Pro football did not become a major hit until it began to appear on television screens in the 1960s. Athletes including as Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, and Jim Brown were well-known. Baseball was finally fully integrated when scores of African American ballplayers joined big league lineups. This is a list of all NFL players who had exceptional performances during the 1950s and were combined into this fantasy group. The club was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame retrospectively in 1969 to commemorate the league's 50th anniversary. "Graham, Huff on All-Decade Pro Football Selections in the 1950s." The Yankees, like my favorite Cleveland Browns, ruled the decade. The boxing superstars of the 1950s were Rocky Marciano and Floyd Patterson. College football was more popular than professional football in the 1950s.