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LARAMIE Morgan Moses Jersey , Wyo. (AP) — football team nearly 50 years ago returned to the university Friday to dispel myths about their experience and show other black athletes that they can successfully overcome major obstacles.One of the myths that the players, who are known collectively as the “Black 14,” wanted to dispel was that they had walked out on the team and refused to play back in the fall of 1969 when they were kicked off the team by coach Lloyd Eaton for wanting to wear black armbands in a game against Brigham Young over the treatment of black players by that team during games and the discriminatory policies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints back then.“We wanted to wear the armbands as a display of protest that, ‘Hey, believe what you want but don’t bring it on the gridiron,'” Guillermo Hysaw said.The truth, they said, was Eaton had gathered them together and dismissed them en masse before the players could even ask permission to wear the armbands.Wyoming Colt McCoy Jersey , which had lost only one game the previous year to LSU in the Sugar Bowl, was undefeated at the time in the 1969 season, but eventually lost four games after the episode. Wyoming won only one game the following season, and Eaton was forced out with the school’s reputation being scarred for years afterward.The seven returned for Wyoming’s Black History Month and Martin Luther King Jr. Days of Dialogue events this week.Before this week, the seven players had never appeared together on the Wyoming campus since 1969.Among them was Tony McGee, who played for the Washington Redskins when they won the Super Bowl in 1983.McGee said the players want to show others that they persevered in life despite the traumatic event that left them labeled as “rabble-rousers and troublemakers” and cost some of them possible careers in the NFL.Hysaw said his biggest disappointment was that Eaton died before he could ask him why he acted as he did with the players.“I really wish, more than anything else, more than going to the NFL Niles Paul Jersey , is having that conversation with him, and not a monologue but a dialogue,” he said. ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Rookie tackle Geron Christian is out for the rest of the season in the latest significant injury to the Washington Redskins‘ offensive line.Coach Jay Gruden said Monday that Christian will miss the final seven games of the regular season and any in the playoffs after tearing the medial collateral ligament in his right knee. Christian, the Redskins' third-round pick who was forced into action by a bevy of injuries, hurt his knee Sunday at Tampa Bay.Christian's season-ending injury is the third along Washington's offensive line after knee injuries to starting guards Brandon Scherff and Shawn Lauvao. Starting left tackle Trent Williams is expected to miss his third consecutive game this week against the Houston Texans after surgery for a dislocated right thumb. Tackles Ty Nsekhe and Morgan Moses having been playing through injuries, and the team was forced to sign offensive linemen Jonathan Cooper, Austin Howard and Luke Bowanko last week. Cooper started at left guard Shawn Lauvao Jersey , and Howard is the Redskins' new swing tackle.Gruden said wide receiver Jamison Crowder, who has missed the past five games with an ankle injury, would have an MRI with an eye toward practicing Thursday. Williams won't practice this week, Gruden said, adding that the team is continuing to take a wait-and-see approach with third-down back Chris Thompson, who has missed the past two games with a rib injury.