Northwestern and Kellogg School of management, serve is also an independent journalist. Having written extensively for the chicago tribune. Chicago history writers digest, chicago athlete and mens fitness. Hes the author of two books, sams boys the history of chicagos leon beach and legendary lifeguard sam leon and most recently, war football, world war one and the birth of the nfls, which was selected by the professional Football Researchers Association as winner of the 2019 nelson ross award for Outstanding Achievement in pro football historical research. Will you please join me in welcoming chris serb to the stage. Thank you, laura, for that introduction, and thank you to the National World War One Museum and memorial for having me here tonight. And thanks to all of you for showing up to hear me and listen to what i have to say. Both those of you who are here in person and those of you who are watching this remotely. Before i start, i want to acknowledge a couple of special guests.
Now it is my pleasure to introduce tonights speaker. Chris serb has served the Chicago Fire Department for over 20 years and was recently promoted to deputy district chief. With a masters degree in journalism from northwestern universitys middle school of journalism and an mba from northwestern and Kellogg School of management, serve is also an independent journalist. Having written extensively for the chicago tribune. Chicago history writers digest, chicago athlete and mens fitness. Hes the author of two books, sams boys the history of chicagos leon beach and legendary lifeguard sam leon and most recently, war football, world war one and the birth of the nfls, which was selected by the professional Football Researchers Association as winner of the 2019 nelson ross award for Outstanding Achievement in pro football historical research. Will you please join me in welcoming chris serb to the stage. Thank you, laura, for that introduction, and thank you to the National World War One Museum
Chris serb has served the Chicago Fire Department for over 20 years and was recently promoted to deputy district chief. With a masters degree in journalism from northwestern universitys middle school of journalism and an mba from northwestern and Kellogg School of management, serve is also an independent journalist. Having written extensively for the chicago tribune. Chicago history writers digest, chicago athlete and mens fitness. Hes the author of two books, sams boys the history of chicagos leon beach and legendary lifeguard sam leon and most recently, war football, world war one and the birth of the nfls, which was selected by the professional Football Researchers Association as winner of the 2019 nelson ross award for Outstanding Achievement in pro football historical research. Will you please join me in welcoming chris serb to the stage. Thank you, laura, for that introduction, and thank you to the National World War One Museum and memorial for having me here tonight. And thanks
20 years and was recently promoted to deputy district chief. With a masters degree in journalism from northwestern universitys middle school of journalism and an mba from northwestern and Kellogg School of management, serve is also an independent journalist. Having written extensively for the chicago tribune. Chicago history writers digest, chicago athlete and mens fitness. Hes the author of two books, sams boys the history of chicagos leon beach and legendary lifeguard sam leon and most recently, war football, world war one and the birth of the nfls, which was selected by the professional Football Researchers Association as winner of the 2019 nelson ross award for Outstanding Achievement in pro football historical research. Will you please join me in welcoming chris serb to the stage. Thank you, laura, for that introduction, and thank you to the National World War One Museum and memorial for having me here tonight. And thanks to all of you for showing up to hear me and listen to what
We can see here from this poster or this recruiting poster from britain right up at the top. This is not the time to play games. Now, is posters clearly trying to shame young people into volunteering by following the glorious example of the british athletes. But the message is clear in a world at war, theres simply no room for childs play. When men are needed for fighting and for killing. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. World war one ended up being one of the best things to happen to sports, at least in america. And football was the biggest beneficiary. This picture that you see here shows the end result. This is the 19, 19 rose bow between Undefeated Navy and marine corps teams. A big game on a big stage in front of a huge crowd. World war one led to a tremendous boom in football itself and in its popularity among american fans. That led directly to the birth of the nfl. Shortly after the armistice, and that led indirectly to your Kansas City Chiefs winning their third super bow