The nearest town was miniscule Holly Ridge, which the troops nicknamed Boom Town: “Boom, you’re in and boom, you’re out!” Thompson had enlisted in the Army the previous October, motivated by patriotism as well as by his thirst for adventure. The war also appealed to his competitive spirit. It was a game in which he wanted to play. So, while his civilian colleagues were attending the league meeting at the swanky Palmer House, Thompson was attending officer training school and practicing his skills on the artillery range. From this distant outpost, Thompson did his best to keep tabs on developments in Chicago. Once or twice a day he spoke on the telephone with Eagles general manager Harry Thayer, who was running the team in Thompson’s stead and representing him at the meeting. In one of those phone calls, Thayer told Thompson that he had been approached by Art Rooney with a curious proposition: Rooney wanted to know if the Eagles would be interested in merging with the Steelers for the upcoming season.
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