Colin Kaepernick, Cam Newton Are Among the NFL’s Weapons of Mass Production

In 1873, Princeton, Columbia, Yale and Rutgers set forth rules that all colleges who wished to play the sport of football had to follow.  But running the football was not among those rules, nor was throwing it.  Harvard was absent in protest.  The first legal forward pass didn't happen until 1906 after a rule change was made to allow it. 

Here we are, 107 years later, and we see a quarterback position our gridiron ancestors wouldn't recognize if it tapped them on the shoulder.  Can you imagine if the National Football League did not allow the ball to be forwarded by pass or run?  Oh, perish the thought!  In some popular formations of yesteryear (Pop Warner's single wing) the half...

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