The Broncos iconic do-everything player Gene Mingo, who played for the team from 1960-64 and was inducted into the Ring of Fame, at a Denver-area assisted living home. (Chris Tomasson, The Denver ...

There’s no denying that the times have changed. This rings especially true when you take a look at how much the game of football, for instance, has changed. Don’t even get me started on baseball, too.

After football took root in America in the late 19th century, the NFL was born in Canton, Ohio not long after World War I. As television took off in the 1950s, so did the NFL, growing well beyond its ...