I have learned that the NFL has teamed with filmmaker Jon Favreau (Iron Man) and producer Kevin Misher (Carrie) for a sprawling scripted series that chronicles the history of football in America that predates the launch of the professional league in 1920. It follows the evolution of the sport decade by decade up to the present. I hear Favreau and Misher had been working on the idea for several years. The series, which doesn’t have a writer yet, is envisioned to run over multiple seasons.

Was zur Geschichte der NFL:

The NFL originally was called the American Professional Football Conference when a group of mostly Ohio-based club teams organized the first pro league in 1920. The Green Bay Packers were allowed into the league the next year, and the year after that the name was changed to the National Football League. It survived lean years during the Depression and World War II and several rival leagues, most notably the American Football League, which began play in 1960 and merged with the NFL in 1966. In between the sport grew thanks to TV and the expansion of the league from the Midwest to both coasts. The sport’s popularity also was propelled by a wide-ranging cast of colorful characters, from owners to coaches to players, that become household names. Those include early stars like Olympian Jim Thorpe and later the likes George Halas, Vince Lombardi, Jim Brown and Joe Namath.

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