Pro Football in the Real Steel City

"In 1922, a proposed Youngstown team -- to be run by Elgie Tobin -- was actually granted a National Football League franchise, but the project died in the planning stage."-from Vic Frolund's "The Story of the Patricians." You can read the whole article at:http://www.footballresearch.com/articles/frpage.cfm?topic=yngstown. He basically throws the quoted section above in at the end- the article is about a professional football team that was once run on the southside by St. Patrick's Catholic Church from 1914 to 1919. I'm most intrigued by the thoraway line about the NFL franchise, though. Imagine what could have been.