The top picture is from the National Parks Services web site for Assateague National Seashore. I fondly remember visits there. First when I was a teen (early 1960s) and we had to take a boat to Assateague Island. I swam in the ocean on Thanksgiving. The water was warm but the air was frigid. A decade […]
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American football first became a professional sport in 1892, when Pudge Heffelfinger and Ben “Sport” Donnelly each received a gigantic sum of cash to play for the Allegheny Athletic Association of the Western Pennsylvania Senior Independent Football Conference. Throughout the 1890s and the early part of the 20th century, professional football was primarily a regional sport, with most informal circuits centered around one state or region with only limited play outside the state lines.
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