TY - BOOK ID - 30692256 TI - The national forgotten league : entertaining stories and observations from pro football's first fifty years PY - 2012 SN - 1283550849 9786613863294 0803244606 080324343X 9780803244603 9780803243439 9781283550840 PB - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, DB - UniCat KW - Football KW - History. KW - National Football League KW - N.F.L. KW - National Pro Football League KW - NFL KW - American Football League KW - American Football League (1926-1927) KW - NFL Films KW - NFL Network UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30692256 AB - 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 ER -