South Bend's Sweeney saved pre-Super Bowl era NFL title game for millions of TV viewers
Former Fighting Irish defender Chuck Sweeney was referee in "The Greatest Game Ever Played," saved 50 million viewers from ...
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South Bend's Sweeney saved pre-Super Bowl era NFL title game for millions of TV viewers
Sweeney had played football for Notre Dame under coach Elmer Layden, who became NFL commissioner and hired Sweeney as a ref. The 1958 championship game went into overtime, and NBC's TV feed failed ...
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South Bend's Sweeney saved pre-Super Bowl era NFL title game for millions of TV viewers
Elmer Layden, one of the Four Horsemen for Knute Rockne, soon looked like a genius. Sweeney quickly went from a bench warmer to the hottest commodity in college football. Against Navy ...
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The Catholic School Roots of Football’s Iconic ‘Hail Mary’
Super Bowl LIX is upon us, and this year’s big game features the perennial powerhouse Kansas City Chiefs against the mighty ...
Why can’t NFL players show their legs during games?
A former commissioner is believed to be behind the rule, and his reasoning — reportedly — didn’t have much to do with safety.
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At Notre Dame, the first 'America's Team,' they wake the echoes on a run to another national title
Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden were immortalized by Grantland Rice in what is widely recognized as the best lead sentence in the history of sports writing ...