Most Powerful Curse in the NFL? The 1925 Pottsville Maroons

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🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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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. He 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	ESPN Daily is presented by Supercuts, the smarter, easier way to get a haircut.
0:06.7	It's not just any haircut.
0:08.6	It's Supercuts.
0:11.6	Okay, dokey sports fans, hot off the presses from the Philadelphia Inquirer, December 6th, 1925.
0:20.0	As far as the Chicago Cardinals are concerned, Potsville, Pennsylvania is the hub of the National
0:25.3	Professional Football League wheel, and the sturdy football machine representing the Pennsylvania
0:30.5	Mining Town is the champion of the league.
0:33.8	In the face of a driving attack stayed by the Eastern 11 in the second and fourth period
0:39.0	the Cardinals curled up and were
0:41.4	smeared in the snow on the
0:43.3	gridiron at Kamiski Park today
0:45.4	21 to 7 in a game
0:47.8	which definitely decided the ownership
0:49.8	of the national professional title
0:52.0	for the 1925 season
0:54.1	At the dawn of the national professional title for the 1925 season.
0:59.1	At the dawn of the National Football League,
1:02.6	back when helmets were still leather and college was still king,
1:07.2	there was no NFL team like the Pottsville Maroons,
1:10.6	a team that played in a small Pennsylvania coal town and rose to the very top of the
1:12.6	sport in 1925 before corruption and infamous injustice took all of it away. So today, Dave Fleming
1:22.6	tells the story of a curse, almost a hundred years old, that will plague one specific Super Bowl contender
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