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Why Professional Football Players Have Ludicrous Given Names

Why Professional Football Players Have Ludicrous Given Names

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John Mendelssohn
May 17, 2015
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I live in central Los Angeles in a gated community called Park La Brea. There are something like 14,000 of us here. Many of us are Korean, and many others are Indian, the Miwok and Tolowa tribes being particularly well represented. Much of the signage in the community is in both English and Korean. The Indians, about whom I was only kidding a moment ago…

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