Most Powerful Curse in the NFL? The 1925 Pottsville Maroons (ENCORE)

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🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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We've collected our favorite episodes of 2022 into one playlist, to help ensure you didn't miss any of our best stories from this past year. And on today's show, we're revisiting another great episode, originally published on December 8, 2021: Extra, extra, read all about it! Maroons Championship STOLEN! The Pottsville Maroons were one of the greatest early NFL teams, but the league stripped them of their 1925 championship and gave it to the (then) Chicago Cardinals. Thus, a curse was born. Almost a century later, could the stolen championship be behind the Arizona Cardinals’ lack of Super Bowl success? Dave Fleming wrote the book on it, called Breaker Boys: The NFL’s Greatest Team and the Stolen 1925 Championship. In an encore of one of our favorite shows, Flem takes us inside the story, and his mission for NFL justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It has officially gotten impossible to keep track of all of the ways in which the Arizona
0:11.5	carbons are self-destructing.
0:15.4	Right?
0:16.4	Like October 2021, this team is 7 and 0 and everything looks awesome.
0:22.5	They have Kyler Murray, their new young star quarterback, they have his hot new head coach,
0:27.5	Kengzbury, but from there they go 4 and 6.
0:31.8	Kyler throws arguably the worst interception in playoff history.
0:37.1	They go into the offseason, they sign Kyler to the Giant Contract, it involves a homework
0:41.3	clause, let's recall, that is hugely embarrassing for everybody, both because it had to be revoked
0:47.3	after it was leaked possibly by the team itself.
0:50.0	And also because it raised questions about whether anyone on this team, Kyler included,
0:54.5	but also the people who employ him were actually doing nearly enough homework about any of the
1:00.0	things that their jobs entail.
1:02.7	And then the season starts and spoiler alert, the season is embarrassing.
1:09.1	They are now 4 and 10, they just lost to the Broncos.
1:12.4	Kyler just tore his ACL, he's out for the season.
1:16.3	They're playing the Buccaneers and Tom Brady on Sunday night football this weekend on Christmas
1:22.7	night, and amid all of that we're getting these reports about how Steve time the GM of
1:27.5	the team who has been mysteriously absent from the team has already been pre-fired.
1:32.6	Okay, so he's not going to be brought back after the offseason, and also they had to
1:38.0	fire their offensive flying coach with his own scandal.
1:41.7	Last month I mean it's a lot, it's kind of everything.
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