When Football Was Football
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Each episode of "When Football Was Football" will take the listener back to the very early days of the National Football League. Your host, Joe Ziemba, will share a forgotten or lost story from one of the NFL's two oldest teams: The Bears and the Cardinals. Team championships, individual exploits, or long-buried items of interest from the earliest years of the NFL will be dusted off and..
When Football Was Football
1w ago
When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
EPISODE SUMMARY
On this episode of “When Football Was Football,” we’ll take a break from covering professional football and journey back to 1937 for a celebration of one of Chicago’s most prominent annual sporting events: the Prep Bowl. Each year, the high school season in the city would conclude with the enormously popular clash between the champions of the Chicago Catholic League and the Chicago Public League. Things have changed over the years, of course, but for decades the Prep Bowl e ..read more
When Football Was Football
2M ago
When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
EPISODE SUMMARY
And, you may ask, who is Joseph T. Sternaman?
Sternaman was more commonly known as Joey Sternaman during his professional football playing days from 1922 through 1930. As such, Joey was actually the very first quarterback of the Bears when the team incorporated in Chicago in 1922. He was also the head coach of the Duluth Kelleys in 1923 as well as the player/owner/coach of the short-lived Chicago Bulls in 1926 when that team was a member of the original American Football Le ..read more
When Football Was Football
2M ago
Total Sports Recall is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
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Podcasters from the Sports History Network join together to discuss topics from the recently finished 2023 NFL season including the Super Bowl. SHN President Arnie Chapman joins the panel with Harv Aronson, Darin Hayes, Joe Ziemba, Jeremy McFarlin, Bob Swick, Abstract Sports website owner Kyle Richards, and former Super Bowl champion punter Craig Colquitt as they g around the table giving opinions on an array of NFL topics ..read more
When Football Was Football
2M ago
When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
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EPISODE SUMMARY
Cardinals’ fans are familiar with the long, sad story concerning the current championship dry spell for the club that has now stretched into its 76th year. That will be 76 years this fall without an NFL title, the longest such streak in the National Football League, as well as in all professional sports! On this episode of “When Football Was Football” here on the Sports History Network, we’ll travel back t ..read more
When Football Was Football
4M ago
NO NONSENSE, OLD SCHOOL WEIGHTLIFTING HISTORY is presented by the Sports History Network, the headquarters for sports yesteryear.
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My name is Mark Morthier, and I host yesterday’s Sports on the Sports History Network. As many of you know from reading my articles and listening to my podcasts, I am not only an avid weightlifter but a fan of the sport as well. I’m excited to share my newest adventure, a show dedicated to promoting weightlifting, while also looking back at some weightlifting history. I’ll share some of my own stories and interview weightlifters from both past and presen ..read more
When Football Was Football
4M ago
When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
EPISODE SUMMARY
Long before we could watch football games on our phones, or talk with our friends using our wrist watch, there was Dick Tracy. On this episode of “When Football Was Football,” we’ll visit the original Dick Tracy, a crime fighting cartoon character whose fame achieved world-wide status thanks to a rather large former lineman from the Chicago Cardinals. We’ll also visit with an enormously successful punt returner for the Cardinals whose brief career, and small stature, in the ..read more
When Football Was Football
7M ago
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EPISODE SUMMARY
Every so often, we encounter a football story that just screams to be shared. In this episode of “When Football Was Football” we’ll actually discuss a kicker who, believe it or not, boomed 100-yard punts in practice. Sometimes, there are true stories that just cannot be made up…
Such was the case of punter Harry Ghaul, whose startling back story includes the previously mentioned punting skills, but also a hall-of-fame collegiate football career at a major football universit ..read more
When Football Was Football
8M ago
When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
EPISODE SUMMARY
Stories about unknown or undrafted collegiate players making it big in the NFL, are rare, but always entertaining!
One such case occurred in December of 1953 when Chicago Bears’ assistant coach Clark Shaughnessy was scouting the Blue-Gray all-star game in Montgomery, AL.
A local coach shared that “the best end in this part of the country wasn’t chosen to play in this game.” From the hotel lobby gossip, Shaughnessy learned about a rangy, and unstoppable, big end from Florenc ..read more
When Football Was Football
9M ago
When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
EPISODE SUMMARY
Who is Art Folz, and why is he one of the most notorious villains in NFL history that you never heard about?
On this episode of “When Football Was Football” we’ll introduce you to Mr. Folz who was banned from the NFL for his unwitting attempt to be helpful, but then became the godfather of stock car racing in Chicago, and later a successful newspaper publisher. It’s a complicated story, but one that demonstrates the importance of not being in the wrong place at the wrong ti ..read more
When Football Was Football
1y ago
When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
From a personal standpoint, I truly love the game of football…and to write about it. At times, it’s easy to slip back in time during my research of pro football topics to be captivated by some obscure player or fact from the history of the game itself. A few minutes searching for verification on a specific topic can quickly turn into hours as the stories and legends seem to spin off and blossom. One of these obscure searches was prompted by my interest in determining the identity of the yo ..read more