Today's Tidbit... 100 Years of Football: Modern NFL and Post-1906 All-Stars

This is the seventeenth and last in a series looking back at “100 Years of Football,” syndicated cartoons published by Jerry Brondfield and Charles Beck in 1969. Today's version covers the modern NFL and football all-stars since 1906.

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The Baltimore Colts dominated the late 1950s NFL with the unheralded Johnny Unitas tossing to Ray Berry and Lenny Moore while being protected by Jim Parker and others.

(Brondfield & Beck, '100 Years Of Football,' Courier-News (Bridgewater, NJ), January 5, 1970.)

The Green Bay Packers had fallen on hard times in the 1950s, but hiring Vince Lombardi, the New York Giants Offensive Coordinator, turned the franchise around and allowed them to become the dominant team of the 1960s. Though he had stars like Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke, Willie Wood, Herb Adderley, and Willie Davis, Henry Jordan summed him up, saying, “He treated us all the same — like dogs.”