Replay It, From the 55 Yardline

Gridiron America Radio is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Greg and Dave look back at the week that was in week 5 of the CFL and then look ahead to week 6. Their look includes not just the scores and big moments, but also the big injuries over the Canada Day weekend. GRIDIRON AMERICA RADIO BACKGROUND Gridiron America Radio (formerly, the...

Gridiron America Radio is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY We start the early celebration of Canada Day, which is on July 1, with a look back at Week 4 of the CFL, and then look back at the CFL/XFL war of words five years ago. Why look back? Because five years ago the pandemic put the CFL on life support and many XFL supporters in Americ...

Gridiron America Radio is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY As we enter week 4 of the 2026 CFL season this week, we look to see which franchise empires are on the rise and which might be falling after week. Could the British Columbia Lions be falling quicker than anyone might have predicted? Are the Edmonton Elks for real? Are the Ottawa...

Gridiron America Radio is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY The second official episode of Gridiron America Today kicks off on a late Tuesday night in America as David, Mike and Greg get set to talk about the United Bowl, where Mike saw the game in person, in Washington D.C. After which they review the second exciting week of CFL play, an...

Gridiron America Radio is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY After a one month break due to Greg being away from the studio and mic for his sojourn back to America, the guys are back on the air. We start off by looking at the just completed UFL semifinals and then transition to a talk about the first week of the new CFL season. Afterward w...

Gridiron America Radio is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, Dave, Mike and Greg sit down to talk about where the UFL currently is as week 7 approaches and the teams jockey for playoff pole position, and look at how the league is attendance and rating wise. After which they talk CFL and the new playoff format coming in 202...

Gridiron America Radio is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Sadly, the planned relaunch of the former Gridiron Japan Radio podcast on SHN did not go as planned this past week, and we do very much apologize. However, we had some unaired episodes still left in our vault and want to share them with you, including this one- Gridiron Gyudon. I...

Gridiron America Radio is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY In this unaired episode in the SHN Gridiron Japan Radio vault (as stated in the liner notes for Episode 51 of this podcast, the planned relaunch of GJR did not go as planned and thus unfortunately has been discontinued), Greg St. James sits down with author John Kowalski, whose f...

Gridiron America Radio is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY For our 50th episode we begin the new weekly show, Gridiron America Today, where we talk about, well, all things football. In this episode, in which we are still very much trying to get our sea legs, we take a look at where the UFL is at after four weeks and see where it stands r...

Gridiron America Radio is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, Greg St. James sits down with with noted Chicago football historian Joe Ziemba, author of the books- When Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFL, Cadets, Cannons and Legends: The Football History of Morgan Park Military Academy, and...

Gridiron America is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY To celebrate the rebirth and rebranding of ⁠SHN's From the 55 Yardline podcast to that of Gridiron America Radio⁠ , we sit down in the Gridiron America studio with a true witness to sports history- the legendary Upton Bell! Upton is not only the son of Philadelphia Eagles founder and f...

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 iss...

From the 55 Yardline is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . The video livestream for this episode and past ones 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" livest...

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 over the last...

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's...

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 Yard Line is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY 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 W...

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 about the s...

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 their fa...

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 , and XFL insi...