Football Daily on 24th of April

We love it when knowledgable people honor great players and aspects of the gridiron. Straight from the archives of the Professional Football Researchers Association here is a post on the legendary NFL [url=https://www.profootballresearchers.org/archives/Website_Files/Coffin_Corner/22-01-83...

In this episode of the Football History Headlines, we discuss NFL QB Drafts, a Franchise is awarded and birthdays of Hall of Famers as well as many more Legendary stories.

April 24, 1974 - The NFL awarded a franchise to Tampa, Florida, that would soon be known as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So far the Buccaneers have won two Super Bowl championships. The Bucs joined the NFL as members of the AFC West in 1976. The following year, they were moved to the NFC Central.

Born April 24, 1903, in Cleveland, Ohio, was Mike Michalske the Penn State All-american guard. Mike signed on in the pros with the original American Football League’s New York Yankees in 1927. He played there for two seasons until the League disbanded and then he joined the Green Bay Packers of the NFL in 1929 then anchored their lines all the way until 1937. Mike’s bio on the Pro Football Hall of Fame says that Michalske was particularly adept at going after the passer. He also championed the idea of using former fullbacks at guard because they were fast and explosive. He sold the idea to Green Bay Packers coach Curly Lambeau and thus it was no accident that many fine Green Bay guards had cut their football teeth as fullbacks. Michalske was a great two-way player as the guy played 60 minutes of darn near every game he played in earning him the name of “Iron Mike.” The Packers won NFL titles in 1929, 1930, and 1931, and Michalske was named All-NFL in 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934, and 1935. In 1964 the Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrined Mike Michalske into their Canton, ohio museum of legends.