Some would argue that professional football became America s premier sport through a slow, painstaking evolution starting with the 1920 formation of a fourteen-team circuit that became the National Football League. "The Year That Changed the Game" contends that instead there was a Big Bang an explosion on December 28, 1958, setting off subsequent aftershocks that in thirteen months transformed pro football from a fringe sport to a rocket ship flying across a nation s sports horizon. While the Baltimore Colts celebrated their dramatic 23-17 win over the New York Giants, courtesy of Alan Ameche...
Some would argue that professional football became America s premier sport through a slow, painstaking evolution starting with the 1920 formation of a...
