meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Podcast Ain't Played Nobody

PAPN BONUS: Armageddon and the Airline Conference

Podcast Ain't Played Nobody

E&S

Sports, Football, Sports News, News

4.9922 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Bill and Godfrey use a reader question to go back in time to 1959, when some combination of USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford, Washington, Notre Dame, Pitt, Penn State, Syracuse, Duke, Georgia Tech, and the service academies nearly created the Airline Conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

So we've got a few emails that we should address.

0:02.4

Yep.

0:03.0

I'm going to start with the shortest one.

0:05.6

I like that our friend Patrick said this could take between 20 seconds and an hour.

0:10.4

So it's basically like every other conversation topic we have.

0:13.2

I guess they mostly don't last just 20 seconds though. All right so how do you think

0:18.0

college football would differ had the Pentagon not pulled the plug on the proposed

0:21.5

airline conference now I one day I will write a book on the airline conference.

0:27.2

And by the way, since I said the word book,

0:29.1

that reminds me of something else I want to talk about in a little bit.

0:31.2

But the airline conference is something I've talked about a lot. Actually he called the airplane conference either one.

0:37.2

Pact the California, California, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, the Service Academies, and then Notre Dame, Penn State, and Pitt.

0:48.7

He had Duke and Georgia Tech.

0:50.0

I hadn't heard that.

0:51.0

I think I had, like, I think it was Syracuse involved Syracuse

0:53.9

and Pitt and Penn State but regardless a collection of those teams in 1959

1:00.0

1959 is one of the most sneaky amazing amazing, fascinating years in the history of college football.

1:06.0

Although the proposal didn't contain a team that had an AP national championship for the previous 10 years.

1:13.2

It clearly had a chance to have a, this is me reading again,

1:16.1

have a big effect on the sport,

1:17.9

with members both academically prestigious and big on sport.

1:21.5

Do you think this proposal could have ended up starting almost a

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from E&S, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of E&S and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.