Spirit of ‘74

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From the Grotto Podcasting Network, Spirit of ‘74 digs deep into the world of sports fandom through the eyes of the greatest generation. Brokaw was talking about us right?

Andrew Elrick

  • Oct 18, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
  • infrequent NEW EPISODES
  • 44m AVG DURATION
  • 9 EPISODES


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Sodor United Till I Die

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2019 41:41


Actor Joe May has portrayed two massively iconic, and very different characters. As the voice of Thomas the Tank Engine parents everywhere will thank him for the half hour stretches of peace and quiet his show provides, while video gamers may know him as the voice of Michael Corleone in the Godfather series from Electronic Arts. May also played Andy Button in the hit Showtime series Episodes with Matthew LeBlanc. But today he's here to talk about growing up in Calgary's golden sporting age , being a Gooner, and why he thinks an NFL franchise on London would flourish.

It's (finally) Knight Time

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2019 27:39


In this Episode we visit with former Laker, Celtic, Knick and (most importantly) UConn Husky Travis Knight. Travis sheds light on his personal experience with issues of race and sports, his time playing with Kobe & Shaq and an ill-fated one year run with Rick Pitino and the Boston Celtics.

Members Only

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2019 41:14


Jerry Recco provides the news for WFAN's hit morning show Boomer & Gio, but we talk to him about the college he put out of business, youth sports and his family connection with iconic 80's brand Members Only.

A Dun Deal

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2019 68:53


This week we talk with '74 born Dunstan Bentley of QPR NYC about our beloved Queens Park Rangers, ex-pat life, giant killings and why men aren't the best at making and keeping friends. This weeks reading: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0193723508319718

Like a kid in a candy Storrs

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2019 40:52


This week we visit with UConn forward, turned coach, turned administrator Jamelle Elliott about growing up in Washington D.C. in the 80's, the legend she played for before Geno and the formative experience she shares with our first guest Jason La Canfora. This weeks reading: "The role of newspapers in the formation of gendered national identity: Polish coverage of women’s and men’s basketball championships." Jakubowska and Ličen

Sh*t a Windmill

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2019 67:37


This week on Spirit of '74 we visit with Guardian football (read: soccer) cartoonist David Squires about the demise of Bury FC, why keeping politics out of sports isn't really possible, his lifelong support of Swindon Town FC, fanzine culture, designing mascots and Louis van Gaal's favorite expletive.

Break a Legia

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2019 46:04


We visit with Polish actor, producer and director Andrzej Nejman about sports fandom under communism, his passionate support of Legia Warsaw, the complicated issue of football hooliganism and right wing politics in Poland and of course his love of equestrian. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Radoslaw_Kossakowski/amp

The Jason La Canfora Walking Tour of Baltimore

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2019 60:19


In Episode One of Spirit of '74 we visit with CBS Sports NFL Reporter Jason La Canfora. JLC talks in depth about why he cringes at the moniker NFL Insider, his utopian youth in Smalltimore, its outsized place in popular culture, Camden Yards, Len Bias and more.

Spirit of '74 Teaser

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2019 7:23


Finally, a podcast about the Greatest Generation.

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