At the suggestion of some of our listeners/viewers/intakers of content, we remain inside the Kenilworth Hotel in January 1960 as George Preston Marshall of the Washington Football Team got worked into allowing expansion in the National Football League.

References

The League by David Harris

https://www.bigblueview.com/2016/9/24/13021216/dallas-redskins-yes-that-almost-happened-cowboys-washington-nfl-history

https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/texas-primer-clint-murchison-jr/

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1lmOUKjip0FnecRh9HDwXWJ8kYcdWt83o

https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/cowboys/2025/01/03/dallas-washington-rivalry-began-with-an-owners-feud-before-the-cowboys-team-was-even-born/

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It is the dawn of a new decade in the National Football League as the league enters 1960 with infighting over expansion, the burgeoning fight with the American Football League, and needs a commissioner to handle those issues and more.

With the top candidates being a lawyer and a former FBI agent, things get interesting as we embed ourselves inside the Kenilworth Hotel over the course of a week in January 1960 through the eyes and words of Miami Herald reporters, most notably Edwin Pope, one of the first godfathers of Miami Sports journalism.

Resources

The Miami Herald the week of January 17, 1960

Rozelle by Jeff Davis

Rozelle, A Biography by Jerry Izenberg

The League by David Harris

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1lmOUKjip0FnecRh9HDwXWJ8kYcdWt83o

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We take our first look at the Secret Football History behind the biggest trade in NFL history by looking at the most consequential team in NFL History... The Los Angeles Rams.

Resources

https://www.nfl.com/news/sidelines/digging-into-the-colts-and-rams-1972-franchise-swap-was-the-greatest-biggest-tra

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/lda/

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/ram/

https://sports.yahoo.com/day-sports-carroll-rosenbloom-trades-120051630.html?guccounter=1

https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/nfl-highest-winning-percentage-since-1954-to-1971

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lmOUKjip0FnecRh9HDwXWJ8kYcdWt83o?usp=drive_link

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