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In this week's episode of the SHN Showcase, host Os Davis (of Truly The GOATs) chats with Scott Adamson, co-host and producer of the From the 55 Yard Line podcast and author of the book The Home Team: My Bromance with Off-Brand Football.

On this episode, Scott and Os discuss just how a sports journalist in Alabama acquires a fandom for Canadian football; the state of the CFL; the awesomeness of the WFL and USFL (RIP); the possibilities for yet more spring football in the US; and whether or not killing a sports league qualifies The Rock for the presidency…

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From the 55-Yard Line takes a hot read on the history, remembrances, culture, lore, legends and meaning of professional football around the world. No, really: Co-host Scott Adamson’s recent book The Home Team covers Birmingham, Alabama’s history with leagues like the WFL, USFL, CFL, XFL and AAF. His podcasting partner Greg James is meanwhile just as likely to produce an episode on Japan’s X League(!) as on early 20th-century American football…

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In this week's episode of the SHN Showcase, host Os Davis of Truly The GOATs turns guest and chats with substitute host Darrin Hayes, host and producer of the Pigskin Daily Dispatch podcast.

Darrin goes over a few highlights from the Truly The GOATs series and Os discusses some of the revelations his research has shown – particularly in 20th-century sports.

After touching on sumo wrestling, the games of Ancient Rome, women’s sports pre-World War II and computer-simulated heavyweight boxing, Darrin and Os get contemporary in assessing the high-profile quarterbacks taken in the recent NFL Draft and debating the future of Canadian football itself.

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Truly The GOATs spans the millennia, from Europe to Asia, from Polynesia to Mesoamerica, from the Soviet Union to the USA, remembering those athletes who enthralled spectators with wondrous feats in their day – whether ancient, medieval, modern, or post-modern.

TTG also examines the cultures that produced the games in which truly unique athletes and their sports that may have become moribund, evolved beyond recognition, or simply disappeared altogether…

The SHN Showcase is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear...

In this week's episode of the SHN Showcase, host Os Davis (of Truly The GOATs) chats with Greg James, co-host and producer of the From the 55 Yard Line podcast.

On this episode, Greg and Os have lots to talk about vis-a-vis one of their mutual favorite sports, Canadian football. Since the 2019 Grey Cup through a Covid-cancelled season and the freakin’ wacky implications brought on by the reported discussions with XFL executives, the future of the CFL is in doubt even after commissioner Randy Ambrosie’s highly optimistic comments of last week.

Greg and Os kick around various outcomes for the CFL, as well as podcasting on the Sports History Network, how an American gets into the Canadian game, and more…

HIGHLIGHTED PODCAST

From the 55-Yard Line takes a hot read on the history, remembrances, culture, lore, legends and meaning of professional football around the world. No, really: Co-host Scott Adamson’s recent book The Home Team covers Birmingham, Alabama’s history with leagues like the WFL, USFL, CFL, XFL and AAF. His podcasting partner Greg James is meanwhile just as likely to produce an episode on Japan’s X League(!) as on early 20th-century American football…

The SHN Showcase is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear...

In this week's episode of the SHN Showcase, host Os Davis (of Truly The GOATs) talks podcasting with Aron Harris of The Football Odyssey podcast and the website of the same name.

Aron discusses producing his podcast for sure, including his recent interview with Scott Hanson of the NFL Red Zone. He also tells of his relatively late entry into football fandom and the possibilities for his Pittsburgh Steelers on draft day and in 2021.

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The Football Odyssey is a weekly podcast about football’s constant and evolving impact on American culture. Catch historical stories and interviews with players, coaches, executives, media personalities and even fans, all in the service of the unwavering greater narrative of the gridiron game…

The SHN Showcase is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear...

In this week's episode of the SHN Showcase, host Os Davis (of Truly The GOATs) chats with Joe Ziemba, author of the book and host of the podcast When Football Was Football.

Joe’s got a unique theme to his podcast, featuring as it does the histories of those two founding members of the NFL based in Chicago, the Bears and the Cardinals. He discusses researching the proverbial good old days of the game, his participation in the annual Pro Football Researcher’s Association convention, his father’s history as a Chicago Cardinals draftee and academy football coach, and hope springing eternal for the Bears on Draft Day 2021…

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When Football Was Football is a biweekly podcast which brings listeners a forgotten or lost story from one of the NFL’s two oldest teams: The Bears and the Cardinals – we’re talking back to the days when the struggling Bears nearly went out of business and when Cardinals players earned $15 a game and were proud of to be making such bank! Not, Joe warns, for the fainthearted football fan…

The SHN Showcase is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear...

In this week's episode of the SHN Showcase, host Os Davis (of Truly The GOATs) chats with Dana Auguster, host of the Historically Speaking Sports podcast.

Dana is in quite the personal fan space for controversy these days: Aside from telling us how he parlayed a career in local sports news reporting into sports history podcasting, Dana also offers his take on the state of his “Los Angeles” Chargers, reportedly currently embroiled in a legal battle among ownership. Dana also weighs in on Major League Baseball’s denial of this year’s All-Star Game from his current hometown of Atlanta, based on the state’s newly-enacted voting laws.

Finally, he’s got predictions for the Gonzaga-Baylor college basketball championship, which you can tell were recorded before the stunning outcome. Schadenfreude alert!

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Historically Speaking Sports is a weekly podcast that takes listeners on a stroll down sports memory lane, sometimes through narration, sometimes via interview and sometimes through obscure historical fact – all to relive those moments that make sports a vital element of Americana…

The SHN Showcase is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear...

In this week's episode of the SHN Showcase, host Os Davis (of Truly The GOATs) chats with John Davis, host of the podcast For the Good of the Game.

Os has John to talk podcast production and such, but the topics of discussion are many and plentiful. John tells us about coaching youth football, his involvement in a startup spring football league or two, how he plans his podcasts thematically and just how many Alabama Crimson Tide players might have names called at the upcoming NFL Draft…

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For the Good of the Game is a football-themed podcast which has just joined the Sports History Network. Every episode features former or current players, coaches, sportswriters and others involved in pro football. The overarching theme for the current season is the relationships between players and their coaches.

The SHN Showcase is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear...

In this week's episode of the SHN Showcase, host Os Davis (of Truly The GOATs) chats with Warren Rogan, host of the podcast Sports’ Forgotten Heroes.

In short, Warren loves all sports. In 30 minutes or so, Warren and Os circle the world of sports, along the way touching on topics including the importance of Tiger Woods and/of technology to golf’s modern popularity, the demise of boxing; 90s NBA basketball versus the 21st-century’s; the World Hockey Association; New York Giants Super Bowl victories; and the importance of a Bill Murray movie to the 1986 New York Mets…

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Sports’ Forgotten Heroes is a bi-monthly podcast devoted not necessarily to the biggest superstars or Greatest of All-time, but instead tell great stories of the sportsworld’s wunderkinds, one-year wonders or even the most memorable moments of our favorite games.

The SHN Showcase is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear...

In this week's episode of the SHN Showcase, host Os Davis (of Truly The GOATs) chats with Jay Abramson, host of the podcast History of College Football. Jay tells us what he believes makes college football the best from of sports, how his sports-eschewing father influences him and how the Covid-shortened college football season might affect scouting for the NFL Draft. Jay and Os also reminiscence a bit on the legend of Joe Dudek. (Anyone remember that name…?)

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History of College Football is a trip down NCAA gridiron memory lane. Each episode is a look at the history of a top-division football program or anything of interest including Heisman Trophy winners, national championship runs, great players and their record-setting performances and those long-running rivalries from on which the college game thrives…