S. Da NFL Project It is broadcast directly every year and attracts millions of viewers. Hundreds of thousands also follow the event personally, and they celebrate every option enthusiastically.
Even without touches of landing or field plays, the draft has become one of the largest sporting events for this year.
This year, 257 players will be chosen in Green Bay and Wisconsin. Those who were chosen in the first round, which starts on Thursday at 20 hours (Brazilia), guarantee the contracts of millionaire.
But the beginning of the draft was completely different. In 1936, only 81 athletes were chosen in nine rounds. The first choice was not even known that it was formulated.
The first draft and Jay Piraanger
Everything was completely different in 1936, when the first draft had 81 players chosen over nine rounds.
There was no doubt about that Jay earThe left back of the University of Chicago, it will be the first to be chosen. At 1.83 Me 88 kg, he had just received the first Heisman Cup.
He was also appointed the best 10 big player by Chicago Tribune.
“He played the attack, defense and special teams,” Landon Bondi, Sports Director at the University of Chicago, told CNN. “In practice, he never left the countryside.”
According to Bondy, Pirantiger was also the team’s kick – ran to land and kicked additional points.
“In the Heisman campaign, it started to 405 yards, ran to 577 yards, restored and recorded six landing, kicking five additional points. He did everything.”
“You can say anything good about him while I am doubled,” Clark Seonisi coach told Chicago Tribune in 1935.
Berwanger had many borrowed names, including “The Iron Mask Man”, because of his face mask – broke his nose twice.
National recognition and Heisman Cup
In the last academic year, Chicago Tribune interviewed his opponents: 104 out of 107 players who said he was the best right -back he had ever faced.
Even Gerald Ford, the American president in the future and the national hero of Michigan, praised Piravanger, and had a scar on his face for his attempt to hit him.
In 1935, the Downtown City Sports Club in New York invented a cup of the “most valuable player east of Mississippi” and awarded the Burwanger opening award.
The following year, the cup was renamed in honor of John Haseman, the club’s sports director, after his death.
Peruanger knew the Telegram Award, and after decades he said that no one had done many cases.
“No one said anything, just congratulate me. I was more enthusiastic about the trip to Nova York From the cup – it was my first trip. “
I barely use the cup, which was very large for the heater or the central table. Uchicago magazine says he worked as an entrance to his aunt’s home for years.
The first draft of the American Football Association
After three months, there was the first official draft of the American Football Association – something completely different from what it is today. Hartford Corant described the event as “more like cheap poker.”
Nine leaders smoke the cigarette, who pushing their players guilty, try to keep the dream of professional football alive.
Pirantiger Korant told 1994 that he only knew that he was chosen by reading the newspaper.
“I found that I was asked to read the newspaper. I didn’t even know that the draft was happening.”
owner EaglesBert Bell created a draft to end the expensive battles by the college players. I suggest that you choose the teams in reverse arrangement from the previous season classification.
Therefore, Al-Nisour (2-9) had the first option and chose Puranoger-Sanean they exchanged their rights with Chicago Beers.
The Eagles did not have money to pay what he wanted. Bear coach George Hallas also.
According to Korent, the two met in the lobby of a hotel in Chicago. “He asked me about the amount I wanted. I jokingly 25,000 dollars for two years,” said Peruanger.
“I looked at Hallas and said:” It is good to meet him, enjoy the night. “
Why did Berwanger not play in the American Football Association
Tell Brian E. Cooper, author of The Book First Heistman: The Life Of Jay Berwanger, Uchicago magazine that high salary request is a sign that Berwanger did not want to play professionally.
“He explained mainly Hallas who was not interested.”
In 2002, Los Angeles Times moved to Piravanger, saying: “There was no money in professional football at that time, this was the great depression. I thought I would have a better future using my background.”
Life after football
Berwanger even looked at the competition in Decao in the Berlin Olympics, but decided to finish his studies and began selling rubber.
During World War II, he was a sea airline coach and reached the position of commander of the Litanant.
Then he founded the car maker parts company for agricultural cars and machinery. According to the New York Times, Jay Pirawanger received $ 30 million when it was sold in 1992.
The first other choices did not play
Berwanger was not the only player to be recruited in the first place that he did not play in the US Football Association. Erney Davis, the first black hessman, was chosen in 1962, but he died due to leukemia in 23, without playing with Cleveland Brown.
Even without playing American Football AssociationBerwanger occupies a unique place in the history of the most profitable league in the world: it was the first choice for the first project.
Before his death at the age of 88 in 2002, he was reflected: If he was formulated a few years later, he may play professionally.
He once said: “I still see my first myself – like George Washington.”
