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What Abner Haynes started in 1965 is reverberating through the Broncos, NFL today

In early 1965, then-Chiefs’ running back Abner Haynes (later a Denver Bronco) was called a “monkey” twice while he was trying to check into his New Orleans hotel for the AFL All Star game.

Although the 28-year-old, four-time AFL All Star who had integrated college football in Texas in 1956 was not unaccustomed to such racial slurs, that moment proved to be enough. It was 1965, the Voting Rights Act had passed and the Civil Rights Movement was in full force.

Abner Haynes was done with inequality.