As soon as he read the email, the first reaction was that there was a mistake.
Kansas City Chiefs vice president of communications Ted Crews thought they had reached the wrong person.
Crews received an email back in January explaining that he had won a “Salute to Excellence” Award by the Fritz Pollard Alliance Foundation, which, according to its website, promotes diversity and equality of job opportunity in the coaching, front office and scouting staffs of National Football League teams.
It’s a foundation that is named after the NFL’s first-ever African-American head coach, Frederick Douglass “Fritz” Pollard.