When Johnson C. Smith and Livingstone renew the oldest and original HBCU rivalry Saturday in Charlotte, there's reason to celebrate.

The two schools played the first black college football game on Dec. 27, 1892 in Salisbury, N.C., which Smith (then Biddle Institute) won 5-0.

Back in those days, a touchdown was worth five points, marching bands hadn't been invented and football wasn't played in front of tens of thousands of fans in state of the art stadiums. Heck, even video games were nearly 90 years into the future. ...