Football for the Fans

Who could have ever imagined the spectacular football played during the 1948 NFL season would set a scoring record of 46.5 points a game, a record that would last 65 years? The most important record in the NFL Record Manual was finally surpassed during the 2013 season, when average points per game totaled 46.8.

Hugh Ray, the modest teacher with an engineer’s mind and sublime gift the rules understood that good things would happen if the game was designed for the safety of its players and excitement of its fans. Under Ray’s redesign of the rules average touchdowns per game tripled from two to six a game. Interestingly, among all the shrewd NFL owners, George Halas said “Shorty Ray was the first to realize that attendance rose with an increase in offense.”

Ray’s concept of “Football For The Fans” quickly became the essential DNA for the NFL. He constantly told the owners “It must be remembered that touchdowns produce the thrills that stir the hearts and minds of football fans.”

Today, Ray’s clarity of purpose and vision live on. The NFL is the most successful and exciting sports conference in the world. It is a high respected global brand.because of its laser focus on the quality of its product and its consummate ability to manage, market, and monetize its unrivaled sports entertainment.

Learn more about “Football for the Fans,” read “THE NFL’S MR. EINSTEIN” at Amazon.com and visit www.hughrayfootball.com or click “shop now” above in profile.

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Hugh L. Ray in Los Angeles,1947

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