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The Football History Dude

The Football History Dude

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The Football History Dude is a show dedicated to teaching fans about the rich history of the NFL and other professional football leagues. Each episode your host, Arnie Chapman, asks you to him and a guest in his Delorean and go back in time with him to explore the yesteryear of the gridiron.
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The Football History Dude - Football Is Family (w/ Podcast Host Jeremy McFarlin)
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03/09/22 • 72 min

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EPISODE SUMMARY

This week I bring on Jeremy McFarlin, host of the Football Is Family podcast. He is a special guest, because he has been there since the beginning for me in my podcast journey. Jeremy was the first "non-freind or family member" that reached out and said he listened to the show, and he's been along for the ride ever since.

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Host – Jeremy McFarlin

Growing up in Middle Tennessee, I didn’t have a pro football team that was close enough to me to feel a part of. My first memory of pro football was Super

Bowl 22. I picked the Broncos to win, and, even though they didn’t win, I followed them from that point on.

John Elway was (and is) my favorite player. I have played as the Broncos on Tecmo Bowl, Tecmo Bowl Super Bowl, Madden, and 2K Sports. I fondly remember the moments when the Broncos won Super Bowls 32 and 33.

Around this time, the Oilers came to Tennessee. I was hooked. I finally had a team just down the road from my home town of Bon Aqua. Oiler (and later Titans) mania hit this area. Jerseys, hats, footballs, merchandise, and several autographs later, I’m a Titans fan through and through.

THE FOOTBALL HISTORY DUDE BACKGROUND

The 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.

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The Football History Dude - Highest Scoring NFL Game In History

Highest Scoring NFL Game In History

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08/14/19 • 16 min

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The Football History Dude - The Football History Dude Introduction
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04/15/18 • 4 min

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This episode we fire up the DeLorean and head back to explore a super brief overview of the career of Brian Urlacher. He was one of the most versatile linebackers in league history, revitalizing the "Monsters of the Midway" in the early 2000's. This is episode 7 of a 8-part series of daily episodes about the careers of the 2018 Hall of Fame Class. So strap on your seat belt, and letâ€TMs get ready to take this baby up to 88mph.

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Pro Football Hall of Fame - Brian Urlacher

ESPN - Brian Urlacher: The Life

Bleacher Report - Brian Urlacher Career

YouTube - Brian Urlacher Career Highlights

YouTube - Brian Urlacher Top Play From Every Year

YouTube - Brian Urlacher Looks Back on Hall of Fame Career

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode, I talk to Mark Pattison, former NFL wide receiver. I first found out about Mark by realizing he was a former NFL player, but then I saw something called The Seven Summits, which he accomplished on May 21, 2021. This is a feat only around 500 people in the world have accomplished. It refers to ascending to the highest peak on every continent on the planet.

Mark shares this experience, but then we go back to his college and NFL days, experiences that helped build the person he became to be able to overcome the challenge of the Seven Summits. You can learn more about Mark below in the bio and head to his podcast - Finding Your Summit.

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AUTHOR BIO

From Mark's Website:

In every facet of his life, Mark Pattison scales personal and professional summits. Mark is a former NFL Player, philanthropist, podcaster, and successful entrepreneur & currently an executive at Sports Illustrated and now has climbed all Seven Summits having completed this feat by scaling the death-defying Mt. Everest in the spring of 2021. Mark dedicated his climb to his daughter Emilia who is overcoming her own Everest by defeating epilepsy. Mark has raised over $56,000 with generous donations from both the NFL and Las Vegas Raiders. All proceeds go to Higher Ground.

In the Fall of 2021, the NFL is debuting a documentary about Mark’s journey he experienced on Mt Everest. This film will be shown on NFL 360.

Mark's podcast, Finding Your Summit has over 120,000 downloads after 200 episodes which provide powerful conversations with celebrities, sports legends, and others about overcoming their adversity and finding their way.

Mark is a father and caring human being who continually looks for opportunities to give back to others. He helps people get off the sidelines and back into the lane of life by unleashing their potential & realizing what they are capable of in their lives.

THE FOOTBALL HISTORY DUDE BACKGROUND

The 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.

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode, we get into the "rise and fall" of the National Women's Football League with authors of a recently released book - Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League.

HAIL MARY is the story of the girl gridders who took America by storm. The women who thousands of people came to watch—perhaps to gawk at first but then, in the end, to cheer. Readers will meet Marcella Sanborn, the thirty-nine-year-old Clevelander who, in between raising her sixteen-year-old daughter and the hours she put in as a supply supervisor at the Ohio Bell Company, saw an announcement in the paper for a try out for a new women’s football team and thought—as so many women had before her—Why not? There was Linda Jefferson, the best halfback to ever play the game, who had five straight seasons with the Toledo Troopers where she rushed for over 1,000 yards and averaged 14.4 yards per carry. She would go on to become the first Black woman inducted into the Semi-Pro Football Hall of Fame and one of only four women in the American Football Association Hall of Fame. Rose Low of the Los Angeles Dandelions, a first-generation Chinese American and multisport athlete, legitimized the game during TV appearances alongside Billie

Jean King. Then there is the highlight of the NWFL’s most successful team—the Troopers, the winningest team in pro football history, men’s or women’s, and Trooper Mitchi Collette, a legend in the sport who has kept a women’s football team going in Toledo for over fifty years.

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AUTHOR BIOS

Britni de la Cretaz is a freelance writer who focuses on the intersection of sports and gender. They are the former sports columnist for Longreads and for Bitch Media. Their work has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, espnW, Vogue, The Washington Post, Teen Vogue, The Ringer, Bleacher Report, The Atlantic, and more. Their work on racism in Boston sports media received the 2017 Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Journalism from the Transformative Culture Project, and that story was also a Notable Story in the 2018 Best American Sports Writing. Their writing on the queer history of women’s baseball for Narratively was nominated for a prestigious baseball writing award, the 2019 SABR Analytics Research Award. They live in the Boston area.

Lyndsey D’Arcangelo writes about women’s college basketball and the WNBA for The Athletic. Her articles, columns and profiles on female/LGBTQ+ athletes have previously appeared in The Ringer, Deadspin, espnW/ESPN, Teen Vogue, The Buffalo News, The Huffington Post, NBC OUT and more. She received a Notable Mention in the 2018 Best American Sports Writing anthology for her story, “My Father, Trump and The Buffalo Bills.” Lyndsey lives in Buffalo, NY.

THE FOOTBALL HISTORY DUDE BACKGROUND

The 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.

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Thanksgiving Day, 1924. The recently-established tradition of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team hosting the Pennsylvania State Nittany Lions on the afternoon of the national autumnal holiday continues.

Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is sent to cover the Pitt-Penn State “Keystone Classic” of 1924; in so doing, he discovers a throughline of the football-on-Thanksgiving tradition going back to 1621 (okay, actually, that’s going back to 1869) and reminds us that high-level football games on Thanksgiving are nearly as old as the official Thanksgiving holiday itself.

Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is an audio drama podcast from Number 80 Productions and the Sports History Network.

Thanksgiving and Football (or maybe Vice Versa) script & story by Os Davis.

Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer stars Doug Fye, Ilona Fye, and Eric Bodwell. Thanksgiving and Football (or maybe Vice Versa) co-stars, in order of appearance, Caedmon Holland, Forrest Hartl and Wayne Brett.

Additional direction by Eric Bodwell. Sound recording and primary editing by Don McIver.

The theme song of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is “the Dayton Triangles Rag” and was arranged and performed by Bruce Smith.

Other tracks in this episode include

• “Jazz Club” by Kriss (available through fair-use agreement via FreeMusicArchive.org);

• “Litany of the Street” by Silverman Sound Studios;

• “Bimini Bay” (1921) by the Benson Orchestra of Chicago; and

• “Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer (Outro)” by David Liso of Dynamo Stairs.

Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is produced by Os Davis and Darin Hayes. Series concept by Darrin Hayes.

Stay tuned for more episodes of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer – coming soon!

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The Football History Dude - Who Was Marshall Goldberg of the Chicago Cardinals? (w/ Joe Ziemba)
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03/10/21 • 41 min

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EPISODE SUMMARY

Cardinals' legend Marshall Goldberg was in the news recently when newly acquired defensive standout J.J. Watt asked to wear #99 for the Cardinals this season. The only problem was that this esteemed jersey number has been "retired" by the team since before the 1951 season in honor of Mr. Goldberg's playing career. Watt has since received permission from Goldberg's daughter to "unretire" the number.

Surprisingly, many have asked: Who is Marshall Goldberg?

THE FOOTBALL HISTORY DUDE BACKGROUND

The 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.

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The Football History Dude - CFL History and the XFL Merger (w/ Truly the GOATs host - Os Davis)
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05/05/21 • 72 min

The Football History Dude is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear.

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This episode takes us across the Northern border to Canada to learn a little about the history of the Canadian Football League. It starts off with the current news of the impending merger with the XFL, but the primary focus is the history of the CFL and some of the differences between the CFL and the NFL.

Os Davis is very knowledgeable on the history of the CFL, as well as the history of many sports as a whole. I recommend you check out his page on the Sports History Network to learn more about his show - Truly the GOATs.

THE FOOTBALL HISTORY DUDE BACKGROUND

The 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.

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Total Sports Recall is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.

EPISODE SUMMARY

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.

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How many episodes does The Football History Dude have?

The Football History Dude currently has 274 episodes available.

What topics does The Football History Dude cover?

The podcast is about History, Football, Podcasts and Sports.

What is the most popular episode on The Football History Dude?

The episode title 'The Football History Dude Introduction' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Football History Dude?

The average episode length on The Football History Dude is 37 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Football History Dude released?

Episodes of The Football History Dude are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of The Football History Dude?

The first episode of The Football History Dude was released on Apr 15, 2018.

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