Remembering Charley Trippi

<p>When Football Is Football is part of the <a href="https://sportshistorynetwork.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear</a>.</p><p><strong><u>EPISODE SUMMARY</u></strong></p><p>Perhaps the best recollection, in my humble opinion, was a run that Trippi of the Chicago Cardinals made in the 1947 NFL championship game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Working on a frozen field at Chicago’s Comiskey Park, the Cardinals switched to gym shoes before the game in an effort to secure better traction on the unforgiving turf.</p><p>Trippi scored twice that day to lead the Cardinals to a 28-21 victory over the Eagles, but it was his dazzling performance on a punt return that left the Philadelphia defenders in a shambles. How bad was the field you may ask? Reporter Art Daley of the&nbsp;<em>Green Bay Gazette</em>&nbsp;wrote: “They [the players] staggered around like 22 drunken men in a dark alley!”</p><p>Read the entire episode blog post and check out some other cool info regarding this <a href="https://sportshistorynetwork.com/football/nfl/remembering-charley-trippi/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">episode here</a>.</p><p><strong><u>WHEN FOOTBALL WAS FOOTBALL BACKGROUND</u></strong></p><p>Each episode takes the listener back to the very early days of the National Football League. Author Joe Ziemba will share a forgotten or lost story from one of the NFL’s two oldest teams: The Bears and the Cardinals. Team championships, individual exploits, or long-buried items of interest from the earliest years of the NFL will be dusted off and resurrected for the listener. Not for the football faint-of-heart since these programs will document when the struggling Bears nearly went out of business or when Cardinals’ players earned $15 a game and were proud of it! It’s NFL history—with a twist!. See Joe's books below.</p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/32oYi2n" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cadets, Canons, and Legends: The Football History of Morgan P