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EPISODE SUMMARY
Each year, when we learn of our favorite NFL team’s schedule, we can be certain of one thing: we’ll know the opponent no matter how rarely the two clubs might meet.
But there was a time before the NFL became so formal, that a team might go anywhere, or play anybody, just to get a game on the books. In the very early years of the league, there were no playoffs in place, so teams were free to schedule just about any type of opposition in order to get in an extra game…hopefully a winning one! While most of these teams were professional in some sense of the word, many more were semi-pros, while others were simply club or town teams anxious to take on one of the big, bad NFL members.....
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WHEN FOOTBALL WAS FOOTBALL BACKGROUND
Each episode takes the listener back to the very early days of the National Football League. Author 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 resurrected for the listener. Not for the football faint-of-heart since these programs will document when the struggling Bears nearly went out of business or when Cardinals’ players earned $15 a game and were proud of it! It’s NFL history—with a twist!. See Joe's books below.
Cadets, Canons, and Legends: The Football History of Morgan Park Military Academy
When Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFL
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