Ben Gilbert

In 100 years, that's the one concession that's been made.

Yeah, these teams that are coming together, some were independent, some were part of the Ohio League, some were part of the New York Pro Football League.

So there are sort of slightly different rule books and slightly different customs that are going on.

And this is the idea that, no, we need to unify these things to set an expectation for fans.

Which is not to say, like, if you put him through the NFL Combine today, he would win.

It's sort of handicapped with all of what we knew about modern sports science of his day.

Who, of course, is the person that all of the youth football leagues are named after today, Pop Warner League.

And they consolidated the smaller leagues to create this in the Midwest.

Oh yeah.

If you look at the, what is it, 15 teams or so that existed in 1920, there are three franchises that endured out of all of those.

The rest of them, the Columbus Panhandles, the Akron Pros, the Chicago Tigers all went under.

And the only ones that stayed the test of time are the Decatur Stalys, the Racine Cardinals,

one we have not talked about yet the green bay packers the decatur staley's would become the bears chicago bears the bears yes actually named after the cubs that's right because they played in wrigley field and bears are bigger than cubs yep

They're not in big cities.

100% of these teams either fold or move to larger cities, except for the Packers.

They're the only small market team that stood the test of time.

And they're massively loss-making.

I mean, these teams last two to five years, and there's another 15 teams that are formed between the Chicago Bears, and eventually the New York Giants are formed around 1925 that stand the test of time.

So it's amazing all these teams that spin up and spin down within five years of each other in this decade.

Yeah, and most of these don't even end up moving.