There was a time when even the NFL commissioner couldn’t help the daughter of a team owner get a job in league.
Detroit Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp was that daughter nearly 50 years ago.
While speaking Wednesday at the fifth Women’s Careers in Football Forum hosted by the NFL, Hamp told the story of befriending then-commissioner Pete Rozelle, who couldn’t help her find a job in the league after she graduated from Yale in 1973.
“All I wanted to do was go work for the NFL,” Hamp said. “I loved football, I grew up with it and I actually knew at the time the commissioner was Pete Rozelle.