On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert Bell

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The material in this book was compiled from multiple sources including personal interviews, the official minutes of NFL owners’ meetings, documents in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, including Bert Bell’s personal scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, archives of NFL Films, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Professional Football Researchers Association, the Associated Press, Hearst News Service, International News Service, United Press, United Press International, and the following publications: Billboard, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Green Bay Press Gazette , Indianapolis Star-News, Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Herald Express, Los Angeles Mirror-News, Los Angeles Times, Milwaukee Journal , New York Daily News, New York Herald Tribune, New York Journal American, New York Mirror, New York Morning Telegraph, New York Post, New York Times, New York World Telegram, Newsweek, Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia Bulletin, Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia North American, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Philadelphia Record, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The Saturday Evening Post, Sport Magazine, The Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Time, Toronto Globe and Mail, and Washington Post, among others. 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