Jeremy Swick (The Average Historian) Shares Hall of Fame Experiences

*****THIS IS A REPLAY OF AN EPISODE RELEASED ON OCTOBER 30, 2019 (EPISODE 88). THIS IS A SERIES CALLED FHD VAULT.***The Football History Dude is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.NETWORK SPONSORSRow One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!AUTHOR BIORecognized as one of the leading authorities on the history of professional football in the country, Joe Ziemba is the award-winning author of the books When Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFL and Cadets, Cannons, and Legends: The Football History of Morgan Park Military Academy.A life-long resident of the south side of Chicago, Joe first became interested in the history of pro football after discovering that his father was a draft choice of the Chicago (now Arizona) Cardinals in the 1940s. Because of his knowledge of the early days of the professional game, Joe has been a resource for articles or reports in Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Southtown, NBC Sunday Night Football, and many others. Joe has appeared on the WGN documentary “Football in Chicago,” a Comcast Sports special on the Chicago Bears, on radio stations such as WBBM and WSCR in Chicago, as well as the Global Sports Broadcasting Network. In October of 2018, he was the featured guest on the telecast of “Beyond the Game” in White Plains, NY.In April of 2016, “The Football Journal” released a list (prepared by Chris Willis of NFL Films) which identified the top 100 books ever written about pro football. When Football Was Football was included on this list at the #32 spot.THE FOOTBALL HISTORY DUDE BACKGROUNDThe Football History Dude is a show dedicated to teaching NFL fans about the rich history of the game we all know and love. I’m your host, Arnie Chapman, and I’m just a regular dude that loves football and is a nerd when it comes to learning about history. I created this show to share the gridiron knowledge nuggets I gain from researching various topics about the history of the National Football League. Each episode I welcome you to climb aboard my DeLorean to travel back in time to explore the yesteryear of the gridiron, and yes, that’s a reference to the Back to the Future Movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

26 Touko 202244min

*****THIS IS A REPLAY OF AN EPISODE RELEASED ON OCTOBER 23, 2019 (EPISODE 87). THIS IS A SERIES CALLED FHD VAULT.***The Football History Dude is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.NETWORK SPONSORSRow One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!AUTHOR BIORecognized as one of the leading authorities on the history of professional football in the country, Joe Ziemba is the award-winning author of the books When Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFL and Cadets, Cannons, and Legends: The Football History of Morgan Park Military Academy.A life-long resident of the south side of Chicago, Joe first became interested in the history of pro football after discovering that his father was a draft choice of the Chicago (now Arizona) Cardinals in the 1940s. Because of his knowledge of the early days of the professional game, Joe has been a resource for articles or reports in Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Southtown, NBC Sunday Night Football, and many others. Joe has appeared on the WGN documentary “Football in Chicago,” a Comcast Sports special on the Chicago Bears, on radio stations such as WBBM and WSCR in Chicago, as well as the Global Sports Broadcasting Network. In October of 2018, he was the featured guest on the telecast of “Beyond the Game” in White Plains, NY.In April of 2016, “The Football Journal” released a list (prepared by Chris Willis of NFL Films) which identified the top 100 books ever written about pro football. When Football Was Football was included on this list at the #32 spot. THE FOOTBALL HISTORY DUDE BACKGROUNDThe Football History Dude is a show dedicated to teaching NFL fans about the rich history of the game we all know and love. I’m your host, Arnie Chapman, and I’m just a regular dude that loves football and is a nerd when it comes to learning about history. I created this show to share the gridiron knowledge nuggets I gain from researching various topics about the history of the National Football League. Each episode I welcome you to climb aboard my DeLorean to travel back in time to explore the yesteryear of the gridiron, and yes, that’s a reference to the Back to the Future Movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

25 Touko 202240min

The Official Football Learning Podcast is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.HIGHLIGHTED SHOW - FOOTBALL LEARNING ACADEMYEach week, the official Football Learning Academy podcast will take you deep into the history of this great game.Through interviews with players, coaches, or administrators in the NFL, as well as interviews with Pro Football Hall of Fame selectors, authors, and historians, you will learn about how the game evolved and important moments that shaped the sport into what it is today.You will also get first-hand accounts from the people who have made history in pro football.Host: Ken CrippenKen Crippen was in a leadership position within the Professional Football Researchers Association for 15 years and is now the founder and lead instructor at the Football Learning Academy.He has been researching and writing about pro football history for over 30 years and has been a sought-after interview for publications like the Wall Street Journal and Rolling Stone magazine, and a sought-after guest on podcasts and radio shows, namely The History Channel, ESPN Radio, and Fox Sports Radio.He has written two books, been the managing editor of two other books, and a contributor to yet two more books. He has also written hundreds of articles on pro football history, has won the Dick Connor Writing Award for Feature Writing (which is now called the Lesley Visser Enterprise News/Features Award) from the Pro Football Writers of America, as well as the Professional Football Researchers Association’s Ralph Hay Award for lifetime achievement in pro football research.Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

22 Touko 20225min

Tim Coffeen Talks Indy car and Racing History is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.NETWORK SPONSORSRow One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!HIGHLIGHTED SHOWTim Coffeen, the host of “Tim Coffeen Talks Indy car and Racing History,” will share stories and memories from his long career with top Indy car teams.As a winner of seven championship rings, Tim not only understands the history of open-wheel racing, he has lived it!Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

18 Touko 20223min

The Football History Dude is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.NETWORK SPONSORSRow One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!Pick up STARLESS: The 1947 Pittsburgh Steelers on Amazon.EPISODE SUMMARYBy 1946, when the Steelers played their 14th season, Pittsburgh’s NFL franchise had fielded only two teams above .500, one of which was a merged WW2 team. They were known as the league doormats. The owner of the team, Art Rooney, had earned the moniker “Lovable Loser” and he was regarded more as a wealthy local sports enthusiast than an NFL pillar. Things were obviously getting better at the end of the season. The Steelers had a superstar MVP named Bill Dudley and one of the greatest head coaches in college football history with Jock Sutherland at the helm. Rooney was confident heading into the next season and the rest of the league’s owners worried about Sutherland’s rise. 1947 was a memorable season for the team. They proved how great they were by beating the powerhouse Redskins, who had Sammy Baugh, and by defeating their arch-rivals, the Philadelphia Eagles. the games were a series of happy surprises. Without Dudley, who had been traded to the Lions, the Steelers were a team of unknowns who played vicious defense and ran the single-wing offense to perfection. AUTHOR BIOSteve Massey is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. He is a lifelong Steelers fan. THE FOOTBALL HISTORY DUDE BACKGROUNDThe Football History Dude is a show dedicated to teaching NFL fans about the rich history of the game we all know and love. I’m your host, Arnie Chapman, and I’m just a regular dude that loves football and is a nerd when it comes to learning about history. I created this show to share the gridiron knowledge nuggets I gain from researching various topics about the history of the National Football League. Each episode I welcome you to climb aboard my DeLorean to travel back in time to explore the yesteryear of the gridiron, and yes, that’s a reference to the Back to the Future Movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

18 Touko 202259min

*****THIS IS A REPLAY OF AN EPISODE RELEASED ON DECEMBER 12, 2018 (EPISODE 42). THIS IS A SERIES CALLED FHD VAULT.***The Football History Dude is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.NETWORK SPONSORSRow One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!EPISODE SUMMARYIn this episode, we fire up the DeLorean and head back to learn about the man who used to create the entire NFL schedule by hand, Val Pinchbeck. He worked in the NFL as an executive for over 40 years and was considered by many to have had more passion for the game than any other person in the organization. So strap on your seat belt, and let's get ready to take this baby up to 88mph.THE FOOTBALL HISTORY DUDE BACKGROUNDThe Football History Dude is a show dedicated to teaching NFL fans about the rich history of the game we all know and love. I’m your host, Arnie Chapman, and I’m just a regular dude that loves football and is a nerd when it comes to learning about history. I created this show to share the gridiron knowledge nuggets I gain from researching various topics about the history of the National Football League. Each episode I welcome you to climb aboard my DeLorean to travel back in time to explore the yesteryear of the gridiron, and yes, that’s a reference to the Back to the Future Movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

11 Touko 202221min

The Football History Dude is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.NETWORK SPONSORSRow One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!EPISODE SUMMARYThis week I bring Tim Hanlon on the show to take us back in the DeLorean to many moments in the football history of leagues that are now "defunct." I found Tim way back in 2019 when Upton Bell first reached out to me for my "first interview opportunity." I had to perform some research, so I typed "UPTON BELL" into my podcast player, and wouldn't ya know it, Good Seats Still Available released an interview with Upton right around the day of my first episode being released. It was destiny. There are a ton of football topics and episodes of "Good Seats Still Available" (and even more when you count overall sports). At the time of this release, Tim's already on episode 258. I highly recommend you head over to Tim's entire podcast library after listening to this interview. We couldn't get into all of them, so I grabbed a few to talk about and asked Tim to share some stories about each. As with his podcast, Tim did not disappoint. Here are a few of the episodes we and topics we get into: Arena Football League history (including the origin and a moment in time that Tim shares with the founder of the league) Birmingham and Memphis's never-ending quest for a Pro Football team The World League of Football and NFL Europe WFL (World Football League) history The original XFL What league Tim would use my converted DeLorean to bring the entire league to modern times to watch it play out and survive And much more.... AUTHOR BIO - TIM HANLONTim Hanlon is the host and producer of the "Good Seats Still Available" podcast -- the culmination of a life-long fascination, and downright unhealthy obsession with the defunct, abandoned and otherwise abjectly forgotten corners of professional North American sports. Though hotly debated in professional psychology circles, most people believe the original source of Tim's questionable, borderline-perverse passion for lost sports history dates back to his unmitigated childhood love affair with his first true professional sports mistress -- the (original) New York Cosmos of the (original) North American Soccer League. The "Once in a Lifetime" thrills of witnessing some of the world's greatest soccer players prancing about the sparkling-new Giants Stadium Astroturf beginning in 1977, left an indelible mark on an impressionable 11-year-old suburban New Jersey kid -- whose head spun trying to keep track of an unending procession of NASL teams the Cosmos played, each with bold and distinctive names like Rogues (Memphis), Lancers (Rochester), Tea Men (New England, then Jacksonville), Sting (Chicago), and Blizzard (Toronto). A mere seven years later, however, the Cosmos and the NASL were gone -- just as fast as they seemed to arrive. By then, Tim had spread his allegiances to the upstart Major Indoor Soccer League (including season tickets to the lamentable 1981-82 New Jersey Rockets); the brash United States Football League (with its braggadocio of an owner, Donald Trump); and the fledgling Major Indoor Lacrosse League's (1988) champion New Jersey Saints. And each time, losing them to eventual disappointment and oblivion.Now, many years later, Tim seeks to figure out the people, places and circumstances behind some of the most interesting professional sports teams and leagues that once were, and now are not.THE FOOTBALL HISTORY DUDE...

4 Touko 20221h 13min

*****THIS IS A REPLAY OF AN EPISODE RELEASED ON MAY 1, 2019 (EPISODE 62). THIS IS A SERIES CALLED FHD VAULT.***The Football History Dude is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.NETWORK SPONSORSRow One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!EPISODE SUMMARYThis installment of FHD Vault covers the story of the First Televised NFL Draft. Enjoy.THE FOOTBALL HISTORY DUDE BACKGROUNDThe Football History Dude is a show dedicated to teaching NFL fans about the rich history of the game we all know and love. I’m your host, Arnie Chapman, and I’m just a regular dude that loves football and is a nerd when it comes to learning about history. I created this show to share the gridiron knowledge nuggets I gain from researching various topics about the history of the National Football League. Each episode I welcome you to climb aboard my DeLorean to travel back in time to explore the yesteryear of the gridiron, and yes, that’s a reference to the Back to the Future Movies.Mentioned in this episode:FHD Vault #3*****THIS IS A REPLAY OF AN EPISODE RELEASED ON MAY 1, 2019 (EPISODE 62). THIS IS A SERIES CALLED FHD VAULT.*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

27 Huhti 202224min