Taking such a small-minded stance means the NFL players and coaches of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s have disappeared into relative obscurity. But Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Feller, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle? All largely forgotten. Louis Cardinals beating Carl Yastrzemski and the Boston Red Sox in the 1967 World Series. Baseball as we know it would begin roughly with Bob Gibson and the St. ![]() Imagine if Major League Baseball ignored its own early heritage. I can’t begin to tell you how little institutional knowledge the NFL actually has.” ![]() This, he says, “is kind of baloney, but it’s an easy milestone to point to. “I can’t begin to tell you how little institutional knowledge the NFL actually has.” - Joe Horrigan 1 sport”-roughly coinciding with the creation of the grandiloquently titled Super Bowl. “What the NFL has done to itself,” Joe Horrigan, Executive Director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, told me in an interview Canton in May 2015, “is to kind of mark time from when they became America’s No. Then the primary reason clicked into place as I conducted an interview for my book The Cleveland Rams: The NFL Champs Who Left Too Soon. Counting Years Since It Became #1 with Americaįor some time I’ve puzzled over why pro football has a blinkered view of its own past. ![]() If the NFL encompassed the entire universe-and sometimes it seems to think it does-the Big Bang would have occurred in 1958 with the TV sensation called the “ greatest game ever played.”īut the present-day NFL emerged from stardust in 1967 when the Super Bowl was born. In 1965, the very last NFL season that would not end with the playing of a spectacular called the Super Bowl was completed.īetween those two events lie the approximate number of seasons-45-that have gone down the memory hole of NFL history. On this day 97 years ago-August 20, 1920-the National Football League was founded in that legendary Hupmobile dealership in Canton, Ohio. Yet the Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams star of the 1930s and 1940s still ranks #4 all time in most receiving yards in a single game. Ever heard of Jim Benton? Don’t worry most football fans haven’t.
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