Sports History Network Today we have Super Bowl XIII, which was held on January 21, 1979, in the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida between the three-time AFC champion and two-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the five-time NFC champion and defending Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys. As always, we have a pop quiz, and then homework at … Read more
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 … Read more
Today we are taking you to the barnstorming days of early basketball. Our subject is a team called the New York Rens, short for the New York Renaissance. Sometimes they were called the Renaissance Big Five, or the Douglas Rens after their owner Bob Douglas. Their hay day was all the way back to the … Read more
Seeing that this is the very first entry of this blog I thought, what better place to start than with the very first basketball game ever played. To do that I need to take you back to the year 1891 to western Massachusetts, to a town called Springfield. There we find a school called the … Read more
a trio of players from the Chicago Bears that you may have never heard about. After all, they played nearly a century ago and except for one, never received much public–or lasting-acclaim. Throughout the years, the National Football League has seen its share of rogues, complainers, whiners, and personality problems among its players…but we’ll just … Read more