Sid Luckman was one of the NFL's biggest stars in the '40s and early ‘50s. But he had a dark secret: During his freshman year, his dad went to jail for the murder of his uncle. 'It's phenomenal that this story just disappeared,' writer R.D. Rosen says.
remembers watching Chicago Bears games in the 1950s, alongside fans of an older generation. When the Bears struggled, they’d say,"Where’s Sid Luckman when we need him?"
The Luckman family lived in a two-story brick house on Cortelyou Road. According to Rosen, Meyer Luckman was a good provider. Sid and his family never wanted for much. But Meyer was hardly an ideal father. Meanwhile, Meyer, in his late 50s, served as bookkeeper and brains of the Luckman Brothers Trucking Company. His brother-in-law, Sam Drukman, co-owned the business.
The company was headquartered at 225 Moore Street, a brick one-story warehouse in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. "Now the cops, they also hear some rustling, some whispering, and they find three men crouched behind a truck at the other end of the warehouse," Rosen says."Two of the men are apprehended almost immediately.""The third one begins to run, and he's a portly older man," Rosen says."He goes out a side door. A cop gives chase and fires a pistol shot over his head to stop the guy. That's Meyer Luckman, and he has blood on him.
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