How different would NFL history be if Curly Lambeau and Art Rooney been a bigger part of Notre Dame football?
Few last names in any sport mean as much as Lambeau does to the Green Bay Packers or Rooney does to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
While at the University of Notre Dame in 1918, Lambeau impressed new head coach Knute Rockne enough to earn a spot on the football team, which was coming off a 6-1-1 campaign the year before.As fate would have it, Lambeau wouldn't play at Notre Dame again, but there is debate as to what actually happened.
The scholarship never came, and Rooney wound up attending Indiana Normal School of Pennsylvania - now Indiana University of Pennsylvania - before spending his senior year at Temple on an athletic scholarship. Although it changed the name to the Steelers in 1941, winning would evade the franchise for decades. In fact, during World War II the Steelers merged with the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Cardinals for a season each.
As for the Steelers, Pittsburgh was bound to have an NFL team as soon as Pennsylvania relaxed those Sunday laws.
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