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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Disintegrating Football Pants

Timothy P. Brown

May 24, 2023

Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discussed a recent TidBit about the evolution of football pants and particularly the transition from all-in-one units to the pants and various pads being separate units.

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Here’s the original Tidbit:

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Today's Tidbit... Disintegrating Football Pants

Timothy P. Brown

Mar 26

Today's Tidbit... Disintegrating Football Pants

Early football players wore tight-fitting, all-purpose pants suitable for the gym or for other athletic activities, but as the game became power-oriented in the 1890s, they added quilted pads to the front of their pants. The 1900s saw cane ribs integrated into…

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