Wismer was granted the charter franchise later dubbed the Titans of New York as Wismer explained, " Titans are bigger and stronger than Giants.

While pulling the New York Titans and the AFL together, Wismer was approached by writer George Plimpton, who asked to join the team's training camp for a Sports Illustrated profile.

Plimpton on Wismer: " He was an odd man.

A three-sport letterman, football, particularly, stuck with Wismer who went on to play for the University of Florida and Michigan State before a knee injury ended his playing career.

Undeterred, Wismer began his career as a broadcaster originally with Michigan State and become a pioneer of the industry.

Particularly crucial to the league's early years was Adams ' relationship with Harry Wismer, original owner of the league's New York franchise, the Titans.

Wismer often added the sound commentary long after the games were over, and added a radio style commentary with sound effects such as referee whistles to recreate an authentic sound.

At one point Wismer was a 25 % owner of the club as well, with the majority of the stock being retained by founding owner George Preston Marshall.

In 1953, Wismer was involved in an early attempt to expand football into prime time network television, when ABC, now with a renewed interest in sports, broadcast an edited replay on Sunday nights of the previous day's Notre Dame games, which were cut down to 75 minutes in length by removing the time between plays, halftime, and even some of the more uneventful plays.

) Also that season was the first attempt at prime time coverage of pro football, with Wismer at the microphone on the old DuMont Network.

Wismer devised a plan in which the proceeds from the broadcast rights to league games ( initially with ABC ) would be shared equally by all teams, very innovative at the time but setting the standard for all future professional football television broadcasting contracts.

As Wismer owned what would seem to have been the most potentially lucrative franchise, especially with regard to broadcasting rights, in the nation's largest media market, the act seemed at first blush most generous for a self-described " hustler ".

Wismer also had an ongoing feud with the first AFL commissioner, Joe Foss, and had at times a far-less-than-warm relationship with the Titan's first coach, the legendary former Redskins quarterback Sammy Baugh.

Wismer, who had long tended to live " hard-and-fast ", began to drink even more heavily, and eventually ruined his relationships with all of the other AFL owners, even Adams.

Wismer was left embittered and with debts totalling approximately $ 2, 500, 000, which he eventually struggled to settle for 78 cents on the dollar.

Wismer's volatile personality was of little help in this area ; he resented not only other media figures but also Dallas Texans owner Lamar Hunt, whom Wismer saw as a rich boy whose father had bought him a football team as a toy.

Harry Wismer, representing the city of New York at the meeting, proclaimed the state was ready for another professional football team and that he was more than capable of running the daily operations.

By 1962, the debt continued to mount for Wismer, forcing the AFL to assume the costs of the team until season's end.

Wismer, whose philosophy was who you knew mattered most, tried to make the team and the league a success.

Owner Harry Wismer sought out a place for the team to play their home games but was only able to secure the dilapidated Polo Grounds, which had not had a major tenant since the New York Giants vacated the stadium in 1957.

Unfortunately for Wismer, his own team, despite being located in the nation's largest city, was probably the most problematic in the league in its initial years.

Wismer soon began doing a ten-minute daily radio show covering the Lions in addition to his PA duties, while continuing as a student at Michigan State.

Harry Wismer, a businessman, had been interested in sports for much of his life when he was granted a charter franchise in the American Football League.

He did advocate it for the merged NFL ; however he was simply embracing the concept which had been implemented by Harry Wismer and the AFL ten years before the merger.

* Wismer Center, opened in 1964, named for Ralph Fry Wismer, class of 1905.

After the 1936 season, Wismer was encouraged by Richards to abandon his studies and come to work for WJR on a full-time basis as the station's sports director.

Wismer became known for an enormous ego and developed a reputation as a " namedropper ", preferring to announce the names of celebrities of his acquaintance who were in the audience to the actual game action, and was alleged at times to include them in the crowd of games which he announced when they were in fact elsewhere.

Wismer was also involved for a time in the broadcasting of Notre Dame football.

However, Wismer realized that the fledgling league needed for all of the eight franchises to be successful in order to survive long-term.

The Titans drew just 114, 682 total paid admissions for the league's entire initial season in 1960 ; by 1962 this number had dwindled to a mere 36, 161 and Wismer was broke.

During the 1940s Wismer was named Sportscaster of the Year three years running by Sporting News magazine.

Wismer wrote a book, The Public Calls It Sport, which was something of a combination autobiography and explanation of his philosophy of life.

Later, as the Titans owner, Wismer formulated a league-wide policy which allowed broadcasting rights to be shared equally amongst the teams.

Wismer, who had previously had a 25 % stake in the Washington Redskins, was interested in the American Football League and was given a franchise to develop in New York.

Wismer hoped the Titans could play in what would become known as Shea Stadium beginning in 1961.

Wismer signed a memorandum of understanding in late 1961 to secure the Titans ' new home.

* December 3 – Harry Wismer, American baseball owner ( b. 1913 )

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In 1963, Sonny Werblin and his partners purchased the American Football League ( AFL ) Titans of New York from original owner Harry Wismer.

The Bluegrass Bowl was the last broadcast of Harry Wismer and the first national telecast to feature Howard Cosell.

Harry Wismer ( June 30, 1913 – December 3, 1967 ) was a sports broadcaster and charter owner of the New York Titans franchise in the American Football League.

A native of Port Huron, Michigan, Wismer displayed great interest and prowess in sports at an early age.