Star Tribune · Sep 5, 2019
As NFL turns 100, the record book gets rewritten yet again
The NFL's 100th season will kick off Thursday night in Chicago, where 88 seasons ago the league played perhaps the most significant game in its history on a 60-yard, tanbark-covered indoor field that reeked of elephant manure so badly that some of the Bears players threw up on the field.
Yeah, the league sure has come a long way in reaching a $15 billion behemoth that will open 2019 with the Packers and Bears at Soldier Field.
One giant step forward took place on Dec. 18, 1932.
