The untold story of the first NFL team in Dallas

In 1952, two young Dallas businessmen, Giles Miller (l) and his brother Connell, decided to introduce professional football down into the south for the first time and base the team in their hometown. College football was hot and with Southwest Conference teams filling the giant Cotton Bowl every game, an NFL team could certainly hope to come close to achieving those same numbers, right?

The pair acquired the New York Yanks and moved them to Dallas, where their dreams of Texas-size wins were shattered and even with an investment group of high-net-worth individuals behind it, the experiment quickly became doomed.

The entire story is compelling and needed to be told! Fortunately, Dallas businessman, writer and avid football fan and historian, Mike Cobern, has done just that. His new book, Wards of the League, is slated for a July release by TCU Press. Reviews of excerpts, details from press and podcast interviews all give the book and its author “two thumbs up!”

Check Barnes & Noble, Amazon and other booksellers for its release in July and get a copy.

It’s a great read!