Jack Vainisi is No. 21 in this picture, kneeling second from left in the front row.

1970 Kellogg’s 3D cards of pitchers Luis Tiant and Bill Singer.

Today's mail brings two more sweet 1970 Kellogg’s 3D cards, Luis Tiant and Bill Singer. Plugging away at this set.

Great story.

12. One more thought: What Bill Nunn accomplished on the team and league levels in 45 years, Jack Vainisi accomplished in 11 years, his promising career cut short by his death from a heart attack at age 33 in 1960. Both belong in the @profootballhof.bsky.social. (12/12)

The rap on Vainisi is that he didn’t pick all those players. True, but he identified that talent for #Packers coaches to draft and acquire. Nunn’s role seems much the same, not actually picking players but identifying all that talent for the #Steelers to draft and acquire. (11/12)

There is one more @profootballhof.bsky.social member from the Vainisi era. In 1959, Vainisi identified Giants offensive coordinator Vince Lombardi as the man needed to rebuild the #Packers, lobbied the team’s executives to hire Lombardi as coach/GM, and convinced Lombardi to take the jobs. (10/12)

There are 13 @profootballhof.bsky.social players from the Vainisi era, 12 from the #Packers’ championship teams of the ‘60s: Adderley (scouted by Vainisi, drafted a month after his death), W. Davis, Dillon, Gregg, Hornung, Jordan, J. Kramer, Nitschke, Ringo, Starr, Taylor, Tunnell and Wood. (9/12)

There are 15 @profootballhof.bsky.social players from the Nunn era, 10 from the #Steelers’ Super Bowl teams of the ‘70s: Mel Blount, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Greene, Jack Ham, Franco Harris, Jack Lambert, Donnie Shell, John Stallworth, Lynn Swann and Mike Webster. (8/12)

Jack Vainisi was a trailblazer in creating a sophisticated scouting system, developing a network of college coaches, bird-dog tipsters and #Packers alumni for scouting reports. He meticulously cross-referenced those reports, advancing NFL scouting from reliance on newspapers and magazines. (7/12)

Bill Nunn was a trailblazer in promoting players from historically Black colleges and universities and small schools long either ignored or overlooked by NFL teams, first as sports editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, a national Black newspaper, then after being hired by the #Steelers. (6/12)

As a scout and player personnel man, Jack Vainisi helped change the #Packers from losers to winners. He identified players who built the foundation for, and then led the Packers to, five NFL championships and two Super Bowl titles in seven seasons in the 1960s. (5/12)

As a scout and assistant director of player personnel, Bill Nunn helped change the #Steelers from losers to winners. He identified players who built the foundation for, and then led the Steelers to, four Super Bowl championships in six seasons in the 1970s. (4/12)

Jack Vainisi, who worked for the Green Bay #Packers from 1950 to 1960, belongs in the @profootballhof.bsky.social with Bill Nunn. His induction also is long overdue and richly deserved. (3/12)

Bill Nunn, who worked for the Pittsburgh #Steelers from 1968 to 2013, was inducted to the @profootballhof.bsky.social as a contributor in 2021. His induction, long overdue, was richly deserved. (2/12)

Side-by-side photos of Pittsburgh Steelers scout Bill Nunn and Green Bay Packers scout Jack Vainisi.

With the #NFLDraft having moved from Green Bay last year to Pittsburgh this week, let's celebrate two outstanding talent scouts, one from the #Steelers and one from the #Packers.

A thread. 🧵 (1/12)

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It’s not media cluelessness – it’s cowardice and complicity But there’s another word starting with “C” that describes some journalists: courage.

Amid the cowardice and complicity of legacy media in the age of the Trump administration, Stop the Presses' Mark Jacob highlights courageous journalists and outlets that Americans can still rely on.

"The secret memos reveal Roberts as less an umpire and more the manager of a team desperate to win the World Series for corporate America."

This Data Center Is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job.

One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution.

Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?

"Donny is in way over his head, overmatched, and totally unaware of just how horribly everything is going. he somehow remains serenely convinced that he’s the smartest guy in the room, and we’re ones who are the morons.

"oh, and if something does go wrong, it’s always somebody else’s fault."

The front pages of the New York tabloids on April 22, 2016, following the passing of Prince.

The front page of the Star Tribune on April 22, 2016, following the passing of Prince.

Five Trump Scandals You’ve Probably Missed Swirling scandals—from the Pentagon to DHS to the IRS to the Labor Department—that represent basic betrayals of public office, trust, and confidence-in-leadership that should be the table stakes of go...

Washington can only pay attention to a scandal or two at a time, which means in the Trump age there are all sorts of should-be-big-deal scandals that don’t get the oxygen or media focus that they should.

I'll bet you've missed at least three of these: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-trump...

It remains notable that The Onion — The Onion! — has had a stronger moral compass and more clear set of values in this moment than nearly every powerful and well-funded institution in American life.

Mr. @georgetakei.bsky.social has been part of the culture, part of our shared experience, for more than six decades. He's been much more than Mr. Sulu. A voice for LGBTQ+ people, a voice for Asian- and Japanese-Americans, a voice against internment during WWII and now. A national treasure.

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

Addiction isn’t a moral judgment — it’s a security clearance nightmare.

If you can’t master your own demons, you have no business running the FBI or the Pentagon.

Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth are liabilities, not leaders. Suspend them and investigate. Immediately.

This is how Nazis talk.

Long past time to #LegalizeIt, Wisconsin.

"here’s a fun thing for All The President’s Toadies to consider: if you can ban a president from a command room for being too much of a raging lunatic, you can 25th Amendment him from the presidency for the exact same reason."