Ben Gilbert

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.

They just end up closing their doors.

Wait, he's the star player and the head coach?

I'd love that.

The Redskins, commensurate with keeping that name for as long as they did, they were very, very, very late to integrate the team.

I think they had some really big fan base in the South, and there weren't a lot of NFL teams at that point in the South.

And so it was both because he was racist and also because he realized he would probably lose a lot of his fan base