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From the 55 Yard Line is part of the ⁠Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear⁠ . EPISODE SUMMARY Greg, now back from America and settled back in over in Japan, dusts off the controls in the studio, and gathers the crew to talk about what has been happening in the WNBA, NWSL, CFL and the other leagues, including the UFL, since last they got together in May. We are in need of...

From the 55 Yardline is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Greg and Dave are joined by Don and Heath of the Third Down Gamble podcast for the second year in a row to preview, here in the third week of the preseason, the upcoming CFL season. We start in the far east with defending Grey Cup champion Montreal and move our way west, team by te...

From the 55 Yardline is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Fran, Dave and Greg are back to discuss the impending failure that is the new version of the Arena Football League, as it struggles with franchise losses in just its first week. They then discuss the United Football League, which is seemingly holding its own in the face of low expe...

From the 55 Yardline is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY With Fran on assignment and covering the UFL for OurSportsCentral.com , Dave fills in Greg on what he is missing with the league and puts to rest his doubts about the viability of the league, at least for the short-term. They also reminisce about the time when OJ was a killer on th...

From the 55 Yardline is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Fran is MIA, as Dave and Greg (whose new microphone is trash and being returned soon to Amazon) tackle baseball and the Shohei Otani gambling scandal, with zero apologies to Pete Rose, that is currently rocking America and Japan. Of course Greg is able to cram in a mention of the m...

From the 55 Yardline is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY On the 3rd week of the LFA regular season, what was to be a Gridiron Mexico episode was immediately changed as a result of the breaking news of Justin Fields being traded from Greg's sweet home of Chicago to Pittsburgh. Dave and Greg talk about the trade, as well as the stadium...

From the 55 Yard Line is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Since the end of the NFL season there has been a lot going on outside of the gridiron bubble, and our regular contributor Fran Stuchbury covers it all over at Our Sports Central with his weekly column. With Dave unavailable, Fran reviews the happenings in the other leagues as the...

From the 55 Yardline is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . The video livestream for this episode and past can be found on both the show's YouTube and Facebook pages EPISODE SUMMARY With approximately three months to go before the kick off of the Canadian Football League season, Greg and Dave sit back down with Howie Mooney in the second "test&quo...

From the 55 Yardline is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Howie Mooney from the Sports Lunatics Show returns to the 55 Yardline to chat with Dave and Greg about his latest book, "More Crazy Days and Wild Nights" in which he again regals readers with more outlandish and detailed detailed stories of wild events that took place ove...

From the 55 Yardline is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY On Super Bowl eve, Dave and Fran, along with OurSportsCentral.com contributor Fran Stuchbury, talk a little bit about the upcoming game, with Greg pondering the question, "why do old white guys hate Taylor?" Fran then provides his summary of around the minor leagues, and...

From the 55 Yard Line is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Greg and Dave spend a morning (Japan)/evening (America) with Pro Football Researchers Association member and World Football League historian Mark Speck . Mark is the foremost expert on the defunct league and has written four books and counting on the league and two of the league&#...

From the 55 Yardline is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, which is part two of the previous episode, Greg sits down with Zach Keilman of Pro Football Newsroom , the UFL Podcast , and the Inside the Walls Podcast , to talk about the upcoming year in spring professional football, both outdoor with the UFL and indoor with th...

From the 55 Yardline is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, Greg. Dave, and Fran sit down and go around the world to talk about the latest sports news that has gone under the radar screens with hockey, women and men's soccer, rugby, Canadian football and more as reported at OurSportsCentral.com . Afterward, Greg sits do...

From the 55 Yardline is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, Greg and Fran cover down for Dave as he digs out of the snow near Buffalo, and react to the news of the day of the demise of Sports Illustrated and what the magazine meant to them growing up. They then dive into a discussion of the lack of responsible journalism wi...

In part one of the podcast (apologies in advance for the audio quality due to a bad undersea cable), Greg sits down with the legendary Upton Bell, former NFL executive with both the '60s era Baltimore Colts and '70s era New England Patriots, owner of the Charlotte Hornets of the WFL, Boston media personality, author, and scion of the famous Bell family, whose grandfather helped found the N...

The real men of genius, Dave (who checks in toward the end of the show) and Greg sit down with sports journalist Fran Stuchbury, of OurSports Central , and discuss his wide ranging career covering alternative football and minor league sports. They discuss the UFL, XFL, in all its different versions, USFL, AAF and (after Dave's arrival), America's indoor football leagues. They also talk abo...

Real men of genius Dave and Greg talk football and earthquakes in this episode. Specifically, the talk about the upcoming matchup in the college football playoffs of Washington vs. Michigan and how much college bowl coverage has changed since they were kids. Greg talks about the Rice Bowl in Japan, in which the Fujitsu Frontiers defeated the Panasonic Impulse 16-10 at the Tokyo Dome. They also tal...

In their first episode together of the rebooted From the 55 Yard Line podcast, Greg and Dave pick up on their last on air conversation and follow-up on the previous episode about the future of spring football. They then discuss the Grey Cup and the subject of future expansion of the league. After which they talk about Dave's Bills and their chances in the upcoming NFL postseason, and also thei...

With the "soft" reboot of the From the 55 Yard Line podcast, Greg introduces his new co-host, due to Scott's retirement, and explains how the show is shifting from one focused on Canadian football to one that encompasses the entire world of sports. He then sits down and discusses the topic of spring football with sports historian, Tim Hanlon of the Good Seats Still Available podcast...

After a month away Greg and Dave return to give their honest assessments of how the league did as it heads toward the conclusion of what can be termed a mediocre debut for the first season. However, with the USFL in full swing, we hold out hope that Dany and Dwayne will learn from their unforced boardroom and off-field errors and improve what we both see as a great product on the field.

Dave and Greg are back after a week hiatus to compare and contrast how the league performed in the ratings between being broadcast on traditional over the air television and on cable/satellite. The guys also take the XFL media to task over their coverage of the league and continuing failure to ask the hard questions regarding the business of the XFL and how lip service seems to be paid to stories...

On a morning where the cherry blossoms were blooming and Scott was watching his UAB Blazers lose a heart breaker at the NIT, Greg sat down with ⁠ Ken Crippen ⁠ , founder and executive director of ⁠ The Football Learning Academy ⁠ , to discuss the mission of the FLA and his thoughts on how the game has changed over the decades. The online academy is the first educational institution devoted to the...

On the day in which Japan won the world championship of baseball over America, Greg and Dave talk about the tanking ratings of the XFL and frustrations over the league's seemingly deaf tone towards their fans and continued making of unforced errors off the field, particularly as it relates to marketing and fan engagement. The guys sit down and dissect the numbers and debate whether streaming m...

In the annals of professional football, aside from the American Football League, only one other league has truly challenged the dominance of the NFL, and that was the United States Football League of the 1980s. Unlike other spring leagues, all of which are small potatoes comparatively, the USFL forever changed how we look at professional football and how we not only watch the game, but also view u...

In a weekend where many expected the XFL to fall flat, and despite continuing to fall in the ratings, the league put on a great show in most of its venues, with the Battlehawks setting the all-time attendance record for spring football.  Hold on. What a second... That's wrong, the first USFL set that record, back in the 1980s.  However, despite The Rock's continued hyperbolic statements...