The Football History Dude

Tweet This episode we fire up the DeLorean and head back to 1936 to witness the first NFL draft.  Times were different for the players and owners pre-draft era.  Some say the NF...

24 Huhti 201924min

Tweet     This episode we fire up the DeLorean to finish the 4-part series on the history of the NFLPA.  The first episode covered Bill Radovich and the beginning of the NFLPA from the er...

18 Huhti 201920min

Tweet     This episode we fire up the DeLorean to take a look back at one of the darkest decades in NFL History, the 1980's.  The fight between the players and the owners for the freedom ...

10 Huhti 201921min

Tweet     This episode we fire up the DeLorean and head back to continue the fight for the players against NFL owners.  Last week was part 1 of a 4 part series covering the history of the...

3 Huhti 201918min

Tweet This episode we fire up the DeLorean and head back to learn about Bill Radovich, the Father of Sports Labor Action.  Bill was a player for the Detroit Lions during the late 1930s...

27 Maalis 201918min

Tweet This episode we fire up the DeLorean and head back to learn about free agency in the NFL.  Last week we learned about the history of free agency up to 1992.  Let's just say thi...

20 Maalis 201924min

Tweet This episode we fire up the DeLorean and head back to learn about free agency in the NFL   Every year in the middle of March, many NFL players strike it rich.  It wasn't always...

13 Maalis 201921min

Tweet This episode we fire up the DeLorean and head back to learn about the man known as the Father of Instant Replay, Art McNally.  Art gave almost 60 years of his life to the NFL to ...

6 Maalis 201922min