Posts from the Pro Football in the 1970s podcast.
Pro football’s longest-enduring rivalry naturally involves two of its oldest teams, the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears. Their first meeting began way back in 1921. In the 1970s, the rivalry blossomed into its sixth decade. These two natural rivals in the old NFC Central Division (now it’s the NFC North Division) met each … Read more
Perhaps no other era in the sport of pro football has seen the renewing and regurgitation of head coaches quite as much as what we are witnessing in this current era. It seems that when a head coach gets fired in the 21st century, his next opportunity to wear a headset on the sidelines is … Read more
It was certainly a long wait, but in 1977, the wait was finally over. The Denver Broncos came into existence in the old American Football League back in 1960. A total of 18 years later, in 1977, pro football’s Rocky Mountain team finally made the playoffs. They had suffered through many losing seasons, and once … Read more
If you are in your 50s like me, you probably grew up watching the variety of shows that were produced by one of the greatest companies in America, NFL Films. I remember visiting it when I was a teenager in the 1970s when the establishment was located on North 13th Street in downtown Philadelphia. What … Read more
A good friend of mine who enjoys listening to my podcast here on the Sports History Network commented to me recently that he would like to hear me discuss the worst trades that occurred during the 1970s in pro football. It is definitely a topic that I had not addressed before, so to my good … Read more