The current season marks significant anniversaries for both professional and collegiate football. The National Football League celebrates its 100th anniversary, having grown from club teams in communities such as Canton, Ohio, and Decatur, Illinois, to a billion-dollar industry that now plays regular season games in London, England. College football is recognizing its 150th anniversary as an enterprise of huge wealth and fan support. Saturdays in the fall find networks blanketing television coverage from dawn to far into the evening. Football is now America’s national pastime.
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