Tim Miller

You've done a bunch of just amazing profiles.

But I probably had read some of your stuff not kind of noticing the byline.

But the first time I was like, now, who the fuck wrote this?

Was a series you wrote for ESPN called Ghosts of Mississippi.

And it referenced your dad.

So we'll start with that.

This is how it started.

When I was five or six, because my dad's political activism in the Mississippi Delta, local white supremacists burned a cross in our front yard.

My parents had a decision to make, wake me or let me sleep.

They chose sleep.

And you then go into the story of basically the 1962 Ole Miss football team and an exceptionally good football team and that season and how it intersected with James Meredith desegregating the school.

Just talk about that story a little bit.

Then I have a couple questions for you.

A lot of people that were agitating against James Marriott.

Yeah.

Not that long ago.

It's not that long ago.

A lot of those people are still alive.

I do want to just talk about the football part of that just really quick, though, because your point that this governor, Governor Barnett, Ross Barnett, that's there.

And it is kind of crazy to think that he changed his mind on school integration based on the response of the crowd at a football game, at a halftime speech, at a football game against Kentucky.