George Allen: A Football Life

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Kevin Sheehan, Blue Wire

Sports, Football

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Kevin's Part 2 of his interview with Skins' historian and author Mike Richman about his new book, "George Allen: A Football Life". Mike shares stories from the book about the life and accomplishments of one of the most successful NFL coaches of all time and one of the greatest innovators in the game. Allen brought winning football to DC in 1971 and his success resulted in one of the most passionate fan bases in the NFL for decades. The stories of Allen's early life which included an unannounced visit to Albert Einstein's house are priceless. Allen's football coaching career in the NFL started with George Halas in Chicago where he was instrumental in leading the Bears to a 1963 NFL title. His Los Angeles Rams teams in the late 60's are some of the most memorable teams in NFL history. And then he came to Washington where he created an immediate winner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You don't want it, you don't need it, but you're going to get it anyway.
0:07.5	The Kevin Sheehan Show, here's Kevin.
0:11.3	So last Saturday we put out part one of a conversation with Mike Richmond,
0:16.1	the author that has written the book on George Allen called George Allen,
0:20.0	a football life. Mike's been an author for a while. Mike has written a book on George Allen called George Allen, A Football Life.
0:21.9	Mike's been an author for a while.
0:23.8	Mike has written several books about the Washington franchise,
0:27.7	including the Redskins Encyclopedia and a book about Joe Gibbs.
0:32.4	You can find all of his books, including his new book,
0:35.9	and a signed copy of his new book is available at
0:39.5	Mike Richmanjournalist.com. But we put out part one of the conversation that talked about
0:45.8	George Allen's life leading up to the moment he arrived in Washington in 1971. So that's the part I'm putting out today. It is presented by
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1:20.0	Windonation, thank you for being the presenting sponsor of this podcast.
1:26.5	So I'm going to pick up from where we left off a week ago.
1:30.8	If you haven't listened to Part 1, it's available.
1:33.0	You can just get it by going back to Saturday, November 4th,
1:38.4	and looking at that show entitled George Allen, A Football Life.
1:44.3	But this is part two of my conversation with Mike,
1:46.9	and we picked up with George Allen arriving in Washington.
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