The Greatest Season That Was Presents...

A new series from the team at The Greatest Season That Was Presents..

The Greatest Season That Was Presents... US Revolution. Episode one features Collingwood FC's Mason Cox.

US Revolution features Mason, Shannon Gill and American broadcaster Ed Wyatt in an exploration of Australian Rules Football's US connections. The 8-part series will feature interviews with Paul Roos, Jason Holmes and former ESPN broadcaster Bob Ley.

The Greatest Season That Was is produced by Jay Mueller and is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network.

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/TGSTW

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In anticipation of our 99 Semi-Final special, The Greatest Season That Was Presents...Dan Brettig with Tim Lane talking about the 99 Cricket World Cup.

Our semi-final episode will be finished (finally) very soon.

Our next series, The Greatest Season That Was Presents...US Revolution is imminent. Episode one featuring Collingwood FC's Mason Cox will be released within 24 hours of this episode.

US Revolution features Mason, Shannon Gill and American broadcaster Ed Wyatt in an exploration of Australian Rules Football's US connections. The series will feature interviews with Paul Roos, Jason Holmes and former ESPN broadcaster Bob Ley.

The Greatest Season That Was is produced by Jay Mueller and is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network.

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/TGSTW

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to a special one-off episode of The Greatest Season That Was.

When this podcast began, it was based on a very simple premise: that footy was never better than in season 1993. Needless to say, it’s a belief that remains strongly-held by all of us. But that doesn’t mean it was the greatest Grand Final ever played. For that, we go back four years. It’s widely accepted by the best judges that the 1989 decider was truly something else.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the match that had it all, friend of the show, Tony Wilson, decided to write the definitive account of it. The result is a brilliant new book, 1989 The Great Grand Final. It was that season when Tony formally joined Hawthorn as a player in the Under 19s. The son of 1971 premiership hero Ray Wilson, he knows every inch of the family club and devoted countless hours to interviewing many of Allan Jeans’ back-to-back victors from that momentous day.

But this isn’t Hawks Hagiography. Anything but. As Tony details in our conversation, he knew how important it was to capture the essence of a stunning Geelong team under the stewardship of new coach Malcolm Blight with a man they called God standing at full forward. So set back and settle in as we revisit a game of football we’ll never stop watching and we’ll never stop talking about.

The Greatest Season That Was is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network.

Produced by Jay Mueller. Editing assistance by Dave Collins.

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US Revolution features Mason Cox, Shannon Gill and American broadcaster Ed Wyatt in an exploration of Australian Rules Football's US connections. The 8-part series features additional interviews with Paul Roos, Mason Cox, Jason Holmes, ESPN's Bob Ley and former VFL / AFL star John Ironmonger.

Since the resumption of the AFL season the interest in Australian football from the US has continued , with now Fox Sports and ESPN both carrying matches in the USA. But the idea of how to make the AFL an ongoing success beyond the spike of interest during COVID-19 is a challenging one.

In a previous episode of US Revolution we spoke to Bob Ley – an ESPN original who was there in the heady days of the early 80s when Australian rules had a prime spot in the schedule because of the lack of rights to the major US sports.

BY the 90s ESPN had fallen out of love with the sport as it bounced around irregular scheduling on the network. For expats and US converts it hit rock bottom when the broadcast of a Grand Final was delayed by a baseball game.

One of our own, Ed Wyatt, and his Australian sports television producing wife Michelle were two of those who thought the game deserved better in the 90s. Michelle was producing for Fox Sports in the US and decided it was time Australian football was given a proper push.

On TGSTW Presents US REV - we talk to Michelle, and Ed, about how they got Fox Sports to televise the AFL in the US during the 90s and the highs and lows of trying to push our game into the American TV market.

The Greatest Season That Was is produced by Jay Mueller and is part of the Bad Producer Podcast Network.

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/TGSTW

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.