It's not like Muhammad Ali ending his career (at the time) to protest the war in Vietnam, that took balls
Agreed. From what I gathered about the Ali story. Not only was he protesting against the war, he knew that the military would draft him and then put him directly in harm's way. Unlike, say Joe Louis or other celebs who were drafted, and placed in safe areas.....Ali was to be made an example of because of his outspoken nature.
Decades later....true hero,NFL player Pat Tillman...who quit the league to sign up with Army Rangers was....well I think we all have our own ideas about what happened to him.
If Tillman cold die under "controversial circumstances" in the modern era....Ali definitely would have never made it back to America alive.
