NFL history podcasts.
Welcome to the Total Sports Recall podcast. I’m Harv Aronson and this episode is part two of a four-part series that looks back at the top 20 first over picks of every major sport. In my last episode baseball was the focus so now we turn our attention to the National Football League. Since the … Read more
In 1976 and 1977, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers experienced what is probably the worst two seasons to begin a modern franchise in pro football history. Most fans and historians of the NFL know that the Buccaneers had ended their inaugural season of 1976 with the embarrassing record of zero wins and 14 losses. But did … Read more
If you would be asked to name one particular decade where the pro football spectrum saw much more attention to new and better stadiums, the decade of the 1970s certainly must rank as the top, or at least near the top. When the 1970 NFL season dawned, there were 26 pro teams, playing in 27 … Read more
As a lifelong fan of the Big Ten Conference, particularly a fan of the University of Illinois Fighting Illini, the recently finished 2025-26 Men’s Basketball season was enjoyable. Illinois made it to the Final Four for the first time in 21 years, since their legendary 2005 team. The other time in my life that Illinois … Read more
You may have heard of him… But then again, it’s likely that you have not, but he was one of the most influential men in Chicago sports history, particularly in the National Football League (NFL). Here was a guy who once tackled Jim Thorpe, was an NFL champion, managed the annual College Football All-Star game … Read more