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This is an episode all about institutionalized bullying: from the halls of Eton and Rugby, as fictionalized in a transatlantic hit of a novel; to the fields of Harvard and Dartmouth, as materialized in the genocide of innumerable people and cultures.

In Part 4, we track the continued evolution of ball games in the places that the English were creatively calling "New England," including the sports that the French were creatively calling "Curved Stick." All the while, the settlers marvel at the suspicious happiness of the "uncivilized" people of these new lands, who engage in such incomprehensible behaviour as "sharing resources" and "drinking water."

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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:

"From Football to Soccer" by Brian D. Bunk (2021)

"New England's Prospect" by William Wood (1634)

"Old Division Football: The Indigenous Mob Soccer Of Dartmouth College" by Scott Meacham (2006)

"How Football Began: a Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born" by Tony Collins (2019)

"An Historical Sketch of the Oneida Football Club of Boston" by Winthrop Salstonstall Scudder (1926)

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Now that we've finally finished with the ball jokes (mostly), we can set aside our three horrid little fancy-boy schools and get on to the important business of talking about...well, another fancy-boy school that the first three turn their noses up at: Rugby.

In this episode, come learn about: which recurring CIAS character had a cameo role in the myth-making of rugby football's origins, what the Don Cherry of 1860s football was complaining about, and what went on in the wild life of the man most responsible for the emergence of Australian football.

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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:

"Football: The First Hundred Years" by Adrian Harvey (2005)

"Football: a study in diffusion" by Graham Curry (2001)

"Barbarians, Gentlemen, and Players: a sociological study of the development of rugby football" by Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard (1979)

"How Football Began: a Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born" by Tony Collins (2019)

"Tom Wills: the insubordinate life of an Australian sporting legend" by Greg de Moore (2008)

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In the pursuit of covering the history of Canadian football, we've accidentally found ourselves covering the history of all football. Now that we've finally gotten out of our "ball-play" jokes out of the way, there shouldn't be any double entendres going forward. Right?

In this episode, we investigate the primordial soup of proto-football games being played in 19th-century fancy-boy English schools: the one renowned for how badly the ball and field both suck, the one whose name ("Winkies") is the most normal part of its terminology, and the one whose headmaster had to excise a component for reminding him of "a bizarre sexual ritual." And then there's the Wall Game.

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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:

"Living Sports History: Football at Winchester, Eton and Harrow" by Steven Bailey (1995)

"An Elementary Guide to Win Co Fo" by Michael Fontes (2025)

"Football: a study in diffusion" by Graham Curry (2001)

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It's time we covered one of the absolute cornerstones of "Canadian sports," and for that, we have to begin with the logical starting point: England in the 14th century! It's going to be a long series.

In Part 1, we investigate: whether you can be killed by a tennis ball, whether knives or "murther" have any place in sports, and if it's possible to be pranked so hard by "wags" that you have to leave town forever. A heads-up that this episode contains "develishe pastimes" full of "rancour and malice," and unfortunately, it "all ends with the ape on horseback."

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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: "Sports and Pastimes of the People of England" by Joseph Strutt (1801)

Nicole is back to discuss the 2005 Québécois film The Rocket, about the life and career of Maurice Richard, up to the point of the 1955 Richard Riot. It also contains another recurring figure from the show.

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After a bleak ending to Part 3, we cleanse the palate with the question: what if dril was a professional athlete tweeting under his own name? And got a lucrative media career out of it? And that's what leads us to our final Hockey Guy of the series: Paul "BizNasty" Bissonnette.

Links I promised to include: the first collection of Biz tweets, the second collection of Biz tweets, and Biz's full "Road Warriors" episode.

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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)

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Fresh on the heels of the worst-landed bit of all time, we explore the fallout from this incident, as well as the rest of Sean Avery's career. Then we get into his post-retirement activities...including his legal troubles.

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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)

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In the first full, proper episode of this series, Nicole finally gets to discover who Sean Avery is—and why she's being forced to learn about him. We explore the whole continuum of Hockey Decorum, including: how quickly you can alienate 28 teams in a 30-team league, how to navigate situations of you or your opponents marrying a sister-in-law, and the kind of violation of established norms that forces them to change the rulebook on your behalf.

I'm not currently in a place where I can record any interjections, so here are a few addenda/corrections:

• This episode was recorded in May. I am fully aware that, yes, the Oilers did fail to win the Cup again this year.
• Stan Bowman was the General Manager of the Blackhawks, and now of the Oilers. I don't know why I overthought that.
• The former Chicago Blackhawks video coach, Brad Aldrich, "has never faced charges for his alleged abuse of Blackhawks players, but in December 2013, he pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in a case involving a 16-year-old high school hockey player in Michigan. Prosecutors dropped a felony count. Aldrich was released from jail in 2014." [Source: Global News]
• As far as I can tell, no one was eliminated in Week 1 of Dancing With The Stars. So, that means Avery was eliminated at the first possible opportunity.
• The notorious incident with Brian Trottier and Kevin Stevens yelling misogynist and homophobic insults at Brian Bellows was from the 1991 Stanley Cup Finals, not the early 1980s.

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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)

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Less than a year after getting out of the Tim Horton dungeon, Nicole is once again locked in a room to forcibly learn about the intersection of hockey guys, bad vibes, and questionable decisions. But first, we have to take a little time to thank each and every one of the show's wonderful, lovely patrons.

This one is a little different than usual—we spent a lot of time goofing around, so what was planned to be the intro section of Part 1 got spun off into its own entire episode. If you are All Business and want to get straight to the Prepared Content, you can jump right ahead to the 0:30:28 mark.

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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)

Kelly sits down with "Mao," a pseudonymous German doctor, to discuss the German TV program Unsere Besten ("Our Best"), which predates The Greatest Canadian by a year.

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