Leatherheads of the North:
The True Story of Ernie Nevers
& the Duluth Eskimos

In Leatherheads of the North, Chuck Frederick of the Duluth News Tribune covers the NFL’s chaotic early years when a team from Duluth, Minnesota, featuring future hall-of-famers Ernie Nevers and Blood McNally barnstormed the country,
playing 29 games in four months—
and saved the league along the way.

A story so intriguing, Hollywood couldn’t resist*

*Leatherheads starring George Clooney, Rene Zelwegger, and John Krasinski; discover more here and here