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Post by UHaveCardinalNv on Sept 17, 2022 10:15:58 GMT -6
 The Pro Football Hall of Fame tweeted the above image with: “as noted in this short newspaper article from 1920, #OTD 102 years ago today, the American Professional Football Association was founded in Canton, Ohio. This league became what we now know as the NFL.” I was previously unaware Muncie was involved in the founding. |
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Post by lmills72 on Sept 17, 2022 16:12:43 GMT -6
Wonder what they considered an "outlandish salary" at that time.
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Post by 00hmh on Sept 17, 2022 18:10:37 GMT -6
Wonder what they considered an "outlandish salary" at that time. Good question. The implication was that the pro football of the day had problems with poaching talent from local colleges and that the star players were able to hold management hostage without a ruling body for the leagues that existed. Sort of a wild west!
This article below has a lot of background:
"Pro football was in a state of confusion due to three major problems: dramatically rising salaries; players continually jumping from one team to another following the highest offer; and the use of college players still enrolled in school. A league in which all the members would follow the same rules seemed the answer."
The article mentions paying a college star $500 to play a single game. (With NIL look how far we've come!)
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Post by sdacardinal on Sept 18, 2022 16:11:24 GMT -6
On a similar note the Anderson Packers basketball team was one of the charter members of the NBA and reached the semi finals of the tourney losing to George Mikan and the Minnesota Lakers.
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Post by williamtsherman on Sept 18, 2022 16:15:06 GMT -6
As I pointed out in another thread, there is no particular reason that the Green Bay franchise survived from the early days of pro football into the modern NFL while the Muncie franchise did not. It mostly had to do with the individuals involved at the time. In particular Curley Lambeau. If he had been born in Muncie, we might well be watching the Flyers on TV tonight from Lambeau Field on South Walnut Street.
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