Our look into Secret Football History takes us back to our focus of this series of episodes, Carroll Rosenbloom.

In this edition, we track Rosenbloom's entry into the NFL with the second version of the Baltimore Colts, his ties to Bert Bell, who set up a sweetheart deal for Rosenbloom's entry into the league.

We also learn how Ed Sullivan, Hightower from Police Academy, and John F. Kennedy all play into Rosenbloom's alleged love for gambling on or even against his own team in two of the biggest football games in history.

Resources

Rozelle by Jeff Davis

Rozelle, A Biography by Jerry Izenberg

The League by David Harris

https://mobology.substack.com/

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1lmOUKjip0FnecRh9HDwXWJ8kYcdWt83o

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At the suggestion of some of our listeners/viewers/intakers of content, we remain inside the Kenilworth Hotel in January 1960 as George Preston Marshall of the Washington Football Team got worked into allowing expansion in the National Football League.

References

The League by David Harris

https://www.bigblueview.com/2016/9/24/13021216/dallas-redskins-yes-that-almost-happened-cowboys-washington-nfl-history

https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/texas-primer-clint-murchison-jr/

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1lmOUKjip0FnecRh9HDwXWJ8kYcdWt83o

https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/cowboys/2025/01/03/dallas-washington-rivalry-began-with-an-owners-feud-before-the-cowboys-team-was-even-born/

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It is the dawn of a new decade in the National Football League as the league enters 1960 with infighting over expansion, the burgeoning fight with the American Football League, and needs a commissioner to handle those issues and more.

With the top candidates being a lawyer and a former FBI agent, things get interesting as we embed ourselves inside the Kenilworth Hotel over the course of a week in January 1960 through the eyes and words of Miami Herald reporters, most notably Edwin Pope, one of the first godfathers of Miami Sports journalism.

Resources

The Miami Herald the week of January 17, 1960

Rozelle by Jeff Davis

Rozelle, A Biography by Jerry Izenberg

The League by David Harris

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1lmOUKjip0FnecRh9HDwXWJ8kYcdWt83o

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We take our first look at the Secret Football History behind the biggest trade in NFL history by looking at the most consequential team in NFL History... The Los Angeles Rams.

Resources

https://www.nfl.com/news/sidelines/digging-into-the-colts-and-rams-1972-franchise-swap-was-the-greatest-biggest-tra

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/lda/

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/ram/

https://sports.yahoo.com/day-sports-carroll-rosenbloom-trades-120051630.html?guccounter=1

https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/nfl-highest-winning-percentage-since-1954-to-1971

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lmOUKjip0FnecRh9HDwXWJ8kYcdWt83o?usp=drive_link

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