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Wilfrid Smith: From the NFL to Global Recognition
May 18, 2026
28m 26s
Big Jim Thorpe's Forgotten Football Vacation
Jan 28, 2026
31m 05s
Searching for the “Zest” of the 1931 Chicago Bears
Dec 17, 2025
15m 54s
UGLY PASSERS, BRICK WALLS, AND FEISTY CARDINALS!
Oct 24, 2024
20m 32s
The NFL's Forgotten Gold Medalist!
Aug 8, 2024
18m 26s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/18/26 | ![]() Wilfrid Smith: From the NFL to Global Recognition✨ | NFL historysports writing+3 | Wilfrid Russell Smith | Sports History NetworkWhen Football Was Football | — | Wilfrid SmithNFL+4 | — | 28m 26s | |
| 1/28/26 | ![]() Big Jim Thorpe's Forgotten Football Vacation✨ | Jim ThorpeNFL history+4 | — | NFLRock Island Independents | TexasHavana, Cuba | Jim ThorpeNFL+6 | — | 31m 05s | |
| 12/17/25 | ![]() Searching for the “Zest” of the 1931 Chicago Bears✨ | Chicago BearsNFL history+3 | — | Chicago BearsNational Football League | — | Chicago BearsRed Grange+5 | — | 15m 54s | |
| 10/24/24 | ![]() UGLY PASSERS, BRICK WALLS, AND FEISTY CARDINALS!✨ | Arizona CardinalsNFL history+4 | — | Sports History NetworkBears+1 | ArizonaNFL | Arizona CardinalsNFL+5 | — | 20m 32s | |
| 8/8/24 | ![]() The NFL's Forgotten Gold Medalist!✨ | Olympic historyfootball history+3 | — | Chicago CardinalsSports History Network | StockholmLos Angeles+1 | NFLOlympic gold medalist+3 | — | 18m 26s | |
| 6/24/24 | ![]() Paddy Driscoll's Almost Perfect Season✨ | Paddy DriscollNFL history+4 | — | Sports History NetworkThe Bears+1 | — | Paddy DriscollNFL+4 | — | 23m 26s | |
| 4/14/24 | ![]() 120,000 Witness High School Football Game in 1937!!!✨ | high school footballChicago sports history+3 | — | Sports History Network | Chicago | high school footballPrep Bowl+3 | — | 20m 52s | |
| 3/1/24 | ![]() In The Beginning: An NFL Interview With Joseph T. Sternaman✨ | NFL historyearly football+5 | Joseph T. Sternaman | Chicago BearsDuluth Kelleys+4 | — | Joseph T. SternamanChicago Bears+5 | — | 15m 51s | |
| 2/4/24 | ![]() 1948: The Last Hurrah of the Chicago Cardinals✨ | Chicago CardinalsNFL history+3 | — | Sports History NetworkWhen Football Was Football | ChicagoNational Football League | Chicago CardinalsNFL+3 | Row One | 21m 27s | |
| 12/11/23 | ![]() Dick Tracy and the Chicago Cardinals✨ | Dick TracyChicago Cardinals+4 | — | Chicago Cardinals | — | Dick TracyChicago Cardinals+5 | — | 20m 15s | |
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| 10/2/23 | ![]() Harry Ghaul: The Best Punter in Cardinals' History, Who Wasn't | When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.EPISODE SUMMARYEvery so often, we encounter a football story that just screams to be shared. In this episode of “When Football Was Football” we’ll actually discuss a kicker who, believe it or not, boomed 100-yard punts in practice. Sometimes, there are true stories that just cannot be made up…Such was the case of punter Harry Ghaul, whose startling back story includes the previously mentioned punting skills, but also a hall-of-fame collegiate football career at a major football university. That type of accomplishment is not necessarily unusual in pro football circles where only the best of the best from the college ranks makes it with the NFL big boys. However, the spectacular college career for Harry Ghaul began AFTER his professional time with the Cardinals.Let’s begin this unique story of Mr. Ghaul who was born on June 4, 1921......Read the entire episode blog post and check out some other cool info regarding this episode here.WHEN FOOTBALL WAS FOOTBALL BACKGROUNDEach 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 AcademyWhen Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFLMusic for the episode - https://www.purple-planet.com/ | — | ||||||
| 8/28/23 | ![]() Harlon Hill: From Florence State to the NFL | When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.EPISODE SUMMARYStories about unknown or undrafted collegiate players making it big in the NFL, are rare, but always entertaining! One such case occurred in December of 1953 when Chicago Bears’ assistant coach Clark Shaughnessy was scouting the Blue-Gray all-star game in Montgomery, AL. A local coach shared that “the best end in this part of the country wasn’t chosen to play in this game.” From the hotel lobby gossip, Shaughnessy learned about a rangy, and unstoppable, big end from Florence State Teachers College (now North Alabama) known as Harlon Hill who was not invited to the game simply because he was from a smaller college. The other coaches who had seen this marvel in person considered Hill a better prospect than any one from the bigger state schools such as Alabama or Auburn. This guy apparently had super-hero powers on the gridiron and could easily demolish any and all opposition. And yet, during his senior season, with his team running the archaic single wing offense, the talented end captured just 12 passes for 246 yards for the year. By that time, he was a marked man on offense due to his speed and exceptional hands........Read the entire episode blog post and check out some other cool info regarding this episode here.WHEN FOOTBALL WAS FOOTBALL BACKGROUNDEach 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 AcademyWhen Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFLMusic for the episode - https://www.purple-planet.com/ | — | ||||||
| 7/24/23 | ![]() Art Folz: The NFL's Biggest Villain That You Never Heard About! | When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.EPISODE SUMMARYWho is Art Folz, and why is he one of the most notorious villains in NFL history that you never heard about?On this episode of “When Football Was Football” we’ll introduce you to Mr. Folz who was banned from the NFL for his unwitting attempt to be helpful, but then became the godfather of stock car racing in Chicago, and later a successful newspaper publisher. It’s a complicated story, but one that demonstrates the importance of not being in the wrong place at the wrong time! During his NFL career, Mr. Folz, unfortunately, was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was banned for life. What the heck did he do?Let’s start at the beginning…Read the entire episode blog post and check out some other cool info regarding this episode here.WHEN FOOTBALL WAS FOOTBALL BACKGROUNDEach 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 AcademyWhen Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFLMusic for the episode - https://www.purple-planet.com/ | — | ||||||
| 6/12/23 | ![]() Edward "Butch" O'Hare: Capone, Cardinals, and a Chicago Legacy | When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.EPISODE SUMMARYThe episode recounts the story of World War II hero Edward "Butch" O'Hare and his gangster-affiliated father. Butch O'Hare, an American naval aviator, displayed extraordinary courage and skill by single-handedly taking down five enemy bombers threatening his ship, the USS Lexington, an act that earned him the Medal of Honor in 1942. His father, Edward O'Hare, despite being a lawyer and one of the directors of the Chicago Cardinals football team in the 1930s, was also a partner of infamous gangster Al Capone. Edward was murdered in what appeared to be a mob hit in 1939, but was later revealed to have secretly helped the government convict Capone on tax evasion charges. Butch O'Hare's untimely death came in 1943 when he was lost in aerial combat. His heroism and legacy are commemorated in the naming of the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.Read the entire episode blog post and check out some other cool info regarding this episode here.WHEN FOOTBALL WAS FOOTBALL BACKGROUNDEach 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 AcademyWhen Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFLMusic for the episode - https://www.purple-planet.com/ | — | ||||||
| 5/16/23 | ![]() NFL's Youngest Player May Surprise You! | Who was the NFL's youngest player? How did we determine this? What else was he famous for? | — | ||||||
| 5/8/23 | ![]() Historian Joe Ziemba Shares Stories of Some Pieces of his Chicago Cardinals Memorabilia Collection - Pigskin Dispatch | Historian Joe Ziemba Shares Stories of Some Pieces of his Chicago Cardinals Memorabilia Collection. The History comes to life when you see period pieces from when Chicago had two NFL teams. Join us at the Pigskin Dispatch website and the Sports Jersey Dispatch to see even more Positive football news! Sign up to get daily football history headlines in your email inbox @ Email-subscriberMiss our football by the day of the year podcasts, well don't, because they can still be found at the Pigskin Dispatch website. | — | ||||||
| 5/1/23 | ![]() Willis Brennan: The Chicago Cardinal That Helped Solve One of America's Most Notorious Crimes! | Willis Brennan was not only a respected gridiron giant, he was also one of Chicago’s finest. | — | ||||||
| 4/13/23 | ![]() 1899: The Cardinals' First Season | Take a trip back in time and explore the first season of the 1899 Chicago Cardinals. Learn about the team's history and the challenges they faced in their inaugural year. | — | ||||||
| 3/20/23 | ![]() Madison Street Agreement | The agreement was originally signed by Dr. David Jones, the owner of the Cardinals back in 1931 and then renewed by Charles Bidwill a few years later. For some reason, both the Bears and the Cardinals agreed upon strict geographical limitations for holding their home games in the City of Chicago. | — | ||||||
| 3/6/23 | ![]() Charlie Bidwill's First Love (Chicago Bluebirds) | Bidwill was the founder of the Chicago Bluebirds professional softball team and was also the co-founder of the National Girls Baseball League (NGBL) which began in 1944 with all teams based in Chicago. | — | ||||||
| 2/20/23 | ![]() The Original Spygate (Bears vs. Cardinals - 1934) | Back in 1934, this particular scandal involved the Chicago Bears and the Chicago Cardinals, the only two remaining original league members. | — | ||||||
| 2/6/23 | ![]() The Bears vs. Packers Game Forgotten In Time! | In this episode of “When Football Was Football” we’ll look back at a battle between the two rivals that has largely been erased from the record books despite the game being played under the lights on Wednesday, October 17, 1934 at State Fair Park in Milwaukee, WI. | — | ||||||
| 1/23/23 | ![]() Original Chicago Bulls Threaten Bears: 1926 | The original Chicago Bulls of 1926. Unlike the NBA champions of almost 70 years later, these Bulls were members of the newly formed AFL. And the creation of that team sent shock waves through the existing pro football establishment in Chicago. | — | ||||||
| 12/28/22 | ![]() December 28, 1947: Coach, Was You Worried? | It was the morning of December 28, 1947, 75 years ago today, and both the Philadelphia Eagles and the Chicago Cardinals were preparing for their eagerly awaited NFL title game at Comiskey Park in Chicago. | — | ||||||
| 12/28/22 | ![]() Remembering the 82nd Rose Bowl of 1996 with Joe Ziemba, USC vs. Northwestern - Pigskin Dispatch | Author and historian Joe Ziemba of the When Football was Football Podcast joins us to discuss the 1996 Rose Bowl game between USC and Northwestern. The people, plays, and great stories associated with the 70th Rose Bowl Game. Joe has a fantastic book on Chicago area pro football titled Bears versus Cardinals, that is an excellent piece of reading for any fan of football history!Join us at the Pigskin Dispatch website and the Sports Jersey Dispatch to see even more Positive football news! Sign up to get daily football history headlines in your email inbox @ Email-subscriberMiss our football by the day of the year podcasts, well don't, because they can still be found at the Pigskin Dispatch website. | — | ||||||
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