Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 18 days 19 hours 5 minutes
The opening chapter in a ten chapter documentary series detailing the history of football and the Canadian Football League through the early 21st Century. The series is also available for viewing at www.cfl-films.ca
In 1965, Ed Sabol discovered John Facenda in a bar where when he overheard him describe some football footage playing on the screen. Facenda was then a popular local television news anchor. Impressed, Ed Sabol approached him with an offer to narrate NFL Films footage and so began an inextricable vocal-film partnership. Sabol himself described Facenda as a stentorian baritone. Facenda and Jack Whitaker, a CBS Sports television legend, worked together on Philly TV in the 1950s and 60s...
A 1953 documentary (available at CFL-Films.ca) on the Edmonton Eskimos from the National Film Board of Canada with Fred Davis, and featuring Rollie Miles, Normie Kwong, coach Daryl Royal.
A look at the legacy and inspiring life of CFL legend Chuck Ealey. Experience the joys and the highs, the electricity and the love, the pains and the sorrows, the perseverance and fight for equality.
The award winning documentary ''True Double Blue'' that examines John Candy's passion for the Toronto Argonauts and his role in the high-profile ownership group with Wayne Gretzky and Bruce McNall.
From NorthAmericanPodcast.com- PBS Producer Robert Reid's Love Letter to the CFL — "Wait, is Football Canadian or American?"
In their pilot episode, co-host Greg James discusses with fellow co-host Scott Adamson his book on professional football history in Birmingham, Alabama entitled "The Home Team: My Bromance with off Brand Football." They discuss Birmingham's teams of the WFL, USFL, WLAF, CFL, XFL and AAF, as well as the future of Canadian football.
Join Scott and Greg at CFL America Radio (WCFL.us, CFL-Radio.us and CFL-Radio.ca) for discussions on football history and fandom in North America and all around the world...
To paraphrase John Facenda, professional football in Canada is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it so. All of them are fearless. All of them are strong, quick. And all of them are part of a story that began long ago. A story written by men who found, in the sport, a demanding measure for their own courage and ability.... This podcast is dedicated to the celebration of them, for this is our game.