Let's hear it for the Maroons
An old wrong may be about to be righted
IN THE 1920s, decades before the emergence of the international sensation known as the Super Bowl, the National Football League (NFL) was a loose collection of franchises sited not just in big cities but in small towns, too. Rock Island, Illinois and Muncie, Indiana had their teams, as well as Chicago and Detroit.
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