![]() ![]() Join Sid as he reluctantly journeys back home, meets old friends, relives memories, and attempts to kick start his creativity back into gear. With the deadline approaching and his creative juices having frozen, this is not something he's looking forward to. On this Sunday, his struggle is disturbed by an invitation to attend an unavoidable family obligation - The place Sid grew up in is about to be sold, and his mother wants him to come home for a small party so he can say goodbye to it. In order to pay the bills, he needs to think up a story and apply for a grant - the deadline is today - a lazy Sunday in the middle of summer. ![]() The College All-Star game was washed out by a torrent of nature and the torrent of growth that the NFL enjoys to this day.Sid is a fiction author struggling with a creative block, attempting to recapture the feelings of inspiration he felt when he was younger. ![]() The 1976 deluge, a quirk of nature, was perhaps the final signal that the game had run its course. The Super Bowl champions won the final 12 games. As NFL training and systems improved, the game became more one-sided. Ultimately, it didn’t make sense for a team’s best draft picks to miss training camp for two weeks to work for an all-star team. That injury fostered quiet murmurings about the wisdom of the game. “I came down on my elbow and almost instantaneously the defender fell on top of me.” He needed two surgeries to repair the injury and was limited to one game during the 1965 regular season. “I was diving for the ball for a pass that was slightly overthrown,” Warfield says. READ MORE: The Birth of the National Football League He had an outstanding rookie season, but he suffered a broken collarbone the next preseason when playing against the collegians. Warfield played for the collegians in the 1964 game after he was a first-round pick of the Cleveland Browns. NFL Player's Injury Prompts Rethink of Series He told Kendle he could feel the eyes of Packers veterans piercing through him. ![]() Robinson sheepishly walked to the near-silent Green Bay locker room and found a corner to sit down. Kendle recalls Pro Football Hall of Famer Dave Robinson, the Packers' first-round draft pick in early December 1962, talking about being a part of the college team that beat Green Bay in 1963. “.the college players were in the locker room hooting and hollering and all of a sudden the trainer from the Packers walks in and yells out, ‘Robinson, Coach Lombardi said to get you. The Packers were the first and last NFL team to lose to the all-stars. Green Bay also lost in 1963, a game Vince Lombardi called his most embarrassing loss. Sammy Baugh guided the 1937 college team to its first win, 6-0 over the Green Bay Packers. In 42 games, the all-stars won nine and tied twice. In 1941, UCLA star Jackie Robinson, who would break Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers, scored a touchdown for the all-stars. College teams were integrated well before the NFL re-integrated in 1946. Ward’s coup was getting the NFL to agree to allow the best players who had just left college play the champions. That kind of game was not unusual in those days in 1939, there were nine games between college players and NFL teams. In consultation with the Chicago city leaders and George Halas of the Chicago Bears, Ward came up with a similar idea for football, pitting college all-stars against the NFL champions. The Midsummer Classic continues to this day. He worked in public relations for Notre Dame football during two of legendary coach Knute Rockne’s unbeaten seasons, started the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, and in 1933 suggested Major League Baseball hold a midseason exhibition between the stars of the American and National leagues. Ward was as much promoter as he was reporter. In the early 1930s, the NFL needed the all-star game. In 1926, 110,000 fans attended the Army-Navy game at Soldier Field-the formal dedication of the stadium. Times were different when Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward came up with the all-star game idea in 1933. ![]()
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