Tim Hanlon

Good Seats Still Available

Sports EN ↓ 503 episodes

"Good Seats Still Available" is a curious little podcast devoted to the exploration of what used-to-be in professional sports. Each week, host Tim Hanlon interviews former players, owners, broadcasters, beat reporters, and surprisingly famous "super fans" of teams and leagues that have come and gone - in an attempt to unearth some of the most wild and woolly moments in (often forgotten) sports history.

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Author

Tim Hanlon

Episodes

003: Author Michael MacCambridge on Lamar Hunt & the American Football League 20.03.2017 1:20:08

Sports author/historian Michael MacCambridge ( America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation ; Lamar Hunt: A Life in Sports ) joins Tim Hanlon to discuss the legacy of Lamar Hunt – the most unlikely of sports executive pioneers – and the outsized role he played in modernizing 1960s pro football into the enduring American sports juggernaut it is today. MacCambridge recounts...

002: Sports Executive Andy Crossley & the WPS Boston Breakers 13.03.2017 1:39:21

Fellow defunct pro sports enthusiast ( Fun While It Lasted ) and former Boston Breakers General Manager, Andy Crossley, joins Tim Hanlon to discuss his rollicking ride on the Women's Professional Soccer league roller coaster in the late 2000s, and why the second major attempt at professionalizing the women's game in the U.S. fell apart after just three seasons. Crossley recounts why Harvard's arch...

001: Documentarian Mark Greczmiel & the NHL's California Golden Seals 06.03.2017 1:21:13

TV producer Mark Greczmiel ( E! True Hollywood Story ) joins Tim Hanlon to discuss his labor-of-love documentary The California Golden Seals Story, and the colorful late 60s/early 70s National Hockey League franchise that inspired it. Greczmiel recounts the Seals' largely hapless record on the ice, tortuous ownership history (including a turn by tightfisted Oakland A's baseball impresario Charle...