The National Forgotten League: Entertaining Stories and Observations from Pro Football's First Fifty Years

by Dan Daly

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080324343X
• ISBN13: 9780803243439
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"