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On This Day In History

Posted by Roy Hobbson on August 18th, 2010 under On This Day in History  •  22 Comments

August 18, 1923 — At the annual National Football League Board of Directors meeting in Akron, Ohio, Cotton Whittaker of the Columbus Panhandles was named League President. His first order of business? A queer & revolutionary concept that involved transforming the very long & very continuous 60-minute NFL game into TWO SEPARATE 30-minute games. Except [...]

Happy Birthday, O Captain, Our Captain!

Posted by Roy Hobbson on February 20th, 2010 under On This Day in History  •  14 Comments

On this day 73 years ago, Precision was born. Its name was Roger Penske, and he was already late for a Board of Directors meeting. He had neither the time nor patience for immunizations and other such troublesome tripe. The powerful seldom do.    In honor of this sacred day, we will not quote-unquote “party” (or “par-TAY“) [...]