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Wismer was granted the charter franchise later dubbed the Titans of New York as Wismer explained, " Titans are bigger and stronger than Giants.
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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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
During the 1940s Wismer was named Sportscaster of the Year three years running by Sporting News magazine.
However, a subsequent management change at ABC led to a new regime that was hostile to sports, and Wismer became a free-lancer, selling his service to the highest bidder.
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.
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.
Wismer was also involved for a time in the broadcasting of Notre Dame football.
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.
Unlike ABC's Notre Dame coverage, DuMont's NFL game was presented live on Saturday nights, but interest was not adequate to save the DuMont Network, which had by this point already entered what would be a terminal decline ( although it did mount a subsequent 1954 season of NFL telecasts, minus Wismer, which proved to be one of its last regular programs ).
Wismer was a charter owner in the AFL, which was announced in 1959 and began actual play in 1960.
Wismer and franchise
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 and later
Wismer agreed, later forgot about it, and Plimpton ended up playing with and writing about Wismer's old team, the Detroit Lions, for the magazine and in the book Paper Lion.
Wismer and Titans
Later, as the Titans owner, Wismer formulated a league-wide policy which allowed broadcasting rights to be shared equally amongst the teams.
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.
In 1963, Sonny Werblin and his partners purchased the American Football League ( AFL ) Titans of New York from original owner Harry Wismer.
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.
Supposedly it was loans from other AFL owners, including Wilson and Houston Oilers owner Bud Adams, which kept Wismer and the Titans ( as well as several other teams including the Oakland Raiders and Boston Patriots ) afloat.
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.
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Within weeks of the July 1959 announcement of the league's formation, Hunt received commitments from Barron Hilton and Harry Wismer to bring teams to Los Angeles and New York, respectively .< ref name =" chiefsafl ">
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Today Wismer is remembered, when he is remembered at all, primarily as something of an eccentric rather than as a crucial founder of the American Football League and one of the creators of professional football's modern era through shared broadcast revenues.
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By 1962, the debt continued to mount for Wismer, forcing the AFL to assume the costs of the team until season's end.
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.
* December 3 – Harry Wismer, American baseball owner ( b. 1913 )
The county is divided into twenty-five townships: Buffalo, Dayton, Dumarce, Eden, Fort, Hamilton, Hickman, La Belle, Lake, Lowell, McKinley, Miller, Newark, Newport, Nordland, Pleasant Valley, Red Iron Lake, Sisseton, Stena, Veblen, Victor, Waverly, Weston, White, and Wismer.
Its villages include Carversville ( also in Solebury Township ,) Cross Keys ( also in Doylestown Township ,) Curley Hill, Danboro, Dyerstown, Gardenville, Griers Corner ( also in Bedminster and Hilltown Townships ,) Lumberville, Plumsteadville, Point Pleasant ( also in Tinicum Township ,) and Wismer.
* Wismer Center, opened in 1964, named for Ralph Fry Wismer, class of 1905.
A native of Port Huron, Michigan, Wismer displayed great interest and prowess in sports at an early age.
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.
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Accordingly the request was granted, but the Elector himself, who had not been consulted by his mother, rejected the proposal and recalled his agent Schutz, whose impolitic handling of the affair had caused the Hanoverian interest to suffer and had made Oxford's dismissal more likely than ever.
Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;
The matter was considered and reconsidered, and finally opposed, but in spite of many objections, the Court granted a charter on January 9, 1792.
Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.
In this view, supported by only three members of the Court, a power denied by the specific provisions of Article 3, was granted by the generality of Article 1.
There was no money for tuition, for clothes, for all the things you apparently take for granted.
The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.
she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.
He felt such action could only be taken by the commander-in-chief using war powers granted to the president by the Constitution, and Lincoln was planning to take that action.
The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States ' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.
Apollo granted the request by turning him into the Cypress named after him, which was said to be a sad tree because the sap forms droplets like tears on the trunk.
*( c ) It may be granted upon condition, cujus est dare, ejus est disponere, and this denization of an alien may come about three ways: by Parliament ; by letters patent, which was the usual manner ; and by conquest.
It has been maintained that the right to wear mitres was sometimes granted by the popes to abbots before the 11th century, but the documents on which this claim is based are not genuine ( J. Braun, Liturgische Gewandung, p. 453 ).
Of these the precedence was originally yielded to the abbot of Glastonbury, until in AD 1154 Adrian IV ( Nicholas Breakspear ) granted it to the abbot of St Alban's, in which monastery he had been brought up.
On May 23, 1845, Abby May was granted a sum from her father's estate which was put into a trust fund, granting minor financial security.
A treaty was made whereby Ben-hadad restored the cities which his father had taken from Ahab's father ( that is, Omri, but see 15: 20, 2 Kings 13: 25 ), and trading facilities between Damascus and Samaria were granted.
Albert was granted a four-year truce early in 1521.
In 50, Agrippina was granted the honorific title of Augusta, a title which, up until this point, no other imperial woman had ever received in the lifetime of her husband.
After the battle, according to a tradition reported by Paul the Deacon, to be granted the right to sit at his father's table, Alboin had to ask for the hospitality of a foreign king and have him donate his weapons, as was customary.
Ealdred was granted the administration in order that the area might have someone with experience with the Welsh in charge.
On the death of Edgar in 1107 he succeeded to the Scottish crown ; but, in accordance with Edgar's instructions, their brother David was granted an appanage in southern Scotland.
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