PPA-THE MYTH OF THE PRO FOOTBALL PLAYER/PRO TEAM ATHLETE
On my Homepage, one of my topics was to write about the PPA’s. The time has come. PPA is my acronym for a Pre-Paid Athlete. All of these PPA’s are also known as Professional Team Athletes. Since Pro Football is the ‘King’ of Pro Sports, let me use them as my example. NFL Players modeling new uniforms in 2012.
Before I examine today’s PPA, a historical retrospect on the game of football is warranted. Following is info from Wikipedia:(Images added for enhancement.)
“On November 6, 1869, Rutgers University faced Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey) in a game that was played with a round ball and, like all early games, used a set of rules suggested by Rutgers captain William J. Leggett, based on the Football Association‘s first set of rules, which were an early attempt by the former pupils of England’s public schools, to unify the rules of their public schools games and create a universal and standardized set of rules for the game of football and bore little resemblance to the American game which would be developed in the following decades.
It is still usually regarded as the first game of intercollegiate American football. The game was played at a Rutgers field. Two teams of 25 players attempted to score by kicking the ball into the opposing team’s goal. Throwing or carrying the ball was not allowed, but there was plenty of physical contact between players. The first team to reach six goals was declared the winner. Rutgers won by a score of six to four.