David Rosenthal: belief

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…Which is not to say like if you put him through the NFL combine today, he would win. It's sort of handicapped with all of what we knew about modern sports science of his day. The distance between Jim Thorpe as an athlete and any other athlete in the world at that point in time was greater than I think that distance has ever been since. Jim Thorpe was a native American who was part of the sack and fox nation and ended up playing college football at a small school called the Carlyle Indian Industrial School which happened to be coached by a guy named Pop Warner. Who of course is the person that all of the youth football leagues are named after today, Pop Warner league. ‍…

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