RIP Cookie. A genuine badass on the field. A man with a tremendous amount of pride.
Sometimes that pride and stubbornness brought him trouble, but his role in the boycott of the 1965 AFL all star game in New Orleans should not be forgotten. The black players were not getting equal treatment or accomodations, and Cookie was one of the players who led a united front against prejudicial treatment.
http://uareasuperstar2.net/65Boycott.html