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The NFL
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Jim Thorpe, the First President of the Pro Football League
In addition to playing professional football, Jim Thorpe won two gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He and pop led this small, tiny Carlyle Indian Industrial School to a national championship while he was playing there against all these big Ivy League powerhouses. The proto NFL formed in 1920 with 14 teams and about as much instant legitimacy as you could get from Jim Thorpe being the president of the league.
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