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I'm not familiar with the player in question, so I don't really know what he meant. Something about the guy being portly?
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Not bloody quite.
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Forty acres and a mule is part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha). [...] Some land redistribution occurred under military jurisdiction during the war and for a brief period thereafter. However, federal and state policy during the Reconstruction era emphasized wage labor, not land ownership, for black people. Almost all land allocated during the war was restored to its pre-war white owners.
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Leave the old man alone, btw. He wasn't implying anything, whatever some people are trying to read into it. He appreciated Moncada in the weirdest way possible, as people born in the 1930s like to do (boy, do I know about that...). Let's shrug and move on.