Pigskin Dispatch

Authors Budd Bailey and Greg Tranter visit the Pigpen in this episode to talk about their latest book titled: The Buffalo Bills: An Illustrated Timeline of a Storied Team and its unique way to preserve Western New York Football History in a chronological order of events!

These two long-time Bills fans bring their insight, passion, and writing experience to team up with Reedy Press on a great Buffalo Bills History journey.

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Sports History Theme Song

This theme song was produced by Ron "Tyke" Oliver of Music Meets Sportz

We have all seen some crazy uniforms out lately on the gridiron. The artistic expression of multi-colored uniforms and adornments makes your head spin as teams and stores are looking for new team-related jerseys to market. This is not anything new, and today we go into a recent piece on the Football Archaeology website where Timothy Brown discovered some oddly colored gridiron jersey numbers of the past.

Here is Tim's original post on FootballArchaeology.com.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Sports History Theme Song

This theme song was produced by Ron "Tyke" Oliver of Music Meets Sportz

Life-long Buffalo Bills Fan, Del Reid took his fandom and Social Media Influencer status to not only help start Bill Mafia as a Western New York NFL Fan Identity but to help others less fortunate in his local area with his company, 26 Shirts.

Del's Website

Co-founder, #BillsMafia. Founder, 26shirts.com. Del's Facebook page @delreid26 on Instagram @delreid on X

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A new wave of Fantasy Football is taking the internet by storm, Tailgate Fantasy Sports, where you can use all players from your favorite NFL team. Co-Founder Hans Kayser joins us to tell us the simple, fun way to play fantasy football without having to root against your own favorite franchise.

Try it out for yourself at Tailgate Fantasy Sports. and follow them @TailgateFS

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It is something that spectators have seen at love ball games a multitude of times on a scoreboard, the "Home" and "Visitors" plastered on the device to identify information about each team. Have you ever considered where the word Visitors or sometimes Guests came from? If you have, sit back and listen as Timothy Brown of Football Archaeology fills us in on the tale.

Here is Tim's Original Post filled with wisdom and images!

Our accompanying Pogskin Dispatch blog.

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In this episode, we talk about the history of College Football in 1936. The Football History Rewind Series Part 78 goes through the rules revisions, the big games, the star players, a new source for ranking teams, and the top teams of the season.

Click here to go to the webpage of FOotball History Rewind Part 78.

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Host Darin Hayes, gives some highlights of his weekend in Pittsburgh at the 2023 PFRA Convention and some football words that can confound the person new to football.

We also unveil some new audio from our friend

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In this episode, we talk about the history of College Football in 1932 and a forgotten legendary gridiron squad from Colgate. The Sports Time Traveler, Len Ferman, joins us to unveil the story of this team that may very well be one of the greatest in College Football History.

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Penalties for an offending team are almost always a real setback to progression down the field. When an offending team is near its own goal line, the rules make it less severe by allowing only half of the distance of the normal penalty to be administered in the half-the-distance circumstances. Timothy P. Brown of FootballArchaeology.com reminds us of a time when these half-distance penalty enforcements could end up in some tremendously long enforcements.

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You may know that Kenny Washington was one of the first in a group of men that broke the NFL Post WWII Color Barrier, but how much more do you know about this standout in football history? Our friend Dan Taylor joins us to share some other things that Kenny accomplished and more from his book on the legend. Walking Alone: The Untold Journey of Football Pioneer Kenny Washington

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