RICHMOND, Va. -- It’s difficult to conceive of a time when baseball was so popular in the United States … and professional football so disrespected -- in comparison to the college game -- that NFL teams named themselves after their MLB counterparts.
But such was the reality in the early days of the National Football League, as the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians took the field!
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