The NFL Draft 1936

Another piece from The Eleven art project is The NFL Draft (1936), five bronze statues commemorating when the idea of selecting college football players through a draft process was thought about by NFL Commissioner Bert Bell. The piece was created and designed by artist Gail Folwell and brought to be displayed in its current place in 2015.

The NFL Draft piece was installed in 2015, and made in memory of the creation of the draft by Bert Bell, the commissioner of the Philadelphia eagles at the time. The draft was brought together by selecting college football players, in inverse order, based on their performance the previous season. In between the four gladiator-like pro-football players is a man in a suit hiking the football for the players, thought to be Commissioner Bert Bell himself, although the artist of the sculpture Gail Fowell says it could be any NFL team owner with his players, leading them forward to the Hall of Fame.

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