Vince Vaughn

The Bears are such a crazy –

George Hallis, it's so crazy that it's only the NFC trophies named after him because he was really the – he was the first one to get a college player to play for the NFL, the Galloping Ghost.

Did you know that?

Well, originally pro football was just farmers and there was no well-known names because there was no money in it.

And college football was real popular.

But –

Going to college was even harder back then.

So when you'd come out of college, if you had a degree, you had a real opportunity to earn money.

With a bunch of these rednecks, and I'm going to go play football, and no one's watching.

So Halas, he played for the Yankees.

He was a baseball player.

He went to Red Grange from the University of Illinois, and he said, I'll give you half the gate.

if you come on a barnstorming tour, we'll go play places.

And then people showed up.

They'd go watch Red Grange, who was a big-time college player.

And so when they got Red Grange to play with the Bears, they knew if they could get the college guys to come in, the fans would grow.

And then the college guys were more open to it because you could pay them because you'd get the fans to fill up the stadiums.

And then when they first did it,

whatever college you were from, you would play for that local team because the college would already be a fan of you.

The people in the area would be a fan.