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The NFL

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The History of the NFL

100% of these teams either fold or move to larger cities except for the Packers. It just became completely non-viable economically for small town teams to survive except for Green Bay and they all end up moving to the big city where they're very much playing second fiddle to the baseball teams. The other important thing though to say about the NFL during this time before World War II is that in the beginning, there was Jim Thorpe who was the first president of the league. You know, obviously he was Native American. He wasn't a white person. In fact, the first NFL champions in that first season, the Akron pros, the star player and the head coach was a man

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