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The Early Years of Pro Football
If the National Football League is now a mammoth billion-dollar enterprise, it was certainly born into more humble circumstances. Indeed, it began in 1920 in an automobile showroom in Canton, Ohio, when a car dealer called together some owners of teams, mostly in the Midwest, to form a league. Unlike the lavish boardrooms in which NFL owners meet today, on this occasion the owners sat on the running boards of cars in the showroom and drank beer from buckets. A membership fee of $100 was set, but no one came up with any money. (As one of those present, George Halas, the legendary owner of the Chicago Bears, said, I doubt that there was a hundr…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-028369-8
- EAN: 9780190283698
- Produktnummer: 18398460
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'455 KB
- Abbildungen: 22 halftones
Über den Autor
Robert W. Peterson, a college baseball and basketball player right after World War II, has been a magazine writer for 30 years. He has written two previous books on sports history: Only the Ball Was White, and Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball's Early Years. He lives in Ramsey, New Jersey.
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