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Represtatives from 4 Ohio football teams meet to form a new professioal league originally called American Profesional Football Associaton later called the National Football League.
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Akron pros star Fritz pollard becoms the NFL's first black head coach.
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NFL holds its first annual draft for college players. The player who won the Heisman that year pursued a career in plastic manufacturing and never saw a down in the NFL.
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NFL game airs on television for the first time on NBC. The game was between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philedelphia Eagles.
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Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the first ever superbowl although 32,000 tickets go unsold.
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During Superbowl XIII Coca-cola one of their most popular commercials of all time.
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Motown's own Diana Ross performs the first ever musical performance in Superbowl XVI.
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NFL players association goes on strike in hopes the NFL will allow free agency and guarantee players a higher proportion of league revenues.
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Los Angelos loses both of their teams. The Rams move to St. Louis while the Raiders return to Oakland.
