The last time it happened was in 1946, back before anyone I know that reads this blog was even a twinkle in their parents' eyes. Back when the New York Giants had to specify that they were the New York Football Giants. Back in the day when this was considered football pads.
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| Those are football pads? It looks like they're outfitted for a game of soccer. |
The game was between the New York Football Giants and the Boston Yanks (so named because the owner wanted them to play in Yankee Stadium, a minor problem for a Boston team), which was originally delayed due to incredibly heavy rains. The Giants ended up trouncing the Yanks, which seems to have been fairly typical for the Yanks, looking at their stats.
The announcement was made at the Boston Yanks Marching & Chowder Club. What exactly a Marching & Chowder Club is, I'm not really sure. Early references to it are pretty random, with one being a group of guys that got together to enjoy chowder and then walk around the building playing marching songs, while others are groups of like-minded businessmen, and others are simply charitable groups. What they did at the Boston Yanks Marching & Chowder Club, I'm not exactly sure, but since it's Boston I'm willing to bet that chowder was actually a major part of it.
So turn on the idiot box tonight and watch some football, it's only the 23rd time since the NFL was founded that there's a game on a Tuesday. Sure, it's no Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse, but it's still a rarity worth stopping to take a look at.
If you like football, that is.
Minor edits to deal with the fact that the original image used didn't allow hotlinking. Those bastards, protecting their intellectual property!
Sources:
Classic football players image from ilovemylife blog
Google Answers article on the etymology of Marching & Chowder Clubs
Recorded oral history of Shaw Livermore - mentions the function of the Buffalo Marching & Chowder Club
Wikipedia article on the Boston Yanks
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