American History Ex is an exploratory examination of exploitation film, a continuing column celebrating “low culture.” This month is Blaxploitation History Month.
What better follow-up to the Super Bowl than a 1974 Blaxploitation flick that has absolutely nothing to do with football other than the fact that it stars two former NFL players, one of whom briefly played for the Pittsburgh Steelers. If that’s not relevant, then I don’t know what is… and if you ain’t got relevance, you can never ever carry it off… Continue reading
