Doug Drinen is the founder of Pro-Football-Reference.com, the complete source for pro football history including complete player, team, and league stats, awards, records, leaders, rookies and scores. In this interview, Doug and Aron discuss Doug's early passion for sports data and the process of creating pro-football-reference, as well as alternative football leagues and they bounce around some "insane ideas" that we'd be curious to see in the NFL.  https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/...

Jeremy McFarlin is the host of the Football is Family podcast and an avid Tennessee Titans fan. Jeremy joins Aron today to talk about his podcast and his Titans fandom, followed by an exciting and informative game of Tennessee Titans trivia.  The Football Odyssey @FootballOdyc thefootballodyssey Football Is Family @jeremy_mcfarlin --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Kevin McDonough is a coach at Cornell University and runs the Old Football Film (@FilmHistoric) Twitter account that posts vintage football footage of old school formations, schemes and plays from various bygone eras of gridiron football.  The Football Odyssey  @FootballOdyc @thefootballodyssey @FilmHistoric Intro song is edited version of "Big Sky Spy" from the album "Studio City" by Mr. Smith - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/mr-smith/studio-city/big-sky-spy --- This episode is...

This week's episode is a re-broadcast of Game Film, a podcast devoted to reviewing sports movies. Hosts Os Davis and Aron Harris review three films of all sorts. They talk classics going back to the 1920s and contemporary flicks from the 2020s; well-known classics and nearly unknown gems; dramas, documentaries, love stories, and comedies; films of fandom and of playing the game … and all about some aspect of the games we love.   In this episode, Game Film focuses on the incredible Hollywood...

Greg James is a football historian that runs the CFL America Radio podcast, and is the co-host of both From The 55 Year Line podcast and Gridiron Japan. In this hang out episode, Greg and Aron kick back have a wide ranging conversation that covers his Canadian football fandom, Howard Cosell, American football in Japan, and much much...

Branden Buehler is an assistant professor in the Visual and Sound Media Program in the College of Communication and the Arts at Seton Hall University whose research centers around sports media, with a particular focus on sports television and sports media industries. On today's episode, Branden joins Aron to discuss his 2016 journal article Manufacturing "Football Realism" in the Studio Era, that focuses on Warner Bros. efforts to market their football films as having realistic football...

In this new episode of the Football Film Review series, Aron reviews Paper Lion, the 1968 movie based on the non fiction book of the same name that follows author George Plimpton's experiences as the last string quarterback for the duration of Detroit Lion's training camp in 1963. The picture stars Alan Alda and Lauren Hutton, along with numerous Lions players such as Joe Schmidt, John Gordy and Alex...

Levon Kirkland is a former Pro Bowl linebacker that anchored the Steelers Blitzburgh defense of the 1990s that featured Kevin Greene, Greg Lloyd, Chad Brown and himself wreaking havoc on opposing offenses. Currently, Levon is the VP of Development for the South Carolina Football Hall of Fame, host of Inside Blitz Podcast and a 2022 College Football Hall of Fame finalist for his playing achievements at Clemson...

Dan Fouts is a Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback who played 15 seasons with the San Diego Chargers. In this interview, Dan speaks with Aron on a wide variety of topics pertaining to his football career, including his early days as a 49ers ball boy, being a part of the legendary Air Coryell offense, his transition into a successful broadcasting career and much more.  *Recorded on...

Troy Lowman is the CEO of Bullitt Point Properties and the director/producer of The Ghosts of 33rd Street, a documentary that looks back at the impact the Baltimore Colts had on the city and the controversial franchise move to Indianapolis that left the city without an NFL team for 12...

On today's episode, Aron reviews the 1979 pro football film, North Dallas Forty, directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Nick Nolte, Mac Davis and Dayle Haddon.  https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/ https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/ https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-football-odyssey/support

Michael MacCambridge returns to the show this week to discuss his book America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured A Nation, which many historians and critics praise as the greatest book ever written on pro football. https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/ https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/ https://michaelmaccambridge.com/ https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a...

On today's episode, Aron gives some updates on the podcast and re-broadcasts a vintage radio program from Jean Shepherd, an iconic radio personality who from the late 50s until the late 70s was regarded as one of the greatest storytellers in American culture and also wrote served the semi-autobiographical film A Christmas Story. Jean talks about a high school football memory that serves as an anecdote for winning and...

Rick Mueller is a former NFL and NCAA front office executive and current President and C.O.O of eVALUATE, a sports consulting firm that provides out of the box solutions to help small colleges and high schools maximize their resources to stay competitive and to elevate their football program to the next level. https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/   https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/ https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/...

Michael MacCambridge is the award winning author of several sports history books, including America's Game: The Epic Story of how Pro Football Captured a Nation, Lamar Hunt: A Life in Sports and Chuck Noll: His Life's Work. In this episode, Michael sits down with Aron to discuss his biography of Chuck Noll, an intimate portrait on the life of the understated and reserved head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers who presided over one of the greatest dynasties in sports...

On this episode of The Football Odyssey, Aron and Os Davis of Truly The GOATs review the cynical 1951 college football film, Saturday's Hero, starring John Derek and Donna Reed, directed by David Miller and released by Columbia Pictures. At the end of the episode, Os and Aron also look toward their new sports film podcast, Game...

John McKeon is the CEO of American Football International. After completing his college football career, John pursued opportunities playing American football overseas that would kickstart his fascination with American Football’s global potential. John and Aron discuss his experience launching AFI, the appeal of American Football abroad and his insights on the growth and success of the sport’s international...

Jordan Abbot is the Secondary coach at Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas. In this episode, Jordan walks Aron though his experience playing football, his defensive philosophy and what it's like coach in the world of Junior College football.  https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/ https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/ https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ https://twitter.com/BUCO_TINSKI --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way...

Upton Bell is a former NFL front office executive and the author of Present At The Creation, an autobiography of his life in National Football League. In this conversation, Upton takes Aron through the course of his football life that begins with his father, Commissioner Bert Bell, and carries on through his days in the front offices of the Baltimore Colts, the New England Patriots and Charlotte Hornets of the World Football...

Tim Hanlon is the host and producer of Good Seats Still Available, a curious little podcast devoted to the exploration of what used-to-be in professional sports. In this episode, Tim sits down with Aron to discuss his fascination for lost sports history, the role rival leagues in American football, defunct teams and much...

On this special edition of our Football Film Review Series, Aron is joined by Os Davis, host of Truly The GOATs Podcast and film critic, to discuss a triple feature of Super Bowl Disaster Thrillers.  https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/ https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/ https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/ http://www.trulythegoats.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. ...

Scott Hanson is the host of NFL RedZone.  https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/ https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/ https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/ https://twitter.com/ScottHanson --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-football-odyssey/support

Part II of my conversation with Darin Hayes, the host of The Pigskin Daily History Dispatch. In this episode, we play a game of Steelers trivia, and have plenty of side bar conversations that Steelers and NFL history fans will enjoy. https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/ https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/ https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/ https://pigskindispatch.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a...

Darin Hayes is the founder of PigskinDispatch.com and the host of The Pigskin Daily History Dispatch, a podcast that takes the listener through the historical events, people, inventions and plays that had some significance to the game of football.  https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/ https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/ https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/the-football-odyssey/ Darin's...

Cody Alexander is the co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach at Mesquite Horn High School and the author of five defensive football books.  In this episode, Cody and I discuss his journey within the game of football, how the game has evolved over time and his book Hyrbids: The Making of a Modern Defense.  https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/ https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/ https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/ Cody's...