Jay Berwanger has one of the most wild story in NFL draft history.

1. It is selected in the number in the first Nfl The fate of the drafts was unlikely to do his football career and he never got the opportunity to play in the league.

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Berwanger had never played a single Snap in NFL and was not talent, but a salary.

The draft process came into the mid-1930s to end the teams who make expensive bidding wars for the best university players.

When the draft happened in 1936 for the first time, at the Ritz-Carlton of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the birthplace eaves had the first selection and there was only one man they wanted.

That would be the University of Chicago, Berwanger, each group wanted precious prospecting.

After the 21-year-old Sketch, it was a hurry for 577 years, passed 405 meters, returned 359 meters and obtained six touches.

The stars 6 ft 1 saw this season became the first winner of the heisman trophy, then called the Athletic Club trophy in the center.

However, after the eagus was the best talent in the country, their excitement was a short duration.

Berwanger was asking for a salary of $ 1000 per game.

At the time, players were only 50 to 100 per game.

The eagles were not willing to satisfy his orders and negotiated their draft rights Chicago Bears.

Bears Berwanger offered a $ 13,500 salary, but he wanted $ 15,000, and in the end they could not agree on a deal.

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So like people who can’t get the work of dreams, he searched for another.

Berwanger would make a job with Chicago rubber company and become a seller.

He also served as a flight supervisor in the Army during World War II.

Later, Jay Berwanger Inc. launched a plastic and rubber manufacturer based in the Chicago districts Grove.

According to a story of Chicago Tribune, Berwanger sold his company in the 1990s, about $ 30 million a year left.

In public, Berwanger never appeared despondenced to becoming a professional football player.

Told the associated press In 1977, he has only one regret.

“Because of these days my regrets have nothing to do with signing,” he said.

“My regrets was not bought by the bear season. These days you can hardly buy any money for any extra money.”

Berwanger figure was modest during his career.

He was very modest with the trophy of Hezba, who set out with Azeba Gussie, he used as a doorkeeper to the University of Chicago University at the University of Athletic, today.

Berwanger died with lung cancer with lung cancer on June 26, 2002, at 88 years old.