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The 1962 AFL Champions look to prove that they have what it takes to stick in the Historical League! Len Dawson and the Texans host Stan Humphries and the 1994 San Diego Chargers in a Christmas Eve stocking stuffer!

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It's time for the first game of the NFL 2K5 Historical League! Johnny Unitas leads the 1970 Colts into battle against an underdog team, Tony Eason and the 1985 New England Patriots from Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts!

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Just in time for the Holidays, a quick little stocking stuffer that is a brand new project! ESPN NFL 2K5 is constantly regarded as one of the best sports video games of all time, particularly in regards to the realistic simulations that the game's AI produces. As you might know from my prior episodes, I'm just as much in tune with the historical side of sports as I am with the current side. So how do I put this all together? How about a 32 team league that will have it's track kept with each week and run like an actual NFL schedule? So let's take a trip in the DeLorean and go through 5 decades of pro football history!

I've taken some considerable time off from the podcast in recent weeks. With this episode, I return to form, taking note of the critiques you all had from my King Of The Ring 1998 review, and jumped in the Wayback Machine once again, this time to July of 1997 to review the WWF's In Your House 16, Canadian Stampede. Hope you all enjoy!

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Well. This isn't how I wanted to start the week. Fresh off of a weekend where Canton, Ohio welcomed some new residents at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, instead of talking about any more NHL news or NFL predictions, this episode instead is very close to my heart. Starting with Mike Lange's retirement, I get to talk about how so many hockey fans view Lange and his Hall of Fame career as he calls it quits after 46 seasons as the voice of the Pittsburgh Penguins. There was the news later about Chicago Blackhawks analyst and team alumnus Troy Murray announcing that he tested positive for cancer, and how he has a helping hand within the organization in Eddie Olczyk. And in the final piece of news, one of the most recognizable voices of motorsports in America, Bob Jenkins, passed away at age 73 this morning after an 8 month battle with brain cancer. After all of that, I go on a bit of a bit on why I want to be a sports broadcaster and why I want to do this podcast.

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As the calendar turns over to August, we're only 2 months away from the NHL season, and already there has been some huge movement in the off-season. From the NHL on NBC era coming to an end, to some blockbuster deals, to the most random NHL Draft in years, these last few weeks have seen some real excitement in the world of hockey. So on this episode, I try to decipher the big trades, the controversy surrounding Logan Mailloux and the Montreal Canadiens, and the new media deal that goes into effect this coming season.

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This was certainly unexpected! With the summer winding down, I realized that even though I worked my tail off for some content, that none of the content ever came to be, so I hope this clears it up and gives a preview into what to expect. At the end of these updates, there's also a trailer for a Flashback Friday series, as it needed to be re-done, the Dale Earnhardt Inc. saga will return, and hopefully with no copyright issues this time around.

This is a new format, and I hope you guys like it! The month of June has many important dates and anniversaries across all realms of sports. For pro wrestling, this is no different, with the date of June 28th every year being a date where this Pay-Per-View gets recognized by the wrestling community. At pro wrestling's peak in 1998, the Pittsburgh Civic Arena was home to a show with one of the most memorable matches in wrestling's history, The Undertaker and Mankind in the Hell In A Cell.

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In this episode, I come back from an inadvertent hiatus to cover the story from the NHL that stole headlines this week, but for all the wrong reasons. On Monday, Tom Wilson roughed up two New York Rangers forwards, Pavel Buchnevich and Artemi Panarin. What ensued was a headache-inducing nightmare of a week for the NHL, and today's episode explains why.

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