The Backstory: From Pig Bladders to the Super Bowl
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
As we get ready to party with the Super Bowl, we take a look at the wild rise of the sport of football. We’ll explore it’s gruesome beginnings and it’s glorious evolution into America’s most watched sporting event.
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| 0:00.0 | The Super Bowl is dominating our weekend, as it does every year at this time. |
| 0:04.4 | But in its infancy, football was a wildly violent game, way more than it is now, |
| 0:10.0 | where players kicked around a gruesome ball and suffered horrifying injuries or even death. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Patty Steele. |
| 0:17.3 | How inflated pig bladders and gouged out eyes led us to the Super Bowl. |
| 0:22.5 | That's next on the backstory. |
| 0:26.2 | This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human. |
| 0:31.3 | 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. |
| 0:34.5 | America is in crisis. |
| 0:36.3 | And at Morehouse College, the students make their move. |
| 0:39.0 | These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, locked up the members of the board of trustees, |
| 0:44.6 | including Martin Luther King's senior. It's the true story of protests and rebellion in black |
| 0:49.8 | American history that you'll never forget. I'm Hans Charles. I'm Minnaleek Lamouba. |
| 0:54.8 | Listen to the A-building on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:01.5 | When segregation was a law, one mysterious black club owner, Charlie Fitzgerald, had his own rules. |
| 1:08.0 | Segregation and a day, integration at night. |
| 1:11.0 | It was like stepping on another world. |
| 1:13.5 | Was he a businessman? |
| 1:14.9 | A criminal. |
| 1:16.3 | A hero. |
| 1:17.6 | Charlie was an example of power. |
| 1:20.5 | They had to crush him. |
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