The National Football League held its inaugural draft on Feb. 8, 1936, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Philadelphia, Pa.
The league consisted of nine teams, including three from the Black & Blue Division (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions).
The less than mighty Philadelphia Eagles, who finished the previous season with a 2-9 record, earned them the first pick.
Presumably, then commissioner, Joseph Carr, came to the podium to announce “with the first pick of the 1936 NFL Draft, the Philadelphia Eagles select Jay Berwanger, Halfback, University of Chicago.”
It is difficult to imagine that there were no television cameras to broadcast this event to a national audience.