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Walter Camp is known as "The Father of American Football". He went to Yale university and Stanford to study medicine. He also was the captain of the Yale football team, there he transformed and twick the game of rugby into it became american football
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Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Eagles played in the first televised game broadcasted by NBC. A huge marketing advancement
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The AFL was a six team league that was the first serious american football league in the world.
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Sammy is widely recognized as one of football's pioneers as. In 1943, he lead the league in passing yards, punting and in interceptions!
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Right guard Bills Wills, running back Marion Motley joined the NFL respectively with Los Angelos Rams and Chicago Bears
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Brown entered the league in 1957, Jim Brown is recognized as one of the greatest athletes of all times, he revolutionized the game of football and was a transuding figure for the African American people.
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The birth of CFL was the first proffesional football league that was only for canadien teams
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The average football fan knows the name of Johnny Unitus. Him and many others hall of famers played in the historical 1958 NFL Championship that ended in an overtime win by the Colts. The game was won 23-17.
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As commissioner, Rozzelle brought the NFL to new heights both by the quality of the game and the marketing
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Pete Rozzell and the NFL licensed the league's logo and insignias It was named NFL Proprieties, presently it is now worth 1 billion dollars.
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The NFL and AFL both negotiate big tevision deals. NBC offers the AFL $36 million for five years, while CBS gives the NFL $28.2 million for two years.
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In the famous "Ice Bowl" game, held on the frozen tundra of Green Bay's Lambeau Field, the Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 on a last-minute touchdown to win a return trip to the Super Bowl.
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Franco Harris's "Immaculate Reception" gavee Pittsburgh Steelers an implausible last-second victory over the Oakland Raiders in the AFC Playoffs. This untimely lead to the start of the Pittsburgh Steelers dynasty that we all know today.
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During Super Bowl XIII, Coca-Cola airs one of the most popular Super Bowl ads of all time, showing fearsome Pittsburgh "Mean" Joe Greene and a young fan "having a Coke and a smile" in a stadium tunnel after a game.
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Super Bowl XVI, includes the first Super Bowl musical performance by a major recording industry superstar Diana Ross. Nowadays the half-time show is the only football related thing they'll watch all year.
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With little time on the clock, Dwight Clark of the San Francisco 49ers hauled in a leaping grab from Joe Montana to lead them pass the Dallas Cowboys, they later on that year won the Super Bowl.
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the debut of one of the most famous television commercials ever: Apple Computer's "1984" ad.
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In a two month-span, both of Los Angeles's NFL teams leave the country's second largest city and also a top marketing city.
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In Super Bowl XXXVI, the at the time young quarterback Tom Brady and Bill Belichek led the New England to a Super Bowl the first of five Super Bowl.
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Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys built a 1.3$ billion dollar stadium that host many elite events like WWE, Concerts and high school games.
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This TV deal was one and half more than the previous deal that was worth 15$ millions dollars. This showed the increase of interest in the CFL.
