• In The Beginning: An NFL Interview With Joseph T. Sternaman

  • Mar 1 2024
  • Length: 18 mins
  • Podcast

In The Beginning: An NFL Interview With Joseph T. Sternaman

  • Summary

  • When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.

    EPISODE SUMMARY

    And, you may ask, who is Joseph T. Sternaman?

    Sternaman was more commonly known as Joey Sternaman during his professional football playing days from 1922 through 1930. As such, Joey was actually the very first quarterback of the Bears when the team incorporated in Chicago in 1922. He was also the head coach of the Duluth Kelleys in 1923 as well as the player/owner/coach of the short-lived Chicago Bulls in 1926 when that team was a member of the original American Football League. And, for a short time, he was also a part-owner of the Chicago Bears!

    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.

    Cadets, Canons, and Legends: The Football History of Morgan Park Military Academy

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

    Music for the episode - https://www.purple-planet.com/

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