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TIL of the Dolly Gray imposter. In 1923, a man fooled multiple NFL teams into thinking he was an All-American player from Princeton named Jack "Dolly" Gray. He played one game for the Green Bay Packers, playing "poorly" according to Curly Lambeau, and disappeared. His identity remains unknown.

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