players.

During the era of Walter Payton and Tony Dorsett, my father would always speak
about Jim Brown. I wasn’t trying to hear it, and nor did I care. Now, in this time,
I have taken on the role of my father telling adolescents about Payton and Dorsett,
and all they want to talk about is Kamara and McCaffery.

But, as I got older, and started studying the history of sports, I gained a true
realization of Jim Brown’s greatness. That happened in my late 20s.
The same thing will happen with this generation of adolescents. As they mature
and watch footage on Jordan, they will have a true understanding of his greatness
and the amount of trophies he won.