Thanksgiving and Football (or maybe Vice Versa) - Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer

<p><strong>Thanksgiving Day, 1924</strong>. The recently-established tradition of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team hosting the Pennsylvania State Nittany Lions on the afternoon of the national autumnal holiday continues. </p><p><strong>Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer</strong> is sent to cover the Pitt-Penn State “Keystone Classic” of 1924; in so doing, he discovers a throughline of the football-on-Thanksgiving tradition going back to 1621 (okay, actually, that’s going back to 1869) and reminds us that high-level football games on Thanksgiving are nearly as old as the official Thanksgiving holiday itself. &nbsp;</p><p><strong>Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer </strong>is an audio drama podcast from <strong>Number 80 Productions</strong> and the<strong> </strong><a href="https://sportshistorynetwork.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Sports History Network</strong></a>.</p><p><strong>Thanksgiving and Football (or maybe Vice Versa) script &amp; story by Os Davis</strong>. </p><p><strong>Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer </strong>stars <strong>Doug Fye</strong>, <strong>Ilona Fye</strong>, and <strong>Eric Bodwell</strong>. <strong>Thanksgiving and Football (or maybe Vice Versa) </strong>co-stars, in order of appearance, Caedmon Holland, Forrest Hartl and Wayne Brett.</p><p>Additional direction by Eric Bodwell. Sound recording and primary editing by Don McIver.</p><p>The <strong>theme song of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer</strong> is “<strong>the Dayton Triangles Rag</strong>” and was arranged and performed by<strong> </strong><a href="https://daytontrianglespodcast.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Bruce Smith</strong></a>.&nbsp;</p><p>Other tracks in this episode include</p><p>•&nbsp; “Jazz Club” by Kriss (available through <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kriss/nomad_ep/unfound38_03_-_kriss_-_jazz_club" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">fair-use agreement via FreeMusicArchive.org</a>);</p><p>•&nbsp; “Litany of the Street” by <a href="ht