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Positional
bias still
common
across NFL
Running backs coaches
remain 93% nonwhite
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For more than 30 years, NFL

teams quietly avoided hiring Black
assistants to coach certain position
groups, mostly those in the middle
“This is
of the field like quarterback or the of-
unfortunately
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league’s
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overwhelmed by flooding “This is unfortunately part of our Dungy

league’s history,” said Hall of Fame
coach Tony Dungy, who got his first
assistant coaching job in 1981.
Record rain strands IN NEWS In some ways, history hasn’t
changed.
residents, animals Death toll Nearly two decades after the im-
plementation of the Rooney Rule,
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climbs to 54 USA TODAY Sports compiled and
USA TODAY 800,000 homes and analyzed demographic information
businesses in Florida for all 722 on-field coaches in the
VENICE, Florida – Battling rising still without power. 2A NFL at the start of this season.
floodwaters on boat and horseback, res- The analysis reveals that, even in
cuers plucked stranded residents from What’s next for 2022, there are stark racial dispari-
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ground as the Myakka River overflowed storm season? sition groups – evidence of subcon- Sports found
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with how hurricanes push water into and head coaching positions while years, only
their neighborhoods, said Hurricane Ian stunting the progress of their Black one coach
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came three days after the storm’s pas- Particularly on the offensive side running
sage. ‘Don’t let your of the ball, USA TODAY Sports found backs resume
The heavy storm surge was exacer- coaches of color are still heavily con- – Anthony
bated by hours of pounding rainfall in Chelsea Sunderman rode Ringo
guard down’ centrated in positions that histori- Lynn – has
Central Florida – leading to deep inland through floodwaters on Saturday near Fraud expert warns cally offered fewer promotion op- been hired as
Venice, Fla., as the Myakka River rose homeowners of a head coach.
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HURRICANE IAN

Ian, Fiona shatter hopes for quiet season

Claire Thornton USA TODAY

The Atlantic hurricane season was off to a quiet start before several storms exploded onto the scene in September, and the same forces that allowed Ian to rapidly
intensify could lead to more hurricanes in coming weeks, meteorologists warn. h Ian struck Florida last week after an unusually inactive summer in which no named
tropical storms or hurricanes formed in the Atlantic Ocean from July 3 to Aug. 30. The last time that happened was 1941, according to researchers.

A quiet start to hurricane season What happened during What do forecasts

The 2022 hurricane season got off to a slow start,
but by August meteorologists warned there could
still be strong storms ahead.
“The first part of the season could have been more
active than it was,” Susan Buchanan, the National
Weather Service director of public affairs, told USA
TODAY in a statement.
Fewer weather systems developed off Africa’s west
coast this summer, and there were “unfavorable
conditions” for them to turn into tropical storms
in the western Atlantic, Smerbeck said.
Tropical storm activity usually picks up during the
“peak” from late August into October, according
to the Weather Service.
Based on data from 1991-2020, the average Atlantic
hurricane season has 14 named storms, with three
of them being major hurricanes (Categories 3, 4 or 5
on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale),
according to the National Hurricane Center.
The devastation in Florida, the Carolinas and Puerto
Rico from major Hurricanes Ian and Fiona is more
than enough to label the 2022 hurricane season
a “bad” one, Buchanan said.
past ‘calm’ seasons? show for October?
There are no guarantees that this summer’s quiet
AccuWeather and National Weather Service
hurricane season will return or that the season will
meteorologists are monitoring a disturbance
continue to be active.
in the eastern Atlantic south of the Cabo Verde
Since 1950, we’ve had two quiet Augusts with no Islands that could morph into a tropical storm.
named storms: 1961 and 1997, according to Phil
“There is now a high chance that a tropical wave
Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado
south of the Cabo Verde Islands will develop into
State University.
an organized tropical system,” AccuWeather
But 1961 had an extremely busy September, and Senior Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski said.
that ended up a hyperactive season, whereas
If wind shear remains low, Smerbeck said,
1997 was a strong El Niño year and was a
that disturbance could turn into a tropical
below-average season.
storm or worse.
A phenomenon called wind shear played a big role
“That one has potential to become more
in this hurricane season’s marked uptick starting
organized,” he said. Meteorologists will
in September, Smerbeck said.
know more in coming days, Smerbeck said.
In order for tropical storms to form, he explained,
The next named Atlantic storm will be called Julia.
they have to build upwards to grow in strength,
From there, the names Karl and Lisa are next.
like a tower of bricks. When there’s less wind shear
to knock over the tower, a tropical storm or Storms are given names once they have sustained
hurricane is able to grow stronger, which is exactly winds of 39 mph. A storm becomes a hurricane
what happened with Ian, Smerbeck said. when it reaches winds of 74 mph.
“It’s like you took the lid off the atmosphere Contributing: Doyle Rice, Jordan Mendoza
in September,” Smerbeck said.

NEWS BRIEFING

Death toll climbs to 54;

more than 4K rescued
The death toll from Hurricane Ian
rose to 54 and power remained out to
more than 800,000 homes and busi-
nesses across Florida on Sunday, four
days after the Category 4 beast
slammed ashore along the state’s Gulf
Coast.
Confirmed fatalities included 47 in
Florida, four in North Carolina and three
in Cuba, where Ian made its first landfall
Tuesday. The count remained fluid Sun-
day.
More than 4,000 people have been
rescued in Florida by local, state and
federal authorities, FEMA and U.S.
Coast Guard officials said. Most rode out
the storm on barrier islands – and Sani-
bel and Pine islands remained essen-
DeSantis defends evacuation
Gov. Ron DeSantis continued Satur-
day to defend the timing of evacuation
orders by southwest Florida officials
amid lingering questions about
whether they came too late for many
residents.
DeSantis recounted the shifting
path of Hurricane Ian, which was seen
as likely targeting Tampa Bay shortly
before an eastward turn brought it fur-
ther south along the Gulf Coast. Haley Milenki rides Ronin, one of eight horses relocated in Venice, Fla., amid rising
Lee County emergency managers floodwater following last week’s hurricane. THOMAS BENDER/USA TODAY NETWORK
ordered evacuations Tuesday morn-
ing, a day before the deadly storm
made landfall in the county with what
DeSantis described as “biblical storm Flooding ‘Man, that’s a lot of water’

tially inaccessible Sunday.
Parts of the causeway to Sanibel col-
lapsed, and the bridge to Pine, the larg-
est barrier island off Florida’s Gulf
Coast, was destroyed by the storm.
Some residents were evacuated by heli-
copter.
Residents of Harlem Heights, Fla.,
salvage possessions from their
apartments swamped by floodwaters
from Hurricane Ian. REBECCA SANTATA/AP
“The water just kept pounding the
house and we watched boats, houses –
we watched everything just go flying
by,” resident Joe Conforti said. “When
the water’s at your door, and it’s splash-
ing on the door and you’re seeing how
fast it’s moving, there’s no way you’re
going to survive that.”
Florida Power & Light, the state’s
largest power company, said it had re-
stored electricity to more than 1.5 mil-
lion customers, including all hospitals
in its service area. More than 20,000
workers were involved in the restoration
effort.
“Even given the unprecedented
devastation caused by the storm, I can
now confidently say that our restoration
will be completed in a matter of days,
not weeks,” company CEO Eric Silagy
said.
The weakened storm was meander-
ing up the East Coast on Sunday, con-
tinuing to bring rain as far north as
Washington, D.C.
surge.”
“They were following the data,” De-
Santis said. “When we went to bed
Monday night, people were saying this
is a direct hit on Tampa Bay.”
NC ‘avoided the worst of it’
In North Carolina, the storm
downed trees and power lines. Three
of the four deaths in the state were
from storm-related vehicle tragedies,
one was carbon monoxide poisoning
from a generator in a garage.
Gov. Roy Cooper said Sunday that
dozens of roads remained closed. Still,
he said “we have avoided the worst of
it,” and help is already being offered to
Florida.
“We sympathize with the people in
Florida,” Cooper said. “And since the
storm has passed North Carolina, we
are already in discussions with Florida
officials to try to make sure that we
help them. This is a time when we all
have to pull together to make sure that
people are safe.”
Bidens to see damage firsthand
President Joe Biden and first lady
Jill Biden will travel to Florida this
week, according to the White House, to
see firsthand the widespread damage
caused by Hurricane Ian, one of the
most powerful storms to strike the
nation, and the recovery being carried
out by tens of thousands of local, state
and federal workers and volunteers.
The Bidens will travel to Puerto Rico
on Monday and then head to Florida on
Wednesday, White House press secre-
tary Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted Satur-
day night. Hurricane Fiona slammed
Puerto Rico as a Category 1 storm on
Sept. 18.
“It’s not just a crisis for Florida,” Bi-
den said Friday from the White House.
“This is an American crisis. We’re all in
this together.”
Contributing: John Bacon and
Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY; John Ken-
nedy and Sergio Bustos, USA TODAY
Network Florida; The Associated Press
Continued from Page 1A
flooding. Several longtime residents
blamed new developments for de-
stroying historic floodplains able to
soak up the water.
“We’re used to flooding, but we’ve
never seen anything like this,” said
Jennifer Stringer, 50, a high school
teacher who has lived alongside the
river since 2011. “All that water has no
place to go.”
The high waters forced a nearly 24-
hour closure of Interstate 75 over the
river as engineers assessed the dam-
age to bridge piers about seven miles
inland from the coast. The closure
caused massive traffic jams Friday
night as returning evacuees struggled
to get home.
Stringer said when she left her
house two days earlier, water was 6
inches below the front door of her stilt
home. The water was significantly
higher Saturday, and she worried what
she’d find as she boarded a small boat
to float down the road into her neigh-
borhood.
‘Worst I’ve ever seen it here’
By Saturday afternoon, a flotilla of
boats was buzzing around the neigh-
borhood.
Bruce Phillips, 61, grimly climbed
aboard a borrowed kayak to paddle to
his longtime home off Border Road,
near the Sleeping Turtles park. He and
his family have lived there for 45 years,
and he feared what he’d find.
Phillips evacuated his elderly moth-
er before the storm arrived, and came
back Saturday to check on the proper-
ty. Phillips remembered minor flood-
ing during previous storms and float-
ing around on 55-gallon drums as a
kid. Ian, he said, was different.
“It’s the worst I’ve ever seen it here,”
he said.
Most of the flooding occurred in-
land of Venice, impacting several
ranches, including Stepping Stones
Farms, where volunteers swam eight
horses out to dry land Saturday.
“You see the water and it’s like, ‘man
that’s a lot of water.’ It’s crazy,” said Ja-
son White, 40, who helped tear down
fences so his friends could remove the
animals. “But the horses intuitively
know what to do.”
Chelsea Sunderman, 33, rode out on
a horse named Ringo, snapping a selfie
midswim. She said she helped rescue a
calf the night before, and returned Sat-
urday to help others with the horses.
“I can’t believe we did that,” Sunder-
man said after loading Ringo into a
horse trailer for evacuation.
Scott Benge, 54, who owns Stepping
Stones Farm, said bringing the horses to
a safe barn where they could be fed and
watered was an immense relief.
He said he and his family had been
wading through the waters as they rose,
trying to keep the horses fed, watered
and safe.
“It’s a huge burden lifted off our
shoulders,” he said. “We can ride in a
boat, but the horses can’t.”
Concerns time was running out
Authorities had no reports of deaths
from the flooding, but were concerned
about the safety of a Sarasota County
water treatment plant.
On Saturday, the waters were still ris-
ing, and Nikki Duyn worried aloud
about her neighbors and livestock.
Duyn’s home was spared, but she
fretted about the cows and goats still
stuck on grassy islands within the
flooded areas. Her family spent several
days helping extract horses and other
livestock from the flood zones, and
Duyn shared their work on TiKTok to
her 56,000 followers, prompting a flood
of requests for help.
As the sun began to descend over the
flooded neighborhood, Duyn fretted
there wasn’t enough time to help every-
one, despite the best efforts of her hus-
band and his large extended family.
Even her 12-year-old son, Cody, was
pressed into service as a rescue boat
captain, zooming over the top of fences,
dodging submerged mailboxes and cir-
cling neighbor’s flooded yards.
“It just keeps coming,” Duyn said.
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NATION
NFL
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portunities. Twenty-nine of the league’s
31 running backs coaches this season –
or 93% – are coaches of color. Wide re-
ceivers coaches are 70% nonwhite.
Offensive line and quarterbacks
coaches, meanwhile, are 90% and 81%
white, respectively.
“That’s what you might call positional
segregation,” said Cyrus Mehri, co-foun-
der of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, a non-
profit organization that champions di-
versity in the NFL.
“Just as we had a long march for
breaking barriers on the field, breaking
through with the ‘thinking person’ posi-
tions, we’re still seeing coaching segre-
gation.”
Much has been made about the lack of
diversity among NFL head coaches and
coordinators – and at the quarterback
coach position, which has long served as
a springboard to those top jobs. But far
less attention has been paid to the other
end of the spectrum – coaches of color
being hired but then pigeonholed into
roles where there is little hope of ad-
vancement.
USA TODAY Sports found that in the
past seven years, only six running backs
coaches have been promoted to offen-
sive coordinator. Just one coach with a
running backs resume, Anthony Lynn,
has been hired as a head coach during
that span.
“Already, being Black, I’m at a disad-
vantage in the NFL,” Denver Broncos
running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley
told USA TODAY Sports. “Then coaching
the running backs, you’re not working
with the quarterbacks. So, to some
coaches, you’re in no man’s land.”
‘We’re going to die trying’
The NFL’s coaching diversity issues
are long-standing and well-document-
ed.
In a league where an estimated 70%
of players identify as nonwhite, only six
of 32 teams have a nonwhite head coach
this season. And only three of those head
coaches – Houston’s Lovie Smith, Pitts-
burgh’s Mike Tomlin and Tampa Bay’s
Todd Bowles – are Black.
NFL executive vice president of foot-
ball operations Troy Vincent said the
league has “fallen quite short of where
we should be,” at least with regard to
head coaching diversity.
“The current effort hasn’t worked, but
we’re going to die trying,” Vincent said.
“We’ve got to keep doing what we can do,
being as creative as (we) can possibly be
until there’s a change of heart and the in-
dividuals making these decisions just
frankly look at these men a little differ-
ently.”
Hope lies in what he and other NFL
executives often refer to as “the pipeline”
– the lower rungs of the NFL coaching
ladder, where coaches of color can be
identified and shaped into future head
coaches.
In an effort to better understand this
pipeline, USA TODAY Sports compiled a
wide range of historic and biographic da-
ta for every on-field NFL coach at the
start of this season – from head coaches
and coordinators all the way down to
quality control coaches and fellows.
In addition to age, family ties, playing
experience and employment histories,
USA TODAY Sports independently veri-
fied the race and ethnicity of each coach
using published news articles, public
records and information provided by
team employees, agents and coaches.
Among the key findings from USA TO-
DAY Sports’ data:
h Of the 722 on-field coaches in the
NFL this season, 314 (or 43.5%) identify
as nonwhite, which is believed to be the
largest figure, by count, in league history.
h More than 50% of coaches at the
lowest levels – quality control, coaching
assistants and fellows – are nonwhite,
compared to only 27% at the coordinator
level or above.
h The Pittsburgh Steelers (63%) and
Houston Texans (60%) boast the highest
percentage of non-white coaches on
staff, while the Cincinnati Bengals (24%)
and Kansas City Chiefs (30%) have the
least.
A spokesman for the Chiefs said the
organization has long been committed to
diversity. While Kansas City has among
the least diverse staffs this year, tradi-
tionally, the team and coach Andy Reid
have been among the biggest champions
of diversity in the NFL. In 2018, Reid was
awarded the Fritz Pollard Alliance’s
“game ball” for fostering opportunities
for candidates of color in coaching and
front office positions.
A spokeswoman for the Bengals said
the team’s data “reflects a snapshot in
time and does not represent the full pic-
Charles London spent nine years as a running backs coach in the NFL and
colleges. London is now the quarterbacks coach for the Falcons. ELSA/GETTY IMAGES
ture,” adding that the organization has a
long history of supporting diversity, dat-
ing to 1946 when founder Paul Brown
signed Marion Motley and Bill Willis to
the Cleveland Browns. They were among
the “Forgotten Four” players who helped
break pro football’s color barrier.
h 54% of defensive coaches at all lev-
els are nonwhite, compared with just
40% of offensive coaches and 32% of
special teams coaches.
h At the position coach level, 40% of
the nonwhite assistants on offense
coach one position: running backs.
The Rooney Rule, enacted in 2003,
was designed to increase the number of
people of color in head coaching, general
manager and other executive positions.
However, its success has been limited.
Vincent said the league office has
been aware of the racial disparities be-
tween coaches at different position
groups and has worked to address them,
but stereotypes persist.
“That’s a tight-knit fraternity, with
nepotism and all of those things coming
at play, it’s really hard to crack in those
rooms,” Vincent said.
“You’re talking about three to four of-
fensive line coaches in the National Foot-
ball League that are Black. That’s ridicu-
lous, when the greatest players who’ve
ever played the game are African-Amer-
ican.”
The most glaring divide is between
quarterbacks and running backs coach-
es.
As a case study, USA TODAY Sports
followed the career paths of the 32 men
in each role during the 2015 season.
Fourteen of those running backs coaches
are still in the NFL, and 12 still coach run-
ning backs. One is now an offensive co-
ordinator and one is a quarterbacks
coach. Sixteen of the quarterbacks
coaches from that season still coach in
the NFL, and just four are still quarter-
backs coaches. Five are now head coach-
es and four are offensive coordinators.
“I know a lot of guys have gotten type-
cast or pigeonholed, as far as not being
an offensive coordinator or not having
more input as far as the offense is con-
cerned,” said Northern Illinois head
coach Thomas Hammock, who was the
Baltimore Ravens’ running backs coach
from 2014 to 2018.
“I think sometimes the perception is
that anybody can coach running backs.”
Hammock, who is Black, suggested
that perception lingers even within
coaching staffs.
‘So where’s that excuse now?’
The disparities among NFL position
coaches are reminiscent of those that
have existed for decades among players
– a concept known as “stacking.”
“Black players tend to be found at po-
sitions where ‘speed’ and ‘quickness’ are
thought necessary,” USA TODAY wrote in
a 1991 examination of the issue, “(and)
white players at positions where ‘intelli-
gence’ and ‘leadership’ are considered
important.”
Data published by The Institute for
Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the Uni-
versity of Central Florida has helped
shed light on this issue in the NFL.
From 1999 to 2014, which is the most
recent year for which data is available,
TIDES found the highest percentages of
white NFL players at quarterback, center
and linebacker. The highest percentages
of Black players during that time were at
wide receiver, cornerback and running
back.
Multiple coaches, agents and execu-
tives pointed to these disparities as the
crux of the coaching issue. There are so
many Black running backs coaches, the
thinking goes, because there are so many
Black running backs.
Will Harris, one of the few Black
agents who represents an NFL coach,
said most entry-level coaches don’t even
USA TODAY ❚ TUESDAY OCTOBER 4, 2022 ❚ 3A
Key findings from USA
TODAY Sports’ data
314 out of 722
on-field coaches
in the NFL this season (or 43.5%)
identify as nonwhite, which is believed
to be the largest figure, by count, in
league history.
More than
50% of coaches
at the lowest levels — quality control,
coaching assistants and fellows — are
nonwhite, compared with only 27% at
the coordinator level or above.
Pittsburgh Houston Texans
Steelers running running backs
backs coach Eddie coach Danny
Faulkner Barrett
Highest percentage
of nonwhite coaches
h The Pittsburgh Steelers: 63%
h Houston Texans: 60%
Cincinnati Bengals Kansas City Chiefs
running backs wide receivers
coach Justin Hill coach Greg Lewis
Lowest percentage
of nonwhite coaches
h Cincinnati Bengals: 24%
h Kansas City Chiefs: 30%
IN SPORTS
Quest to level playing
field for Black coaches
Former Miami coach Brian Flores’ suit
takes a stand, columnist Bell writes. 1C
have a choice. They coach the position
they played because that gives them the
best chance to land a job.
“The calculation is never, ‘I’m going to
come and have to learn everything on the
job,’ ” said Harris, an attorney and man-
aging member of Icon Sports Consulting.
The issue, however, is what often
happens next.
In lieu of promotions to offensive co-
ordinator, top running backs coaches are
often given raises and an additional title,
such as “associate head coach” or “run
game coordinator.” Seven of the NFL’s 31
running backs coaches have such titles
this season. (The Panthers do not have a
running backs coach by title, but assis-
tant head coach for offense Jeff Nixon,
who is Black, previously coached the po-
sition.)
Some running backs coaches stay in
the job simply because they love it. But
many get stuck. Dungy said this illus-
trates a systemic and complex issue in
the NFL. It’s not just that Black coaches
are kept out of head coaching jobs, he
said, but that in many cases they are kept
off the surest path to advancement alto-
gether.
That hasn’t historically been a prob-
lem for white coaches. Many get jobs
coaching quarterbacks even if they never
played the position. Of the 35 white NFL
coaches who work specifically with
quarterbacks in 2022, USA TODAY
Sports found 15 of them did not play
quarterback in college or the pros.
“The old thing used to be, ‘Well the
quarterbacks are white, so the quarter-
backs coaches are white, and they relate
better,’” said NFL coaching agent Brian
Levy, who counts several prominent
Black coaches among his 100-plus cli-
ents.
“Well now you have a ton of minority
quarterbacks. So where’s that excuse
now?”
Two paths clear as Black and white
Deland McCullough’s career trajec-
tory is common among running backs
coaches.
After a brief professional playing ca-
reer at the position, he climbed quickly
up the ranks as a coach – first in college,
at Indiana and Southern California, be-
fore reaching the NFL in 2018 with the
Kansas City Chiefs. He won a Super Bowl
with the team two years later and was
recognized as the NFL’s running backs
coach of the year.
In 2021, however, McCullough re-
turned to college as an associate head
coach at Indiana. He accepted the run-
ning backs coach job at Notre Dame in
February and said he stayed there de-
spite overtures from the New York Gi-
ants, who wanted to hire him in the same
role.
McCullough, 49, stressed that he
loved his time in the NFL. But he also
said he didn’t think he could advance to
head coach there from the running backs
position, like he could in college.
“In college, I don’t have to convince
people I can be more than just a running
back coach,” McCullough said. “In the
NFL, I think I would.”
McCullough is one of eight running
backs coaches who have left the NFL for
a college job since 2015. Others stay in
the league but instead switch positions,
such as Thomas Brown of the Los Ange-
les Rams, who moved from running
backs to tight ends coach this year, or At-
lanta Falcons quarterbacks coach
Charles London.
Leave or get stuck
For Rod Graves, who heads the Fritz
Pollard Alliance, the racial makeup of
coaches at different positions is not sur-
prising because it’s nothing new.
In 1991, the league had 51 Black assis-
tant coaches, according to The Tampa
Bay Times. None of them coached quar-
terbacks or the offensive line, and more
than half coached running backs or wide
receivers.
“We’ve always had a sense that there
were lots of minority coaches, Black
coaches in particular, at the running
back position,” Graves said. “I think it is a
question of whether or not there’s any
sort of racial intent behind it. I’m not cer-
tain that that’s the case. But I think it’s
something that needs to be discussed.”
Graves said the larger concern isn’t
who coaches which position, but rather
the opportunities afforded to coaches of
color across the board.
And, at least for now, the coordinator
pipeline goes through the quarterbacks
room.
That’s why, for the first time, the
league office mandated this spring that
each team hire a minority coach as an of-
fensive assistant. The assistant is re-
quired to have “regular and direct con-
tact with the Head Coach, Offensive Co-
ordinator, Offensive Line, Quarterback,
and Tight End coaches” – a nod to the po-
sitions that most make up the head
coaching pipeline.
University of Maryland head coach
Mike Locksley, who founded the Nation-
al Coalition of Minority Football Coaches
in 2020, called the league’s initiative a
“small step in the right direction.”
Locksley spent eight seasons as a col-
lege running backs coach early in his ca-
reer before Ron Zook hired him as the of-
fensive coordinator and tight ends coach
at Illinois in 2005. The next year, Lock-
sley said he went to Zook and told him he
wanted to coordinate from the quarter-
backs room.
Dungy said his advice to young run-
ning backs coaches would be to do exact-
ly what Locksley did: Approach your
head coach and ask to move to another
position.
“Or else you might get stuck,” Dungy
said.
Contributing: Nancy Armour and Jori
Epstein
4A ❚ TUESDAY OCTOBER 4, 2022 ❚ USA TODAY
NATION
Searching for solace in
survivors helped by hero
Amanda Lee Myers
USA TODAY
When a music concert turned into a
killing field in Las Vegas, Scotty Petter-
sen of Seattle helped so many gunshot
victims, he lost count.
As the bullets hit hundreds of people,
Pettersen, 27, ran his girlfriend and a
nearby family to an ambulance.
The paramedics were out helping
others but inside the ambulance were
four gunshot victims. Pettersen’s EMT
and firefighter training kicked in.
“I grabbed gauze, grabbed bandages
and started wrapping a guy up, and an-
other guy came up who was shot in the
back, and I started wrapping him,” Pet-
tersen told KIRO-TV in Seattle just a few
days after the massacre that killed 58
people on Oct. 1, 2017. It remains the
deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
As Pettersen was helping the man
with the back wound, a woman who had
been shot in the thigh showed up
“bleeding everywhere,” Pettersen said.
“Two seconds later, a guy comes in with
a shoulder wound. Another five sec-
onds, a lady comes in with a neck
wound.
“It didn’t stop,” he said.
Pettersen treated victims until he
was covered “head to toe” in their blood
and the ambulance was out of supplies.
He may have helped save a dozen or
more people.
More than three years later, Petter-
sen, unable to get help for himself, died
by suicide on Jan. 18, 2021, at the age of
31.
Now, on the anniversary of that night
in Vegas, Pettersen’s parents are search-
ing for any of the strangers their son
Court
Continued from Page 1A
A few of the justices themselves
weighed in on that debate over the sum-
mer. Chief Justice John Roberts de-
fended the court, arguing that critics
shouldn’t question its legitimacy just
because they disagree with an opinion.
Associate Justice Elena Kagan ap-
peared to contradict that assessment,
warning that the court risks weakening
its stature if the public views its work as
political.
Though many of the court’s most
controversial decisions last term were
celebrated on the right, polls show pub-
lic confidence took a hit. Four in 10
Americans said they approved of the
Supreme Court in a recent Marquette
Law School poll. That was a 26-percent-
age point slide from two years ago.
Among the major cases this term: a
free speech challenge to Colorado’s an-
ti-discrimination law from a website
developer who wants to deny her ser-
vices for same-sex marriages because
of her religious objections. President
Joe Biden’s administration, meanwhile,
is fending off a lawsuit from Texas and
Louisiana over how much discretion the
federal government has to prioritize cer-
tain immigrants for deportation.
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helped save.
On Sept. 6, Scott and Michele Petter-
sen spread Scotty’s ashes in Maui, the
last place the whole family was togeth-
er. The same day, they posted a plea to a
Facebook group designed to connect the
many everyday heroes of the Vegas
shooting with the people they helped
save.
“We are searching for any survivors
who were treated by our son, who com-
mandeered an ambulance to save his
girlfriend and keep her safe, and during
that time, treated many gunshot vic-
tims who were needing help,” read the
post. “His name was Scotty. We lost him
to suicide several years after the con-
cert. Today is his dad’s birthday, the day
we also placed Scotty’s remains in his fi-
nal resting place on Maui. If you have
any Information, we would be forever
grateful.”
So far, the post hasn’t turned up any
of the people Scotty helped. His parents
hope his large size, good looks and other
unique details might jog some memo-
ries.
That night, Scott, who was 6-foot-1
and 200-pounds, was wearing a short-
sleeved, Hawaiian button-up shirt with
green leaves and pink flowers. He also
had a tattoo: an intricate sleeve that ran
from his right elbow to his shoulder.
Pettersen was treating people at an
ambulance parked in front of the Man-
dalay Bay hotel and was with his blond
girlfriend.
The Facebook group the Pettersens
have turned to for help has connected
dozens if not hundreds of survivors.
People who survive an event like Ve-
gas can find healing by talking to other
survivors, said Tennille Pereira, director
‘The court should overrule it’
Just beyond the debate over the
court’s legitimacy is a question about
some of the justices’ commitment to
precedent. Was the decision to overturn
Roe a one-off, the result of the deeply
personal and decadeslong battle over
Roe? Or was it the first step in a long
march to overturn numerous cases and
systematically reshape constitutional
law along more conservative lines?
The Supreme Court rarely overturns
its decisions. The principle of stare de-
cisis – the adherence to prior rulings –
gives stability to the law. But “rarely”
doesn’t mean “never.”
“Litigants are much more aggres-
sively inviting the court to reconsider
and rewrite established precedent,” said
David Cole, legal director at the Amer-
ican Civil Liberties Union, who regularly
argues before the Supreme Court. “They
see what the court did last term and
they’re asking for more.”
Among the precedents most at risk is
a 2003 ruling, Grutter v. Bollinger, that
allowed universities to consider the race
of applicants as one factor in admis-
sions. Many colleges consider race to
achieve diversity. But an anti-affirma-
tive action group sued Harvard College
and the University of North Carolina,
asserting that that consideration dis-
criminates against Asian American and
other students.
In its appeal to the Supreme Court,
the group is asking for Grutter to be
overruled, arguing the 5-4 decision was
“wrong the day it was decided” and has
“spawned significant negative conse-
quences.” Harvard counters that Grutter
was “resoundingly correct” and that ad-
mitting students “from all over the
world who bring different backgrounds”
is crucial to its mission.
The affirmative action cases could
have sweeping implications not only for
college admissions but also for the pri-
vate sector. Several of the nation’s best-
known companies – including Apple,
General Electric, Google and Starbucks
– are backing the schools.
Precedent may also be in jeopardy in
a major election case, Moore v. Harper.
Republican lawmakers in North Caroli-
na are asking the high court to rule that
state legislatures have the power to
change voting rules without oversight
from state courts. The so-called inde-
pendent state legislature theory is
grounded in a clause in the Constitution
that delegates responsibility for federal
elections to state legislatures with over-
sight by Congress.
That theory, opponents say, is tough
to square with a 2015 decision in which a
5-4 majority of the Supreme Court up-
held a commission that draws Arizona’s
congressional districts – in other words,
If you need help
If you or someone you know is thinking
about suicide, help is available. Call or
text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org
of the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center,
which connects those affected with
mental health services.
“We’ve had people go back to the U.K.
and they’ll reach out to us and they’re
like, ‘I feel so isolated. I need to connect
with someone that would understand
this,’” Pereira said.
Unfortunately, she said, not every-
one seeks or accepts help.
Scotty Pettersen never did.
“We begged him to get help and he
didn’t,” Scott Pettersen said. “Scotty was
the life of the party. He was the one that
turned everyone’s head when he walked
into the room. ... So in everyone’s mind,
he’s Scotty, he’s moved on, he’s fine.
And I believe everybody thought that
but I can’t imagine being in the situation
Chief Justice John Roberts and
Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
leave the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday
after the formal investiture ceremony
for Jackson. JACK GRUBER/USA TODAY
“Litigants are much more
aggressively inviting the
court to reconsider and
rewrite established
precedent. They see what
the court did last term and
they’re asking for more.”
David Cole
Legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union
an entity that is not part of the state
Legislature. The North Carolina law-
makers say a commission is different
from a state court.
But if the Supreme Court ultimately
decides the Arizona case is relevant, the
lawmakers have a solution, which they
raise in a footnote: “The court should
overrule it.”
Race takes center stage
Abortion was the dominant theme in
the term that ended in June. This time,
it is race that ties together many of the
most significant questions before the
high court.
The 14th Amendment’s equal protec-
tion clause is central to the affirmative
action litigation. It’s also key to another
lawsuit dealing with elections.
In Merrill v. Milligan, scheduled for
oral argument Tuesday, Alabama is de-
fending a congressional redistricting
map that includes one majority African
American district out of seven, even
though Black residents make up more
than one quarter of the state’s popula-
tion.
A federal court in Birmingham in Jan-
uary said the state appeared to have giv-
en Black voters “less opportunity than
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Scotty
Pettersen
and his
father, Scott,
embrace on a
beach in 2017
in Maui,
Hawaii, where
some of
Scotty
Pettersen’s
remains were
recently
scattered.
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SCOTT AND
MICHELE
PETTERSEN
he was in and not trying to talk to some-
body.”
The National Suicide Prevention
Lifeline is a hotline for people in crisis or
for those looking to help someone else.
To speak with a certified listener, call 1-
800-273-8255.
Crisis Text Line is a texting service
for emotional crisis support. To speak
with a trained listener, text HELLO to
741741. It is free, available 24/7 and con-
fidential.
If you were affected by the Las Vegas
shooting, the Vegas Strong Resiliency
Center can connect you with a trauma-
informed therapist, help you get in-
volved with peer support and connect
you with healing activities. To schedule
an appointment, call us at 702-455-
2433 or email vegasstrongresiliency-
center@clarkcountynv.gov.
Scott and Michele Pettersen have
started a scholarship to help fund the
education of an aspiring first responder.
They fund the scholarship themselves,
but accept help at https://www.go-
fundme.com/f/scott-a-pettersen-me-
morial-scholarship.
other Alabamians to elect candidates of
their choice” and ruled that the map
probably violated the Voting Rights Act.
Alabama counters that its map is
substantially similar to the one the state
has used for years. To draw what plain-
tiffs want – a map that includes two Af-
rican American majority districts –
would require officials to elevate race
above every other factor mapmakers are
supposed to consider in the redistrict-
ing process, the state says.
The decision could significantly
change how much weight states give to
race as they decide how neighborhoods
are divvied up into congressional dis-
tricts.
New justice, different court?
Another dynamic to watch: How the
court’s new associate justice, Ketanji
Brown Jackson, changes the nation’s
highest bench.
Jackson joined the court in June and
has already taken part in a handful of
emergency cases. But her first oral argu-
ment will coincide with the start of the
term. And soon she’ll be writing opin-
ions along with her colleagues. That will
offer insight into a jurist who avoided
hemming herself into any particular ju-
dicial philosophy during her confirma-
tion hearings.
Because she was nominated by Biden
and replaced retired Associate Justice
Stephen Breyer, who was also nominat-
ed by a Democrat, her arrival isn’t ex-
pected to change outcomes in major
cases.
But Jackson may exert influence in
more subtle ways. She is one of only two
justices, along with Sonia Sotomayor,
with experience presiding over a trial
court.
As a former federal public defender
and member of the U.S. Sentencing
Commission, she also brings an unusual
level of experience in federal criminal
cases.
Jackson is the first Black woman to
sit on the Supreme Court. When the jus-
tices take their seats Monday, it will
mark the first time in history that four
women serve together – including all
three members of the court’s liberal
wing. For the first time, women and peo-
ple of color will also outnumber white
men on the court.
“Too often with the court and in poli-
tics, people look for the immediate
change, the immediate gratification.
But the United States Supreme Court is
a long-term proposition,” said Doug
Jones, the former Alabama senator and
Democrat who helped guide Jackson
through her confirmation. “And she
hopefully will be there for quite a long
time. And her influence with the other
justices, I think, will only grow.”
MONEY
USA TODAY | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2022 | 5A

Robert Powell
Columnist
USA TODAY

When to start
taking Social
Security may
not be clear
Know the ramifications
whether you decide to
claim early or hold off
If you have designs on retiring early,
you’ve got some decisions to make.
Should you claim Social Security
early to pay for living expenses and
hold off on withdrawing money from
other retirement accounts? Or should
you wait to claim Social Security until
your full retirement age or even longer,
say, 70, when you’ll receive the
largest possible benefit? In that case, Heather DeSantis-Holmes and Austin Holmes sit outside of their Airstream. PHOTOS PROVIDED BY HEATHER DESANTIS-HOLMES
you’d withdraw money from other re-
tirement accounts to cover living

Airstream helps pair

expenses.
But what if you decide to delay
claiming Social Security, take money
from other accounts, and then, say, the
value of your retirement investments

find the essentials

drops, and the cost of everything
soars?
Sound familiar? It should. Because
those plunges and surges are exactly
what’s happening with markets and
inflation.
So with those worrying trends un-
folding, will your nest egg run dry?
These are the questions J.P. Morgan
Asset Management aimed to answer in
a recent study. And here’s what it dis-
covered:
Plan for longer life expectancy
Average life expectancy, even with
the recent decline, has increased dra-
matically since 1990 but should be
viewed as a midpoint, not an endpoint,
according to Sharon Carson, executive
director of retirement insights strategy
at J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
Given that, you may need to plan on
the probability of living much longer –
perhaps 35 years in retirement – espe-
cially if you’re a nonsmoker in excel-
lent health, said Carson. How long
might you live? Check out the Actu-
aries Longevity Illustrator.
Look at your investment
performance
The lower your expected long-term
investment return (your profits on it),
which is typical as investors get older,
and the longer your life expectancy,
the more it pays to wait to take your
Social Security benefits if you can,
Carson said.
So, for instance, a woman who ex-
pects a long-term investment return of
5.5% and has a life expectancy of 88
should consider claiming at age 70.
Of course, not everybody can wait
to take Social Security. “Some people
really need the money,” Carson said.
“And there’s nothing wrong with that.”
On average, however, unless you
expect to earn high investment returns
See POWELL, Page 6A
Journey sees them
travel to 33 states, get
married, have a child
Kathleen Wong
USA TODAY
When Heather and Austin Holmes
met in San Diego in February 2018, it
didn’t take long before they knew they
were in it for the long haul. They decid-
ed to make a life plan together and, like
many young couples, needed to pick
where to live.
After over a year of research, they
decided they would find the answer by
embarking on a road trip exploring the
United States via an Airstream at-
tached to their pickup truck. While
they were excited to see the country,
they were really looking for the right
place to plant roots. Starting in De-
cember 2019, they drove across the
country, hitting 33 states, including
Tennessee, Ohio and Florida, spend-
ing a day or two in a new town to see
how they liked it. As the pandemic
halted most travel, the couple was able
to continue going by way of their Air-
stream, affectionately named Freya.
“When you’re living in an Air-
stream, I think you have more space
and time to worry about what matters
most,” Heather, formally known as
Heather DeSantis, said about the ex-
perience.
In the past three years, the couple
experienced milestones living full time
HURRICANE IAN
Austin Holmes and Heather
DeSantis-Holmes with daughter Rose.
in the 23-foot-long Airstream, from dat-
ing to marriage, then pregnancy and the
birth of their daughter, Rose. They also
made stops at Zion National Park, Key
West and Mount Rushmore, to name a
few.
Although the couple is now looking at
building a home in Morganton, North
Carolina, they know the Airstream will
continue to play an integral role in their
family.
The couple spoke to USA TODAY
about how they fit their life in a van,
what it was like to be pregnant in such a
small space, and more about the Air-
stream lifestyle. The interview has been
edited for length and clarity.
Question: How did Freya enter the
plan?
Austin: When I was going on deploy-
ment in November 2018, we went
through all our options, like are we going
to Airbnb hop? Are we going to build out
a van because that was the thing to do at
that point? ... I had some friends that
were getting surf vans and adventure
vans. Then we kind of fell in love with
Airstream and the culture behind it, and
just having a little more space, like hav-
ing your home and all your comforts
with you as you travel. We wanted the
travel piece, and we also wanted to fig-
ure out where we wanted to live.
Heather: We would go to the different
visitor centers to see what there is to do
in each city. A lot of it was seeing what
it’s like for young people. What’s it like
to have a family? If you’re creative? Or, if
you’re an entrepreneur, what is it like?
We looked at how much sunshine, how
much snow, and we literally had a
spreadsheet. From that came a formula
to end up where we are now: We chose
North Carolina in the mountains be-
tween Charlotte and Asheville.
What was the biggest surprise
when it came to living in the Air-
stream?
Austin: The actual driving does eat
up a little bit of time, but I’d spend a
third of my time doing that organiza-
tional piece of figuring out, all right,
where are the places we’re gonna go?
What are we gonna see? Booking every-
thing out. It takes a chunk of time to do
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Craig Harris USA TODAY
An expert on insurance fraud is warning Florida
residents whose properties were damaged by Hur-
ricane Ian to be careful of scams, especially from
construction workers who may ask homeowners
to sign over insurance benefits for a quick fix. Clausen
Gina Clausen Lozier, an insurance attorney for Lozier
15 years who specializes in fraud cases, told USA
TODAY that homeowners should first work with their insurance
companies to file damage claims.
“There will be a lot of frivolous people converging in
the area,” she said. “If it sounds too good to be true, it
likely is.”
More than 45 people have been reported dead in counties
across the state. Sheriffs in southwest Florida said 911 centers
were inundated by thousands of stranded callers, some with life-
threatening emergencies. More than 2.6 million homes and busi-
nesses were without power Thursday.
Clausen Lozier, also a member of the Florida Property and Ca-
sualty Insurance Fraud Task Force, said lawmakers the past few
years have passed new measures to crack down on unscrupu-
lous, out-of-state construction workers who have converged on
Florida after natural disasters.
What to watch for
Clausen Lozier said common scams include:
h Construction firms persuading homeowners to “sign
assignment of benefits” in exchange for quick repairs.
That has allowed those firms to get claim funds from
insurers, which may be above the actual cost of the
work. “If you make an assignment of benefits, they
step in your shoes and you may not understand what
you are giving up,” she said. “You could get more
money from an insurance company. … There is no
reason to give away a portion of your money.”
h Companies seeking to adjust a claim, the process of
determining coverage, legal liability and settlement
payments. Clausen Lozier said only a licensed public
adjuster or a licensed attorney can do that.
What you can do
Clausen Lozier added that consumers can contact the
Florida Department of Financial Services to verify the
license of an adjustor or attorney. She also said
seniors need to be especially careful of scams. “Don’t
let your guard down,” she said.
6A ❚ TUESDAY OCTOBER 4, 2022 ❚ USA TODAY
Why are travelers becoming more demanding?
On Travel
Christopher Elliott
USA TODAY
It’s not your imagination. Travelers
are more demanding than ever. They ex-
pect more from their flights, cruises and
hotel stays – and they are speaking up if
they don’t get it.
A new study by Oregon State Univer-
sity suggests demanding travelers are
everywhere. It found that 91% of hospi-
tality workers have dealt with custom-
ers who believed they inherently de-
served privileges or special treatment.
Of those workers, 70% wanted to leave
the hospitality industry after confront-
ing a demanding consumer.
It turns out travelers have their rea-
sons for being demanding. And while a
demanding customer might affect your
next vacation or business trip, you could
also indirectly benefit from these trav-
elers who expect the world of an airline,
car rental company or hotel.
Why travelers are demanding now
What’s behind this travel trend? It’s
complicated, said Todd Montgomery,
the Oregon State professor who con-
ducted the research. He said the travel
industry is partially to blame because it
promoted the idea that its customers
were always right – even when they
weren’t.
“Also, organizations have had loose
or undefined policies about how to han-
dle an entitled customer,” he added.
And, of course, there’s the easing of
the pandemic, which released hundreds
of thousands of customers into the wild
this summer. “Travelers have sky-high
expectations for the trips,” said Sabrina
Romanoff, a clinical psychologist and
professor in New York City. “They’ve
been fantasizing about them for the past
couple of years. And now they’re able to
take them.”
Romanoff said when people idealize
Family
Continued from Page 5A
that. Luckily, I did a bunch of making
travel plans in the Navy, so I was already
familiar with it.
Just like a regular house, stuff in the
Airstream breaks too. You’re gonna have
your faucets break, and whatever else,
like a hose, is going to crack, or the pow-
er is going to do something weird. That’s
pretty constant, honestly, especially as
you’re moving around, everything’s
shaking. Something breaks, like every
month. They’re not major most of the
time.
Heather: My perspective would be on
working virtually. When I started my
company in 2016, we were virtual, so we
were able to navigate that, but I had to
live on a hot spot and a booster. Austin
also built a standing desk in the Air-
stream, so I had a dedicated working
space that fit in perfectly. It lifts it up,
which was really great to have.
How would you describe the nomad
lifestyle?
Heather: Every part of life flows to-
gether, and that’s what we wanted. The
whole work-life balance thing is not
what we look at; instead, we’re like, how
can we integrate our life so that every-
thing works together? Like, picking
places to go, we ask how can we have a
business meeting and then be at an off-
beat, awesome coffee shop and then go
see a show.
Powell
Continued from Page 5A
you’re probably better off waiting to
claim Social Security until at least full
retirement age, or even age 70, partic-
ularly if you have decent health and
want that insurance for the long run,
said Carson.
Consider inflation
Withdrawing assets in weaker mar-
kets early in retirement – what experts
refer to as sequence-of-return risk – can
ravage a portfolio, according to Carson.
Consider: If you retired at age 65 in
1966 with $1 million in a portfolio of 40%
stocks and 60% bonds, then withdrew
5.2% of the initial portfolio value and
then increased your withdrawal amount
something, they forget about the reality
– “the delays, cancellations, mistakes
and unexpected drawbacks that come
with travel.”
At the same time, the travel experi-
ence has changed because of the pan-
demic.
“I think many travelers are unaware
of – and perhaps even unsympathetic to
– how deeply impacted the travel, tour-
ism and transportation sectors have
been,” said Frank Harrison, regional se-
curity director for North America at
travel risk management company World
Travel Protection. “They have pre-pan-
demic expectations about the level of
service they should be getting at air-
ports, hotels and tourist attractions.”
The lack of sympathy is easily ex-
plained. Travel companies, particularly
airlines, accepted billions of dollars in
government aid during the pandemic.
Then they cut staff and service. Travel-
ers are upset, and they’re taking it out
on the gate agents, hotel clerks and trav-
el advisers, who had nothing to do with
this fiasco.
Either way, travelers haven’t had a
chance to get out in a while. They’ve
been dreaming about – and idealizing –
their next vacation. At the same time,
many have no idea that the industry has
changed for the worse.
Talk about bad timing.
What demanding travelers want
So what do these more demanding
travelers want?
“They have a very high level of expec-
tation,” said Jérôme Montantème, gen-
eral manager of Fauchon L’Hotel, a bou-
tique property in Paris. “They want ev-
erything to be perfect.”
How perfect? Customers were once
content to reach out to the hotel staff
when they wanted something. Now,
they take their requests directly to Mon-
tantème. Whether they want to arrange
a private barge tour of the Seine or a
special meal in Fauchon’s signature res-
taurant, he’ll get the request.
A few blocks away at the Hôtel de
The couple relaxes in their Airstream
while Heather was pregnant.
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by 3%, the average rate of inflation from
1966 through 2000, your portfolio would
be worth zero by age 90.
When could your funds run out?
In its research, J.P. Morgan Asset
Management examined year-end port-
folio values, with individuals claiming
Social Security at various ages, using
historical returns and inflation starting
from 1966. In their study, they used the
following assumptions: a starting port-
folio value of $1.5 million; an initial
spending rate of $80,000; a 40% stocks
and 60% bonds portfolio; and historical
Social Security cost-of-living increases.
Here’s what they found:
A person who claimed Social Securi-
ty at age 62 would have run out of mon-
ey at age 90. A person who claimed So-
cial Security at full retirement age
would have run out of money at age 97
Crillon, a hotel representative told me
the same thing. Their demanding cus-
tomers call months in advance to book a
table at a restaurant. When the con-
cierge doesn’t respond immediately,
they call again. And again.
To be sure, guests at Parisian luxury
hotels were always a little picky. But
when the staff said they’re demanding,
you should pay attention.
Travelers say they are not entitled
Travelers have a different perspec-
tive. When David Kazarian, a pharma-
cist from Tampa, Florida, checked into
an upscale hotel in Hartford, Connecti-
cut, he found that it had failed to restock
the bathroom with bottles of shampoo.
He found a housekeeper on his floor and
asked for a bottle. The staff member as-
sured him he would have it before the
next morning.
But that evening – nothing.
“The shampoo wasn’t there,” he said.
“Nor was the room made up.”
Kazarian doesn’t think he’s being too
demanding. He only wants his hotel to
do what it promises. (I have a free guide
to fixing any consumer problem – in-
cluding a missing amenity – on my con-
sumer advocacy site.)
“Travelers are not becoming more
demanding,” said Andy Abramson, who
runs a communications firm in Las Ve-
gas. “We’re just expecting what we were
used to getting before the pandemic. Is
that asking too much?”
Of course, not. Still, there’s a percep-
tion that travelers today are almost im-
possible to please. These travelers are
making life miserable for the airline,
cruise and hotel employees who are still
on the job.
How demanding travelers can
make your next trip better
But what does that have to do with
you? Knowing that hospitality employ-
ees feel a little burned out can work to
your advantage. If ever there were a
time to be extra nice, to tip a little more
Austin: We don’t need a whole lot of
space, like Heather’s apartment in San
Diego was like 500 square feet or some-
thing, and, you know, I had lived on a
ship in the military, so not a lot of space
there.
Heather: It was more of a struggle for
me, really getting down to the basics,
like having a core set of clothes to wear
routinely. When you’re living in an Air-
stream, I think you have more space and
time to worry about what matters most,
so like taking an extra hour to curl your
hair when you could be at a coffee shop
or hiking or doing an adventure. You
don’t want to waste your time.
What was it like being pregnant on
the road?
Heather: It’s so interesting. People
stress about having a nursery, having a
baby shower and having all these
things. But at the end of the day, when
you don’t have a lot of space, you don’t
have many options to create all these
extra things for your baby. We have a
daughter who needs love, attention,
music and dancing, but she doesn’t
need a lot. So luckily, and thankfully, we
do co-sleeping and it’s been awesome. It
hasn’t been hard at all. Like I think the
hardest thing was when I tried using a
pregnancy pillow, and the bed’s so
small. So like, there’s hardly any room in
the bed, right? Like how do you sleep on
your side with a pregnancy pillow in an
Airstream? But the pregnancy pillow
was more work.
Austin: I became the pregnancy pil-
low. Yeah, I honestly think I had more
and a person who claimed Social Securi-
ty at age 70 would have run out of mon-
ey at age 100.
The research also concluded that a
person with an average life expectancy
of 81 should wait until at least full retire-
ment age to claim Social Security while
someone with a long life expectancy, of
88-plus, should wait until age 70.
“If the markets are not so good, if you
can at least hold on until your full retire-
ment age (to claim Social Security),
that’s probably going to still put you in a
much better position,” Carson said.
Carson also ran simulations to show
which claiming strategy would result in
the highest portfolio values if bad mar-
ket returns were persistent. Here’s what
they found: A person who claimed So-
cial Security at age 62 would run out of
money at age 85; a person who claimed
at full retirement age would run out of
money at age 89’ and a person who
MONEY
for good service, to use your “pleases”
and “thank yous” – it’s now. Your nice-
ness could take you a long way.
A friendly hello or even an “I under-
stand” will make hotel, car rental and
cruise employees go the extra mile to
make your next trip more enjoyable.
This may be the right time to awaken
your inner contrarian – and go in the
other direction.
How to avoid being
a demanding customer
h Look for quality: Some travel
companies are providing excellent ser-
vice, others aren’t. At a time like this,
you need to double down on research to
make sure you’re cruising, driving, fly-
ing, or staying with a company that
meets your expectations. “There is just
a huge chasm between the travelers’
dreamy expectations and the reality of
what the industry is currently capable
of providing,” warned Bill Miller, a vice
president at travel protection program
Medjet.
h Set reasonable expectations:
Many travelers set expectations based
on what they see on TV or TikTok. But
Tina Tolbert, a travel agent who pub-
lishes a blog about theme parks and
travel, said the reality is far different.
“The average American wants a perfect
vacation like they see on social media,”
she said. But many of the social media
influencers who make those videos live
near the amusement parks and know
their way around the property. Her ad-
vice: Talk to someone who has been
there and can give you a more accurate
preview of what to expect.
h Consider spending a little more:
A little extra money can smooth out the
bumps when you travel, said Kimberly
Davis, CEO of Trouvaille Travel Interna-
tional, a travel agency. “You can pay to
skip excessively long immigration lines,
to access a first-class lounge where staff
will happily rebook your delayed flight,
and to stay in a hotel with a personal
butler to make sure you have hot cocoa
the second you wake up,” she said.
worry about it because we started look-
ing at other options like where we’re
gonna live. We’re actually under con-
tract on the house now. But I was wor-
ried about like, oh, is this going to work
with the kid? And it totally does. You
have that element where you can go out,
like, so much more of your life is spent
not sitting on the couch because you
don’t have a couch.
What was your favorite part about
living in the Airstream?
Heather: I would say just being able
to be in close quarters with your family.
It’s not a lot of room, so you’re really able
to get to know your family really well.
When we went to the Grand Canyon
and Zion, I felt like a lot of people there
were older. It’s such a gift being able to
work from home and travel, it just gives
you more opportunity to not have to
wait to have a retired lifestyle. Although,
you will have to work hard at making it
work. Like for me, I’ll get up at 4 a.m.
and work till like 1 p.m. so that I can go to
the park in the afternoon. It’s really ex-
citing that people can create that life-
style now.
Any advice for people who want to
try the van life?
Heather: My advice would be to do it.
I’ve always been one to follow your intu-
ition. But also do a lot of research. There
are so many blogs, Facebook groups and
YouTube channels to follow. You can
also reach out to full-time Airstream
people. If someone’s reading this and
they’re like, oh, I want to do it, you
should absolutely do it.
claimed at age 70 would run out of mon-
ey at age 92.
And Carson ran simulations to show
which claiming strategy would result in
the highest portfolio values if bad mar-
ket returns were persistent and there
was high inflation. The result? It didn’t
make much of a difference when a per-
son claimed Social Security. All portfoli-
os ran out of money around age 84. And
given that, individuals would be ad-
vised to reduce their spending to in-
crease how long their money would last,
Carson said.
The bottom line advice
“We don’t say, ‘Take (Social Security)
early.’ We don’t say, ‘Take it late,’ ” Car-
son stressed. “We say, ‘Make an in-
formed decision so that you understand
the ramifications of what your choices
are.”
NEWS
OPINION
Gen Z could alter the culture of gun violence
They fear it and ‘think
about it all the time’
Connie Schultz
USA TODAY
Two years ago, guns became the
leading cause of death for children and
adolescents.
This is why I usually have little inter-
est in reading yet another survey or poll
about what we think about gun violence
in our country.
What are we doing about it?
The numbers fluctuate percentage-
wise, but we already know that most
Americans want stricter gun safety
measures.
We also know that, despite the grow-
ing number of mass shootings, most
elected Republicans in Congress and
state legislatures don’t care how much
we want to protect ourselves, our fam-
ilies and our communities. If you think
I’m being unnecessarily partisan, check
out their voting records on gun safety
and get back to me.
Listen to young people about guns
Better yet, let’s spend a few minutes
with the findings of a new survey on gun
violence that I do think is worthy of my
time, and yours. This is one by Project
Unloaded, which focuses on lifting the
voices of today’s Generation Z. It part-
nered with Global Strategy Group and
surveyed 1,000 people ages 13 to 25 to
hear what they had to say about guns
and gun violence.
Among the findings:
h Most young people have had a per-
sonal experience with gun violence. The
number jumps to more than 60% for
those who are Black and Latino. Only a
quarter of Black children say they feel
Young Iranians have had enough of repressive regime
Death of 22-year-old
sparks global protests
Neda Bolourchi
Center for
Middle Eastern Studies
“Women, life, freedom.”
Those are the words Iranian women
have been chanting during protests
against their government for the past
several weeks. Used by Kurdish female
soldiers in their fight against the Islamic
State terrorist group, these words also
define the very essence of the ongoing
protests against the Islamic Republic of
Iran that at minimum say women de-
mand a life of freedom.
These protests are in response to the
death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini,
from Iran’s Kurdistan region. In the cap-
ital city of Tehran to visit family, Amini
was arrested on Sept. 13 by the morality
police for “wearing inappropriate cloth-
ing.” This police group patrols public
spaces looking for people – especially
women – who violate the norms of
“public decency” with their clothing,
haircuts, behavior and “bad” hair cover-
ings. Amini died in custody after spend-
ing three days in a coma.
Protest is about much more
than ‘modest dress’
Amini’s death comes from the inten-
sification of repressive state policies
under President Ebrahim Raisi’s ad-
ministration. It recently announced the
intention to aggressively target women
not in “modest dress” or in “bad make-
up.” The police tend to monitor and
more strictly enforce regulations in
places with a higher percentage of poor,
ethnic, or religious women.
Iranian women and their allies have
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very safe in school. Include all children,
and it’s only a third.
h When asked to list their biggest
concerns for our country, gun violence
comes before climate change and abor-
tion rights.
h When presented with the facts
about firearms risks, young people’s
commonly held belief that guns make us
safer shifts by 17 points. The more they
know, the more willing they are to reject
the myth that gun ownership saves
lives.
Project Unloaded founder Nina Vinik
addressed this last point in a recent col-
umn for the Chicago Tribune:
“Teens are on track to become the
largest generation of consumers in the
next few years, making them incredibly
valuable to the gun industry. Manufac-
turers are pouring tremendous re-
sources into campaigns to use the fears
and insecurities of young people to con-
vince them to buy guns for protection.
But there’s hope. Most young people say
they’re interested in learning more
about gun risks. And when presented
with the facts in a clear, non-polarizing
way, their minds can shift.”
‘No one saw it coming’
As a college professor, I have spent
enough time with Gen Zers to know
when to get out of their way and let them
speak for themselves. This is why I in-
terviewed Karly Scholz, 19, who is on the
Project Unloaded’s youth council.
Scholz is a sophomore at the Univer-
sity of Virginia. In 2018, she was a high
school freshman in Madison, Wiscon-
sin, when a gunman killed 17 students
and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland, Florida. She
wasn’t alive for the mass shooting at
Columbine High School in in Littleton,
Colorado, in 1999, she said, and was too
young to be aware of the tragedy of the
2012 school shooting in Newtown, Con-
necticut. But the Parkland massacre
awakened her activism.
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called for an end to the morality police
and the very system that upholds it. In
alleyways, up and down highways and
everywhere in between, protesters can
be heard also chanting “death to the dic-
tator.” This new generation has gone as
far as to cross another red line and re-
peatedly declare, “I don’t want an Islam-
ic Republic!” Fearless, women stand
atop cars burning their headscarves
while others cut their hair in public.
They have done so because the Is-
lamic Republic has spent the past four
decades controlling the female body as
a misplaced metaphor for nationalist
and cultural pride.
Pivotally, today’s Gen Z protesters
are more radical and angrier than their
“reform”-minded predecessors. The
2009 Green Movement was largely
composed of middle-class Tehranis
who had much to lose.
The movement was about reform.
One revolution was enough. Parents
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Karly Scholz, a sophomore at the
University of Virginia, is on the
youth council of Project Unloaded,
which focuses on lifting the voices
of today’s Generation Z. PROVIDED
“Most of the (student) victims were
freshmen, and I was a freshman at the
time. Both of our high schools were pub-
lic. No one expected it to happen, no one
saw it coming.
“But it can happen to anyone and can
happen anywhere, and gun violence
does not differentiate its victims.”
When Parkland students launched
March for Our Lives, Scholz became its
Wisconsin state director. She learned a
lot, she said.
“March for Our Lives is very policy fo-
cused and politicized in a lot of ways. I
thought there was a gap in the conversa-
tion where we needed to be talking
about the culture of gun policy.
“Not necessarily the policies around
it, but the way people interact with guns
in daily life, the way guns are shown in
our media and the way the news talks
about guns. I wanted to talk about how
change can come from the culture, rath-
er than policy.”
When Project Unloaded went live
about a year ago, she readily became in-
volved. “I was very excited that other
people saw that gap and took on that
lectured their children on their errors,
how much Iran lost (almost everything)
because of 1979. They pointed to the
country’s neighbors (in Iraq and Af-
ghanistan) who were dying, saying Ira-
nians shouldn’t join them. They then
pointed out that the whole Middle East
was burning (Arab Spring 2011-14) and
that Iran should not burn, too. At least
Iranians were safe, the adage went. The
previous generation tried to make head-
way through advocating reforms, but
many lost friends and family members.
More than a decade later, Gen Z
thinks it has less to lose.
Pushed to the brink by a repressive
system that either made promises it
didn’t keep or used tools of violence too
often, Generation Z is fed up. There are
no appeals to the administration, parts
of the government or the police who
beat them. Iranians are responding to
police brutality in kind. They are retali-
ating by damaging police vehicles,
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role – that change can come from cul-
ture rather than policy.”
Scholz repeatedly insisted that her
activism is not political. I tried to pre-
pare her for how she will be attacked as
partisan, nonetheless.
She was undeterred.
“I found in my work that young peo-
ple are open-minded and are willing to
hear what we have to say. … When pre-
sented with the facts and risks of guns,
young people in all demographics shift-
ed their views, which I think is a really
hopeful data point. That’s my answer:
There is a debate surrounding it, but
when you look at the facts there really
isn’t much room for interpretation or
debate. Guns make us less safe.”
GIve them facts
There’s also this fact that Scholz
emphasized, repeatedly: Her generation
is always thinking about gun
violence.
“Everyone knows what it’s like to get
updates on phones and hear about an-
other shooting. We think about it all the
time. We fear gun violence at schools
and in movie theaters and in malls, es-
pecially when a recent incident is fresh
in your mind. But we’re far more likely to
be shot at home or walking home from
school or the movie theater.”
She’s putting her faith in her fellow
Gen Zers: Give them facts, and they will
change the culture of guns.
I don’t know if Karly Scholz is right to
be so optimistic, but I do know that our
collective surrender to the culture of
gun violence is all wrong. So, I’ll put my
faith in her. And sooner than later, I
hope, Gen Zers will use their other
superpower in this fight to save lives.
They’ll vote.
USA TODAY columnist Connie
Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize winner whose
novel, “The Daughters of Erietown,” is a
New York Times bestseller. You can
reach her at CSchultz@usatoday.com or
on Twitter: @ConnieSchultz.
chasing state agents and holding their
ground when confronted.
And men have joined the women.
They are seen protesting throughout the
country. The men come from all walks
of life but especially from the poorer
neighborhoods, like in southern Tehran.
Most of these men joined because of
poverty, lack of prospects and denial of
personal freedoms.
Human rights and
good governance
Male allies speak about the oppres-
sion and discontent with what has be-
come life in the Islamic Republic; they
understand their privileged position
vis-à-vis women, but this does not less-
en their burdens or alleviate their pover-
ty. Instead, they have an idea of the daily
repression and subjugation women
face. This protest and its slogan of
“Women, life, freedom” thus connect
women’s rights to broader social and
economic policies about human rights
and good governance.
Today’s protest has crossed the so-
cioeconomic divide and ethnoreligious
lines, and has garnered large male sup-
port. Iranians are fighting for basic
rights: the right to freedom of speech;
the right to expression of thought; the
right for women to choose how they
dress; the right against wrongful im-
prisonment; the right against torture
and rape while in state custody.
Taking to the streets with their hair in
ponytails and fists up, Iranians are sing-
ing the song of freedom and resistance
that defines revolutions.
Neda Bolourchi is associate director
of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
at Rutgers University, where she teaches
courses on political violence, revolu-
tions, Islamic law and human rights.
Previously, she worked on matters of
civil litigation, white collar criminal de-
fense and human rights violations in
the Middle East.
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Opinion Editor:
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1. Berlin Wall Memorial
The Berlin Wall may be gone,
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This outdoor museum, which in-
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Bernauer Strasse 119
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2. Stasi Prison
Former inmates lead tours of
the prison where the East Ger-
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Genslerstrasse 66
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3. Panoramapunkt
For the best bird’s-eye view of
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elevator whisk you 24 floors to
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Potsdamer Platz 1
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4. Schloss Charlottenburg
See how the Prussian kings
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Spandauer Damm 20-24
+49 30 320 911
5. Humboldt-Box
This multimedia exhibit ac-
companies the ongoing recon-
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imperial palace, which was de-
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the future tenants and explains
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Schlossplatz 5
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6. Pergamonmuseum
This crowd-pleaser wows with
monumental antiquities from
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Bodestrasse 1-3
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Narrow slits
in barriers at
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those fleeing
East Berlin
were often
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1. Story of Berlin
This museum’s engaging multi-
media trip through the city’s his-
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Kurfürstendamm 207-208
+49 30 8872 0100
2. Tempelhof Park
Tempelhof Airport, site of the
first Lufthansa flight and the Ber-
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open as a beloved city park.
Entrances on Columbiadamm,
Oderstrasse, Tempelhofer Damm
7. Neukölln neighborhood
Catapulted from gritty zone to
vibrant district, Neukölln is per-
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Friedelstrasse 31
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8. Jüdische Mädchenschule
A former Jewish girls’ school in
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featuring cutting-edge galleries, a
museum about the Kennedys and
even stellar restaurants.
Auguststrasse 11-13
+49 030 3300 6070
9. Museum in der
Kulturbrauerei
This exhibit in a former brew-
ery uses original documents, pho-
tographs and objects to peel back
the Iron Curtain on daily life in
communist East Germany.
Knaackstrasse 97
+49 030 4677 7790
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Sunflowers, rather than jets,
aim skyward at Tempelhof.
3. Rembrandt Collection
The 16 Rembrandt works at
the Gemäldegalerie form one of
the world’s largest, most exquisite
collections by this Dutch master.
Matthäikirchplatz
+49 30 266 424 242
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10. Bikini Berlin
Browse fashion and design at
Germany’s first “concept mall,” in
a 1950s landmark building with
front-row views of the monkey
enclosure of the Berlin Zoo.
Budapester Strasse 38-50
GO SEE ...
FRANKFURT
1. Palmengarten
Established in 1868, this oasis
in the Westend is Germany’s larg-
est botanical garden. Displays in-
clude more than 13,000 tropical
and subtropical plant species.
Siesmayerstrasse 61
+49 69 2123 3939
2. Hauptbahnhof Station
The busiest train station in
Frankfurt consists of a massive
main vestibule and two adjoining
neoclassical halls made of steel
and glass. Inside are a series of
platforms, shops and food stands.
Am Hauptbahnhof
4. Ramones Museum
Avid Ramones fan Flo Hayler
shares his collection of memora-
bilia in this cool east Berlin
shrine to the punk-rock pioneers.
Krausnickstrasse 23
+49 30 7552 8890
FRANKFURT
5. Long Island Summer
Lounge
Relaxing by day and edgy at
night, this beach bar atop an ur-
ban parking garage is a refreshing
antidote for what ails you.
Park House Exchange, Deck 7
+49 151 6150 9889
6. Festhalle
What do Miley Cyrus, Peter
Gabriel and OneRepublic have in
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Marienplatz, above, has
been the main square of
Munich since 1158, al-
though New Town Hall
dates only to 1874. West
of Frankfurt lie the ruins
of Rheinfels Castle, left.
3. Museumsufer
A walk along the Main River’s
Museum Embankment is a must.
Twelve museums sit on a single
tree-lined street, the most nota-
ble being the Städel art gallery.
Städel, Schaumainkai 63
+49 69 605098 232
4. Rheinfels Castle
West of the city, this castle’s
ancient stone ramparts rise over
the Rhine at Sankt Goar. The ru-
ins recall the Middle Ages, while
the restaurant and its lovely ter-
race herald the modern day.
Schlossberg, Sankt Goar
+49 6741 7753
5. Goethehaus
Grand wood staircases take
visitors through the reconstruct-
ed timbered house where the
writer Johann Wolfgang von Goe-
the spent his childhood.
Grosser Hirschgraben 23
+49 69 138 800
6. Gerbermühle
After cycling along the Main
River, relax in the garden at this
16th-century flour mill renovated
as a hotel complex.
Gerbermühlestrasse 105
+49 69 689 7779 0
7. Hauptwache Station
This busy rapid-transit station
resembles an underground city
with its street performers, chalk
artists, international markets, dry
cleaners and even an entrance to
the Galeria department store.
An der Hauptwache 17
8. Kleinmarkthalle
This market hall hosts some 60
vendors selling fresh food, wine
and flowers every day except Sun-
day. Locals like a glass of wine in
the outdoor garten upstairs.
Hasengasse 5
+49 69 2123 3696
9. Römerberg
Heart of Frankfurt’s old town,
this charming central square is
common? All have played this im-
pressive neobaroque-style exhibi-
tion hall, which dates to 1909.
Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1
+49 69 1340 400
7. English Theatre
Delight in a memorable perfor-
mance at this gem of a venue in
the city center. Seating 300, it’s
the largest English-language
theater in continental Europe.
Gallusanlage 7
+49 69 2423 1620
MUNICH
8. Bavaria Filmstadt
The famous film studio where
The Neverending Story, the origi-
nal Willy Wonka and the Choco-
late Factory, Das Boot and many
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lined with reconstructed half-
timbered houses. Be sure to visit
the Zum Römer, where Holy Ro-
man emperors were coronated.
Römerberg, Altstadt
10. Alte Oper
The Italian Renaissance-style
Alte Oper is Frankfurt’s original
opera house. Can’t make a show?
Linger at an outdoor cafe on
Opernplatz, the Opera Square.
Opernplatz 1
+49 69 1340 0
GO SEE ...
MUNICH
1. St. Peter’s Church
Munich’s oldest church, “Alter
Peter” (Old Peter) is recognizable
by its 91-meter tower, offering
some of the best views of the city.
Rindermarkt 1
+49 89 2102 3776
2. Hirschgarten
This used to be part of the roy-
al hunting grounds. Today it’s the
site of a family-friendly beer gar-
den (Bavaria’s largest), serving
top-notch local food.
Hirschgarten 1
+49 89 1799 9119
3. Odeonsplatz
For photo opportunities, it’s
hard to beat this square in cen-
tral Munich. Odeonsplatz, named
for the Odeon concert hall, is bor-
dered by some of the city’s most
significant buildings.
Odeonsplatz 1
+49 89 222 324
4. Viktualienmarkt
From sausages and fish to ex-
otic fruit, Munich’s open-air food
market boasts the highest-quality
gourmet groceries in town. At its
center lies a beer garden with a
lively atmosphere.
Viktualienmarkt 3
+49 89 8906 8205
5. Alte Pinakothek
The former royal collection of
Old Masters paintings resides
here. Dürer, Rembrandt, Peter
Paul Rubens and El Greco are
among those represented.
Barer Strasse 27
+49 89 2380 5216
6. Marienplatz
Munich’s main square since
1158, Marienplatz is abuzz with
activity and a great place for pho-
tos, with the Gothic Revival-style
New Town Hall in the spotlight.
+49 089 2330 0115
7. Residenz
Take a tour of the former main
royal palace of Bavaria, with its
130 rooms and 10 courtyards.
Residenzstrasse 1
+49 089 290 671
8. BMW Museum
From the earliest BMW en-
gines to modern prototypes, the
permanent exhibit here appeals
to the car lover in all of us and
rolls out fun for all ages.
Am Olympiapark 2
+49 89 125 016 001
9. Nymphenburg Palace
This baroque beauty housed
Bavaria’s rulers beginning in
1675. Perhaps more spectacular
than the palace itself are the 490
acres of formal gardens.
Schloss Nymphenburg 1
+49 089 179 080
10. Asamkirche
A rococo gem, Asamkirche was
built as a private chapel for the
brothers who completed it in
1746. Now it’s open to the public.
Sendlinger Strasse 32
+49 089 2368 7989
Want even more great ideas?
Go to 10Best.com for handy
travel lists, cool pics and hot
tips by Local Experts in popular
destinations around the world.
other movies were made offers
tours and a 4-D theater.
Bavariafilmplatz 7
+49 089 6499 2000
9. Eisbach River Surfing
On the Eisbach’s canal next to
the Haus der Kunst, look for the
spot just off the road where peo-
ple surf year-round — in Munich.
Prinzregentenstrasse
+49 089 2339 6500
10. Kartoffelmuseum
The Potato Museum follows
the starchy vegetable and its vari-
ous uses throughout history, with
special emphasis on its ties to
Munich. The museum is free and
worthy of an hour of your time.
Grafingerstrasse 2
+49 089 404050
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Jarrett Bell
Columnist
USA TODAY
Maybe Brian Flores will go
down in NFL history as the ulti-
mate game-changer in the
quest to level the playing field
for Black coaches.
Flores was so disgusted by
hiring practices in the NFL that
he filed a class-action discrimi-
nation suit against the league
and four teams in February.
The bold move, with Flores,
the former Miami Dolphins
coach, later joined by Steve
Wilks and Ray Horton as plain-
tiffs, threatens not only to force
restitution but also to pull back
the curtain on the process of
hiring, not hiring and firing
Black coaches – if it ever gets to
a courtroom.
Win or lose, Flores, 41, is al-
ready viewed as a hero in the
community of current and for-
mer Black coaches because he
was willing to risk his career
and take a stand – something
others considered but never
followed through with.
“The lawsuit is phenome-
nal,” Terry Robiskie, who re-
tired recently after decades in
the NFL’s coaching ranks, told
USA TODAY Sports. “My hat is
off to Brian. Will it make a dif-
ference? I hope so. But I’m look-
USA TODAY analysis
‘Positional segregation’ is
rampant in NFL, leaving Black
coaches stuck in pipeline, 1A
ing at Brian Flores possibly
ending up like Colin Kaeper-
nick. It’ll be an uphill battle.”
The NFL immediately dis-
missed Flores’ claims and is at-
tempting to have the case set-
tled by arbitration, which could
allow Commissioner Roger
Goodell to serve as arbitrator,
rather than in open court. Flo-
res named the Dolphins, New
York Giants, Denver Broncos
and Houston Texans in the suit,
while Wilks named the Arizona
Cardinals and Horton the Ten-
nessee Titans.
In court, the process of dis-
covery and testimony of wit-
nesses could be so illuminat-
See BELL, Page 2B

BILLS WIN AFC BATTLE La Russa expected to

announce retirement
Bob Nightengale
USA TODAY

It was one of baseball’s

greatest feel-good stories,
with a Hall of Fame manager
coming out of retirement to
lead his old team to a World
Series title.
Only, it didn’t turn out the
way it was supposed to.
Tony La Russa, who was
hoping to lead the Chicago
White Sox to the World Series,
instead is expected to an-
nounce his retirement Mon-
day in Chicago.
La Russa, who turns 78 on
Tuesday, certainly gave it ev-
erything he had, but his heart
gave out.
He planned on returning to
fulfill his contract in 2023 but
was in his office on Aug. 29
when he received a telephone
call from his doctors. He was
instructed to leave the ball-
park immediately, go home,
and come in the next day for
testing. He was on a flight the
next day back to Arizona and
had a procedure to repair his
pacemaker.
La Russa, feeling much
stronger, still planned to re-
turn as manager. He flew to
Oakland on Sept. 10 to attend
Dave Stewart’s jersey retire-
ment ceremony, spent time
visiting with his team, and felt
refreshed. He flew back on the
team plane to Chicago and
watched the White Sox’s next
two home games from owner
Jerry Reinsdorf ’s suite.
It was the last time he was
Bills quarterback Josh Allen dives into the end zone between two Ravens defenders with his team.
La Russa returned to Arizo-
for a touchdown in the third quarter Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium. Buffalo won the na and had more testing, and
battle between two of the AFC powerhouses 23-20 with a second-half rally. In the there were further proce-
dures. The doctors sat him
NFC, the Eagles defeated the Jaguars to remain the only unbeaten team in the NFL. down and provided their ex-
pert medical opinion: He
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should not manage again.
Not only this season.
But ever again.
White Sox manager Tony La
Russa looks on from the
dugout Aug. 26 against the
Diamondbacks.
KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/USA TODAY
La Russa listened and will
walk away. He likely will stay in
the White Sox organization as a
special assistant, but those
long, demanding and stressful
days are over.
This is not the way he envi-
sioned his career to end.
Baseball has long been his
life, but this is no time to sacri-
fice his own life for it.
La Russa’s two-year stint
will be widely considered a fail-
ure, but really, that’s unfair. He
led the White Sox to a 93-69
record in his first year back in
2021, losing to the Houston As-
tros in the first round of the
playoffs.
It led to surreal expectations
this season. Anything less than
a World Series title would be
considered a failure.
It was a disaster.
The White Sox, drowning in
mediocrity all season, were un-
able to put together any sem-
blance of success until interim
manager Miguel Cairo took
over, going 13-6. It proved to be
nothing more than a mirage.
See LA RUSSA, Page 2B

Alabama jumps Georgia Hughes beats Straka in 2-hole playoff

Eddie Timanus COACHES POLL Cameron Jourdan in playoffs. even after eight holes and re-
USA TODAY Golfweek | USA TODAY Network “I’m over the corded three birdies and no bo-
W-L Pts LW moon,” Hughes geys in his final 10 holes.
While the top five teams 1 Alabama (34) 5-0 1568 2 Mackenzie Hughes had said. “I had some On the first playoff hole,
2 Georgia (23) 5-0 1545 1
avoided the upset bug during a 3 Ohio State (7) 5-0 1492 3 plenty of motivation coming moments today Straka found the green while
wild Week 5 in college football, 4 Michigan 5-0 1374 4 into the Sanderson Farms where I was test- Hughes’ ball came up in a bun-
the No. 1 position in the USA 5 Clemson 5-0 1352 5 Championship. Hughes ed and was able ker short of the green. He was
TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches 6 Southern Cal 5-0 1247 6 Last weekend, Hughes sat to pull through. able to get up and down from
7 Oklahoma State 4-0 1225 7
Poll changes hands. 8 Tennessee 4-0 1142 9 at his home in Charlotte, It’s kind of my MO a little bit is the sand, and Straka’s birdie
Alabama reclaims the top 9 Mississippi 5-0 1082 11 North Carolina, as the Presi- to scramble and save some missed just to the right of the
spot after gutting out a win at 10 Penn State 5-0 990 12 dents Cup was going on at pars. I had to do that a little bit cup.
11 Utah 4-1 919 13
Arkansas without Bryce Young Quail Hollow Club across today on the back nine. Yeah, On the second playoff hole,
12 Oregon 4-1 823 15
in the second half. The Crimson 13 Kentucky 4-1 811 8 town. The 31-year-old Cana- did everything I possibly could, both players found the fairway,
Tide have 34 of the 64 first- 14 N.C. State 4-1 732 10 dian didn’t make the Interna- just grinded my butt off, and but Hughes stuck his approach
place votes this week and finish 15 Wake Forest 4-1 668 21 tional team, so he was forced luckily it was good enough.” shot tight. Straka’s approach
16 Brigham Young 4-1 594 20
23 poll points ahead of Georgia. to watch from home. He want- Hughes jarred an 8-foot leaked a bit long and left of the
17 Kansas 5-0 433 27
The Bulldogs retain 23 No. 1 18 Texas Christian 4-0 425 32 ed to make sure he did what- birdie putt on the second play- front hole location, settling on
votes but slip to No. 2 after 19 UCLA 5-0 421 38 ever he could to make the off hole to secure the win, giv- the fringe. His putt again barely
struggling past unranked Mis- 20 Kansas State 4-1 324 30 team when the competition ing a huge fist pump as the ball missed the cup, leaving the
21 Syracuse 5-0 306 25
souri. No. 3 Ohio State gains a returns to Montreal in 2024. dropped in the cup. door open for Hughes to clinch
22. Baylor 3-2 230 14
bit of ground on the SEC favor- 23. Mississippi State 4-1 194 35 He’s off to a great start. “Winning gives you a lot of the victory.
ites. The Buckeyes have seven 24. Washington 4-1 161 18 Hughes beat Sepp Straka confidence,” Hughes said. “It “Obviously wanted to get the
No. 1 nods this week after an- 25. Arkansas 3-2 141 19 on the second playoff hole validates a lot of work I’ve been win, disappointed with that,”
other easy home romp against Sunday at The Country Club putting in.” Straka said. “But I played really
Rutgers. notch to No. 8. Mississippi of Jackson in Jackson, Mis- The duo went to a playoff af- well today. I shot 67 on a Sun-
The next four teams remain cracks the top 10 for the first sissippi, to win the 2022 ter finishing at 17 under. Straka day, came from behind and got
the same as No. 4 Michigan, time this season, checking in Sanderson Farms Champion- shot 5-under 67 in the final myself in a playoff. Mac played
No. 5 Clemson, No. 6 Southern at No. 9 after edging past Ken- ship. It’s the second win for round. Straka’s round included great, birdieing 18. Eighteen is
Cal and No. 7 Oklahoma State tucky, which slides to No. 13. Hughes, who last won in 2016 birdies on four of his final five not an easy hole. Yeah, happy
all picked up conference victo- Penn State also moves up two at the RSM Classic. Both of holes on the front nine. Hughes for him, and looking forward to
ries. Tennessee moves up a to No. 10. Hughes’ Tour wins have come recorded a 3-under 69. He was some more.”
2B ❚ TUESDAY OCTOBER 4, 2022 ❚ USA TODAY
Analysis: NFL coaching pipeline clogged
Tom Schad
USA TODAY
In 2003, the NFL implemented the
Rooney Rule with hopes of increasing
diversity among its coaching ranks.
Now, almost two decades later, is the
league seeing signs of progress?
In an effort to help answer that ques-
tion and others, USA TODAY Sports
compiled a wide range of data on each of
the 722 on-field coaches in the league at
the start of this season – including in-
formation such as age, race, gender,
family ties, playing experience and ca-
reer paths.
The data provides a snapshot of
where the league stands and illustrates
that, while more coaches of color are en-
tering the league, some of the NFL’s
long-standing issues remain.
Here’s a look at four key findings
from USA TODAY Sports’ analysis.
Progress, but gaps
Using team and league media guides
and websites, USA TODAY Sports com-
piled information on every on-field
coach in the NFL this year – from the top
of the coaching ladder (head coaches) to
the bottom (quality control coaches and
fellows).
The data excludes strength and con-
ditioning coaches, analysts and re-
search staffers who do not also assist
with on-field coaching, administrative
assistants and part-time interns or fel-
lows.
Of these 722 on-field coaches, 43.5%
identify as coaches of color, which indi-
cates the continuation of an upward
trend that’s been identified by NFL-pro-
vided data in recent years. The number
of non-white coaches in the league (314)
is believed to be the largest in NFL histo-
ry.
That’s not to say every team’s staff is
growing more diverse, however.
In terms of non-white coaches on
staff, there is a difference of nearly 40
percentage points between the most di-
verse team in the NFL (the Pittsburgh
Steelers, with 63% of coaches identify-
ing as non-white) and the least diverse
(the Cincinnati Bengals, with 24%).
Led by head coach Mike Tomlin, who
is Black, Pittsburgh has a staff that
comes closest to reflecting the racial
makeup of players, whom are about
70% non-white. Cincinnati’s coaching
staff, meanwhile, more closely resem-
bles a staff of NFL eras past; white
coaches there outnumber coaches of
Bell
Continued from Page 1B
ing, with the case including the conten-
tion the Giants had already settled on
Brian Daboll as their new coach before
conducting an alleged “sham interview”
with Flores.
Arbitration, on the other hand, would
occur behind closed doors.
Although Goodell could appoint an-
other arbitrator to rule on the case, Flo-
res’ attorneys argued to the court that
the commissioner or his appointee
would be tainted by bias – or in their
words, create a “kangaroo court.” Re-
member, The New York Times reported
last year Goodell was paid nearly $128
million by owners in salary and bonuses
over two fiscal years through 2021.
A ruling from the U.S. District Court
is pending. And that, too, could be a
game-changer.
At least Flores hasn’t become Kae-
pernick yet in one regard: He has a job in
the league, albeit one he is overqualified
for as senior defensive assistant and
linebackers coach for the Pittsburgh
Steelers.
Time will tell whether Flores,
dumped despite producing winning rec-
ords in back-to-back seasons in his final
two with the Dolphins – a fate that oc-
curs more often with Black coaches than
their white counterparts – lands anoth-
er head coaching job in the NFL.
Robiskie, 67, was recently honored
with the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s
Awards of Excellence for an NFL coach-
ing trek that spanned decades as a posi-
tion coach, a coordinator and twice as
an interim coach.
La Russa
Continued from Page 1B
The White Sox needed to sweep the
Cleveland Guardians in their last home-
stand. Chicago instead lost eight con-
secutive games, putting a merciful end
Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin has a .642 winning percentage.
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color 3-to-1.
In response to a request for com-
ment, a Bengals spokeswoman said
USA TODAY Sports’ data “reflects a
snapshot in time and does not represent
the full picture.”
“The organization and its founders
have a long-standing history of sup-
porting diversity in the NFL dating back
to 1946 when (founder) Paul Brown
signed Marion Motley and Bill Willis,
breaking pro football’s color barrier,” the
spokeswoman said.
Head coaches of color
leading the way
Only six of the NFL’s 32 coaches have
non-white head coaches. And in a ma-
jority-Black league, only three of those
head coaches – Houston’s Lovie Smith,
Tampa Bay’s Todd Bowles and Tomlin –
are Black.
The other non-white head coaches
are Miami’s Mike McDaniel (biracial),
Washington’s Ron Rivera (Latino) and
Robert Saleh of the New York Jets (Leb-
anese American).
It may come as no surprise that the
teams with diverse leaders also have the
most diversity throughout their staffs.
The Steelers, Texans and Jets have the
three highest percentages of non-white
coaches in the league this season, while
the Buccaneers are the only team with
coaches of color in all of their coordina-
tor positions.
In total, those six teams’ staffs are a
Bills defensive assistant Leslie Frazier
hopes for another head coach job after
a 3-plus-year stint with the Vikings.
ADRIAN KRAUS/AP
But his career came with a glass ceil-
ing. He never landed the opportunity to
become a head coach, a frustration that
he carried into retirement and is shared
by many longtime minority coaches.
It’s no surprise Robiskie relates to
Flores, because at one time he consid-
ered suing the NFL over what he per-
ceived to be discriminatory practices.
During the early 2000s, Robiskie be-
came the first dues-paying member of
the Fritz Pollard Alliance (FPA), the or-
ganization that promotes and monitors
equal opportunity for coaches and exec-
utives in the NFL. He remembers the
impetus for the Rooney Rule, instituted
by the league in 2003, flowing out of the
threat of a lawsuit after attorneys John-
nie L. Cochran and Cyrus Mehri in 2001
publicly presented findings of a study
titled “Black Coaches in the National
Football League: Superior Performance,
Inferior Opportunities” that under-
scored gross disparities affecting mi-
nority coaches.
Robiskie recalls being on a call with
to its 2022 season hopes.
The White Sox will now be looking for
their fourth manager in eight seasons.
General manager Rick Hahn originally
wanted to hire A.J. Hinch instead of La
Russa, but it would have made no differ-
ence.
They will soon begin formulating a
list of managerial candidates, including
combined 53% non-white. The rest of
the league’s staffs are a combined 41%
non-white.
“It’s a club, which means that people
act on emotion and who they want to be
in the room with,” said Pamela Newkirk,
a professor at New York University and
author of “Diversity Inc.: The Failed
Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business.”
“Who do they want to play golf with?
Who do they want to have a drink with?
“When it comes to leadership, that’s
what we see reflected. It’s not women
and it’s often not people of color.”
A clogged pipeline?
The NFL has spoken repeatedly in re-
cent years about helping more diverse
candidates enter the talent pipeline,
with hopes they will be promoted
through the ranks.
But USA TODAY Sports found little
evidence of such movement, at least not
yet.
At the assistant position coach and
quality control coach levels, specifically,
48% of coaches identify as non-white –
including just 42% on the offensive side
of the ball. But that percentage steadily
decreases on the way up the coaching
ladder.
Only 30% of coordinators in the NFL
this season are non-white, for example,
including just 14% of offensive coordi-
nators. Nine teams have all white coor-
dinators.
“If we haven’t been able to make sub-
Cochran (who died in 2005) and Tony
Dungy when the FPA was launched,
contending, “If we’re going to file a law-
suit, I’m in.”
Black coaches didn’t take the NFL to
court at that point, and Robiskie point-
ed to fears of sacrificing careers for the
cause.
But the threat – with Cochran’s at-
tention-grabbing presence as a force –
undoubtedly was a factor that led then-
NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and
other power brokers to engage in efforts
that led to the creation of the Rooney
Rule.
The rule, named for Steelers owner
Dan Rooney, originally required teams
interview at least one minority candi-
date for head coach openings. In ensu-
ing years – while enduring much criti-
cism – the rule expanded to include oth-
er roles, including GM and coordinator
posts.
Yet USA TODAY Sports’ examination
of NFL coaching demographics revealed
the 314 non-white on-field coaches this
season is believed to be the highest
amount in league history (with 43% of
the 722 total coaches identifying as mi-
norities). There are three Black head
coaches among the six minority head
coaches in a league where roughly 70%
of the players are Black.
When the Rooney Rule was estab-
lished, there were three Black head
coaches. That comparison and the ebb
and flow of hiring patterns over the
years fuels criticism.
Despite increases in the number of
minority coordinators and GMs, for in-
stance, the lack of representation in cer-
tain roles (including offensive coordina-
tors, quarterbacks coaches and offen-
sive line coaches) feeds into the skepti-
among others Bruce Bochy to Mike
Shildt to Joe Espada to George Lom-
bard.
One man who could be the perfect fit
is Carlos Beltran. The nine-time All-Star
was a clubhouse leader and widely re-
spected by everyone in his 20-year ca-
reer. It’s the reason the New York Mets
hired him, only to fire him before he
SPORTS
stantial progress in those areas, then we
really haven’t made a great deal of pro-
gress at all,” Fritz Pollard Alliance exec-
utive director Rod Graves said, while
also referring to roles like general man-
ager and team president.
“It really has to be on the opportuni-
ties to grow and to expand into the lead-
ership roles and participate in the vision
and strategic elements of running the
game as a business.”
NFL senior vice president and chief
diversity and inclusion officer Jonathan
Beane said the league is proud of the di-
verse coaches within its ranks but also
cognizant of the issues. It’s one of the
reasons why the league mandated this
season that teams hire a coach of color
or woman as an offensive assistant.
“We have incredible coaches in the
league already. There’s no pipeline issue
at all,” Beane said. “But one thing we do
know is when we look at offensive coor-
dinator, when we look at QB coach and
other coaches on the offensive side, we
do not have the diversity that we should
have. It is not nearly as strong as it is on
the defensive side.”
Positional disparities
USA TODAY Sports also found non-
white position coaches, especially on
the offensive side of the ball, are con-
centrated in a handful of roles that rare-
ly come with promotion opportunities.
Of the 73 offensive position coaches
who identify as non-white, 52 – or 70%
of them – coach either running backs or
wide receivers. Only six work with quar-
terbacks, and three with the offensive
line.
This is significant because the latter
two positions more often serve as feed-
ers to the coordinator level, which is of
course all but a prerequisite to becom-
ing a head coach.
“This is unfortunately part of our
league’s history,” Hall of Fame coach To-
ny Dungy said. “It’s not solely that Black
coaches were kept from head coaching
positions. It’s that, in some cases, we
were prevented from (taking) the path-
ways towards advancement.”
The disparities continue at the assis-
tant position coach and quality control
level, too.
USA TODAY Sports found that 91% of
NFL coaches who work with the running
backs, at any level, are non-white, com-
pared to only 24% of coaches who work
with quarterbacks.
Contributing: Nancy Armour, Steve
Berkowitz and Mike Freeman
cism of coaching lifers, like Robiskie.
He grumbled when some of the num-
bers were mentioned, “We’ve got to go
with what’s real.”
Translation: It is just as unlikely that
a minority will land an NFL head coach-
ing job in 2022 as it was in 2002.
The patterns are hammered home
even more during each hiring cycle,
which typically includes longtime Black
coaches such as Buffalo Bills defensive
coordinator Leslie Frazier or former
head coach Jim Caldwell passed over for
white coaches with lesser resumes.
Robiskie, like others, will tell you the
bottom-line onus hasn’t changed.
“Deep down inside, there’s a handful
of owners who are committed to equal
opportunity,” Robiskie said. “But as a
whole, even though they talk the talk,
they believe in what they believe for
who they want to represent their or-
ganizations.”
Robiskie flashed back to an NFL sym-
posium conducted in Atlanta during the
early 2000s, which was designed to ex-
pose up-and-coming coaching
prospects to owners with the notion it
would increase opportunity.
He found it ironic that in May the
league had a similar initiative including
owners and prospects, dubbed the
“Coach and Front Office Accelerator
Program,” during league meetings in At-
lanta. It was another in a series of efforts
presented by the league office, nobly, to
promote equal opportunities for the
most significant leadership roles.
“It’s just constantly repeating the
same thing with these initiatives,” Ro-
biskie said. “That’s the definition of in-
sanity, doing the same thing but expect-
ing different results. We just don’t know
who it’s making crazy – us or them.”
managed a game, when he was the only
player identified in MLB’s investigation
into the Astros’ 2017 cheating scandal.
The White Sox need to act boldly, and
quickly, if they’re going to have any
chance of winning any time soon with
the youthful Guardians threatening to
dominate the American League Central
Division.
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Bills rally while Ravens collapse late
Chris Bumbaca
USA TODAY
BALTIMORE – Mother Nature did its
best to keep both offenses humble, but
as a pair of MVP candidates do, Josh Al-
len and Lamar Jackson manufactured
an exciting affair.
In the wet and dreary contest Sunday
at M&T Bank Stadium, Allen and the
Bills came out on top. Tyler Bass
knocked through a 21-yard field goal as
time expired and the Bills walked off
winners 23-20.
Minutes before Bass’ kick sailed
through the uprights to send the visiting
members of “Bills Mafia” into jubilation,
Ravens fans serenaded Jackson with
“MVP!” chants as he had the Ravens on
the doorstep of a go-ahead score. But he
threw a fourth-down interception to
Jordan Poyer, the safety’s second of the
game, and Allen marched his team
down the field for the victory.
“Those are games you love winning,”
Allen said. “It was a hard-fought battle
both ways. Winning on the last play of
the game is always fun.”
J.K. Dobbins scored twice for the
Ravens, and Buffalo running back Devin
Singletary had 96 total yards.
Josh Allen bests Lamar Jackson in
MVP battle
Statistically, it wasn’t pretty for ei-
ther of the star quarterbacks. Allen
rushed 11 times for 70 yards and Jackson
carried 11 times for 73 yards. But Allen
had the clutch touchdown run in the
third quarter and finished 19-for-36
through the air with 213 yards, a touch-
down and an interception after an un-
productive first quarter (3-for-9).
“The message (at halftime) was ‘Let’s
just be us. Let’s stop shooting ourselves
in the foot,’ ” Allen said. “That’s what we
tried to do coming out in the second
half.”
NFL ROUNDUP
Eagles hold off Jaguars, stay unbeaten
Jaylon Thompson
USA TODAY
Philadelphia Eagles 29,
Jacksonville Jaguars 21
Briefly: The Eagles remained the
NFL’s lone undefeated team on Sunday.
Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts added
to his MVP candidacy by completing 16
of 25 passes for 204 yards and a rushing
touchdown. The Jaguars put up a val-
iant effort as receiver Jamal Agnew
hauled in four catches for 50 yards and
two touchdowns.
One highlight to know: Jaguars
safety Andre Cisco intercepted Jalen
Hurts and returned it 59 yards for a
touchdown.
Minnesota Vikings 28,
New Orleans Saints 25
Briefly: Saints kicker Will Lutz
missed a 61-yard, game-winning field-
goal attempt, and the Vikings escaped
with a victory in London. Vikings re-
ceiver Justin Jefferson exploded with 10
catches for 147 yards and one rushing
touchdown.
One highlight to know: With two
seconds left in regulation, Lutz drilled a
field-goal attempt from midfield. The
ball bounced twice off the upright and
crossbar and fell to the turf.
Green Bay Packers 27
New England Patriots 24 (OT)
Brief: The Patriots, behind third-
string quarterback Bailey Zappe, took
the Packers to overtime but ultimately
fell to Green Bay on a field goal as time
expired. Packers quarterback Aaron
Rodgers threw for 251 yards and two
touchdowns.
One highlight to know: Zappe be-
came the first rookie to throw a touch-
down pass this season when he found
receiver DeVante Parker in the end zone
for a 25-yard score in the third quarter.
However, it appeared as though officials
missed a delay of game on the play.
Arizona Cardinals 26,
Carolina Panthers 16
Briefly: After a slow start, the Cardi-
nals held the Panthers to six points in
the second half as quarterback Kyler
Murray tossed two touchdowns and 207
yards. Meanwhile, Panthers quarter-
back Baker Mayfield threw one touch-
down and two interceptions.
Bills wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie (6) is greeted by quarterback Josh Allen after
his second-quarter touchdown against the Ravens. MITCH STRINGER/USA TODAY SPORTS
The Bills had four drives in the sec-
ond half and scored on three of them
(two field goals, one touchdown).
Jackson was more efficient with his
arm (20-for-29) but threw for 144 yards
and a touchdown with a pair of inter-
ceptions. The first came on a tipped
pass in the third quarter that Poyer
came down with and the second one
happened in the end zone, which pre-
vented the Bills from being backed up
against their goal-line to start that piv-
otal drive.
Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson celebrates after Minnesota improved to
3-1 by defeating the Saints in London. FRANK AUGSTEIN/AP
One highlight to know: Murray
found wide receiver Marquise Brown for
a 23-yard touchdown connection to give
Arizona a 26-10 lead with 7:37 left in the
game.
Las Vegas Raiders 32,
Denver Broncos 23
Brief: Raiders head coach Josh
McDaniels picked up his first win with
Las Vegas as running back Josh Jacobs
rushed for two scores. Denver, after get-
ting out to a first-quarter lead, couldn’t
keep pace with the Raiders offense.
One highlight to know: Jacobs
plunged in from 10 yards out to give the
Raiders a 10-7 lead with 11:46 left in the
second quarter. The Raiders would nev-
er relinquish the lead.
New York Giants 20,
Chicago Bears 12
Briefly: The Giants rolled to 3-1 with a
tough home victory against the Bears.
Giants running back Saquon Barkley
churned out 146 rushing yards on 31 car-
ries. The Bears lost three fumbles, in-
cluding a costly one at the end of reg-
ulation.
One highlight to know: Giants quar-
terback Daniel Jones rumbled for two
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“(Coming back) would be very diffi-
cult if we didn’t have the type of guys in
the locker room that we (do),” Allen said.
“Guys that just love each other, want to
play for each other, aren’t going to stress
in frantic situations. Guys that got each
other’s back. This locker room has a lot
of love in it.”
Baltimore chokes again
Baltimore took a commanding 20-10
lead into halftime (and at one point led
rushing touchdowns. His 8-yard touch-
down gave New York an early lead in the
second quarter.
Atlanta Falcons 23,
Cleveland Browns 20
Briefly: The Falcons improved to 2-2
behind their stellar rushing attack. At-
lanta rushed for 202 yards as the back-
field duo of Cordarrelle Patterson and
Caleb Huntley scored two touchdowns.
Browns star Nick Chubb, a Georgia na-
tive, accounted for 127 total yards in his
return home.
One highlight to know: Patterson
scored his third TD of the season with a
13-yard scamper into the end zone.
Los Angeles Chargers 34,
Houston Texans 24
Briefly: The Chargers outlasted a
Texans’ late comeback to get their sec-
ond win. Austin Ekeler paced the Char-
gers with 109 total yards and three TDs.
Texans rookie running back Daemon
Pierce continued his breakout cam-
paign with 131 yards and a touchdown on
14 carries.
One highlight to know: Pierce
rushed for a 75-yard TD as he eluded de-
fenders on his way to the end zone.
20-3) only for the offense to stagnate in
the second half – an emerging weak-
ness through four games. On the other
side, Allen found a rhythm even with the
loss of receiver Isaiah McKenzie, who
scored a touchdown but left with a con-
cussion and did not return.
Both of Jackson’s interceptions came
in the second half and the Ravens failed
to score after Justin Tucker’s 51-yard
field goal with 3:39 left in the first half.
Baltimore didn’t find the end zone after
the first quarter.
It was reminiscent of the Ravens’ col-
lapse two weeks ago against the Miami
Dolphins, which they led 35-14 at the
start of the fourth quarter. However,
that was more of an indictment on the
defense, which allowed 35 second-half
points in a 42-38 loss.
“It hurts. It burns. Everyone’s angry,”
right guard Kevin Zeitler said after the
game. “That’s good. We need to use that
to improve.”
John Harbaugh’s decisions
With 1:35 left in the third quarter, Bal-
timore coach John Harbaugh decided to
challenge a third-down spot that the of-
ficials ruled as 4th-and-inches. Jackson
attempted to scramble for the first down
and reached the ball out as he stepped
out of bounds, but not over the line of
gain.
The original call was upheld, and the
Ravens ultimately picked up the first
down, but they lost a timeout as a result
of the failed challenge. Harbaugh indi-
cated he’d leave the offense on the field
regardless of the challenge’s outcome,
making the decision even more ques-
tionable.
With the score tied at 20, Harbaugh
also decided to go for it on 4th-and-goal
at the Buffalo 2-yard line with 4:15 left in
the game instead of kicking a field goal.
Jackson threw an interception (to
Poyer) on the play.
New York Jets 24,
Pittsburgh Steelers 20
Briefly: The Kenny Pickett era began
in Pittsburgh when head coach Mike
Tomlin made a midgame change in fa-
vor of the rookie over Mitch Trubisky.
Still, the Steelers couldn’t overcome a
late-game charge by the Jets, who wel-
comed back quarterback Zach Wilson
with a road win.
One highlight to know: Jets running
back Breece Hall stretched out for a 2-
yard rushing TD that was initially called
short of the end zone. However, the call
was overturned upon review, giving the
Jets a 24-20 lead it would ultimately
keep.
Tennessee Titans 24,
Indianapolis Colts 17
Briefly: Titans quarterback Ryan
Tannehill tossed two TD passes and
running back Derrick Henry amassed
over 100 yards to lead Tennessee in an
AFC South showdown. Colts star run-
ning back Jonathan Taylor rushed 20
times for just 42 yards.
One highlight to know: The Titans
got the scoring started when Tannehill
found wide receiver Robert Woods from
7 yards out with eight minutes remain-
ing in the first quarter.
Seattle Seahawks 48,
Detroit Lions 45
Briefly: Seahawks quarterback Geno
Smith had three all-purpose touch-
downs and running back Rashaad Pen-
ny amassed two scores and 151 yards on
the ground to pace Seattle in an offen-
sive shootout in Detroit.
One highlight to know: Penny broke
off a 41-yard TD run with 2:14 left in the
fourth quarter to give Seattle a 48-38
lead.
Dallas Cowboys 25,
Washington Commanders 10
Briefly: Commanders quarterback
Carson Wentz threw two interceptions
while Cowboys quarterback Cooper
Rush threw for two touchdowns, a sta-
tistical mirror that proved to be the dif-
ference in a big NFC East showdown.
One highlight to know: Rush found
wide receiver Michael Gallup in the end
zone for a 9-yard touchdown with 1:04
left in the second quarter. It was Gal-
lup’s first game back after tearing his
ACL in 2021.
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STREAMING TELEVISION MUSIC
Swift slowly
shedding
light on
‘Midnights’
Melissa Ruggieri
USA TODAY
Three years, four albums.
Does the prolific nature of Taylor
Swift ever abate?
The country-turned-pop-turned-
folk-turned-whatever-she-wants to
tackle next luminary announced her
new album, “Midnights,” in August
while scooping up video of the year
honors for “All Too Well” at MTV’s
Video Music Awards.
She promptly broke the internet
with the news of her impending 10th
studio album, arriving Oct. 21 and co-
produced with her longtime working
partner Jack Antonoff.
It’s a concept album with dusky
overtones, dedicated to “all of us who
have tossed and turned and decided to
keep the lanterns lit and go searching,”
as she said in a statement illustrating
the backstory of the album.
While there are still many blank
spaces to be filled in, here’s what we
know so far about Swift’s upcoming
creation.
Kevin Costner stars as rancher John Dutton in Paramount Network’s
Western drama “Yellowstone.” PHOTOS BY KEVIN LYNCH FOR PARAMOUNT NETWORK What is Taylor Swift’s new
‘Midnights’ album about?
Conflict looms for
Appealing to the anxiety-ridden
insomniac in all of us, Swift has craft-
ed 13 songs (her signature number)
that she says are “stories of 13 sleep-
Costner’s Dutton less nights scattered throughout my
life.”
in Season 5 of
‘Yellowstone’
Bryan Alexander USA TODAY
Kevin Costner’s John Dutton is stepping into combustible “Yellow-
stone” politics. h Paramount Network has released the Season 5
trailer for Taylor Sheridan’s Western drama that shows the formi-
Taylor Swift has been revealing track
dable Dutton patriarch and rancher being sworn in as Montana’s titles for her album “Midnights.”
governor. h One of Dutton’s first power moves is to fire his entire PROVIDED BY BETH GARRABRANT
top staff and place trusted (yet combustible) daughter Beth (Kelly
Reilly) as his chief of staff. h “We’re already at war,” Dutton says of Musically, we don’t know if she’ll
lean toward the rootsier introspection
his many enemies, including Caroline Warner (Jacki Weaver), CEO found on her past two albums, “Folk-
of the company seeking to buy out landowners in order to build an lore” and “Evermore,” or the candy-
coated barbed lyricism found on 2019’s
airport and transform Montana. h What to know about the ex- “Lover.” But Swift, 32, has indicated
panding “Yellowstone” universe: there are some deep thoughts coloring
her upcoming work.
In her social media post announc-
What will happen in Much of the rest of the trailer is a ing the arrival of “Midnights,” she
‘Yellowstone’ Season 5 sizzle reel of expected emotional called the songs “a collection of music
drama – fighting, tantrums, kissing, written in the middle of the night, a
Based on the trailer, we can see that
a possible arson and country journey through terrors and sweet
the Warner conflict will loom large.
dancing. It ends with a big John dreams” with references to how we
“Ruin them, starting with her,” Dutton hug for troubled rancher might “twist in our self-made cages
Warner says of the Duttons, Lloyd Pierce (Forrie J. Smith) who and pray that we aren’t – right this
including one-time ally Beth. was seriously at risk of falling out minute – about to make some fateful
with the family last season. life-altering mistake.”
Likewise, the often tense
relationship with Thomas Everything else is a big mystery.
Taylor Swift reveals
Rainwater (Gil Birmingham), As Smith told a Houston TV station,
song titles on TikTok
the Harvard-educated Broken “Everybody’s gonna be going,
Rock tribe chairman who wants ‘What the hell?’ ”
Poking fun at her habit of releasing
to buy back ancestral lands
“cryptic” clues and Easter eggs
owned by Dutton, heats up. See YELLOWSTONE, Page 5B throughout not only her lyrics and
videos but also in the meticulously
crafted run-ups to every new album,
Swift appeared on TikTok at midnight
(naturally) on Sept. 21 to announce the
title of one of the new songs.
Cranking a lottery ball machine
with 13 white, numbered spheres to in-
dicate the 13 songs on “Midnights,”
Swift said she was leaving it “up to
fate” to determine which title to initia-
lly divulge.
The first ball selected? Track No. 13
(“But, of course,” Swift said with a
smile). The song is called “Master-
mind” and the unveiling was the first in
a series she’s dubbed “Midnights May-
hem with Me.”
On Sept. 23 at midnight, Swift – ac-
companied by her beloved kitty Mer-
edith, who offered her own meowing
In the Season 5 trailer, Dutton is sworn in as Montana’s governor. The
show is spurring several spinoff series, including two prequel series. See SWIFT, Page 5B
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STREAMING MOVIES
Separating facts from fiction in ‘Blonde’
Patrick Ryan
USA TODAY
Spoiler alert! The following contains
important plot points of Marilyn Mon-
roe drama “Blonde” (now streaming on
Netflix).
If you’re anything like us, you prob-
ably have a lot of questions after watch-
ing “Blonde.”
Netflix’s controversial Marilyn Mon-
roe drama (now streaming) stars Ana de
Armas as the tragic Hollywood starlet,
who died of an overdose in 1962 at 36.
The film is based on Joyce Carol Oates’
2000 historical fiction novel, which
traces her humble beginnings as Norma
Jeane Baker to her fame, and how she
became a victim of a leering, male-dom-
inated industry.
“The film is about the meaning of
Marilyn Monroe and why she endured,”
director Andrew Dominik says. Here’s
some of what’s fact and fiction in the
critically divisive “Blonde”:
Did Marilyn Monroe
have a threesome with
Charlie Chaplin Jr.?
Early in the film, Marilyn meets Char-
lie “Cass” Chaplin Jr. (Xavier Samuel)
and Eddy G. Robinson Jr. (Evan Wil-
liams) in an acting class, and they go
home together to have a threesome. The
new friends soon form a “throuple,” hav-
ing constant sex and laughs and becom-
ing tabloid fodder. But Marilyn’s rela-
tionship with Cass and Eddy ends after
she becomes pregnant with one of their
babies and is forced to get an abortion.
“There is no evidence of a three-way
between Chaplin Jr. and Robinson Jr.,”
says Monroe historian and collector
Scott Fortner. “It is true, however, that
Marilyn dated Chaplin Jr. for a short pe-
riod of time. He writes about this in his
biography (1960’s ‘My Father, Charlie
Chaplin’).”
Did Marilyn’s mother really
try to drown her in a bathtub?
The film traces young Marilyn, then
known as Norma, and her traumatic
childhood living with her single mom,
Gladys Pearl Baker (Julianne Nichol-
son). She repeatedly blames her daugh-
ter for the departure of Norma’s father
and is both emotionally and physically
abusive. At one point, Gladys tries to
drown Norma in a bathtub. Norma es-
capes and runs to her neighbors’ apart-
ment, and Gladys is sent to a mental
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Yellowstone
Continued from Page 4B
What shows are
‘Yellowstone’ spinoffs
“Yellowstone” plans four spinoff
shows, including the prequel series
“1883” and “1923.”
h The “Yellowstone” origin story
limited series “1883,” which ended in
February, starred husband and wife
team Tim McGraw and Faith Hill as
James and Margaret Dutton, the first
Duttons to settle in Montana, and Sam
Elliott as their guide Shea Brennan.
h Sheridan’s “1923” is set to debut in
December on Paramount+ and will
follow an earlier generation with Helen
Mirren as family matriarch Cara
Dutton, who’s married to Yellowstone
ranch patriarch Jacob Dutton, played
by Harrison Ford. The duo plays the
brother and sister-in-law to Tim
McGraw’s James Dutton from “1883,”
on the Yellowstone ranch as the area
deals with The Great Depression,
Prohibition and a historic drought.
h Paramount turned a planned second
“1883” series into a new limited “Bass
Reeves,” starring David Oyelowo as
the legendary lawman. Reeves was
the first Black deputy U.S. marshal
west of the Mississippi. There is no
official release date.
h An additional Sheridan
“Yellowstone” spinoff, “6666,” takes
place on Texas’ legendary 6666 Ranch.
There is no scheduled release date.
Charlie Chaplin Jr. (Xavier Samuel, left), Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas) and
Eddy G. Robinson Jr. (Evan Williams) in “Blonde.” PROVIDED BY MATT KENNEDY/NETFLIX
hospital shortly after.
There is no evidence that Baker ever
tried to drown her daughter, Fortner
says. But Monroe’s third husband, play-
wright Arthur Miller, said in a 1968 in-
terview that Monroe told him her moth-
er had threatened her life three times,
according to Keith Badman’s book,
“Marilyn Monroe: The Final Years.”
Monroe was not close to her mom but
continued to pay her medical bills. Baker
outlived her daughter by 22 years, dying
in 1984 at age 81.
“It’s true that Gladys suffered from
mental problems and was indeed insti-
tutionalized for most of her adult life,”
Fortner says. “There was a short period
of time when Marilyn lived with her
mother when she was young. Most of
Marilyn’s childhood, however, was
spent with foster families and she had a
brief stint at Hollygrove, an LA orphan-
age. She married her first husband at 16
in order to avoid having to return to the
orphanage.”
Did she never know her father?
Throughout “Blonde,” Marilyn is con-
stantly pining for and chasing after her
absent father – he’s the last image she
sees in her mind just before she dies. It’s
true that she never knew her dad,
Charles Stanley Gifford, Dominik says.
As depicted in the film, Monroe report-
edly did try to find him several times.
“It’s well-documented,” Dominik
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‘Tulsa King’ is next in the
‘Yellowstone’ universe
“Tulsa King” is part of Sheridan’s
universe, but not related to the
story. “Tulsa” stars Sylvester Stallone
as New York mafia captain Dwight
“The General” Manfredi, who is
released from prison after 25 years
of keeping mob secrets. Despite
serving his time without squealing,
Manfredi is unceremoniously
dumped by his scheming crime boss
and sets up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The spurned Dwight slowly builds a
crew of unlikely characters with the
plan to establish a new criminal
empire.
“Tulsa King” will premiere on
Paramount+ Nov. 13 with two
episodes. New episodes for the rest
of the season will drop weekly on the
streaming platform. The Paramount
Network will air only the first two
episodes on Nov. 20 (8 EST/PST), all
remaining episodes will stream
exclusively.
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says. “There are many, many (instances)
that were described in her actual life of
her getting a driver out to some town in
California. She would go and call her fa-
ther in a phone booth, and then come
back in tears saying that the guy refused
to meet her.”
Did Marilyn really get paid a
fraction of Jane Russell’s salary?
In the movie, before Marilyn signs on
to 1953’s “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,”
she questions why she’s only being of-
fered $5,000 compared to her co-star
Jane Russell’s $100,000 salary. Monroe
was really paid roughly $15,000 for the
musical comedy, while Russell – who
had been working for longer and was
more well known – made about
$150,000.
“It was during (‘Gentlemen’) that
Marilyn started to pursue more recogni-
tion for her work and greater respect,”
Fortner says. “She knew she was becom-
ing more popular among moviegoers
and more famous. When the studio in-
formed her that she wasn’t a star, Mari-
lyn responded sharply with, ‘Well, what-
ever I am, I AM the BLONDE.’ ”
What actually happened between
Marilyn and JFK?
“Blonde” depicts a horrendous and
degrading relationship between Marilyn
and President John F. Kennedy (Caspar
How to watch Season 5
“Yellowstone” Season 5 premieres
Nov. 13 (8 EST/PST) with a two-hour
episode on the Paramount Network
and the Paramount Network app,
available to pay-TV subscribers.
Past-season episodes of
“Yellowstone” are only available with
a subscription to Peacock Premium.
Viewers can also purchase earlier
“Yellowstone” episodes on Amazon
and Vudu ($2.99 each) or by the
complete season ($19.99 each).
Has ‘Yellowstone’ won awards?
The Season 4 premiere averaged
14.7 million viewers last November,
according to Nielsen. The drama
garnered a SAG Awards ensemble
drama acting nomination in
February, but HBO’s “Succession”
took the award.
Season 4 earned no Emmy
nominations this year. The first three
seasons earned one Emmy
nomination for production design.
John F. Kennedy’s brother-in-law
Steve Smith joins Monroe at a birthday
reception in 1962. CECIL STOUGHTON/
WHITE HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHS, JOHN F. KENNEDY
PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM VIA AP
Phillipson). She exclaims that she’s be-
ing treated like “a piece of meat” as Se-
cret Service agents physically carry her
to Kennedy’s suite. There, in a drug- and
booze-filled haze, the president forces
her to perform oral sex before raping her.
“The vile sex scene between Marilyn
and JFK is definitely fiction,” Fortner
says. “Opinions vary widely on the actu-
al relationship between the two. Of
course, there have been rumors for
years, but what we think we know is
that Marilyn and JFK met on no more
than four occasions between October
1961 and August 1962,” each time at a
party. (The last, on May 19, 1962, was
Kennedy’s birthday gala at New York’s
Madison Square Garden, where Marilyn
famously crooned “Happy Birthday, Mr.
President.”)
Did Joe DiMaggio
ever abuse Marilyn?
In one scene, “Blonde” shows Mari-
lyn’s second husband, New York Yan-
kees player Joe DiMaggio (Bobby Can-
navale), berating Marilyn when she gets
home, before beating her off screen. Di-
Maggio and Monroe, who filed for di-
vorce after only nine months of mar-
riage in October 1954, never commented
about the alleged abuse publicly, and
there are conflicting reports about the
incident, Fortner says.
“But some close to her claimed Mari-
lyn was bruised after an argument with
Joe following the filming of the subway/
skirt-blowing scene in ‘Seven Year Itch,’
during which Joe became visibly upset
and left,” Fortner says. “Makeup man Al-
lan Snyder and hairstylist Gladys Whit-
ten both claimed the next morning the
bruises needed to be covered with
makeup. Others have also commented
on seeing bruising while Marilyn and
Joe were married.”
Swift
Continued from Page 4B
commentary – announced the eye-
brow-raising title for Track No. 8, “Vig-
ilante S***.”
Upcoming TikTok installments
have arrived sporadically (Swift loves
to surprise). She unveiled the names of
Tracks 7 and 6, “Question...?” and
“Midnight Rain,” respectively, on Mon-
day and Wednesday, speaking the ti-
tles into a red phone receiver as she’s
done throughout the series. On Friday
at midnight, she dropped the name of
Track 2, “Maroon.”
With eight more titles to divulge un-
til “Midnights” arrives, the mathemat-
ically adept can deduce that there will
continue to be more than one revela-
tion per week.
The album’s visuals suggest
Swift is going retro. Maybe?
“Midnights” will arrive with four
different album covers depicting Swift
in visuals that evoke a potent ’70s
vibe, including wood-paneled walls, a
black push-button phone (the kind
with a cord, kids!) and a sans serif font
for the album title that immediately
spawned a cluster of memes.
Four vinyl versions of “Midnights”
will be offered in limited-edition color
variants: jade green, mahogany,
moonstone blue and “blood moon”
(aka orange marbled).
The back of each album cover in-
cludes a sector of a dial which, when
arranged in a square, forms a clock.
Her decision to release the album in
four vinyl editions, four CD editions
and a cassette (and don’t forget the
Target-exclusive CD with three bonus
tracks and lavender edition vinyl) is a
canny, Swiftian move. The dedication
of her obsessive fans ready to splurge
on multiple versions of the physical
product will surely result in mega-
sales, likely catapulting her to the big-
gest release of 2022.
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ICELAND Bergen 55/48r Helsinki 65/41pc Urumqi 50/34c
58/46r 47/36sh 55/41pc
RUSSIA UZBEK. Beijing N. KOREA
ESTONIA KYRGYZ. 63/39h
Aberdeen Stockholm Pyongyang
63/50sh Gothenburg 58/47s 63/40pc
TURKMEN. TAJIK.
SCOTLAND 56/52c S. KOREA JAPAN
Riga LATVIA
Kabul ASIA CHINA
Xian Seoul
Edinburgh 83/39s 50/45t 67/50r
61/51r 56/45sh Tokyo
NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN Osaka 75/58r
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Galway Belfast 65/55c IRAN 99/67h Changsha Shanghai
59/55c Minsk Kathmandu 68/48c 69/60c
59/51r 60/51r 72/57c
IRELAND Manchester 48/40r PAKISTAN 75/66t
64/59c New Delhi
Shannon Dublin Hamburg NEPAL Dhaka Guangzhou Taipei
92/73t
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Amsterdam Warsaw BELARUS Karachi Hanoi
66/57c GERMANY Berlin 92/76s Kolkata 93/75s TAIWAN
65/54pc 59/45c BURMA
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London Brussels Bonn Mumbai Rangoon Da Nang Manila
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Prague Bangkok VIETNAM
BELGIUM 56/42c
61/44pc UKRAINE 90/76t CAMBODIA GUAM
Hagatna
Le Havre LUX. CZECH REP. Phnom Penh Ho Chi Minh City 87/77sh
Frankfurt
65/55pc 65/49pc Munich Bratislava SLOVAKIA 88/77t 88/76t PHILIPPINES
Paris
64/47pc
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64/46pc HUNGARY
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MALDIVES
64/47s AUSTRIA Budapest Singapore Balikpapan
SWITZERLAND 65/45s ROMANIA 85/78t 87/74t
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80/55s 68/55c
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72/53pc 73/56c GUINEA
FRANCE Florence Belgrade 87/78t
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78/58c 62/45pc Sofia Port Moresby
76/51s 77/59s
59/40pc 94/78t
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Seville 79/65pc Perth
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79/65s Athens
Palermo 65/61r
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TUE WED Windy WED T-storm WED TUE Cloudy TUE TUE TUE Cloudy TUE TUE TUE WED T-storm
up sunshine sunny nice rain cloudy sunny
60/47 90/76 63/50 59/55 89/79
65/54 63/39 65/54 89/69 62/53 78/58 65/49
A P.M. Hazy High Sunny, Stray
WED THU Windy THU T-storms THU WED WED Breezy WED Sunny WED Clearing WED Rain WED WED Some sun THU
shower sunshine clouds nice t-storm
57/41 89/76 69/48 90/68 61/52 58/45 72/51
65/51 61/38 68/55 78/57 87/79
Mostly Mostly Mostly Mostly Sunny, Partly A P.M. Partly Mostly Showers
THU FRI FRI T-storms FRI THU THU Sunny THU THU THU THU THU FRI
sunny sunny sunny sunny nice sunny shower sunny sunny around
89/76 62/44
61/49 60/43 68/45 63/44 88/64 61/51 62/51 78/56 66/44 88/78

JAKARTA JERUSALEM JOHANNESBURG LONDON LOS ANGELES MADRID MANILA MEXICO CITY MILAN MOSCOW MUNICH NEW YORK
Sunny, Sunny, Partly Rather Rain, Turning
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nice warm sunny cloudy drizzle sunny
87/78 92/55 67/56 83/64 91/77 57/52
84/63 86/56 75/54 73/56 52/44 62/44
Very A P.M. Sunny, Showers Hazy A little
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warm shower warm around sunshine rain
89/79 83/60 86/64 90/77 72/48 63/52
86/57 67/45 83/56 72/56 74/56 47/38
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90/57 64/51 79/53 90/77 70/56 76/57 68/44

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TUE TUE TUE WED WED TUE TUE WED Rain WED Not as hot WED TUE TUE Clearing
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65/59 85/75 64/46
69/54 74/68 76/57 67/50 69/60 50/39 58/47 75/58 63/43
Cloudy, Showers A few Morning High
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cool around showers rain clouds
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66/59 51/46 58/51 65/60 71/49
Mostly Partly A little Very Showers Low Heavy Partly Mostly
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66/45 84/75 58/46
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Barcelona 74/61s 75/62s Valencia/Aeropuerto 80/63pc 78/65pc Caracas, Venezuela 89/75t 90/75t Portland
Belfast 60/51r 55/46r Venice 68/55c 68/55h Cozumel, Mexico 85/73pc 86/73s 77/56pc Boston
Belgrade 62/45pc 68/50pc Vienna 63/43c 71/49h Fort-de-France 87/78sh 87/77c Minneapolis-St. Paul 58/52r
Bergen, Norway 58/46r 58/46r Vilnius, Lithuania 52/41r 56/47c Halifax, Nova Scotia 55/48pc 60/52c 77/57sh
Bern 67/47pc 73/48s Warsaw 59/45c 62/51c Lima, Peru 65/56pc 65/57pc
Bilbao 80/57s 79/57s Montreal 66/48pc 70/53s New York
Birmingham, England 66/57c 64/43sh ASIA / OCEANIA Nassau, Bahamas 85/75pc 85/77sh 57/52r
Bonn 68/49pc 72/52pc WED THU Philipsburg, St. Maarten 88/80c 88/80c Chicago
San Francisco 73/48s
Bordeaux 80/55s 82/58s Adelaide 71/54s 74/52pc Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 88/73t 88/72pc 70/57s
Bratislava 64/47pc 67/49h Alice Springs Airport 88/62s 94/61s Punta Arenas, Chile 53/39sh 50/37c Washington
Denver 53/50r
Bucharest 66/47pc 69/45s Bali 86/76r 84/77r Quebec 60/46h 65/48pc 68/47sh
Cadiz, Spain 88/61s 88/62s Broome Bilingurr 86/72s 86/72s Quito, Ecuador 66/49r 65/48sh St. Louis
Caen 67/54pc 71/47sh Cairns Airport 86/74c 86/74pc San Jose, Costa Rica 77/66t 74/66t 77/49s
Cagliari 77/58s 78/60s Changde 65/53c 61/52c Santo Domingo 88/75t 88/74t Los Angeles
Cardiff 65/58sh 61/49sh Changsha City 70/57c 64/55r Sao Paulo 67/58c 71/61pc 83/64s
Dresden 61/47pc 71/55h Christchurch 48/32sh 51/37w Toronto 65/47pc 70/52pc
Dubrovnik 71/56s 70/58s Colombo 83/78c 85/78sh Vancouver 66/53pc 64/54pc Phoenix Atlanta
Duesseldorf 66/54pc 72/51pc Da Nang 88/73t 87/73t Winnipeg 69/50c 67/35w 96/74s 77/52s
Edinburgh 61/51r 56/46r Darwin 90/80t 90/80sh Dallas-Fort Worth
Faro, Portugal 79/65s 78/64s Dhaka 91/79t 91/79t AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST 88/61s
Figari 79/58s 79/57s Guangzhou 91/77pc 88/75t TUE WED
Geneva 69/50pc 72/53s Hagatna, Guam 87/77sh 87/77t Abidjan, Ivory Coast 84/76pc 83/75pc
New Orleans
Genoa 75/64pc 74/65s Hanoi 93/75s 91/75pc Abu Dhabi 104/81s 101/82s Houston
83/66pc Miami
Glasgow 60/50r 55/47r Ho Chi Minh City 88/76t 88/75t Accra, Ghana 86/74pc 85/73t 88/59pc
85/72pc
Gothenburg, Sweden 56/52c 59/48sh Hobart 57/46c 58/54c Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 68/50sh 69/48pc
Hamburg 64/52pc 70/51pc Karachi 92/76s 91/75s Alexandria, Egypt 84/73s 83/73s
Helsinki 47/36sh 54/52c Kathmandu 75/66t 76/63t Algiers, Algeria 81/62t 79/62pc
Innsbruck 71/47pc 77/50pc Kolkata 89/78t 89/78t Amman, Jordan 87/65s 87/64s TUE WED TUE WED TUE WED
Krakow 56/42c 65/47c Kuala Lumpur 87/75t 89/76t Ankara, Turkey 70/46c 66/45pc Albany, N.Y. 62/44c 69/43s Fargo, N.D. 74/53sh 75/35c Philadelphia 54/50r 65/52pc
Kyiv 50/47sh 54/47c Kyoto 71/53sh 69/58c Baghdad 107/74s 108/74s Albuquerque 71/55t 66/53pc Fort Myers, Fla. 86/66pc 86/66pc Phoenix 96/74s 94/72s
Las Palmas 85/74s 82/71s Lhasa City 68/48c 72/46pc Bahrain 94/83s 95/86s Allentown, Pa. 54/46r 68/46w Grand Rapids, Mich. 71/43pc 71/48pc Pittsburgh 64/42pc 70/44s
Le Havre 65/55pc 69/50sh Macau 85/79t 84/78pc Beirut 84/71s 83/69s Anchorage 50/44c 54/48c Greensboro, N.C. 64/47s 70/50s Portland, Maine 59/44c 61/44s
Lisbon 85/62s 84/62s Mumbai 89/79sh 88/78pc Cape Town, S.A. 67/48s 66/53pc Atlanta 77/52s 79/50s Hartford, Conn. 59/49r 64/47c Portland, Ore. 77/56pc 78/55s
Lucerne, Switzerland 64/47pc 72/50pc Nanchang City 75/66c 73/61c Casablanca, Morocco 85/61s 83/62s Atlantic City 57/55r 61/54sh Honolulu 86/73pc 86/74s Providence 57/52r 60/53r
Luxembourg 62/47pc 67/50pc New Delhi 92/73t 87/73t Damascus, Syria 92/59s 91/55s Austin 89/56s 89/58s Houston 88/59pc 88/61s Raleigh, N.C. 63/47pc 71/49pc
Lyon 72/53pc 75/53s Noumea 77/63s 78/66pc Dar es Salaam, Tanz. 88/68pc 88/68sh Baltimore 51/48r 64/49pc Huntsville, Ala. 79/45s 79/48s Rapid City, S.D. 66/46sh 73/45s
Malaga 82/62pc 77/64s Osaka 72/57sh 70/60sh Harare, Zimbabwe 92/60s 89/59s Baton Rouge 84/61pc 87/59pc Indianapolis 72/45s 78/51pc Reno 84/48s 84/50s
Manchester 64/59c 61/46r Pago Pago 88/79s 87/79pc Istanbul, Turkey 66/57s 67/59pc Billing, Mont. 72/48s 76/46pc Jackson, Miss. 81/54s 83/53s Richmond 52/48sh 62/52pc
Marseille 77/59s 76/58s Perth 66/48sh 63/45r Kabul 80/44s 83/39s Birmingham, Ala. 80/49s 80/49s Jacksonville 76/52s 83/56s Rochester, N.Y. 62/41pc 70/47s
Milan 73/56c 74/56h Phnom Penh 88/77t 87/76t Kinshasa, Congo 89/72pc 90/73c Boise, Idaho 81/50s 82/51s Kansas City, Mo. 84/57pc 82/55pc Sacramento 88/58pc 91/58s
Minsk 48/40r 53/44c Pyongyang 63/40pc 62/39pc Kuwait 105/73s 108/73s Boston 58/52r 60/53sh Knoxville, Tenn. 74/43s 73/47s St. Louis 77/49s 81/60pc
Monte Carlo 74/62pc 73/61s Rangoon 91/76t 90/75sh Lagos, Nigeria 85/74t 85/75t Buffalo 64/44pc 70/50s Las Vegas 94/71s 94/72s Salt Lake City 76/50s 77/50s
Naples 77/56s 76/56s Sapporo 56/44pc 54/41s Luanda, Angola 80/73pc 81/73pc Cedar Rapids, Iowa 76/48pc 75/53sh Little Rock 83/51s 85/57s San Antonio 88/62s 89/62s
Nice 76/62pc 74/61s Singapore 85/78t 85/77t Lusaka, Zambia 92/66s 91/65s Charleston, S.C. 70/50pc 77/55s Louisville 75/45s 79/51s San Diego 75/67pc 76/66s
Oslo 55/48r 57/47r Tianjin 63/46h 61/45pc Luxor, Egypt 99/70s 100/73s Charlotte 71/44s 74/51s Memphis 82/52s 84/54s San Francisco 70/57s 74/56s
Palermo 77/65pc 76/64s Vladivostok 50/34c 50/37c Mecca, Saudi Arabia 104/81s 105/81s Cheyenne, Wyo. 66/40pc 67/41s Miami 85/72pc 85/72sh San Juan, P.R. 88/77t 87/77t
Palma 79/65pc 79/66pc Wellington 54/41sh 51/44sh Mombasa, Kenya 85/72pc 85/72r Chicago 73/48s 76/56pc Milwaukee 71/49pc 72/54pc Sarasota, Fla. 83/63pc 84/62s
Prague 61/44pc 67/52h Wuhan City 58/52r 57/53r Nairobi, Kenya 83/55pc 82/56pc Cincinnati 69/44s 74/49s Minneapolis 77/57sh 73/48pc Savannah, Ga. 75/50pc 80/53s
Reims 67/51pc 73/46s Yokohama 75/57r 61/57c Nicosia, Cyprus 88/68pc 86/65pc Cleveland 65/43s 69/51s Mobile, Ala. 83/60pc 84/62pc Seattle 74/54pc 72/56pc
Reykjavik 49/43r 46/40r Rabat, Morocco 82/61h 81/60h Colorado Springs 65/47sh 66/45s Myrtle Beach, S.C. 67/50pc 73/56s Shreveport, La. 86/56s 87/56s
Riga 56/45sh 60/47c AMERICAS Tangier, Morocco 81/66s 81/67w Columbia, S.C. 73/47s 76/50s Nashville 78/44s 79/46s Spokane, Wash. 78/50s 78/51pc
Salzburg 64/47s 73/51h TUE WED Tbilisi, Georgia 75/62s 83/62s Columbus, Ohio 69/42s 72/47s New Orleans 83/66pc 83/66pc Syracuse, N.Y. 64/40c 69/45s
Santiago de Comp. 76/51s 70/54pc Acapulco, Mexico 87/75pc 87/76s Tehran, Iran 90/67s 92/67s Concord, N.H. 62/41c 64/40w Norfolk, Va. 57/52sh 62/57w Tampa 84/63pc 83/63s
Sarajevo 60/39c 66/42pc Belize 84/74t 82/75t Tel Aviv, Israel 86/68s 86/67s Dallas-Ft. Worth 88/61s 89/61s Oklahoma City 86/56s 86/60pc Topeka 86/55pc 84/55c
Sevilla/San Pablo 93/65s 91/64s Bermuda 81/75pc 81/74r Tombouctou, Mail 109/76s 104/78s Daytona Beach, Fla. 77/62pc 81/61s Omaha 78/56t 77/55c Tucson 88/63pc 89/65s
Skopje 66/40pc 69/41s Bogota 68/47r 65/49sh Tripoli, Libya 83/64pc 83/62pc Denver 68/47sh 69/47s Orlando 82/61sh 84/61s Tulsa 87/58s 88/58pc
Sofia Intl Airport 59/40pc 64/40s Brasilia, Brazil 83/64t 83/64t Tunis, Tunisia 82/62s 81/65s Detroit 70/45s 74/51s Palm Springs, Calif. 102/76s 103/75s Washington, D.C. 53/50r 63/53pc
St. Petersburg 50/39r 51/46sh Bridgetown, Barbados 87/79t 86/79w Zanzibar 83/72pc 83/73sh El Paso 80/61t 77/60t Pensacola, Fla. 82/62pc 82/64s Wichita 87/57pc 85/56c

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