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Paul Guido and Bob Boyles
End Zone Insight is a weekly podcast dedicated to the history of the great sport of football. Hosts Paul Guido and Bob Boyles will make football’s past come alive through compelling stories, inspiring interviews and lively discussion. Bob and Paul will delve into topics as varied as the launching of the NFL and the integration of Southern football. No yelling. No smarmy comments. No click baiting. Just important, fun and enlightening conversation.
Perfection. In the history of the NFL there has been just one team, in one incredible season 50 years ago, to win every regular season game and every playoff game. That team was the much-celebrated 1972 Miami Dolphins, who went 17-0 that magical year including a 14-7 victory over the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII. End Zone Insight will take a unique look at the way that great team was constructed from scratch, going from struggling expansion team to Super Bowl champion in just seven years. The hero of the story is player evaluation extraordinaire Joe Thomas, whose work in the front office acquiring talent has been unfortunately overshadowed by legendary head coach Don Shula and his wonderful team.
If ever there was a football coach who wanted no part of rookies, it was George Allen. When he arrived in Washington with an unlimited expense account, which he quickly exceeded, he acquired every available veteran player he could find. He traded for, signed, or cajoled them into joining the Redskins. When the dust settled, so to speak, the roster was unrecognizable and given the nickname of the “Over the Hill Gang.”
Paul and Bob take their listeners on a strange trip on which an outlandish number of tie games threw the NFL divisional title races into near chaos. Learn how the Pittsburgh Steelers missed winning the East partly due to a warped goalpost, while their three ties almost dethroned the New York Giants despite having four fewer wins.
Now playing in the modernistic So-Fi Stadium, the NFL Chargers have returned to their Los Angeles birthplace. But the Chargers left L.A. after only one season in the old American Football League to boldly bring bigtime sports to a bright, new, and growing city, San Diego. END ZONE INSIGHT relives the time when the Chargers redefined offensive football under the brilliant guidance of head coach Sid Gillman and stars like Paul Lowe, Keith Lincoln, Don Norton, Ron Mix, Ernie Wright, Jack Kemp, and Tobin Rote.
After 68 years of crowning unofficial and 61 years of voting for the college football national championship, fans now have the soon-to-expand College Football Playoffs. But are the playoffs the best solution for naming a champion? The Pigskin Pod Cats look back at how the AP Writers’ and UPI Coaches’ crowned a title-winner and debate what the future holds for a sport in the middle of change and upheaval.
In this episode, End Zone Insight debates the merits of a few of the greatest games in the history of the National Football League. Bob and Paul break down the reason why a particular game deserves its ranking or should be moved higher or lower. The list was compiled by the NFL and Associated Press and is now presented by Pro Football Reference. Many of the big games of the past are discussed including The Catch, The Ice Bowl and The Immaculate Reception. Where does your favorite land and who is number one on the list?
The NFL had never staged a sudden death overtime to decide a championship game. But, late in 1958, the Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants in the late day gloom of Yankee Stadium to win an overtime thriller. Many have called it “The Greatest Football Game Ever". END ZONE INSIGHT hosts Paul and Bob weigh in on that claim and discuss the ramifications in the years that followed.
The NFL is clearly America’s most popular sport, but fans were led to believe it happened overnight. The magic moment is said to be the overtime thriller in the 1958 NFL title game, won by quarterback Johnny Unitas and the Baltimore Colts over the New York Giants. It helped that 40 million TV viewers were electrified by Colts-Giants that day, but Paul and Bob show how it was inevitable that the NFL would leave Major League Baseball in the dust.
Given the NFL’s humble beginnings in 1920, it would seem impossible that pro football could ever topple the college game as America’s favorite form of football. In time, wise NFL owners and commissioner Bert Bell overcame foolish policies to lay out the blueprint for unrivaled success. It helped that rulers of college football inflicted a stupidly democratic TV plan and dull “ironman football” just as the NFL was doing the opposite.
The Pigskin Pod Cats turn back the clock to describe a trio of great Army-Navy games. In 1946, West Point was one impressive win from an unprecedented, third straight, undefeated national title. Navy had other plans, however. The mysterious “Lonely End” was unveiled by the Cadets in 1958 and carried Army to a come-from-behind win over Navy. In 1963, Navy, led by Roger Staubach, had one of its greatest teams, and fought through another nail biter with its rival.
During this holiday season, Paul and Bob fondly remember their fathers—Robert “Bob” Guido and Houston “Hugh” Boyles respectively—who introduced the boys to the great game of football. Bob B. recalls the Sports Illustrated story, “A Dollar on Dartmouth” and a trip to West Point for “Everybody Up for the Kickoff!” Paul remembers his first in-person football trip, also to scenic West Point. Most of all, Paul relives the times they were glued every week’s Notre Dame game on radio, especially for national championship races.
Paul and Bob sit down with the remarkable J.D. Hill, Arizona State All-American and first round draft choice of the Buffalo Bills in 1970. This END ZONE INSIGHT episode coincides with the release of a book titled, Go Long: The Life Story of J.D. Hill. J.D.’s candid story is remarkable: his fall from football fame, due to dependence on painkilling drugs, to today as one of the most caring of others anyone would ever meet.
Today’s fans look at the achievements of the mighty New England Patriots and their record six Super Bowl championships. But, back in the early days of the American Football League, the on-field fortunes of the Boston Patriots bounced up and down like a yo-yo. And matters were far worse for finding a place to play. Ride along with END ZONE INSIGHT as the Pigskin PodCats examine the goofy early years as owner Billy Sullivan tried four different stadiums and never found a true home.
To honor our nation's veterans, End Zone Insight revisits a past episode detailing the amazing life of Heisman Trophy winner, Tom Harmon, who became a ground-breaking sports broadcaster after surviving harrowing war experiences.
The unique skillset and incredible success of Benny Friedman as the first passing superstar of the NFL helped keep the league afloat as the Depression hit and may have changed the league as much as any other player. So, why is he forgotten? Our Benny Friedman profile brings to life this special player, from his early days in Cleveland to his stunning emergence with the Maize and Blue at Michigan and then continued success as a professional. Friedman made passing popular and the league rewrote the rules book to encourage it for every team. Friedman's incredible story was forgotten at the end of his life 40 years ago, which greatly troubled the former football great.
Charley Trippi, an all-around athlete from Pennsylvania coal country, fulfilled a promise to enroll at the University of Georgia and leads his Bulldogs to a Rose Bowl victory and national championship before making the College Hall of Fame. After World War II, Trippi had the opportunity to become both a Yankee football HB and a Yankee baseball outfielder, but he again fulfilled a promise and became a Pro Football Hall of Famer with the NFL Chicago Cardinals.
The Pigskin Pod Cats sit down with legendary Hall of Fame coach Vince Dooley and find him to be a charming, colorful ambassador of the game. He admits he “wouldn’t have hired himself” had he been athletic director. But his Bulldogs managed a quick return to glory in the 1960s, and the “Dawgs” continued as a force in the SEC, winning six titles over 18 years. The great Herschel Walker sparked the undefeated 1980 team to a national title, but Dooley had to keep an even keel as Walker challenged the NFL’s underclassman policy.
Every podcast listener loves murder and mayhem of real crime. In this episode of End Zone Insight, Paul and Bob investigate how Sid Luckman, an all-time great quarterback, overcame the homicide conviction of his father Meyer. While Sid fashioned a Hall of Fame career, Meyer was stuck in Sing Sing Prison, doing 20-years-to-life.
The Chicago Bears are a storied NFL franchise. But since the retirement of Hall of Famer Sid Luckman in 1950, the Bears have lived through an absolute hell searching for another great quarterback. Johnny Lujack looked like a perfect fit but retired early. Ed Brown had some nice years in the 1950s, and Bill Wade led the ’63 team to the title. Jim McMahon sparked the ’85 Bears to a Super Bowl title but other defenses battered him badly. Jay Cutler had big numbers but poor body language. Divert your eyes from the rest of the list.
The Vermeil saga continues as the “Pigskin Pod Cats” pick up his story as the Eagles make the playoffs in Vermeil’s third year, race to Super Bowl XV the next year, where bad luck gave them no chance to beat the Oakland Raiders. Vermeil abruptly quit after the ’82 season citing “burnout,” and in so doing created a commonly used phrase. The coaching bug brought Vermeil back into the NFL 14 years later with the St. Louis Rams, where folk hero QB Kurt Warner came from nowhere to pilot the “Greatest Show on Turf” to victory in Super Bowl XXXIV. Vermeil retired again but returned with the Kansas City Chiefs. These days the coach enjoys returning to his birthplace in the Napa Valley where he helps run a vineyard.
On August 6, 2022, coach Dick Vermeil was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. END ZONE INSIGHT sat down with Coach Vermeil for a trip through his illustrious career. Not planning to go to college, Vermeil was energized by a late-blooming interest in football. It sent the enthusiastic Californian into the coaching ranks. He made his way through Stanford, the Los Angeles Rams, and as head coach at UCLA where his Bruins stunned no. 1 Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. The Philadelphia Eagles came calling after 15 years without a playoff appearance. This half of the Vermeil story ends with the crazy “Miracle at the Meadowlands.”
It’s impossible today to reconstruct an offense in a few weeks of training camp, but END ZONE INSIGHT takes its listeners on a magical ride in the summer of 1961 when the New York Giants created a record-setting aerial attack by making three astute trades that netted a top tight end, a super-fast wide receiver, and Hall of Fame passer. And they did it in virtual anonymity in a small west coast town while Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris of the Yankees were stealing the headlines chasing Babe Ruth’s single season home run record.
Starting as a preseason bowl game at Giants Stadium in 1983, the Kickoff Classic aimed to match the previous season’s national champion team against new season’s no. 1 ranked college team (or at least a highly ranked opponent). The ambitious formula was achieved in year 1. The game was played before 71,000 fans as top-ranked Nebraska crushed the 1982 champion Penn State Nittany Lions, 44-6. But a pair of ridiculous remarks by Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer built skepticism among coaches that an extra game was wearing down participating squads. The Kickoff Classic was never quite the same again.
A growing cottage industry is in place to grade the NFL Draft. It is made up of an army of self-appointed opinion-makers known as “Draft Experts.” Listen while the Pigskin Pod Cats have fun unmasking the annual buffoonery. Note to the experts: nobody can see the future.
The Baltimore Colts owned the NFL’s first overall pick, but Stanford’s John Elway, a once-in-a-lifetime catch in a great QB class that included Pitt’s Dan Marino, held strong-arm leverage over a team he wanted no part of. Follow the drama as the great 1983 NFL draft unfolds.
The fall of 1970 brought a plethora of talented passers. From Jim Plunkett to Joe Thiesmann, from Rex Kern to Archie Manning. All were swept up by the NFL to replenish an aging group of quarterbacks. And it would be the last time for 12 years such a bonanza was available.
The Heisman Trophy may be the ultimate individual trophy in American sports. Yet the Heisman does not always reward the winner's team with immediate on-field success. In fact, the team featuring the winner of the Heisman as often as not stumbles in contests played soon after the award's presentation. It is the dreaded Heisman Hex so win the trophy at your own peril. You have been warned by us, the Pigskin Podcats! Join us for a look back at some interesting cases of great college football teams stumbling right after the star player wins the Heisman Trophy.
Paul and Bob dissect a recent list of the so-called “25 All-Time Best Football Movies” published recently by USA Today. The “Pigskin Pod Cats” discuss what should and what shouldn’t be labeled a football movie. They discuss the good choices in the list and what they believe are awful choices on the list.
Arriving in Vancouver from Australia in the 1890s, Patrick O’Dea miraculously finds his brother coaching rowing at the University of Wisconsin. Pat is discovered by Badgers football coach Phil King and his incredible kicking makes him an All-American. A bizarre story grows: criminal indictment, assumed name, and reported WWI casualty. All ends well as O’Dea is welcomed back to Madison years later.
William Ryzcek, author of Crash of the Titans, reminisces about the financially challenging, but comical early days of the Harry Wismer-owned, Sammy Baugh-coached New York Titans. The interview follows colorful stories of better-than-given-credit players and outrageous in-game results, while looking at the foundation built for Joe Namath and the Jets to take the AFL to the heights by winning Super Bowl III.
A question answered: what didn’t Fritz Pollard accomplish? Not only did Pollard fight racial prejudice during his life but was a great football player in the Ohio League and helped pioneer what would become the National Football League. Pollard’s intelligence, winning personality, and all-around skill made him a Hall of Famer and the NFL’s first black coach. More than an athlete, he excelled organizing barnstorming teams, booking great black entertainers, starting a coal heating company, and launching a newspaper.
We celebrate Black History Month with the many “firsts” achieved by Fritz Pollard. Not only did Frederick Douglass Pollard come from a well-educated family, but he was perhaps the greatest early African American football player. In this episode, Fritz goes through early life in Chicago and plants a toe in nearly every Ivy League college before leading Brown University to the Rose Bowl and its greatest heights in 1916.
Mark Yost, author of Tailgating, Sacks, & Salary Caps and a writer for the Wall Street Journal visits Paul and Bob to talk about how the NFL became so filthy rich. Yost also looks at the future of fantasy and sports gaming with cautionary words of overexposure.
The Dallas Cowboys and Baltimore Colts played in the first Super Bowl after the NFL-AFL merger. They bumbled, stumbled, and blundered through a combined 11 turnovers. Did either team want to win? Hall of Famers were in the middle of crazy plays: a multi-tipped pass landed in the lap of Colts TE John Mackey and went for a 75-yard TD, Cowboys DB Mel Renfro’s mental lapse allowed a field goal to be downed at the Dallas 1, and Colts QB Johnny Unitas had a rough day and fractured a rib. The outcome hinged on a field goal by a super-nervous kicker.
A set of Hungarian refugee brothers survive a harrowing escape from the crushed revolution in their Communist-governed homeland, emigrate to the United States, and create a revolution of their own. Pete and Charlie Gogolak became catalysts to sweeping change in the way all football placekicking would be made. The “Sidewinders” were more than a curiosity.
Charley Trippi, an all-around athlete from Pennsylvania coal country, fulfilled a promise to enroll at the University of Georgia and leads his Bulldogs to a Rose Bowl victory and national championship before making the College Hall of Fame. After World War II, Trippi had the opportunity to become both a Yankee football HB and a Yankee baseball outfielder, but he again fulfilled a promise and became a Pro Football Hall of Famer with the NFL Chicago Cardinals.
While it is almost comical how many college football games are tagged as the “Game of the Century,” the 1935 “Game of the Century” battle between Southern Methodist and Texas Christian Universities provided a thrilling late-game touchdown to decide a winner from a pair of undefeated teams from neighboring cities. The game’s importance would elevate the Southwest Conference football into a national spotlight. The winner would head to the Rose Bowl for that great venue’s first-ever sellout.
If ever there was a football coach who wanted no part of rookies, it was George Allen. When he arrived in Washington with an unlimited expense account, which he quickly exceeded, he acquired every available veteran player he could find. He traded for, signed, or cajoled them into joining the Redskins. When the dust settled, so to speak, the roster was unrecognizable and given the nickname of the “Over the Hill Gang.”
The confident, upstart Miami Hurricanes, winners of 10 games in a row, planned to use a vocal home crowd in Miami’s Orange Bowl to prevent the mighty, top-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers from securing coach Tom Osborne’s first national championship. The contrast in styles—Miami’s passing versus Nebraska’s power running—and the shifting of momentum made for one of the greatest-ever college games, as it came down to a last moment decision for Coach Osborne.
The NFL had never staged a sudden death overtime to decide a championship game. But, late in 1958, the Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants in the late day gloom of Yankee Stadium to win an overtime thriller. Many have called it “The Greatest Football Game Ever". END ZONE INSIGHT hosts Paul and Bob weigh in on that claim and discuss the ramifications in the years that followed.
Some of the most exciting football games are played in late season on snow-slick surfaces and blinding blizzards. END ZONE INSIGHT takes listeners to the blizzard of 1950 when Michigan beat Ohio State without making even one first down. The 1948 NFL Title Game when Philadelphia Eagles star Steve Van Buren almost stayed home. The unbelievable Snowplow Game when a work-released convict cleared a spot for the Patriots’ winning kick. Leon Lett’s “brain freeze” gave away a sure win for the Dallas Cowboys, and the Apple Cup contested in a blizzard in Pullman, Wash. The 2000 Independence Bowl pitted southern teams that hardly knew of snow, and most notably the Patriots’ playoff win assisted by the infamous Tuck Rule.
All-Ivy League tackle at Princeton in 1957, Bob Casciola entered football coaching as an assistant at Princeton and later Dartmouth. He played or worked under three Hall of Famers in Charlie Caldwell, Dick Colman, and Bob Blackman before becoming head coach at the U. of Connecticut and Princeton. He was a broadcaster for New Jersey Generals games in the USFL as well as CEO of the New Jersey Nets basketball team. He says his most important job came at the end of his career when he spent 14 years as head of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.
Any age group can enjoy watching football, but never did gray-haired geriatrics find such a hero as George Blanda in 1970. The crusty old Oakland Raider became the poster child for late game heroics that captivated a nation. Blanda’s season was so rare he won the NFL MVP Award with the stats of a back-up quarterback.
Ronnie Knox, California high school quarterback, was probably the nation’s best prospect in his 1953 class. Thanks to his meddling stepfather, Harvey, Ronnie searched for “the perfect coach.” He quarterbacked the ’53 Cal Bears frosh, then transferred to the 1955 preseason no. 1 UCLA Bruins and played in the 1956 Rose Bowl. After a record-setting stint in Canada, Ronnie quit to became a beatnik poet.
Football and Thanksgiving were born in the United States in the 1860s, and in a way, they grew up together. New York City’s annual hosting of Princeton vs. Yale may have sparked drunken brawling, but soon 5,000 high school, college, and professional contests sprung up on Turkey Day. Radio and TV sparked the Detroit Lions’ tradition that led to the all-day TV extravaganza of the holiday in current times.
This offbeat episode of END ZONE INSIGHT profiles Marvin Gaye, the smooth voiced star of 1960s and ‘70s Sweet Soul Music. The Detroit-based superstar had a love for football and befriended Lion NFL stars Mel Farr and Lem Barney. The pair of Lions were invited to attend a recording session at which Gaye created one of his most famous and emotional songs, “What’s Going On?” The song’s opening is ad-libbed both musically and with over-dubbed spontaneous conversation, and the voices of the football stars ended up on the recording. When record sales went gold, Gaye gave each of his friends their own gold record awards.
Given Notre Dame’s worst football season in history—a 2-8 record in 1956—the Fighting Irish would be the last team fans would expect to end the Oklahoma Sooners’ record 47-game streak. END ZONE INSIGHT delves into the 1930s Dust Bowl, the Irish post-war glory days ending in self-induced struggles and the building of the Sooners dynasty leading up to this stunning upset. But was it all on the up-and-up?
All a rich, young Texan wanted was to bring a professional football team to Dallas. And soon Lamar Hunt realized there were plenty of other dreamers. Hunt banded together team owners in what became known as “The Foolish Club,” and the American Football League succeeded like no other sports challenger ever had.
End Zone Insight takes a look at the biggest games of Bobby Bowden, an honorable Alabaman and witty football coach who lifted the program at West Virginia University only to wake up one day and wonder: “What’s a good, ol’ Southern boy doing in all this snow?” So, Bowden went south to Florida State to build one of the most continually-great teams anywhere.
Oh, how, confused refs messed up these two football games! Paul and Bob take their podcast listeners inside a pair of games decided in the last moments by huge blunders. The outcomes speak volumes of American culture in the 1940s and 1990s.
The conclusion of a two-part account of the Harmon football family describes how son Mark followed in the steps of his father Tom from football star to a spectacular TV career as the lead character in the long-running CBS series NCIS.
End Zone Insight begins a two-part narrative starting with Heisman Trophy winner, Tom Harmon, who became a ground-breaking sports broadcaster after surviving harrowing war experiences.
The Alabama football program is one of the greatest in American sports history and has earned undying love from its fans and respect from every corner of organized athletics.
Bear Bryant, Alabama’s brilliant Hall of Fame head football coach from 1959 to 1982, experienced a bit of a slump in the late 1960s. This is easy to understand since Bryant’s rivals in the SEC finally were breaking the racial barrier, and old powerbrokers in Alabama were holding back Bryant in his desire to recruit African American players.
One game is constantly identified as standing out as the tipping point of Alabama football turning the corner on racial integration. That is, the 42-21 destruction of the Tide on opening night of the 1970 season by visiting USC, a team that brought to Birmingham’s Legion Field a roster loaded with black stars.
END ZONE INSIGHT hosts Paul Guido and Bob Boyles radically disagree with the suggestion that the USC contest was THE defining moment in moving Crimson Tide football forward.
If the 1970 loss to Southern California really was the big moment, then nobody in Alabama was paying attention to the previous two seasons when blacks from several schools, especially the University of Tennessee, were beating the Tide.
In this episode, END ZONE INSIGHT dispels the accepted, fanciful narrative.
Every podcast listener loves murder and mayhem of real crime. In this episode of End Zone Insight, Paul and Bob investigate how Sid Luckman, an all-time great quarterback, overcame the homicide conviction of his father Meyer. While Sid fashioned a Hall of Fame career, Meyer was stuck in Sing Sing Prison, doing 20-years-to-life.
Prior to the 1950 season the National Football League ended an expensive, four-year talent bidding war when it absorbed three clubs from the All-America Football Conference.
By far the best newcomer to the NFL was the Cleveland Browns, four-time champion of the now-defunct AAFC.
The Browns were plenty impressive with a four-year record of __-_-_. Still, NFL owners and supposed experts among the sports press disparaged the Browns, as well as the other new teams, the Baltimore Colts and San Francisco 49ers, at practically every opportunity.
The nicest welcome from the older league was something like, “Well, the Browns are the very best of a pretty weak group.”
But, interest among fans was high, so cagey NFL commissioner Bert Bell created a stand-alone opening game on a Saturday night. He pitted the two-time NFL champion Philadelphia Eagles against the Browns at the enormous Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia.
A huge crowd turned out, but Philly fans walked away in surprise. Listen how that showdown turned out as well as the rest of the 1950 NFL season by listening to END ZONE INSIGHT.
Return with END ZONE INSIGHT to more than 100 years ago when the American Professional Football Association was launched in a hot, crowded automobile dealership in Canton, Ohio.
Cold beer all around. Prohibition be damned. Long live the Hupmobile!
Long live the National Football League, which became the official name after two years operating under the rather clumsy APFA title. It’s not as if many sports fans noticed the name change because it would take many years for the pro league to catch on.
While famous college football coaches ripped the professionals for playing dirty and giving real sport of football, that is, the spirted, die-for-dear-old-Rutgers college boys a bad name.
Listen in to find out what REALLY happened to Ralph Hay—who hosted the early meetings at his Hupmobile dealership—Jim Thorpe, Joe Carr, the Massillon Tigers, Gus Dorais, the Staley Starchmakers, and George Stanley Halas. TAKE A DRINK!
For the sake of accurate information, END ZONE INSIGHT encourages a frat boy type of drinking game. That is, whenever you hear the name George Halas in any episode—and he pops up often—please take a good swallow of your favorite beverage.
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For many years, the Northwestern Wildcats were the doormats of Big 10 football. They spent a half a lifetime at the bottom of the conference, basically from the early 1970s until 1995.
In the 23 years between 1972 and 1994, Northwestern’s won-lost-tied record was 46-100-4, and to take a slice out from 1976-81 the season records add up to 3 wins, 62 losses, and one tie.
Here’s the reality: Northwestern was really, really bad for a long, long time.
Of course, many coaches came and went, but in 1991 a man coming from the previous season’s national champion Colorado, was hired. His name was Gary Barnett, former offensive coordinator of the Buffaloes.
Barnett was introduced at halftime of a Northwestern basketball game, and while holding a mic and standing at mid-court, Barnett made the rash prediction that he planned to: “Take the Purple to Pasadena!”
The student section went nuts … of course. But Barnett later admitted that on the way back to his seat, he heard realistic adults saying, “What’s he nuts?!”
Listen to END ZONE INSIGHT to find out how the old “Mildcats” became real Wildcats on the way to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Nile Kinnick entered his senior year at the University of Iowa in 1939 as an outstanding scholar and a Big 10 all-star halfback, even though his Hawkeyes were coming off a 1-6-1 season record.
He was far from being world famous.
This END ZONE INSIGHT episode focuses on the cleft-chin, baby-faced, intellectual who led his team from the football wilderness and won the Heisman Trophy. Kinnick’s Heisman acceptance speech brilliantly foretold a future of world war, bravery, and national pride.
His was the Greatest Generation, as it has come to be known through the best-selling book by news anchor Tom Brokaw.
Nile Kinnick would die young, but before his death he served as an amazing role model that had classmates and teammates in awe.
Listen to this episode to learn about Kinnick’s exceptional life.
One hears the tagline “West Coast Offense,” they assume it got cooked up in some football lab in Los Angeles, Berkeley, or Palo Alto. End Zone Insight tracks how, when, why, and specifically where genius coach Bill Walsh devised this brilliant strategy.
One of the greats of all time, John Unitas led the Baltimore Colts to NFL glory. In this episode of End Zone Insight, Bob and Paul take us back to Johnny U's first NFL training camp when his hometown club let him fall through its fingers.