Jim Thorpe: First President of the NFL

Before it was renamed the National Football League, the NFL was called the American Professional Football Association and dues were $100 per team in 1920. Before there was the Lombardi Trophy there was the Brunswick-Balke Collender Cup, which mysteriously vanished after the first season. And before there was Roger Goodell, there was Jim Thorpe, who was unanimously elected president of the APFA while playing and coaching the famed Canton Bulldogs.
This American ritual we know as the Super Bowl enters its 55th year this Sunday, but its origins trace back 100 years ago -- to an Olympian, a pioneer of professional football and the country’s first celebrity sports hero, the iconic Native American athlete Jim Thorpe.
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The 1st original goat

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I'm thinking Jim Thorpe not being talked about and giving credit for popularization of football is discrimination against him.

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Cool. I did not know that.

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The Native Tom Brady.