All This Is That: Ed McGroaraty

Showing posts with label Ed McGroaraty. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Old Ways - Ed McGroaraty's $150 per game 1944 football contract with the Packers

My brother Guy sent me Ed McGroaraty's pro football contract from 1944. Hey, we'll pay you $150 a game; if you play better, we'll pay you more. The contract is one page long. What a different world that was.

click to enlarge

---o0o---

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. All This Is That contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We make these materials available to advance the understanding of political, economic, literary, artistic, and social issues. In some cases we satirize, parody, or lampoon materials from other sources. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of copyrighted material as provided for by section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit for research, educational, and entertainment purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', please read and follow our Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license and attribute the work to All This Is That, along with our URL (http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com).