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Football Archaeology

Digging into gridiron history to examine how football's evolution shapes today's game.

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Non-Football Gear in the 1910 Spalding Catalog

Some old sporting goods catalogs are dedicated to football products, though most include gear for other sports. Either way, when I get a new-to-me, old catalog, I generally scan only the football-related pages. Today was a different day, ho...

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Today's Tidbit... U.S.S. Oklahoma Football Between the Wars

Buying RPPCs on eBay is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.

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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... NCAA Sanctions, Sooner or Later

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss Oklahoma’s 1970 football staff, as talented a crew as you will find, but many were ethically challenged.

Watch or listen to the podcast here or on other podcast feeds. You can read the o...

12 days ago
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Today's Tidbit... Wearing Shoulder Pads Atop the Jersey

The NCAA required players to wear shoulder pads in 1974, and their jerseys had to cover them since 1975. That rule came in response to tearaway jerseys, which the NCAA banned in 1978. Still, those events raise the questions: when and why d...

13 days ago
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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... To Rotate Or Not Rotate

Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss the evolution of football’s rules for how referees spot the ball, which hung on the question of whether to rotate or not to rotate.

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