Let’s celebrate 100 years of football broadcasts

  • Let’s celebrate 100 years of football broadcasts
    Let’s celebrate 100 years of football broadcasts
A massive crowd swarmed City Hall Park and the streets around it on the afternoon of Oct. 28, 1922. The New York Police had been warned it was coming and diverted traffic as a safety measure. Was the crowd there to protest? No. It was there to cheer on a college football game -- one that was about to kick off hundreds of miles away in Chicago at a place called Stagg Field, which could seat only…

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