Introducing: American Football (Episode 1: Canton, Ohio)

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A new History Channel podcast, American Football is the untold tale of the rough-and-tumble origins of the National Football League. Produced and presented by Michael Strahan and narrated by actress and pro football enthusiast Kate Mara, this podcast reaches back into the past to explain the dirty, bloody, and tumultuous beginnings of America's most popular sport.

In this first episode, the sport of American football begins as a stand-in for war – a place where young men at elite colleges could prove their mettle fighting on the gridiron.

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0:00.0	Hey, history of this week listeners, Sally here.
0:02.7	Today, I'm excited to share with you another History Channel podcast, American Football.
0:08.8	Produced by Michael Strahan and narrated by Kate Merra, American football tells the unbelievable
0:14.4	story of the dirty, bloody origins of America's most popular sport.
0:19.3	The series features some of the biggest players and coaches in pro football and never before
0:24.0	heard recreations of classic games featuring some of the most recognizable voices in sports
0:29.3	broadcasting.
0:30.4	So sit back and enjoy the first episode of this season, available now on Audible or wherever
0:35.3	you get your podcasts.
0:37.2	American Football is an audible original produced by the History Channel, Mr. Films and
0:43.3	Smack Entertainment.
0:46.3	I'm Michael Strahan.
0:51.0	For a decade and a half, I'm the D for the Ben for the New York Giants.
0:55.5	I hold the record for the most sacked in a single season and helped the Giants win Super
0:59.7	Bowl 42.
1:01.7	2014, I was elected to the pro football Hall of Fame in Cant'No Hio.
1:07.4	Now I played football for most of my life, but I'd never heard this story before and I bet
1:12.5	you've never heard it either.
1:14.2	It's one that reaches back into the past to explain the dirty, bloody, to most of the origins
1:19.0	of an American love affair.
1:21.8	But this isn't some dusty, sepia-toned, accountable corporate boardroom of ink stained
1:25.4	balance sheets.
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