Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the first televised NFL game

It's been 75 years since the first televised NFL game aired. On
October 22, 1939, NBC broadcast the match between the
Philadelphia Eagles and the (now defunct) Brooklyn Dodgers.
Unlike today's games, only eight people were needed to run the
telecast and roughly 500 fans watched the game from the comfort
of their living room. Unfortunately no footage from the telecast
exists, but we do have the final score: Dodgers 23, Eagles 14.

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