If you asked the late commissioner Pete Rozelle, what game had the most significant impact on the NFL's future, he'd point to the contest that took place 55 years ago on Saturday.
Rozelle would know. He, after all, was the one who ushered the pro football game from the 1950s in which the sport drew lesser ratings than horse racing all the way to 1989 when football had begun to overtake what once had been the National Pastime of baseball.
Known as the Greatest Game Ever Played, the contest between the Baltimore Coltsand New York Giants that would decide the 1958 NFL title was the moment that tilted pro football. Or so Rozelle believed.
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