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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814506803321

Autore

Daly Dan

Titolo

The national forgotten league : entertaining stories and observations from pro football's first fifty years / / Dan Daly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-55084-9

9786613863294

0-8032-4460-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 p.)

Disciplina

796.323/64

Soggetti

Football - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

The first fifty years of America's most popular spectator sport have been strangely neglected by historians claiming to tell the "complete story" of pro football. Well, here are the early stories that "complete story" has left out. What about the awful secret carried around by Sid Luckman, the Bears' Hall of Fame quarterback whose father was a mobster and a murderer? Or Steve Hamas, who briefly played in the NFL then turned to boxing and beat Max Schmeling, conqueror of Joe Louis? Or the two one-armed players who suited up for NFL teams in 1945? Or Steelers owner Art Rooney postponing a g