1948: The Last Hurrah of the Chicago Cardinals

About this episode

This episode explores the Chicago Cardinals' most successful regular season in 1948 amidst a long championship drought.

When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . NETWORK SPONSORS Row One - the vintage shop for sports history fans! 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…

People in this episode

Host: Joe Ziemba

Topics covered

• Chicago Cardinals
• NFL history
• 1948 season
• sports history
• championship drought

Keywords

• Chicago Cardinals
• NFL
• 1948
• sports history
• Joe Ziemba

Sponsors

Row One

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sports History Network

Books & works: When Football Was Football

Places: Chicago, National Football League

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