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Gregg Ficery is a native of Pittsburgh, PA, the birthplace of pro football. Due to his love for sports, and his hometown, he embarked on The Heroes’ Journey, a forthcoming book introducing the dramatic story of the pre-NFL era to the world.As the 100th anniversary of the National Football League approaches in 2020, nobody knows the true narrative that led up to its founding. The Heroes’ Journey brings that story to light with a treasure trove of new research, and never before published photographs from the career of one of the game’s early champions.
At the turn of the twentieth century, fanatic passion and media hype started exploding for the greatest pro football teams ever assembled in the growing Ohio League. More suddenly, the league died because of a gambling scandal involving the league’s two greatest teams – the Canton Bulldogs and Massillon Tigers. The game’s legacy was left suspended in time without resolution. It is the greatest sports story never told.
Ficery is also the Executive Producer of a related television miniseries being developed titled 'Massillon'.