Reminding others of being a Stanford alumnus might come off as pompous. But Sam Schwartzstein had a valid excuse for sharing his credentials from the elite private school in Palo Alto, Calif.
His football knowledge was often questioned as the inventor of the NFL’s new kickoff rules. He got the credit for the new play that the XFL unveiled in 2020 during its second attempt to become a successful professional football league, but that only made it easy to point the blame at Schwartzstein as the guy trying to change America’s favorite sport.
