Introduction -- League talk -- A real sure-enough league -- Growing pains and a name change -- Red Grange turns pro -- February fallout -- Reduced, under lights, and indoors -- Television debuts -- The T-formation and the man-in-motion -- The NFL's first commissioner -- A world at war -- The NFL's four-year war -- The Cleveland Browns' NFL debut -- The NFL's final failed franchises -- The greatest game ever played and the legend of Johnny Unitas -- The "hunt" for a new league -- A compromise candidate, Congress, and TV -- Tough decisions -- A cease-fire and a merger -- Super Bowls I-IV -- Monday Night Football -- The immaculate reception -- A starting quarterback -- The perfect coach for a perfect season -- A rules change, and the decade of the running back -- "Super" defenses -- Rozelle fights through the NFL's lost decade -- The 49ers strike gold -- Tags! You're it -- Jerry Jones buys a team, fires a coach, and gives birth to "the Triplets" -- The Rooney rule -- The NFL responds to national crises -- Krafting a winner-- the New England patriots -- The last commissioner of the NFL's first century.
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