Super Bowl Madness and the History of American Football

Super Bowl Madness and the History of American Football

From History for You with Douglas and Hugh by Douglas Wrattle, Hugh Canard

February 5, 2026 · 37 min

About this episode

Douglas and Hugh explore the history of American Football and its cultural significance in a comedic manner.

Douglas and Hugh are well out of their comfort zone for this episode. They need to get to the end zone without causing offence to all of America. Will they succeed? So strap on your helmets and hunker down as we take you through the history of that most baffling of colonial past times, American Football. What is it? How do you play it, and why are the names so silly? Plus we investigate how a simple admin negotiation created a billion-dollar national event that has over 100 million Americans glued to their TV sets every year for Super Bowl Sunday. Oh, and Hugh finds he's been the victim of a scam, while a devastating event at the Ferret and Trouserleg could ruin Douglas' pub enterprise forever... ------ History for You with Douglas and Hugh is a spoof comedy podcast about history written, performed and produced by Adrian Mackinder and James Devonshire , with music by Mike Jones . Let us know your thoughts and suggestions for future episodes. Connect with us here: https://tinyurl.com/History4UFacebook https://tinyurl.com/History4UBlueSky https://tinyurl.com/History4UInstagram Adrian and James are also published authors: The Wonder 1: Blood Red https://amzn.eu/d/0gk3Qiq Stan Lee…

People in this episode

Hosts: Douglas Wrattle, Hugh Canard

Topics covered

  • American Football
  • Super Bowl
  • history
  • comedy
  • scams

Keywords

  • American Football
  • Super Bowl
  • history
  • comedy podcast
  • scams

Mentioned in this episode

Places: America, Ferret and Trouserleg

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