• 1948: The Last Hurrah of the Chicago Cardinals

  • Feb 4 2024
  • Length: 23 mins
  • Podcast

1948: The Last Hurrah of the Chicago Cardinals

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    EPISODE SUMMARY

    Cardinals’ fans are familiar with the long, sad story concerning the current championship dry spell for the club that has now stretched into its 76th year. That will be 76 years this fall without an NFL title, the longest such streak in the National Football League, as well as in all professional sports! On this episode of “When Football Was Football” here on the Sports History Network, we’ll travel back to 1948 when the Cardinals franchise achieved its most successful regular season. And, what a season it was!

    Read the entire episode blog post and check out some other cool info regarding this episode here.

    WHEN FOOTBALL WAS FOOTBALL BACKGROUND

    Each episode takes the listener back to the very early days of the National Football League. Author Joe Ziemba will share a forgotten or lost story from one of the NFL’s two oldest teams: The Bears and the Cardinals. Team championships, individual exploits, or long-buried items of interest from the earliest years of the NFL will be dusted off and resurrected for the listener. Not for the football faint-of-heart since these programs will document when the struggling Bears nearly went out of business or when Cardinals’ players earned $15 a game and were proud of it! It’s NFL history—with a twist!. See Joe's books below.

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    When Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFL

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