Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.
We begin the home stretch of this series with a look at the very deliberate creation of modern Gaelic football, which has managed to escape our attention thus far...then we move on to an era of American football so violent that the President gets involved. No, way more "violent" than how you'd mean it today—no, more "violent" than actual combat sports. It's so, so, so much more violent than that. And more fatal.
In Part 7, you'll learn: the physiognomic differences between Irish and English legs, the proper sporting way to go about fighting a spectator, and which of Napoleon's marshals would've made the best offensive coordinator for American football.
As mentioned in this episode, here is the video of Mark Cuban completely dismantling Skip Bayless on live television.
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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)
Major sources:
"How Football Began: a Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born" by Tony Collins (2019)
"Recollections of a Town Boy at Westminster" by Francis Markham (1903)
"Football: a study in diffusion" by Graham Curry (2001)
"Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man" by Julie Des Jardins (2015)
"The Rise and Fall of the Flying Wedge: Football's Most Controversial Play" by Scott McQuilkin and Ronald Smith (1993)
The New York Times, 2 December 1893
"Football facts and figures: A symposium of expert opinions on the game's place in American athletics" by Walter Camp (1894)
