Detroit City of Champions

Send us Fan Mail In 1985 the Detroit Lions celebrated the 50th anniversary of their first championship with a party called “The Golden Huddle.” Radio man Tom Eurich covered the event in great detail and is in studio to talk with Jamie and Charles about the many things he learned before, during and since including a TV appearance on Dearborn City TV "Through The Arsenal Gates" https://lin...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing the in-studio discussion with Tom Eurich, Jamie and Charles are joined by an additional guest, Will Mault, a Portsmouth resident and friend of legendary Spartan/Lion Glenn Presnell.  https://linktr.ee/DetroitCityofChampions  www. DJJamieDetroit.com  www. WearingFunny.com https://linktr.ee/DetroitCityofChampions www. DJJamieDetroit.com www. WearingFunny.com

Send us Fan Mail In 1985 the Detroit Lions celebrated the 50th anniversary of their first championship with a party called “The Golden Huddle.” Radio man Tom Eurich covered the event in great detail and is in studio to talk with Jamie and Charles about the many things he learned before, during and since. The first of a series of appearances by Mr. Eurich. https://linktr.ee/DetroitCityofChampions ...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing the exploration of the Detroit Lions arrival to Detroit, Jamie and Charles seek to identify who this team was. What was there style of play? Who were the leaders? What made them different from their arch rival Chicago Bears? Link to the 1934 Bears vs. Giants NFL Championship (with Bronko Nagurski): https://youtu.be/qjFdz0SkPeQ Link to the full 1936 Bears vs. Lions Video...

Send us Fan Mail On December 15, 1935 the Lions won the NFL Championship, Joe Louis won the Associated Press Athlete of the year award, the Tigers had already won the World Series, and the Red Wing moved into first place for the first time in years. All intersecting on December 15. The fans went wild. The City of Champions was being born. We talk about the fan and their role as the Red Wings take...

Send us Fan Mail The stunning on-field success of the Lions inaugural 1934 season may have looked great on paper but for George “Potsy” Clark it was just another season in which he had failed to win the NFL championship. In today’s episode Jamie and Charles will discuss the radical corrective measures that Potsy took and how the border between madness and genius can balance on a razor’s edge. http...

Send us Fan Mail Potsy. From High School State Champion, to College National Champion and American Expeditionary Force Champion of World War I. George Potsy Clark was a winner everywhere he went and only one challenge remained: NFL Champion. From 1931 to 1933 Potsy had built a team in Portsmouth, Ohio that fought nose to nose with the mighty Packers and Bears but had fallen short each season. In t...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing the exploration into Potsy Clark and the many foundational elements of the team that would become the Detroit Lions. In today’s episode Jamie and Charles take a deep dive into the 1932 NFL Championship Game as well as the growing rivalries between the Bears, Packers and the Portsmouth Spartans. https://linktr.ee/DetroitCityofChampions   www. DJJamieDetroit.com www. Wear...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 11: “Potsy” - The forgotten genius of George Clark - Part 1 Potsy Clark. A name which should be synonymous with the Lions and revered in the annals of Detroit Sports History, yet, is virtually unknown. In today’s episode Jamie and Charles will turn the page from the Tigers and start the exploration of the most overlooked team of Detroit’s pantheon of Champions: The 1935 Li...

Send us Fan Mail A surprise gift of a 1934 newspaper issued the day after the Tigers pennant sheds light on a moment in Detroit history which should never be forgotten. In today’s episode Jamie and Charles explore this newspaper and cleanup a few stories on the Tigers and George Moriarty which were not discussed in prior episodes. www. DetroitCityofChampions.com https://linktr.ee/DetroitCityofCham...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 8: “Play Ball!” The first MLB motion picture with sound - Made in Detroit Did you know? That the first MLB motion picture ever made, was made in Detroit! “Play Ball!” was filmed in Detroit during the 1934 season. It was written and directed by Detroit Tiger legend: George Moriarty, financed by the Fisher Body Company and premiered at the Book-Cadillac Hotel on January 9, 1...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 8: “Play Ball!” The first MLB motion picture with sound - Made in Detroit Did you know? That the first MLB motion picture ever made, was made in Detroit! “Play Ball!” was filmed in Detroit during the 1934 season. It was written and directed by Detroit Tiger legend: George Moriarty, financed by the Fisher Body Company and premiered at the Book-Cadillac Hotel on January 9, 1...

Send us Fan Mail It has often been said that the 1934-35 Tigers were a “distraction” for Detroiters in the Great Depression. However, that description, while true, does not go far enough in explaining just how important these teams were to the fans. The Tigers were not simply a distraction - they were an obsession. In today’s episode Jamie and Charles will explore the Tiger mania which not only gr...

Send us Fan Mail Was it a fluke? The Tigers got lucky in 1934. They avoided injuries, they got off to a hot start and every other team played poorly. So said the national media.  The fans of Detroit felt quite differently. The incredible rise of the Tigers and the near World Series Championship of 1934 was merely the prologue to something far greater. The hopes of 1934 would become great expectati...

Send us Fan Mail “The Deans do things to the Tigers.” So said the great baseball historian, Fred Lieb, in his iconic book on the Detroit Tigers. The Dean brothers, Dizzy and Paul, did in fact, do some things. Along with the rest of the legendary St. Louis Cardinal “Gas House Gang” the swaggering Dean brothers would lead their team to the 1934 World Series Championship and break the hearts of a leg...

Send us Fan Mail Hope. Joy. Excitement! For a generation of Detroiters toiling in the economic darkness of the Great Depression these three commodities were in short supply. Little could they know, however, that something amazing was about to occur. The 1933 Tigers were either too young or too old but the 1934 Tigers would be just the right age to bring the city its first American League Pennant i...

Send us Fan Mail It’s always darkest before the dawn. Such was the case in Detroit in the winter of 1933. The city is in the depths of the Great Depression and the Tigers have just completed another In a long string of dreadful seasons. With a roster of players that are too young or too old, never was the future of the franchise more in doubt. Then...he came town. Mickey. A man who would teach Det...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 2: “Trials and Tribulations” The difficulty of bring back a forgotten story. The greatest and most important season in Detroit sports history...has been forgotten. Why? In today’s show Jamie and Charles will explore this question and seek to identify the implications of actually bringing this story back. What happens in the past does not change but the discovery of new inf...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 1: The Discovery - An old media guide points the way to a forgotten story A night of revelry in a Kalamazoo apartment leads to the discovery of an unknown fact. That fact grows into a college project, a thesis, three books, a movie screenplay and a 10 year quest to tell that fact to the world. https://linktr.ee/DetroitCityofChampions www. DetroitCityofChampions.com   www....

Send us Fan Mail SUBSCRIBE HERE AND FIND THE AUDIO PODCAST ON EVERY PODCAST PLATFORM.  DON'T MISS A SINGLE STORY - SUBSCRIBE NOW!  1935. The Great Depression. Detroit is ranked as the hardest hit city in America.  Speramus Meliora Resurgent Cineribus Akin to a miracle something incredible began to happen. Detroit began to win in a way that had never been seen before...or since. The Tigers, Li...

Send us Fan Mail SUBSCRIBE HERE AND FIND THE AUDIO PODCAST ON EVERY PODCAST PLATFORM.  DON'T MISS A SINGLE STORY - SUBSCRIBE NOW!  1935. The Great Depression. Detroit is ranked as the hardest hit city in America.  Speramus Meliora Resurgent Cineribus Akin to a miracle something incredible began to happen. Detroit began to win in a way that had never been seen before...or since. The Tigers, Li...