TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daly,Dan
TI  - The National Forgotten League: Entertaining Stories and Observations from Pro Football's First Fifty Years 
SN  - 9780803244603
AV  - GV954 .D35 2012eb
U1  - 796.323/64 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - National Football League
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Football
KW  - United States
KW  - SPORTS & RECREATION
KW  - Basketball
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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
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