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Crime in Sports

#223 - A Most Epic Fall From Grace - The Groundbreakingness of Joe Gilliam

Crime in Sports

James Pietragallo, Jimmie Whisman

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4.925.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 178 minutes

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Summary

This week, we transport back to the 70s to look at a man who had it all, talent, ability, style... and a rip roarin' drug habit that consumed all in its path. So much so, that he went from being the first Black starting quarterback in the post-merger NFL era & being on the cover of Sports Illustrated, all the way down to a ton of arrests, including robbing a fast food restaurant at knifepoint, and eventual homelessness. Did he ever make it back, or did his lifestyle finally take him under, for good? This one is indescribably nuts!

Be an idol to many, and a source of anger to others, never let them cramp your style, and always hold at least one crack rock with "Jefferson Street" Joe Gilliam!!

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0:06.0

Hello and welcome to Crime and Sports. Yay! Oh, yay indeed, Jimmy. Yay indeed. My name is James Petrigalo. I'm here with my co-host. I'm Jimmy Wiseman.

0:35.0

Thank you folks so much for joining us today. We have an absolutely crazy episode. Hope it's wild. This is like a cheer up for a while.

0:45.0

You'll see. But last week, it was a little dirty. We had Rabinho there, who was basically a club rapist.

0:55.0

We have a guy who you're going to root for the whole time because it's a super 70s spectacular. This dude is a Curtis Mayfield song with a pulse.

1:06.0

Fucking awesome. And this is when I honestly have been saving for a while. And I was going to do cards on the table. Originally, this was going to be branded martial this week.

1:16.0

So I'd receive a lot of shit with him. He's got a lot of mental problems. Yeah, you'll be later on. He's like a lot of spellmen-esque type of thing. But he did a lot of time. Yeah, he was a great receiver, but had a lot of problems.

1:28.0

But then something happened to him over the weekend, if you might have saw the news, that I'm like, you know what, I'm not going to pile on this guy. I'm going to save him for another time. We're still going to do it, but I'm like, not this weekend. He's got another problem.

1:37.0

So we're going to bring somebody else up who has no chance of having anything happen to him this weekend. We'll get into that. But first, thank you guys so much for everything this week. If you haven't yet, please get on Apple Podcasts.

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2:10.0

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2:37.0

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3:05.0

Bonus episode we are going to talk about action park. Yeah, back east the documentary just came out on HBO Max. And I've also read the book and I've been there I'm from back east it was the places 50 miles from my front door when I was a kid. So I will have lots to talk about their crazy stuff injuries and firsthand knowledge. It'll be fun.

3:24.0

And I've been here from PA knew all about it. Oh Pennsylvania Jersey. Yeah, I have had the t-shirt for years. Found out about it. Yeah, everybody after the show that's all they want to talk about is action park. We used to the live show guys. Yeah, we just did a thing.

3:37.0

We're going to discuss action park on that this week. It's a lot of fun. You can get access to that and all of our catalog for both shows very easily by going to patreon.com slash crime and sports and make your donation there. Anybody above the $5 level gets all the bonus material.

3:55.0

And also if you just want to be a good person, have nice karma and you know, get also you got a shout out. I mean, we'll miss pronounce your name. You can go over to paypal use our email address. Crime and sports at gmail.com to make a donation. Damn it.

4:07.0

Do we appreciate every penny you guys give. Thank you. Can I be overstated? No, it definitely can't. So to give back. Let's give you a crazy s episode. Right.

4:18.0

Certain episodes you just know we're going to be classics. You know what I'm saying? There's just certain. You know, you got your put in Mitch blood green together. I'm sitting there going. Well, this is a classic and this is one of those. This is one of those. That's why I was saving it. But damn it. You know what? Let's we all could use an up an upbeat crazy story. So let's not really upbeat. But it's crazy. So let's get into it. It's Joe Gilliam. You know who this is. No. Now there is his name pronunciation. First of all is a problem. Okay.

4:45.0

It's pronounced a lot of people pronounce it Gilliam. Oh, no, which is how it was like pronouncing college. But then a lot of people because it's spelled G-I-L-I-A-M. Yeah, they say Gilliam. So it's over the years. It's just been kind of taken over to Gilliam. But it's supposed to be Gilliam.

5:02.0

Do you think our mom had something to do with that? Where I don't know. It just looks like Gilliam. But did he play at the same time? No, no, no, no. This is a 70s guy here. It's Joseph Willie Gilliam, Jr.

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