Aaron Rodgers of the Packers, who will start at quarterback in the upcoming Super Bowl, just switched to a helmet he thinks offers superior protection. Rodgers says the helmet prevented a concussion when he took a brutal blow to the head from Julius Peppers of the Chicago Bears in the NFC Championship Game.
It seemed that the American people didnât want the US government propping up dictators or leading coups anymore. With Matthewsâ praise Castro became a cause celebre. Eventually, the Eisenhower administration withdrew its support for Batista and that allowed Castro to come to power on January 1st 1959.
In 1952 Batista returned and took power in a coup dâetat. That set a lot of revolutionary movements into play. One of those movements was led by Fidel Castro. In 1953 he led a force of about 100 men and attacked an Army barracks and killed a couple dozen soldiers and policemen. Many of Castroâs men were shot on the spot but he and his brother were able to elude capture and later negotiated a surrender.