Pro Football in the 1970s
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Pro Football in the 1970s is part of the Sports History Network, hosted by the author of multiple pro football books, Joe Zagorski. Each episode delves into moments in gridiron history that include great players, unforgettable plays, memorable games, and many more instances of what made football America's favorite sport.
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Jan 19, 2023
SHN Presents: The Official PFRA Podcast - SHN Trailers
The Official PFRA Podcast is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
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The Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA) was founded in Canton, Ohio in 1979 to foster the study of professional football as a significant and athletic institution; to establish an accurate historical account of professional football; and to disseminate research information. In each episode of The Official PFRA Podcast, co-hosts George Bozeka and Jon Bozeka will discuss the storied history of pro football, including interviews with prominent pro football historians and authors, and former players.
Born in Canton within walking distance of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, George is the current President of the PFRA. He has had a number of articles published in the PFRA’s official magazine The Coffin Corner and he is the lead editor for the PFRA’s Great Teams in Pro Football History book series.
Jon has been a radio broadcaster in the Canton area since 2014. He has been involved in every facet of radio sports coverage including play-by-play and color commentary for local high school and college football broadcasts. He is also a stringer for CBS Radio’s Eye on Sports show covering all Cleveland Browns Sunday home games.
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Jan 9, 2023
When You Need A Scoring Drive....(Sea of Hands Game)
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During the 1970s, there were many men who played the position of quarterback in the National Football League. During the same time, there were also quite a few men who played that position fairly well, to the point that they had winning records, admirable statistics, and possibly had even won a championship or two....
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Pro Football in the 1970s is a podcast dedicated to teaching fans about the history of the NFL during the 1970s, a time when the host (Joe Zagorski) grew up as a rabid fan of the game. Joe is also an author of multiple NFL books. See Joe's books below.
The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade
The Year the Packers Came Back: The 1972 Resurgence
America's Trailblazing Middle Linebacker: The Story of NFL Hall of Famer Willie Lanier
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Dec 12, 2022
Packers vs. Bears Rivalry of the 1970s
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Pro football’s longest-enduring rivalry naturally involves two of its oldest teams, the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears.
Their first meeting began way back in 1921. In the 1970s, the rivalry blossomed into its sixth decade. These two natural rivals in the old NFC Central Division (now it’s the NFC North Division) met each other 20 times during the 1970s, with the Bears winning 11 of those games. I will try to take a closer look at some of the more entertaining of those 20 contests......
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Pro Football in the 1970s is a podcast dedicated to teaching fans about the history of the NFL during the 1970s, a time when the host (Joe Zagorski) grew up as a rabid fan of the game. Joe is also an author of multiple NFL books. See Joe's books below.
The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade
The Year the Packers Came Back: The 1972 Resurgence
America's Trailblazing Middle Linebacker: The Story of NFL Hall of Famer Willie Lanier
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Nov 23, 2022
Thanksgiving and Football (or maybe Vice Versa) - Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer
Thanksgiving Day, 1924. The recently-established tradition of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team hosting the Pennsylvania State Nittany Lions on the afternoon of the national autumnal holiday continues.
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is sent to cover the Pitt-Penn State “Keystone Classic” of 1924; in so doing, he discovers a throughline of the football-on-Thanksgiving tradition going back to 1621 (okay, actually, that’s going back to 1869) and reminds us that high-level football games on Thanksgiving are nearly as old as the official Thanksgiving holiday itself.
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is an audio drama podcast from Number 80 Productions and the Sports History Network.
Thanksgiving and Football (or maybe Vice Versa) script & story by Os Davis.
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer stars Doug Fye, Ilona Fye, and Eric Bodwell. Thanksgiving and Football (or maybe Vice Versa) co-stars, in order of appearance, Caedmon Holland, Forrest Hartl and Wayne Brett.
Additional direction by Eric Bodwell. Sound recording and primary editing by Don McIver.
The theme song of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is “the Dayton Triangles Rag” and was arranged and performed by Bruce Smith.
Other tracks in this episode include
• “Jazz Club” by Kriss (available through fair-use agreement via FreeMusicArchive.org);
• “Litany of the Street” by Silverman Sound Studios;
• “Bimini Bay” (1921) by the Benson Orchestra of Chicago; and
• “Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer (Outro)” by David Liso of Dynamo Stairs.
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is produced by Os Davis and Darin Hayes. Series concept by Darrin Hayes.
Stay tuned for more episodes of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer – coming soon!
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Oct 31, 2022
The Decade's Coaching Carousel
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Perhaps no other era in the sport of pro football has seen the renewing and regurgitation of head coaches quite as much as what we are witnessing in this current era. It seems that when a head coach gets fired in the 21st century, his next opportunity to wear a headset on the sidelines is just around the corner. But did you know that during the 1970s, head coaches were moving around from team to team almost as often? It’s true!
This episode of Pro Football in the 1970s does not necessarily contain the best head coaches to go from one team to another during the decade. But it does contain the most noteworthy head coaches who traded one team’s colors for another. Let’s start at the beginning of the 1970s, and at the pinnacle of victory, which was simply put as winning the Super Bowl.
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Pro Football in the 1970s is a podcast dedicated to teaching fans about the history of the NFL during the 1970s, a time when the host (Joe Zagorski) grew up as a rabid fan of the game. Joe is also an author of multiple NFL books. See Joe's books below.
The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade
The Year the Packers Came Back: The 1972 Resurgence
America's Trailblazing Middle Linebacker: The Story of NFL Hall of Famer Willie Lanier
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Oct 29, 2022
SHN Presents: Minnesota Sports History Show - SHN Trailers
When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
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Each episode explores the rich history of Minnesota sports and considers its impact on the current cultural zeitgeist. The Minnesota Sports History Show strives to entertain as well as inform, tickle the sense of nostalgia, and share the joy and hardships of triumph and heartbreak. Episodes will range from musings about the Dome Dog era to interviews with athletes and sports personalities.
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Oct 3, 2022
Denver Broncos First-Ever Playoff Game (1977)
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It was certainly a long wait, but in 1977, the wait was finally over. The Denver Broncos came into existence in the old American Football League back in 1960.
A total of 18 years later, in 1977, pro football’s Rocky Mountain team finally made the playoffs. They had suffered through many losing seasons, and once in a rare while, a mediocre season. But that 1977 season was certainly glorious, as the Broncos indeed made it all the way to Super Bowl XII. But before they could go to the biggest game of the year, Denver would first have to handle the Pittsburgh Steelers at Mile High Stadium in the AFC Divisional Playoffs. It would be the very first postseason game in the team’s history, and even though it is largely forgotten today, would be celebrated, because it was their initial playoff contest.
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Pro Football in the 1970s is a podcast dedicated to teaching fans about the history of the NFL during the 1970s, a time when the host (Joe Zagorski) grew up as a rabid fan of the game. Joe is also an author of multiple NFL books. See Joe's books below.
The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade
The Year the Packers Came Back: The 1972 Resurgence
America's Trailblazing Middle Linebacker: The Story of NFL Hall of Famer Willie Lanier
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Sep 14, 2022
SHN Presents: The Playbook Podcast - SHN Trailers
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Hello everyone, my name is Zach, and this is my co-host Jarod, and we are The Playbook Podcast. Where we are here to talk about the Past, Present, and Future of the Gridiron, The Hardwood, and even all the way out to the Octagon.
We are just two fans who not only love our sports teams but the play of the game and how it evolved from past to now. So get ready to open them playbooks with us and we hope you enjoy it.
Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.
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Sep 12, 2022
Remembering NFL Films Team Highlight Films of the Decade
Pro Football in the 1970s is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear.
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If you are in your 50s like me, you probably grew up watching the variety of shows that were produced by one of the greatest companies in America, NFL Films. I remember visiting it when I was a teenager in the 1970s, when the establishment was located on North 13th Street in downtown Philadelphia. What I remember most from my first visit there was a big stairway as you walked in, and a giant mural of Ben Davidson of the Oakland Raiders at the top of those stairs.....
The mural of Davidson was even larger than the real Ben Davidson. But I digress.
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Pro Football in the 1970s is a podcast dedicated to teaching fans about the history of the NFL during the 1970s, a time when the host (Joe Zagorski) grew up as a rabid fan of the game. Joe is also an author of multiple NFL books. See Joe's books below.
The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade
The Year the Packers Came Back: The 1972 Resurgence
America's Trailblazing Middle Linebacker: The Story of NFL Hall of Famer Willie Lanier
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Sep 7, 2022
SHN Presents: Marty's Illegal Stick (A Hockey History Podcast) - SHN Trailers
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Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast is exactly that – a podcast dedicated to hockey history. Each week, host Scott Kinville and co-host Dave “The Save” Warner hop on the Zamboni Time Machine and go back in time to look at the characters, teams, and events that make up hockey’s glorious history!
Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast is recorded in upstate New York about thirty miles from the home of the legendary Clinton Comets as well as the Utica Memorial Auditorium. Parts of the classic hockey movie “Slap Shot” were recorded at he Aud – including the infamous “I’m listening to the f-ing song” scene during the national anthem!
Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast is of course named after one of the most notorious moments in Stanley Cup history. Although Marty McSorley is remembered for this lapse in judgement when it comes to stick selection, in fact the LA Kings would not have made it to the final were it not for McSorley’s stellar play that season. Although the show is named for an incident that happened in the NHL, Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast covers hockey history from any league and any time period.
You can subscribe to Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. You find the show on social media on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and at https://martysillegalstick.com. If you like hockey history, you’re going to love this show!
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Aug 29, 2022
Homefield (Official Sponsor) Interview with co-founder Connor Hitchcock - SHN Showcase
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Aug 24, 2022
SHN Presents: Sports Film Pitch - SHN Trailers
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Hollywood’s next sports movie. We tell true sports stories as if they are getting made into movies.
We cast the leads and give you the facts and inspiring moments that actually happened. Be ahead of Hollywood and know the story before they do.
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Aug 22, 2022
Worst Trades of the Decade
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A good friend of mine who enjoys listening to my podcast here on the Sports History Network commented to me recently that he would like to hear me discuss the worst trades that occurred during the 1970s in pro football. It is definitely a topic that I had not addressed before, so to my good buddy Tom Edell, this one’s for you!
The worst trades in the NFL during the 1970s.
When you actually think about it, you have to conclude that it isn’t all that easy of a subject. And somewhat surprisingly, those trades are not necessarily inclusive to just players, however. I’ll expand on that later. But when exploring the worst player trades, the focus is often on a large amount of players or draft picks being given for the services of just one player. Randomly, when that one player in question is well past his prime…well, that gives you the bluepr…
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Jul 11, 2022
How Did Miami Win Super Bowl VII? By Losing Super Bowl VI?
Pro Football in the 1970s is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear.
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A former running back for the 1972 Undefeated Miami Dolphins spoke to me recently about his team’s efforts to win Super Bowl VII back at the conclusion of the 1972 NFL season. As it turned out, it took losing the biggest game of the year to enable them to win the biggest game of the year. Miami’s 24-3 loss to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl VI was both humbling and embarrassing, at least for the players on the Dolphins roster. But it was also beneficial, although at the time, it certainly did not appear to be so.
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Pro Football in the 1970s is a podcast dedicated to teaching fans about the history of the NFL during the 1970s, a time when the host (Joe Zagorski) grew up as a rabid fan of the game. Joe is als…
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Jun 13, 2022
The Big Muddies: Two of the Muddiest Games in NFL Playoff History
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The NFL saw two of its muddiest playoff games of all time during the decade of the 1970s. In 1970, the Miami Dolphins played on a certifiable quagmire at the Oakland Coliseum, and in 1977, the Minnesota Vikings competed against the Rams at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on a field that could be aptly described as a drenched bog. Both of those stadiums had a natural grass surface, and when water mixed with those fields, a sopping mud was the visible result.
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Pro Football in the 1970s is a podcast dedicated to teaching fans about the history of the NFL during the 1970s, a time when the host (Joe Zagorski) grew up as a rabid fan of the game. Joe is also an author of multiple NFL books. See Joe's books below.
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Jun 11, 2022
SHN Presents: One Guy With a Mic: History of Dingers and Dunks - SHN Trailers
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I am Chad Cain your host of One Guy with a Mic Presents: History of Dingers and Dunks. I am going to be bringing the history of baseball and basketball to life. For every one of you that doesn’t know anything about the history of baseball or basketball, this is your place to learn.
If you know some knowledge about baseball and basketball this is your place to know more. If you have more knowledge than others around you this is your safe space. I can always learn from each and every one of you as well.
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May 18, 2022
SHN Presents: Tim Coffeen Talks Indy car and Racing History - SHN Trailers
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Tim Coffeen, the host of “Tim Coffeen Talks Indy car and Racing History,” will share stories and memories from his long career with top Indy car teams.
As a winner of seven championship rings, Tim not only understands the history of open-wheel racing, he has lived it!
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May 9, 2022
Remembering the Most Outlandish Occurrence Ever on Monday Night Football
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After I wrote my book on the 1970s in Pro Football, practically everyone who interviewed me would ask me what was so special about that decade. I would inevitably respond that there were so many unique occurrences during the 1970s that made that decade very special. The occurrence described in tonight’s episode is just one such special event.
The year was 1975, and the date was October 20. The New York Giants would be visiting the Buffalo Bills, and the National Football League would be treated to a very competitive contest that a winner was not decided until the final play of the game. ....
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Apr 11, 2022
The Incredible Rookie Class of the 1974 Pittsburgh Steelers
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This episode of Pro Football in the 1970s is dedicated to the late Frank Reading, who sadly passed away just before Super Bowl LVI. May he rest in God’s eternal peace.
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To say that the 1974 Pittsburgh Steelers had a quality offseason is an extreme understatement. Well, their front office management and coaching staff certainly had a quality offseason. They earned that designation for what they accomplished in the annual player draft and in their signing of free agents. The Steelers acquired five rookies during the 1974 offseason who would one day be honored with the ultimate professional football honor, that of enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
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Mar 21, 2022
A Running Game and Super Bowl VIII
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All throughout the 1973 NFL season, pro football’s offensive strategy revolved around the running game, regardless of what team you talked about. Two of the best running teams in the league found themselves as competitors in Super Bowl VIII on January 13, 1974, at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas. Both the Miami Dolphins and the Minnesota Vikings came to the ultimate game from different directions. But they both featured the art of running the football as their primary method of travel....
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Pro Football in the 1970s is a podcast dedicated to teaching fans about the history of the NFL during the 1970s, a time when the host (Joe Zagorski) grew up as a rabid fan of the game. Joe is also an author of multiple NFL b…
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Feb 21, 2022
The Playoffs Beckon (1972 Cleveland Browns and 1978 Houston Oilers)
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At this time of the year, the NFL playoffs are on the minds of many thousands of pro football fans across the nation. The same goes for the teams that are preparing for the playoffs. In the 1970s, there were fewer playoff teams than there were today. One of the reasons for this is that there were fewer overall teams in the NFL back then. Today, we have a total of 32 NFL teams. Back in the 1970s, the total number of teams was 26 and then beginning in 1976, the league had 28 total teams, with the addition of Seattle and Tampa Bay in our nation’s Bicentennial year. Back in the 1970s, the NFL had a total of eight playoff teams until 1978, when the total number of playoff teams increased to 10, with five playoff teams representing each conference.
And just like today, the playoffs during the 1970s brought out the best and most spirited play in thos…
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Jan 24, 2022
Quarterbacks from the 1970s who “Maybe” should be in the Hall of Fame
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I know that I will be getting a lot of feedback for this topic, and perhaps rightly so. I may even receive a lot of arguments as well. So be it. But let me begin by stating that this subject has at least some amount of stretching to it.
For example, no one really believes that some of the quarterbacks that I am listing here actually have a shot at becoming a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. All I am saying with this episode is that there is a category or two where these quarterbacks did manage to excel, and as such, they deserve at least some recognition over the span of several decades in time. Maybe not in the Hall of Fame, but in some sort of acceptance and honor, nonetheless.
I’m just going to begin by listing these 1970s quarterbacks, in a non-alphabetical manner, and in a random way, by their names.
I will then discuss with you,…
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Dec 22, 2021
Miracle on 33rd Street: Remembering the 1975 Baltimore Colts
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The 1974 Baltimore Colts were a typical losing team. They suffered from poor coaching, an inordinate number of mistakes, and an incredibly high amount of just plain bad luck. They finished the 1974 season with a dismal record of 2 wins and 12 losses.
Fast forward to the end of the 1975 season, and the same team records a 10-4 mark and the championship of the AFC Eastern Division. How did they do it? What was the secret to their success?
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Dec 14, 2021
Christmas Eve at the Guardian (Presented by Row One Sports) - Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer
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A Different way to hear sports history.
I am Orville Mulligan and yes the career journey I took was as a Sports Writer. My story will fill the listener’s ears with my journey of perhaps the greatest time in sports history, the roaring 1920s. I was fortunate enough to rub elbows with the greatest legends of sport in the era and attend some of the most iconic events in sports history.
The tales are complete with the music, people, places and slang used at the time to place the listener into the feelings that we experienced as I started my epic career.
Join us in the adventure of a lifetime, Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer, found here on Sports History Network, on OrvilleMulligan.com or your favorite podcast provider.
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Dec 9, 2021
Marla Recalls A Football Game (Presented by Row One Sports) - Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer
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Row One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer
A Different way to hear sports history.
I am Orville Mulligan and yes the career journey I took was as a Sports Writer. My story will fill the listener’s ears with my journey of perhaps the greatest time in sports history, the roaring 1920s. I was fortunate enough to rub elbows with the greatest legends of sport in the era and attend some of the most iconic events in sports history.
The tales are complete with the music, people, places and slang used at the time to place the listener into the feelings that we experienced as I started my epic career.
Join us in the adventure of a lifetime, Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer, found here on Sports History Network, on OrvilleMulligan.com or your favorite podcast provider.
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Dec 5, 2021
Orville Impresses Marla (Presented by Row One Sports) - Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer
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Row One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer
A Different way to hear sports history.
I am Orville Mulligan and yes the career journey I took was as a Sports Writer. My story will fill the listener’s ears with my journey of perhaps the greatest time in sports history, the roaring 1920s. I was fortunate enough to rub elbows with the greatest legends of sport in the era and attend some of the most iconic events in sports history.
The tales are complete with the music, people, places and slang used at the time to place the listener into the feelings that we experienced as I started my epic career.
Join us in the adventure of a lifetime, Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer, found here on Sports History Network, on OrvilleMulligan.com or your favorite podcast provider.
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Nov 22, 2021
Greatest Thanksgiving Day Game In Pro Football History (1974 Cowboys vs. Redskins)
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There have been some really great pro football Thanksgiving Day games throughout the course of pro football history during the 1970s. This episode of Pro Football in the 1970s will revisit one of those great Turkey Day contests for football historians and just your casual fans alike. It is usually referred to as the greatest Thanksgiving Day game in pro football history. On November 28, 1974, the Dallas Cowboys would play their division rivals, the Washington Redskins, at Texas Stadium. Both teams were still alive for a possible playoff berth, but only one of them would actually go to the playoffs. The Cowboys had been experiencing their worst year in the past nine years, as they entered this Thanksgiving Day game with a dismal (for them) 6-5 record.....…
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Oct 26, 2021
Plaay Classic (Official SHN Sponsor) - Interview With The Founder (and His Son) - Keith and Sam Avallone - SHN Showcase
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Oct 4, 2021
Minnesota's Most Winnable Super Bowl (IX)
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Every pro football fan knows that the Minnesota Vikings went to four Super Bowls during the 1970s. They lost them all. After each, the questions why flourished. You heard excuses such as Their front lines on offense and defense weren’t strong enough. Or their overall team speed wasn’t fast enough or quick enough. Or their play-calling was abysmal. Or they were unable to make adjustments at halftime. Or they made far too many mistakes or committed far too many turnovers to win. Believe me, you heard it all, and Vikings fans from across the nation had good reasons to despair.
This podcast addresses that despair, and we determine the one Super Bowl that the Vikings could have and should have won…if only. That Super Bowl was Super Bowl IX versus the Pittsburgh Steelers in New Orleans’ old Tulane Stadium on January 12, 1975. Now the Steelers were brand…
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Sep 24, 2021
Sports History Network Presents: Wrestling With Heels On (Trailer) - SHN Trailers
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Hi EVERYONE. MY NAME IS ARIEL GONZALEZ, ORIGINALLY FROM BROOKLYN, NOW LIVING IN THE GARDEN STATE AND I HAVE A NEW PODCAST SHOW CALLED WRESTLING WITH HEELS ON. BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE SPORTS HISTORY NETWORK, OF COURSE.
ON THE PODCAST, I GET TO REMINISCENCE ABOUT MY FAVORITE WRESTLING BAD GUYS FROM YESTERYEAR. LIGHT ON STATS AND HEAVY ON NOSTALGIA, THIS LITTLE TRIP DOWN VILLAINY LANE GIVES ME A CHANCE TO VISIT THE DARK CORRIDORS OF MY WRESTLING SOUL. AND IT’S ALSO FUN TO HAVE A PODCAST.
SO JOIN ME AS I WAX NOSTALGIC ABOUT MY FAVORITE WRESTLING WEIRDOS AND NE’ER DO WELLS, THE NO-GOODNIKS OF A NO-LONGER TIME THAT STILL HAUNT ME TODAY. JUST KEEP IN MIND, LIKE SOME PEOPLE MY AGE, MY RECALL OF PEOPLE AND EVENTS CAN GET A LITTLE WOBBLY SOMETIMES. SO DON’T WORRY IF I GET IT W…
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Sep 8, 2021
ThriveFantasy (Official SHN Sponsor) - Interview With The Founder - Adam Weinstein - SHN Showcase
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Aug 30, 2021
The First-Ever Monday Night Football Game
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The 1970s ushered in a new birth of competition in pro football. As with many new things, a new idea sparked the entire pro football landscape at the very beginning of the decade. A new television contract was obtained by all three major television networks to televise the newly formed league of 26 teams. One of those television stations – ABC – was given the contract to televise a whole new idea, the idea of Monday Night Football. Today, we in 2021 look upon Monday Night Football as something that we have always had. But no, the idea had to have a start sometime, and that time was back in 1970......
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Aug 9, 2021
Running to Win a Super Bowl (Dallas Cowboys vs. Miami Dolphins)
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Prior to 1978, pro football was regarded as primarily a running game. The objective of the forward pass was still not as refined and as perfected as it would become in the years after 1978. In 1972, with the advent of the hash marks moving closer to the middle of the field, the largest number of runners to ever eclipse 1,000 yards rushing in a season (10) would make NFL history. But to close out the 1971 season, one team used a Super Bowl to show off their multi-back backfield’s avenue of setting records and of the ultimate success…victory in the ultimate game of the year............
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Jul 26, 2021
New York versus New York in New Haven (1974)
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During the 1974 NFL season, pro football fans in New York suffered. I mean they really suffered. Both the Jets and the Giants were having horrible seasons as they entered week nine. Both teams were being dealt with more than their fair share of problems, injuries, and ineptness. The Giants could claim only two wins at this stage of the year, while the Jets could only collect one victory.
On November 10, 1974, the Jets would meet the Giants at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut, in what was deemed as “The Battle of New York.” Well, the Giants were playing their home games that year at the Yale Bowl, while they waited for Giants Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands (or swamplands if you will) to be built. Bragging rights were at stake in this contest, and just like in other highly pitched rivalries, one seems to throw out the records and statistics...…
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Jul 12, 2021
A Quarterback Duel of a Different Nature (1972 Bears vs. Lions)
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In 1972, the NFL got a chance to see a quarterback duel of a different nature, one the likes of which the league, at least after 1950, had not previously seen. The teams involved were the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions, two long-time division rivals from the old Black and Blue Division, otherwise known back then as the NFC Central Division. The quarterbacks in this duel were none other than Bobby Douglass of the Bears and Greg Landry of the Lions. Both Douglass and Landry were runners, not scramblers, and there’s a difference.......
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Jun 28, 2021
Remembering the 1974 New England Patriots
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The NFL is replete with numerous teams over the years who have had good starts to a season, and bad endings to the same season.
But perhaps none of those “Best of Times, Worst of Times” seasons can compare to what the New England Patriots had to deal with in 1974. The Patriots of 1974 were saddled with the toughest schedule of any of the (then) 26 teams in the NFL. The teams on their 1974 slate averaged over eight wins during the previous year.
Moreover, the Patriots had to play five playoff teams from 1973 in their 1974 season, and that did not count for the Miami Dolphins, who the Patriots had to play twice in 1974..........
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Jun 14, 2021
Epic Seasons: The 1976 Washington Redskins
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In 1975, the Redskins failed to make the NFL playoffs. They finished that year with a record of 8-6, a record that many teams wished that they would have attained. No big deal on missing the playoffs, except that it was the first year since Allen became Washington’s head coach, way back in 1971, that his team failed to take part in the NFL postseason. And if you know anything about Coach Allen’s history, you know how much he valued older veterans over younger players. Well, by 1975, those older veterans were getting older and slower.
In a sport where a team’s overall speed often makes the difference between winning and losing, a lot of pro football observers felt that Allen would not get within sniffing distance of the playoffs in 1976 unless by chance he would abruptly change his method of thinking and begin favoring some younger players over his o…
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May 31, 2021
A Goal Line Stand in Super Bowl V: How it Failed, and Then Succeeded
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Most pro football historians who study the past Super Bowls will tell you that the greatest goal-line stand in Super Bowl history came in the third quarter of Super Bowl XVI. That goal-line stand by the San Francisco 49ers did detrimental harm to the chances of the Cincinnati Bengals to score what would have been a very important touchdown. The 49ers prevailed in a 26-21 win.
I happen to agree with most folks that the Super Bowl XVI goal-line stand was certainly the greatest one in Super Bowl history. But I am reminded of the goal-line stand in Super Bowl V. The goal-line stand in Super Bowl V, you say? Well, do not feel bad.
Most pro football fans (and perhaps quite a few pro football historians) would be hard-pressed to remember it.
That could be because it occurred late in the first half in a tight contest between the Baltimore Colts and the Dallas…
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May 17, 2021
1973 Playoff Redemption (Raiders vs. Steelers)
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Rounding out this Playoff Redemption series for the year 1973 are a couple of teams which are two of the most memorable of that decade. When talking about the 1970s in the NFL, the discussions will often include the likes of the Oakland Raiders and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Those two teams accumulated five world championships during the decade of the 1970s. In 1973, however, their rivalry was really only in its second year. The year before, that epic season of 1972, saw what the most memorable play in pro football history was arguably, and maybe even in all of sports history, the Immaculate Reception. The Raiders felt that they had been screwed by the referees in that game, and they vowed to get their revenge........
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May 3, 2021
1973 Playoff Redemption (Cowboys vs. Rams)
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The 1973 Dallas Cowboys were expected to be competitive, having been only one year removed from a world championship. They made it as far as the NFC Title Game in 1972. The Los Angeles Rams, however, had never got that far in their recent history, but they certainly got more competitive in 1973 with the addition of a couple of new/old players. The Rams obtained the services of quarterback John Hadl in a trade from the Chargers, and wide receiver Harold Jackson, who came to Los Angeles in a trade from the Eagles. Then they started winning..........
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Apr 19, 2021
1973 Playoff Redemption (Dolphins vs. Raiders)
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Seemingly every year in pro football, or at least every few years, a couple of teams that meet each other in the regular season, will then go on to meet each other again in the playoffs. In 1973, that occurrence happened three times in the NFL postseason. This first of three segments to this story begins with the incumbent world champions at the beginning of the 1973 season, the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins were fresh off of their historic perfect season from the previous year, and all the talk around the league wondered just how long Miami would keep their winning streak going. As it turned out, in the second week of the 1973 season, the Dolphins discovered the answer to that question.
The Oakland Raiders upended Miami, 12-7, thanks to the placekicking of old pro George Blanda, who booted four field goals for Oakland’s points. The Raiders defense…
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Apr 5, 2021
A Discussion of Journeyman Quarterbacks During the 1970s
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The term “journeyman quarterback” is an unmistakable term. It means simply a quarterback who goes from team to team, trying to help each team, as he tries his best to stay in the league. Some journeyman quarterbacks have played for a half dozen different teams, while others only play for two or three. I feel that a journeyman quarterback is one who can still play the game well enough, even if some teams don’t feel that he can, to the point of trading him to another team.
This edition of the Pigskin Past is a look back at some of the most noteworthy Journeyman Quarterbacks of the 1970s. I will try to break them down and briefly discuss them here. There was probably no better – or none who traveled more – than Earl Morrall. Before the decade of the 1970s, where Morrall helped both the Baltimore Colts and the Miami Dolph…
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Mar 22, 2021
Super Bowl Repeat Winners of the 1970s
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Why is it so difficult for teams in this day and age to repeat as Super Bowl Champions? It rarely happens more than once every one and a half to two decades anymore. But in the glorious decade of the 1970s, two different teams accomplished the feat, and one of them managed to do it twice! Why is there such a disparity for the difference between then and now? Is there more than just one reason?
The most reasonable place to try to answer this question is to go back to the wonderful pro football decade of the 1970s, where winning more than just one Super Bowl was much more common than the current decade. In 1972, the Miami Dolphins achieved the unexpected, a perfect 17-0 season and a Super Bowl VII victory. If you ask any members of that team, to a man, they would say that the 1973 Miami team was a better team than what they were in their undefeated season…
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Mar 8, 2021
Unheralded 1970s NFL Games (Part 4) 1970 Raiders vs. Dolphins
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This series on unheralded NFL games attempts to recall a game that stands out for a particular team. When talking about the Miami Dolphins, well, there are plenty of games to choose from that are still being talked about today. Both of their Super Bowl victories come to mind, and perhaps their epic Christmas Day victory in the AFC Playoffs over the Kansas City Chiefs in 1971. Also that infamous Hook and Lateral playoff game versus San Diego in 1981. But I decided to focus on a game from 1970 as one of the most unheralded games of the Dolphins’ past. Ask any Dolphins fan when they played their first playoff game, and who they played in that game, and you’re likely to get a blank stare. That is because few people ever recall the game that this Pigskin Past program is about.
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Feb 22, 2021
Unheralded 1970s NFL Games (Part 3) 1975 Colts vs. Dolphins
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In this third installment of the "Unheralded Games of the 1970s," we cover the 1975 matchup between the Baltimore Colts and the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins were one of the powerhouses of the league, while the Colts were coming off a 2-win campaign (tied for worst in the entire league). With that, you'd think the game was a blowout. Let's just say it was closer than on paper.
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PIgskin Past is a podcast dedicated to teaching fans about the history of the NFL during the 1970s, a time when the host (Joe Zagorski) grew up as a rabid fan of the game. Joe is also an author of multiple NFL books. See Joe's books below.
The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade
The Year the Packers Came Back: The 1972 Resurgence
America's Tr…
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Feb 8, 2021
Unheralded 1970s NFL Games (Part 2) 1979 Chargers vs. Oilers
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The 1979 San Diego Chargers were considered by most pro football experts to have one of the most explosive passing attacks in NFL history, and certainly up to that time in history. Their roster included the likes of quarterback Dan Fouts, tight end Kellen Winslow, and wide receiver Charlie Joiner. All three of them have a bust in Canton, Ohio. The Chargers registered a total of 411 points in 1979, one of the highest marks in the league. San Diego, as the AFC Western Division Champion, was slated to be at home for their first-round playoff game against the Houston Oilers. The Chargers were declared as 8 and ½ point favorites over Houston.
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Jan 25, 2021
Unheralded 1970s NFL Games (Part 1) 1972 Vikings vs. Rams
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For the next several Pigskin Past programs, I will try to talk about and re-explore some of those thrilling games.
The first of these unique games occurred way back in 1972, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. In 1972, pro football was still primarily a running game.
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PIgskin Past is a podcast dedicated to teaching fans about the history of the NFL during the 1970s, a time when the host (Joe Zagorski) grew up as a rabid fan of the game. Joe is also an author of multiple NFL books. See Joe's books below.
The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade
The Year the Packers Came Back: The 1972 Resurgence
America's Trailblazing Middle Linebacker: The Story of NFL Hall of Famer Willie Lanier
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Jan 11, 2021
The 1979 Los Angeles Rams Were A Living Soap Opera
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Perhaps no other team throughout the entire decade of the 1970s in the NFL was as hard to figure out as the 1979 Los Angeles Rams. They had suffered throughout the year with injuries to many of their key players. In fact, a total of 19 of their players had injuries during that year, many of which kept those players out of action for much of the season. They were soundly defeated by the likes of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Dallas Cowboys, and the New Orleans Saints. What is even more incredible about this Rams team is that they were able to win enough games to make the playoffs, even though they were akin to virtual NFL nomads. They were soon to be evicted! Their lease with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum would run out at the end of the year, and they would be moving to nearby Anaheim to begin the 1980 season.
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Dec 28, 2020
1977 Denver Broncos (BRONCOMANIA and the Orange Crush)
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It was a year that will never be forgotten in the environs of the Rocky Mountains. It was 1977, and it was the first year that the Denver Broncos ever made the NFL playoffs. So what you might say? Well, the Broncos did not just go to the playoffs in 1977. Rather, they went all the way to the Super Bowl. It’s a rarity for any team throughout NFL history to have never (ever!) gone to the playoffs, and then in just one year, end up in the Super Bowl.
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PIgskin Past is a podcast dedicated to teaching fans about the history of the NFL during the 1970s, a time when the host (Joe Zagorski) grew up as a rabid fan of the game. Joe is also an author of multiple NFL books. See Joe's books below.
The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Im…
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Dec 14, 2020
1972 Washington Redskins (Over the Hill Gang)
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The next few editions of The Pigskin Past will explore great teams in great years. They will all have one thing in common, however. They will all be teams that had a super season and went to the Super Bowl, only to lose that Super Bowl. The first of these teams that I would like to discuss is the 1972 Washington Redskins. Yes, in 1972, the Washington Football Team was actually called the Washington Redskins. In 1971, their new head coach George Allen, told his players after losing their first playoff game in years that the next year, they would be a championship team. Allen did not lie. In 1972, Washington managed to win the NFC Championship.
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Nov 30, 2020
A Big Snow Game in the 1970s
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There are few occurrences more unique than watching a pro football game where the field gets hit with snow flurries, then driving snow, then a full-scale blizzard. Such a snowy game was held on November 27, 1977, when the Minnesota Vikings visited the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. The Vikings were involved in another season of robust contention for the NFC Central Division title. They owned a 6-4 record going into their meeting with the Packers, and they could ill-afford to lose this game. They were only one game ahead of the division-rival Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions at this point of the 1977 season. Both the Bears and the Lions were holding a 5-5 record at this stage of the year, and both of them were poised to take over the lead in the old Black and Blue Division, as the NFC Central was then known.
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Nov 16, 2020
The Very First NFL Wildcard Weekend
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On December 24, 1978, the extension of the NFL’s very first 16-game regular season and two more playoff teams resulted in the league’s very first Wildcard Playoff Weekend. Two more teams would increase the total number of teams per conference to make the playoffs to five each. You would have your three division winners in both the AFC and the NFC in the playoffs, and then you would also have the two teams with the best overall record, but who didn’t win a division, meet each other in a conference wild card game. Thus all three division winners in each conference got a much needed and much deserved bye week at the conclusion of the new 16-game regular season.
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Nov 2, 2020
The Era of Great Tight Ends
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This episode covers a little history of 14 of the greatest tight ends to play in the NFL in the 1970s. . A tight end must be able to run pass routes and catch the ball. But he also must be big and strong enough to stay in and block a charging defensive end or linebacker. Indeed, tight ends in the NFL earn their pay.
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PIgskin Past is a podcast dedicated to teaching fans about the history of the NFL during the 1970s, a time when the host (Joe Zagorski) grew up as a rabid fan of the game. Joe is also an author of multiple NFL books. See Joe's books below.
The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football's Most Important Decade
The Year the Packers Came Back: The 1972 Resurgence
America's Trailblazing Middle Linebacker: The Story of NFL Hall of Fam…
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Oct 19, 2020
Turnovers and Titles (1973 NFC Championship)
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Oct 5, 2020
The Incredible Winning Season of the 1970 Cincinnatti Bengals
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Sep 21, 2020
Those Wild and Crazy Fans (Part 2)
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Sep 7, 2020
Those Wild and Crazy NFL Fans
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Aug 24, 2020
Reexamining Super Bowl V
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Aug 10, 2020
Ken Riley and John Zook | A Hall of Fame Debate
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Jul 27, 2020
First Hail Mary Pass
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Jul 13, 2020
Tom Matte's Wristbands
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Jun 29, 2020
Moving the Hash Marks
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Jun 15, 2020
First AFC Championship Game
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Jun 1, 2020
1973 New York Jets
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May 13, 2020
Pro Football in the 1970s Trailer
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Each episode delves into moments in gridiron history that include great players, unforgettable plays, memorable games, and many more instances of what made football America's favorite sport.
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