October 3, 1965: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

October 3, 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 into law. It is the first major immigration bill passed by Congress since 1924, and largely repudiates the laws passed in that era.

President John F. Kennedy, descended from hardscrabble Irish immigrants, opposed the immigration laws passed in 1917, 1921 and 1924, which were written during World War I and in the wake of that war, the rising tide of immigration over the preceding 50 years, and Prohibition. Senator Philip Hart of Michigan and Representative Emanuel Celler of New York wrote and sponsored a new bill, but conservative Southern Democrats stalled it in the House of Representatives.

But after Kennedy was assassinated, as with the bill that became the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Johnson, a former Senate Majority Leader, used his natural persuasiveness and Kennedy's memory to push the Hart-Celler Bill through. He got enough moderate Republicans to join with Northern and Western Democrats, and the bill passed the House on August 25, 1965, 318-95; passed the Senate with an amendment on September 22, 76-18; and passed the House with that amendment, without the need for a conference committee, on September 30, 320-70.

LBJ signed the bill into law at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, in front of the Statue of Liberty, the great symbol of immigration to America, with the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan in the background.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 created a seven-category preference system that gives priority to relatives and children of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, professionals and other individuals with specialized skills, and refugees.

But it also made the path to immigration from Latin America, Africa and Asia easier. According to the 1960 Census, the population of the United States was about 85 percent white, 10 percent black (and most of those descendants of slaves brought over from Africa, not descendants of Africans choosing to come for opportunity or freeing tyranny there), 3 percent Latino, and less than 1 percent Asian. The changes were gradual rather than immediate, but noticeable:

* 1970: White 82, Black 11, Hispanic 5, Asian less than 1.

* 1980: White 80, Black 11, Hispanic 6, Asian 2.

* 1990: White 75, Black 12, Hispanic 9, Asian 3.

* 2000: White 70, Black 13, Hispanic 12, Asian 4.

* 2010: White 65, Hispanic 16, surpassing Black at 13, Asian 5.

* 2020: White 59, Hispanic 19, Black 14, Asian 7.

I had heard someone say on TV after the 2008 election that Barack Obama got about the same percentage of the white vote that fellow Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis had gotten in 1988, 20 years earlier, but Dukakis had only won 111 Electoral Votes, while Obama won 365. This was due to the growth of the Hispanic vote, which the Democrats had solidly taken, especially after California and other Western States passed anti-immigrant initiatives in the 1990s; while the white vote shrank, and the black vote remained largely the same.

At this rate, by the 2040 Census, white people will be a plurality in America, but no longer a majority. This terrifies white Republicans as much as those in the 1910s were terrified by the rise in urban Catholics, leading them to demand that era's immigration laws, and Prohibition. So immigration became a Republican "wedge issue" in the 2000s, and Donald Trump demagogued the issue in the 2010s, and has continued to do so in the 2020s.

The 1965 Act has been amended in 1968 and 2000, and another Immigration Act was passed in 1986.

UPDATE: In 2023, both parties in Congress agreed on a new bill, one that favored the Republicans' ideas more than the Democrats', but the Democrats were willing to approve it, simply to take the issue off the table. But, just as George W. Bush did with the Iraq War in the 2000s, using it to question his opponents' patriotism, Trump didn't want to win on the issue, he only wanted to have the issue, for the same reason. So he told the Republicans to reject their own bill, and didn't pass. As of October 3, 2025, the issue is still there, being demagogued by Trump and his evil henchmen.

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October 3, 1965 was a Sunday, the last day of baseball's regular season. These games were played:

* The New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox, 11-5 at Fenway Park in Boston. For the Red Sox, Carl Yastrzemski went 3-for-5 with a home run and 2 RBIs.

Whitey Ford was the winning pitcher, and went 1-for-3 at the plate. Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Joe Pepitone sat this season finale out. Tom Tresh, Tony Kubek and substitute 1st baseman Ray Barker each got 4 hits.

Despite this win, the Yankees fell from 99 wins and the American League Pennant the season before to 77-85 and 6th place. Everyone seemed to get old, or hurt, or both, all at once. Indeed, this was Kubek's last game, retiring before his 30th birthday later that month, because of a bad back.

By Opening Day 1967, the only players in the same positions as in September 1965 were pitcher Ford and catcher Elston Howard, although center fielder Mantle and 1st baseman Pepitone switched positions due to Mantle's legs, and the fact that there would be no designated hitter until 1973. And Ford would retire due to injury in May, and Howard was traded in August. Years later, Mantle would tell an interviewer that he looked around the field, and asked himself, "Where did everybody go?"

This 1965 season finale, despite the already-historic nature of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, at Fenway Park attracted only 5,933 paying customers. Two years later, the Red Sox won the Pennant in their "Impossible Dream" season, and games at Fenway have rarely been so sparsely populated since.

* The New York Mets were swept in a doubleheader by the Philadelphia Phillies at Shea Stadium, with both games ending 3-1. The nightcap was won by a home run by Billy Sorrell in the top of the 13th inning.

* The Washington Senators beat the Detroit Tigers, 3-2 at District of Columbia Stadium (later renamed Robert F. Kennedy Stadium) in Washington. Al Kaline did not play.

* The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs, 6-3 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. Roberto Clemente hit a home run. Ernie Banks went 0-for-3 with a walk.

* The Baltimore Orioles beat the Cleveland Indians, 2-1 at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Steve Barber outpitched Sam McDowell. Brooks Robinson went 0-for-4. Frank Robinson did not play.

* The Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Athletics, 3-2 at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

* The Minnesota Twins beat the California Angels, 3-2 at Metropolitan Stadium in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota. Harmon Killebrew hit a home run.

* The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Houston Astros, 5-2 at the Astrodome in Houston. Bob Gibson went the distance, for his 20th win of the season. Lou Brock went 2-for-5 with a stolen base.

* The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Braves, 3-0 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The Dodgers went with an early version of the "bullpen game," so as not to risk Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale before the World Series. Howie Reed pitched the 1st 2 innings, Bob Miller the 3rd (which somehow earned him the status of the winning pitcher), Mike Kekich the 4th and the 5th, John Purdin the 6th and the 7th, Bill Singer the 8th, and Nick Willhite the 9th. Those 6 pitchers, between them, allowed 3 hits and 3 walks. Hank Aaron did not play.

* And the San Francisco Giants beat the Cincinnati Reds, 6-3 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Willie Mays hit his 52nd home run of the year, and was named the National League's Most Valuable Player.

Frank Robinson went 1-for-3 with 2 walks and an RBI. This would be his last game with the Reds, who foolishly traded him to the Baltimore Orioles.

These games were played in the NFL:

* The New York Giants beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, 23-3 at Pitt Stadium in Pittsburgh.

* The Cleveland Browns beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 35-17 at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

* The Baltimore Colts beat the San Francisco 49ers, 27-24 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.

* The Detroit Lions beat the Washington Redskins, 14-10 at Tiger Stadium in Detroit.

* The Green Bay Packers beat their arch-rivals, the Chicago Bears, 23-14 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

* The Minnesota Vikings beat the Los Angeles Rams, 38-35 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

* And the next night, 5 years before the advent of Monday Night Football, the football version of the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Dallas Cowboys, 20-13 at the 1st Busch Stadium (previously the last Sportsman's Park) in St. Louis.

In the American Football League: 

* The New York Jets lost to the Denver Broncos, 16-13 at Bears Stadium (later Mile High Stadium) in Denver.

* The Buffalo Bills beat the Oakland Raiders, 17-12 at War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo.

* The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Boston Patriots, 27-17 at Kansas City Municipal Stadium.

* And the San Diego Chargers beat the Houston Oilers, 31-14 at Balboa Stadium in San Diego.

June 3, 1943: The Zoot Suit Riots

June 3, 1943: Riots break out in Los Angeles, between servicemen stationed there and Mexican-American residents of the city.

Some of the Mexicans, calling themselves "Chicanos," had begun wearing fancy suits, or "zoots" in their accent. The term got doubled up, as "zoot suit." They had high baggy pants, jackets with long tails, wide-brimmed hats with feathers, and ties that were wide, often wild, to match the suits' colors. Some of them wore belts, others chose suspenders. Like some of the big cars of the time, the suits were a way of striking back against a culture of brown and gray tenements, and the black & white pop culture of the Great Depression and World War II years.

Thankfully, we have cosplayers showing us

what these suits looked like in color.

The servicemen, famously getting, in the words of Tony Pastor and His Orchestra, "Twenty-one dollars a day, once a month" (in other words, $21 a month, about $351 in 2022 money, although being in the service, they had free housing, food and clothing, such as they were), were jealous of these outfits, and angry that these were young men not fighting for their country. So they attacked the Chicanos, and the fighting became known as "The Zoot Suit Riots."

The Los Angeles Police Department took the side of the servicemen. Many of the cops were "immigrants" as well, from the Dust Bowl of the American South, coming West in the 1930s. They took their prejudices with them, and put the "Southern" in "Southern California." Some of them lasted long enough to be guilty of the kind of police brutality that led to the Watts Riot of 1965, and passed their beliefs down to the younger cops, leading to the Rodney King beating of 1991 and the South Central Riot of 1992.

There is no record of anyone dying as a result of these riots, but 150 people were admitted to hospitals, and over 500 were arrested.

The wearing of Zoot Suits spread to African-American and Asian-American teenage boys and young men. Black jazz bandleader Cab Calloway became known for wearing them.

Mexican-American women, known as Pachucas, had their own variations on the outfits: High hairdos, heavy makeup, large earrings, tight sweaters and flared skirts. White people looking to peg the Mexican-Americans as troublemakers spread the rumor that the Pachucas hid knives in their hair.

Like most fads, zoot suits didn't last long. By the time The War ended, they had been played out. But not forgotten: Writers Luis Valdez, Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright, and civil rights activists Cesar Chavez and Malcolm X remembered that wearing zoot suits help cement in their minds the identities they would like to have, distinct from the dominant white society and what it expected of black and Hispanic people. Malcolm X took to wearing dark suits with a bowtie, as did most Nation of Islam officials; but, inspired by his zoot suit days, he wore the best suits money could buy.

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June 3, 1943 was a Thursday. Billy Cunningham was born on this day. The Philadelphia 76ers have never won an NBA Championship without him: He was a reserve player on their 1967 title team, and he was the head coach of their 1983 title team.

These baseball games were played that day:

* The New York Yankees beat the St. Louis Browns, 2-1 at Yankee Stadium. Ernest "Tiny" Bonham went the distance.

* The New York Giants lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9-6 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. Mel Ott went 2-for-3 with an RBI.

* The Brooklyn Dodgers lost to the Chicago Cubs, 8-1 at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

* The Chicago White Sox beat the Boston Red Sox, 6-4 at Fenway Park in Boston.

* The Philadelphia Athletics beat the Cleveland Indians, 10-4 at Shibe Park in Philadelphia.

* The Detroit Tigers beat the Washington Senators, 8-2 at Griffith Stadium in Washington.

* The Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Braves, 7-4 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.

* And the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 8-2 at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. Stan Musial went 1-for-4 with 3 RBIs.

March 23, 1903: The Oxnard Strike

March 23, 1903: The Oxnard Strike reaches a climax. It is a landmark not just for the labor movement, but for civil rights, especially in the State of California.

Brothers Henry, James, Benjamin and Robert Oxnard ran a sugar refinery in Brooklyn. In 1887, they sold it, and moved west to booming California. In 1897, they founded the American Beet Sugar Company. Many of their workers were Chinese, but Exclusion Acts reduced their availability, and so they had to hire Japanese and Mexican workers. Eventually, the brothers became members of the Western Agricultural Contracting Company (WACC).

On February 11, 1903, the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association (JMLA) was founded by 500 Japanese and 200 Mexican laborers. They accused the WACC of artificially suppressing wages. They opposed the subcontracting system, arguing that it forced workers to pay double commissions. And they called for the freedom to buy goods, rather than be subjected to the inflated prices of the company store.

Limiting employees to shopping only at stores that the company owned meant that, in some cases (not this one), they didn't get paid in money so much as in credit; and that, if they didn't produce enough, they were actually in debt to the store.

In 1947, country singer Merle Travis wrote "Sixteen Tons," imagining a coal miner who had to shovel eighteen tons a day to "break even" at the company store. With Tennessee Ernie Ford singing it in a basso profundo voice that made it a Number 1 hit in 1955, the chorus went:

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt.

St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store.

The WACC was never going to meet the demands of this union of nonwhite people, and so, in early March, the strike was on.

On March 23, the strike reached its turning point. During a confrontation between the JMLA and IALU strikebreakers in Oxnard's Chinatown, shots were fired, wounding 2 Japanese and 2 Mexican members of the JMLA. Luis Vasquez, a Mexican member of the JMLA, was killed by the gunfire.

Initial reports by local newspapers, of course, owned by rich men, including WACC members, blamed the JMLA for the violence. A statement released by the JMLA in the following days asserted that union members were not armed at the confrontation, pointing out that no union members had been arrested. The sole arrest from the confrontation was that of Deputy Constable Charles Arnold, for the murder of Luis Vasquez. An all-white male jury found Charles Arnold innocent in the murder of Luis Vasquez, and he was cleared of all charges.

After the deadly skirmish in Chinatown, JMLA representatives met with representatives of local farmers and the WACC to engage in negotiations. During the 1st 2 days of negotiations, the JMLA stated clearly that they would refuse to end the strike until the WACC ended their monopoly over Oxnard Plain sugar beet operations, and allow workers to contract directly with local farmers. The strike reached an official end on March 30, after the WACC agreed to cancel all standing contracts with local sugar beet farmers, and grant farmworkers the right to contract directly with local growers.

The City of Oxnard was incorporated on June 30, 1903. Today, it is a mostly-Hispanic city of about 200,000 people.

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March 23, 1903 was a Monday. Baseball was in Spring Training. Football was out of season. Basketball barely existed. And hockey was still all-amateur. So there were no scores on this historic day.

February 8, 2026: A Super Bowl of Redemptions

Sam Darnold (left) and Kenneth Walker III

Siri, what is Super Bowl Sunday?

Liberal Siri: It is America's annual tribute to violence, unregulated capitalism, and cholesterol.

Conservative Siri: It's the most wonderful time of the year!

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NOTE: While these entries are dated 2022, I decided to backdate the posting dates of events from 2023 onward to the same date in 2022.

February 8, 2026: Super Bowl LX was played, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, home of the San Francisco 49ers, although it's 43 miles from downtown San Francisco, and 7 miles from downtown San Jose.

It was a chance at redemption for the Seattle Seahawks, after their loss to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX, 11 years earlier, when their head coach at the time, Pete Carroll, made the dumbest play call in the history of football.

It was a chance at redemption for their quarterback, Sam Darnold, who had previously washed out with the New York Jets, the Carolina Panthers and the San Francisco 49ers, and had been rejected by the Minnesota Vikings, despite getting them to a 14-3 regular-season record last season, before failing in the Playoffs. It was even a chance at redemption for his Southern California hometown, San Clemente, which is where Richard Nixon moved after he resigned the Presidency in disgrace.

Some people thought it was a chance at redemption for the Patriots: For the 1st time in 29 years, they were playing in a Super Bowl without Bill Belichick as head coach and Tom Brady at quarterback. They had been 6-3 in Super Bowls when suspected of cheating, and 0-2 in them before that when not.

There would be no redemption for the New York Jets or their fans. If the Patriots won, that would be the Jets' arch-rivals winning it -- again! If the Seahawks won, that would be Darnold winning it, reminding them of how their team totally mishandled him.

Unfortunately, for most of the game, it was looking like the worst-played Super Bowl, both teams combined, ever. For the 1st 46 minutes of the game, into the 4th quarter, the score was Seahawks 12, Patriots 0. Being a Yankee Fan, and thus hating all New England sports teams (though not the region of New England itself), and being a fan of fairness, and thus hating all cheating, I was happy about the score.

But, despite the fact that there were no turnovers until a Patriot fumble in the last 15 seconds of the 3rd quarter, the level of play was terrible. The Patriots had 4 1st Downs, while the Seahawks had 4 field goals, and neither team had scored a touchdown. There was a decent shot at the 1st shutout in a Super Bowl, and it wasn't even because the Seattle defense was so strong: It was that the New England offense, coached by Mike Vrabel and quarterbacked by Derek Maye, was so inept. They had not gotten further downfield than the Seahawks' 43-yard line.

Seahawk kicker Jason Myers was beginning to look like he would be the 1st placekicker to be named the Most Valuable Player of the Super Bowl. He ended up becoming the 1st man to kick 5 field goals in a Super Bowl, matching his uniform number; and scoring 17 points overall. (James White of the Patriots scored 20 -- 3 touchdowns and a 2-point conversion -- in Super Bowl LI, and Jalen Hurts of the Philadelphia Eagles tied that record in Super Bowl LVII.)

Finally, with 13 minutes and 24 seconds to go, Darnold threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to AJ Barner, to give the Seahawks a 19-0 lead. Very briefly, the Patriots started to make it interesting, getting to 19-7 and driving for a 2nd touchdown, and we were all, "Oh, here we go again: No Belichick, no Brady, but are the Patriots cheating again? Is this gonna be another comeback like Super Bowl LI between the Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons, 28-3 becomes a Patriot overtime win?

But, no: That drive ended with 8:37 to go, with an interception by Julian Love that led to Myers' 5th field goal. It was then that I saw in the eyes of Maye the look of a quarterback who knew he was going to lose the Super Bowl. I had seen it before, in the eyes of Craig Morton in 1978, Ron Jaworski in 1981, Joe Theismann in 1984, Dan Marino in 1985, Tony Eason in 1986, John Elway 3 times in the late 1980s before he finally won two in the late 1990s, Jim Kelly 4 times in the early 1990s, Kurt Warner in 2002, Peyton Manning in 2014, and even 3-time winner Patrick Mahomes last year.

And on the Pats' next drive, Uchenna Nwosu intercepted a weak Maye pass, and returned it 45 yards for, Cliché Alert, the nail in the coffin. These 2 turnovers were a quick redemption for the Seahawk defense, which people were beginning to doubt. Final score: Seattle 29, New England 13.

The Seahawks had won their 2nd Super Bowl, and Seattle's 4th World Championship, following their win in Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014, the 1979 NBA Championship of the now-on-hiatus Seattle SuperSonics, and the 1st Stanley Cup won by an American team, in 1917, but the long-defunct Seattle Metropolitans. If you count Major League Soccer, add 2 for the Seattle Sounders: 2016 and 2019. If you count the WNBA, add 4 for the Seattle Storm: 2004, 2010, 2018 and 2020. So that would be 10 titles for the Queen City of the Northwest.

Mike McDonald, at 38, became the 3rd-youngest head coach to win a Super Bowl, following Sean McVay of the Los Angeles Rams in LV and Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers in XLIII, who were each 36. Kenneth Walker III rushed for 135 yards, the most in a Super Bowl in 28 years, and was named the MVP. And Darnold joined a select group of quarterbacks who had been mishandled by teams before being signed by teams willing to take a chance on them, and leading them to Super Bowl glory: Len Dawson, Earl Morrall, Jim Plunkett, Doug Williams, Brad Johnson, Drew Brees and Matthew Stafford.

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As for the entertainment: The opening ceremony was led by Bay Area-based rock band Green Day, who played the title track of their best-known album, American Idiot. It was written in reflection of the President at the time, George W. Bush. Who knew that, one day, we would have a President whose words and actions would make him look even more idiotic?

Openly lesbian singer Brandi Carlisle sang "America the Beautiful." Black singer Coco Jones, daughter of 1990s Patriots player Mike Jones, sang "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a.k.a. "The Black National Anthem," to which Trump and conservatives have objected in the past. The actual National Anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," was sung by Charlie Puth, a white singer; but he was accompanied by saxophonist Kenny G, who is Jewish; and 3 multicultural groups: The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, the Sainted Trap Choir, and the Color of Noize Orchestra. All 3 songs were signed for the hearing impaired by men of color: "America the Beautiful" by Julian Ortiz, Hispanic; the other 2 by Fred Beam, black. It was multicultural, it was intersectional, and regardless of whether it was designed to make Trump angry, it surely did.

The halftime show was led by Puerto Rican singer Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, a.k.a. Bad Bunny. When it was announced that he would be the halftime performer, Donald Trump lost whatever passes for his mind, seeing him as an immigrant who doesn't speak English, and doesn't represent American values. Puerto Ricans have officially been American citizens since President Woodrow Wilson, a man not exactly known for his tolerance of people of color, signed the Jones-Shafroth Act in 1917.

Did Bad Bunny make a political statement? Puedes apostar lo que quieras. (That means, "You can bet whatever you want." Apparently, there is no proper Spanish translation for the old Laugh-In phrase, "You bet your sweet bippy.") His delivery was almost entirely in Spanish. The show began with a stage full of people working in sugarcane fields, emblematic of Puerto Rico's poverty. He made a reference to Puerto Rico's troublesome electrical power grid, which the federal government has a responsibility to maintain, and doesn't.

He had a stage set of a block in a Puerto Rican city neighborhood, showing that Latinos and Latinas are just like Anglos, and just like any other immigrants. At one point, he fell through the stage, and seemed to crash into a private home, which the viewing audience took as a swipe at ICE's illegal entries.

In the show's most-talked-about moment, he handed an actual Grammy Award to a little boy. Officially, the boy was supposed to represent the boy he had once been, dreaming of stardom. But millions of people thought the boy was supposed to represent Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old Minneapolis resident detained by ICE for 12 days. Millions of those thought it actually was Liam, inadvertently bringing up the old racist trope of "They all look alike to me."

Guest stars included an earlier Puerto Rican singer, Ricky Martin; Dominican-American rapper Cardi B; Mexican-American actress and businesswoman, and Bay Area native, Jessica Alba; and the only English-first performer of the show, Lady Gaga, who had been the halftime performer at Super Bowl LI. Bad Bunny closed by holding up a football printed with the words, "TOGETHER, WE ARE AMERICA," surrounded by the flags of every nation in the Western Hemisphere -- including, it should be noted, the United States -- and, emblazoned on the main scoreboard in big capital letters, "THE ONLY THING STRONGER THAN HATE IS LOVE." The message was inescapable.

So this Super Bowl also provided a moment of redemption for all of us, not just those of Spanish heritage, because we are all descended from immigrants. I understood maybe 1 word out of 5 that Bad Bunny sang, and I am not a fan of Latin music. And I didn't immediately understand every message that he was trying to send. But I certainly understood that he was sending messages.

And Trump got the message. Instead of watching the "alternative halftime show" put on by Turning Point USA, the organization run by the recently assassinated bigot Charlie Kirk, Trump clearly watched the Bad Bunny show, and called it "disgusting," and saying it didn't uphold American values.

This has now been said so often, I have to issue a Cliché Alert for it: With Donald Trump, every accusation is a confession.

The alternative show was watched by about 6 million people. The main show, and the game it paused? About 135 million. The game itself had an average of about 125 million, slightly under last season's all-time record.

The Seahawks have a Ring of Honor. The inductees are:

* From the 1980s: Quarterbacks Jim Zorn and Dave Krieg, running back Curt Warner, receiver Steve Largent, defensive end Jacob Green, cornerback Dave Brown, safety Kenny Easley, head coach Chuck Knox, and broadcaster Pete Gross.

* From the 1990s: Defensive tackle Cortez Kennedy.

* From their 2005 AFC Champions: Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, running back Shaun Alexander, offensive tackle Walter Jones, head coach Mike Holmgren, and team owner Paul Allen.

* As of yet, no members of the Super Bowl XLVIII winners, and obviously not from their Super Bowl LX winners, have yet been inducted.

Zorn, Warner, Holmgren and Gross have been elected to the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame. So have 1992-93 running bach Rueben Mayes and 1995-98 head coach Dennis Erickson (both elected mainly on their performance at Washington State University), 1997-98 quarterback Warren Moon (a University of Washington graduate who starred elsewhere), 1970s to 2000s executive Gary Wright, 1980s and '90s executive Chuck Allen (no relation to Paul, but a UW graduate), and 1970s receiver and 1990s-onward broadcaster Steve Raible.

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February 8, 2026 was, like all Super Bowl days, a Sunday. Of course, there were no other football games. Baseball was out of season. The NHL was on its Winter Olympic hiatus. There were 4 games in the NBA:

* The New York Knick beat their arch-rivals, the Boston Celtics, 111-89 at the TD Garden in Boston. Jalen Brunson scored 31 points.

* The Miami Heat beat the Washington Wizards, 132-101 at the Capital One Arena in Washington.

* The Toronto Raptors beat the Indiana Pacers, 122-104 at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.

* And the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Minnesota Timberwolves, 115-96 at the Target Center in Minneapolis. Kawhi Leonard scored 41.