In those days, teams from places such as Pottsville, Pa., or Rock Island, Ill., would join the league and play for a few years or a few games. In real life, a hotshot college player named Ernie Nevers was recruited to play for Duluth to help save a struggling NFL. On the silver screen, a hotshot college player is recruited to play for Duluth to help save a struggling team. If NFL players think they have it rough today, they could consider the true story that inspired George Clooney's movie, "Leatherheads," co-starring Renee Zellweger, which is set in Duluth and opened in theaters nationwide Friday. Their star player threw himself into one game despite a bout of appendicitis.Īnd in 1926, the Duluth Eskimos saved the National Football League. They lined up with broken noses, smashed fingers and torn muscles. They barnstormed across the country for 117 days, logging 17,000 miles and playing as many as five games in a week.
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