NFL history podcasts.
One of the most important innovations in the history of the National Football League occurred in February of 1936 when the NFL initiated its very first draft of collegiate players. It was a revolutionary concept; each team, beginning with the one having the worst record to the best from the previous season, would be able … Read more
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
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
Today we have Super Bowl XII, which was held on January 15, 1978, in the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana between the first-time AFC champion Denver Broncos and the four-time NFC champion Dallas Cowboys.As always, we have a pop quiz, and then homework at the end of the episode. The pop quiz question for today … Read more