In the early 1930s, former president Gerald Ford played for two national championship teams. After graduating college, he received two offers to turn pro – from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers – each for $200 a game.<\/p>\n
By contrast, Our Gang\/Little Rascals star Farina (who was replaced in the early 30s by Stymie, who was in turn replaced in the mid 30s by Buckwheat) was getting $250 an episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the early 1930s, former president Gerald Ford played for two national championship teams. After graduating college, he received two offers to turn pro – from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers – each for $200 a game. By contrast, Our Gang\/Little Rascals star Farina (who was replaced in the early 30s by … Continue reading “NFL salaries in perspective”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}