Over 110 million people sat, glued to their television for Super Bowl 49. Another 70,000 plus saw it in person. It’s a sport with a salary cap eclipsing the $143 million mark, a figure we throw out without even realizing its enormity. Even today, in the dead of the offseason, fans find themselves enthralled with every scrap of news they can get their hands on. It’s the NFL craze and like it or not, it’s not going to stop.
To beg the question, how did it start? How did we get here? What is football’s version of The Big Bang?