Listener’s Favorite Football Moments – Part 1

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This is a special episode. We get to listen to the fans of The Football History Dude tell a story about their favorite football moment. There are 5 different stories that run the gamut from a specific play up to a listener’s life. If you’re interested in sending your personal favorite football moment to be featured on an upcoming episode, please see below for more details. So strap on your seatbelt, and let's get this baby up to 88 miles per hour.

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Guest List

3:53 – Jayden Cuypers. His story covers his entire life span of loving football. You can find him on Twitter if you search for “Medieval Gridiron” or look for him directly at his Twitter handle: @Jaden_Cuypers
8:05 – Frank Bonicantri. His story covers a specific game in late December that is a story most people can not replicate. You can find him on Twitter if you search The Fantasy Football Wire. His Twitter handle is: @TheFFLWire
15:10 – Ramona Rice. Her story covers a specific play that gave us a great NFL life lesson. She’s a community manager at Podcast Websites, the hosting platform I use for my podcast. It’s a great all-in-one solution if you want to start a podcast. Here’s my affiliate link if you're interested in starting a podcast of your own.
20:12 – Jeremy McFarlin. His story covers a play from a playoff game. You can find him at the Twitter handle: @j6mac_cutler
[24:40] – Anthony Collins. He’s a cool cat I work with, and his story covers a dude that he’s always talked about getting shafted from the Hall of Fame.
[27:00] – Robert Haynes. This is another cool cat I work with, and his story covers a specific moment that he ends up learning even more about after he did more research.

Click below for the transcript. I have included affiliate links to Amazon throughout the transcript to complement the episode. If you purchase through these links it will support the show at no extra cost to you.

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ARNIE
Football is undoubtedly America’s favorite sport. The NFL has grown into a revenue-generating juggernaut. Total revenue is a little over 4 billion dollars in 2001 and has increased each year to now over 14 billion dollars. Commissioner Goodell stated in 2010 he believed the NFL would reach 25 billion annual dollars in revenue by 2027. In this episode, I’m going to give you the secret sauce that can keep the NFL on track to meet this target.

INTRO
Welcome to the Football History Dude Podcast, where each episode is a journey back in time to learn about the rich history of the NFL. Your host is Arnie Chapman. Football is his passion and he wants you to come along with him to explore the yesteryear of the gridiron. So hop on board his DeLorean and lets get this baby up to 88 miles per hour (Great Scott).

ARNIE
This week as we step off our DeLorean, I’m going to first give you an apology because last week I told you we were going to talk about a dude that had one of the coolest pure football names of all time. And that guy would be Bronko Nagurski who was born in 1908. However, I got a little bit ahead of myself because this episode is going to be different. We’re not going to go take that DeLorean up to 88 miles an hour and go to a specific moment in time. We are going to do things a bit differently. We’re going to call an audible. This is the week where we get to listen to the fans of the show and the fans of football. I have 5 different listeners that sent in audio clips of their favorite football moments. And we’re going to listen to them tell their story. Their personal story about why they love the game of football. So strap your helmets on and lets get ready to rumble. But before we get there, I do want to put a little bit of ground rules down for you because this is the first episode. So I have got to tell you what this thing is all about. I started this new thing called “My Football Moment” where anybody can share their own personal story or experience with the great game of football. We would love to have you on the show. But there are going to be a few different rules. Some of the ground rules are, first please keep this to right around 5 minutes or less. We want to make sure everyone can get a fair shake. And then the other rule is, this is a family show so please keep everything clean. And when we put these shows out there, we’re just going to base it on a first come first serve. That’s how I reported it here in this episode. Each listener that we’re going to feature is going to be in the order they sent the clip to me. And if you’re interested in doing something like this it can be anything really, just think about it. If you close your eyes and you asked yourself, what is My Football Moment? Something popped in your head just now. That’s what you could talk about. You’re going to see that the stories kind of run the gamut. Some are about a specific game. Some are about an entire span of enjoying football. To even, one person talks about a specific play. Anything you want. I’d love to have you on the show. And if you really want to, you can get more details if you head on over to [myfootballmoment.com](http://www.myfootballmoment.com). But lets get into this thing. You don’t want to listen to me. You want to listen to the cool stories that are coming from our listeners of the Football History Dude. And the first one to take on all comers is going to be Mr. Jaden Cuypers. He was the first to send in his football moment and here is his clip:

JADEN CUYPERS
“Hey guys, my name is Jaden Cuypers. I’m here to share My Favorite Football Moment with the Football History dude. I’ve loved the game for as long as I can remember. When I was really little my dad would have me line up my football cards on offense and defense so that I could learn their positions. Video games is another one of the first things I remember about football. It played a big role in accelerating my interest in the NFL, from the very first game day- Sony PlayStation, all the way through the current Madden NFL 18 - PlayStation 4. I’ve had the new one every year since I was like 8 years old. Went a long way as far as keeping me up with player names and how players would develop on the field. Most 8 year olds out there don’t have much patience for anything other than immediate stimulus or the crazy action, but I would sometimes sit there and simulate all the way through entire seasons just because I enjoyed working with the salary cap and the whole roster management aspect of the games. As far as fantasy football goes I was starting to get into that when I was about 11 years old. I started a league that’s still going strong today with 19 seasons in the books. My favorite moment there happens in 2002 after the early slate of Sunday games. Things were looking grim for me in my match up. I was down a boatload of points and all I had left was Sean Alexander and the Sunday night game, so I was pretty down about it. But, he proceeded to have 5 touchdowns in the first half of the game against the Vikings and he ended with a couple hundred yards which fueled the victory for me, which I didn’t see coming. So it was pretty cool. Real football wise I’ve had quite a few memorable experiences but I’ll stick with a couple here. In ’98 my dad took me along to Hawaii to see the pro bowl. We also had passes to check out the practice the day before it. There was a lot of all time greats there. Big name players like John Elway (affiliate link), Steve Young (affiliate link), Barry Sanders (affiliate link) to name a few of them. Mike Alstott (affiliate link), who was my favorite player of all time who was hanging out by the pool at our hotel. At practice I was wearing...