Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss why end zones were first decorated in 1927, the originator of one design, and his younger brother, who made another important contribution to the game. The younger brother also played in a game against Carlisle in 1912, which is how Jim Thorpe literally enters the picture.
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