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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Lockney Lines

Timothy P. Brown

Jul 26, 2022

Each Tuesday, Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I cover and expand on one of my Articles or Tidbits. Click here to listen, or subscribe to Pigskin Dispatch wherever you get your podcasts.

Today’s podcast covers an article from July 23, 2022, Remembering John Lockney, Football’s Forgotten Man.

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Remembering John Lockney: Football’s Forgotten Man

Excluding the logos and field numbers that vary from location to location, the standard football field has 385 stripes, and 83 percent of those stripes are due to John Lockney, football's forgotten man. Today would be Lockney's 107th birthday and it is the time for his contribution to football to be recognized, particularly because Lockney was not a player, coach, official, writer, or involved in managing a team. Instead, he was a normal fan looking to improve the football experience…

a year ago · Timothy P. Brown

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