The idea is that he knew his health was poor, and wanted to write up a statement to be read if he were to be inducted into the Hall of Fame post-humously. Supposedly he wrote the letter well before his death in the fall of 2002, and gave it to his half-sister when he last saw her in 1999. Or at least, it was printed and supposedly signed by him after he was dead, so I don’t know what else to call it. What I can say is that the letter from Hayes, which his purported half-sister read on national television last weekend, when he was at long last elected to the Hall of Fame, is a forgery. Or perhaps it was racism? I’m no football historian, so I can’t say.
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Hayes’ career ended with drug use and other problems, which may have had something to do with why he never made it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame during his lifetime (he died in 2002).
Even today, Hayes remains the only person to have won both an Olympic gold medal and a Superbowl. He forced the Cowboys’ opponents to invent the new concept of a “zone defense,” because he was simply too darn fast for them to keep up using the man-to-man defense (previously used universally in the NFL). He set and tied various world records as a sprinter. Bob Hayes was a fabulous athlete back in the 1960s, first as an Olympic sprinter, and then as wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys NFL football team. I am pretty sure that I will again-plenty of people will not remember or hear about this case, so being the default font in both Word and Excel it will come up again in future forgeries. I have testified in court about a backdated document using Calibri before-although in a clearer case where the document was dated prior to even 2004. One can debate whether it qualifies as a “smoking gun,” but it is at least highly suspicious, and I have no inclination to argue that the Pakistani Supreme Court is being unreasonable to say that the burden of proof is now on the defense to explain this improbable situation. But normal people were not using this for office documents before it came out in 2007.
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The document had a date of early February 2006, and was set in Calibri, although that typeface wasn’t formally released until January 2007.Īs my writeup on Quora explains, Calibri was available in “preview” versions of what would become Windows Vista as early as 2004. The question is, who owned the investments? The PM’s daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif (who purportedly has political ambitions) produced a document that purported to prove that she was a “trustee” while her less-politically-interested brother was the owner. Several of the Pakistani PM’s children appear to have investments in offshore companies. Pakistan has seen a high-level corruption inquiry based on the Panama Papers leaks last year, that incriminated many public figures. Sensibly enough, one publication got feedback from Luc de Groot, the designer of Calibri. I have now been interviewed by both the BBC and NPR about the case, and quoted in various other places. I answered a question on Quora early last week about the availability of Microsoft system font Calibri before its official release in 2007, and quickly found myself caught in a maelstrom centered on the family of the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Besides past cases, I am currently consulting on three court cases about this, including providing assistance to another expert. I have done many hours of research since I wrote this, and now understand far too much for anyone’s sanity regarding the details of Calibri’s availability during its development.
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Update : The Calibri cases just keep coming, fast and furious. Luc de Groot’s Calibri, which entered wide use in 2007.