Comments on: Norm Van Brocklin and Otto Graham: Who Was Better? http://www.footballperspective.com/norm-van-brocklin-and-otto-graham-who-was-better/ NFL History and Stats Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Brad O. http://www.footballperspective.com/norm-van-brocklin-and-otto-graham-who-was-better/#comment-305603 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:36:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=24081#comment-305603 In reply to Richie.

Pretty good, I believe. Certainly not like today, but the AAFC was a popular league (with higher attendance than the NFL), which demanded thorough coverage. I’m actually, right now, re-reading Paul Zimmerman’s New Thinking Man’s Guide to Pro Football, and in an early chapter, he talks about watching Browns games as a teenager in New York. Furthermore, it was common for writers of that era to travel with teams, and the AAFC — founded by Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward — got excellent media coverage, probably better than the NFL’s.

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What ability did writers of the AAFC in 1948 have to actually watch many games and gain a reasonable assessment of which quarterback was the best?

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