The SHN Showcase is part of the Sports History Network – The Headquarters For Sports’ Yesteryear…
In this week’s episode of the SHN Showcase, host Os Davis (of Truly The GOATs) chats with Joe Ziemba, author of the book and host of the podcast When Football Was Football.
Joe’s got a unique theme to his podcast, featuring as it does the histories of those two founding members of the NFL based in Chicago, the Bears and the Cardinals. He discusses researching the proverbial good old days of the game, his participation in the annual Pro Football Researcher’s Association convention, his father’s history as a Chicago Cardinals draftee and academy football coach, and hope springing eternal for the Bears on Draft Day 2021…
HIGHLIGHTED PODCAST
When Football Was Football is a biweekly podcast which brings listeners a forgotten or lost story from one of the NFL’s two oldest teams: The Bears and the Cardinals – we’re talking back to the days when the struggling Bears nearly went out of business and when Cardinals players earned $15 a game and were proud of to be making such bank! Not, Joe warns, for the fainthearted football fan…