Sports History Network ***This is an updated article that I released about 2 years ago.*** The Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are just days away. I’ll be going on behalf of the Sports History Network, along with two others from the Network. Hopefully, the three of us will have much to share with fans of the … Read more
The NEW YOU ASKED FOR IT, a show that ran in syndication from 1981 to 1983, was a revival of the original 1950s YOU ASKED FOR IT. Like the original, the NEW YOU ASKED FOR IT had field correspondents traveling to the ends of the earth to answer and fulfill viewer questions or requests, an … Read more
Who is Art Folz, and why is he one of the most notorious villains in NFL history that you never heard about? On this episode of “When Football Was Football” we’ll introduce you to Mr. Folz who was banned from the NFL for his unwitting attempt to be helpful, but then became the godfather of … Read more
In terms of gratuitous overuse in the American sports vocabulary, “dynasty” is a word right up there with “Greatest Of All-Time” and “dominant.” So when Pigskin Dispatch producer Darin Hayes asked for input to more precisely define the term and thus determine, ultimately, which, if any, National Football League team in history can be honestly … Read more
You can call me old-fashioned– not with the times, a dinosaur–but I miss 1970s football. Perhaps it meant so much to me because of my age. I was eight years old in 1970 and 17 years old in 1979. For most people, so many of life’s memories are between the ages of 8 and 17. … Read more