Canton Bulldogs

Our ownership structure, really, if I could just digress a little bit, the story behind the Green Bay Packers is so inspiring.

I mean, if you think... um if you think back to the inception of football in this country and i think football is one of the greatest things that this country has given the rest of the world my personal opinion but if you think back to the early 1900s you know professional football in this country was really fueled by kind of this working class ethos coming out of a lot of these small or medium-sized manufacturing bases in the midwest so you had a lot of teams back in the 1920s and the teens, places like the Green Bay Packers, the Canton Bulldogs, the Muncie Flyers, Akron Indians, I think they were, the Decatur Staley's, and that was early professional football in this country.

You know, the game was truly magical.

The country gravitated toward it.

Our final stop this week is on October 3rd.

It begins in 1920 with White Earth Chippewa football star Joe Guyon Playing professionally for the Canton Bulldogs against Pitcairn, Guyon scores three rushing touchdowns in the first quarter.

Later, he throws a 35-yard touchdown pass.

Four touchdowns accounted for by Joe Guyon.

They did something that not too many teams have done in the National Football League, just decimate an opponent.

I think the stat was nobody had had six rushing touchdowns to start a season since the 1925 Canton Bulldogs, whatever, garbage men.

But yeah, okay, if you feel that type of way, then say it.

Would you rather have Dan Campbell the next five years or would you rather have Ben Johnson? I know where I'm at.

in 1919 and then coached at Penn State from 1930 and 1948.

Also played for the Canton Bulldogs along with Jim Thorpe.

Matsui's dad, Steve, was an All-American guard at Penn State who later played for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

So when Matsui arrived at Penn State in the 1970s, he wasn't just like a guy, a potential starting fullback.

He was the-

The Canton Bulldogs and many other teams.

My favorite Jim Thorpe football story, he was a little bit washed up by this point.

He was like 37 years old, but he played for an NFL team called the Ourang Indians, based in a small town in Ohio.

Chicago.

First team with six rushing touchdowns in a season opener since the 1922 Canton Bulldogs.

Here's the thing.

First it was Bill Walsh, then it was Andy Reid for twenty years, then it was Shanahan McVay.