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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Ripley's Thoughts on Football

Timothy P. Brown

Sep 27, 2022

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

Today’s podcast covers a recent Tidbit concerning a cartoon about football history by Robert Ripley, who later became famous for his Believe It Or Not franchise.

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Today's Tidbit... Ripley’s Thoughts on Football, Believe It or Not

Robert Ripley published his first Believe It or Not cartoon covering the weird and wonderful in 1918 and was not yet famous when he put pen to paper to give his take on football history. In the cartoon below, Ripley covers: Tandem blocking – stacking blockers in the backfield before the seven men on the line of scrimmage rule came into effect…

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