This is a special episode. We get to listen to the fans of The Football History Dude tell a story about their favorite football moment. There are 5 different stories that run the gamut from a specific play up to a listener’s life. If you’re interested in sending your personal favorite football moment to be featured on an upcoming episode, please see below for more details. So strap on your seatbelt, and let's get this baby up to 88 miles per hour.
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Guest List
3:53 – Jayden Cuypers. His story covers his entire life span of loving football. You can find him on Twitter if you search for “Medieval Gridiron” or look for him directly at his Twitter handle: @Jaden_Cuypers
8:05 – Frank Bonicantri. His story covers a specific game in late December that is a story most people can not replicate. You can find him on Twitter if you search The Fantasy Football Wire. His Twitter handle is: @TheFFLWire
15:10 – Ramona Rice. Her story covers a specific play that gave us a great NFL life lesson. She’s a community manager at Podcast Websites, the hosting platform I use for my podcast. It’s a great all-in-one solution if you want to start a podcast. Here’s my affiliate link if you're interested in starting a podcast of your own.
20:12 – Jeremy McFarlin. His story covers a play from a playoff game. You can find him at the Twitter handle: @j6mac_cutler
[24:40] – Anthony Collins. He’s a cool cat I work with, and his story covers a dude that he’s always talked about getting shafted from the Hall of Fame.
[27:00] – Robert Haynes. This is another cool cat I work with, and his story covers a specific moment that he ends up learning even more about after he did more research.
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Read Full TranscriptARNIE
Football is undoubtedly America’s favorite sport. The NFL has grown into a revenue-generating juggernaut. Total revenue is a little over 4 billion dollars in 2001 and has increased each year to now over 14 billion dollars. Commissioner Goodell stated in 2010 he believed the NFL would reach 25 billion annual dollars in revenue by 2027. In this episode, I’m going to give you the secret sauce that can keep the NFL on track to meet this target.
INTRO
Welcome to the Football History Dude Podcast, where each episode is a journey back in time to learn about the rich history of the NFL. Your host is Arnie Chapman. Football is his passion and he wants you to come along with him to explore the yesteryear of the gridiron. So hop on board his DeLorean and lets get this baby up to 88 miles per hour (Great Scott).
ARNIE
This week as we step off our DeLorean, I’m going to first give you an apology because last week I told you we were going to talk about a dude that had one of the coolest pure football names of all time. And that guy would be Bronko Nagurski who was born in 1908. However, I got a little bit ahead of myself because this episode is going to be different. We’re not going to go take that DeLorean up to 88 miles an hour and go to a specific moment in time. We are going to do things a bit differently. We’re going to call an audible. This is the week where we get to listen to the fans of the show and the fans of football. I have 5 different listeners that sent in audio clips of their favorite football moments. And we’re going to listen to them tell their story. Their personal story about why they love the game of football. So strap your helmets on and lets get ready to rumble. But before we get there, I do want to put a little bit of ground rules down for you because this is the first episode. So I have got to tell you what this thing is all about. I started this new thing called “My Football Moment” where anybody can share their own personal story or experience with the great game of football. We would love to have you on the show. But there are going to be a few different rules. Some of the ground rules are, first please keep this to right around 5 minutes or less. We want to make sure everyone can get a fair shake. And then the other rule is, this is a family show so please keep everything clean. And when we put these shows out there, we’re just going to base it on a first come first serve. That’s how I reported it here in this episode. Each listener that we’re going to feature is going to be in the order they sent the clip to me. And if you’re interested in doing something like this it can be anything really, just think about it. If you close your eyes and you asked yourself, what is My Football Moment? Something popped in your head just now. That’s what you could talk about. You’re going to see that the stories kind of run the gamut. Some are about a specific game. Some are about an entire span of enjoying football. To even, one person talks about a specific play. Anything you want. I’d love to have you on the show. And if you really want to, you can get more details if you head on over to [myfootballmoment.com](http://www.myfootballmoment.com). But lets get into this thing. You don’t want to listen to me. You want to listen to the cool stories that are coming from our listeners of the Football History Dude. And the first one to take on all comers is going to be Mr. Jaden Cuypers. He was the first to send in his football moment and here is his clip:
JADEN CUYPERS
“Hey guys, my name is Jaden Cuypers. I’m here to share My Favorite Football Moment with the Football History dude. I’ve loved the game for as long as I can remember. When I was really little my dad would have me line up my football cards on offense and defense so that I could learn their positions. Video games is another one of the first things I remember about football. It played a big role in accelerating my interest in the NFL, from the very first game day- Sony PlayStation, all the way through the current Madden NFL 18 - PlayStation 4. I’ve had the new one every year since I was like 8 years old. Went a long way as far as keeping me up with player names and how players would develop on the field. Most 8 year olds out there don’t have much patience for anything other than immediate stimulus or the crazy action, but I would sometimes sit there and simulate all the way through entire seasons just because I enjoyed working with the salary cap and the whole roster management aspect of the games. As far as fantasy football goes I was starting to get into that when I was about 11 years old. I started a league that’s still going strong today with 19 seasons in the books. My favorite moment there happens in 2002 after the early slate of Sunday games. Things were looking grim for me in my match up. I was down a boatload of points and all I had left was Sean Alexander and the Sunday night game, so I was pretty down about it. But, he proceeded to have 5 touchdowns in the first half of the game against the Vikings and he ended with a couple hundred yards which fueled the victory for me, which I didn’t see coming. So it was pretty cool. Real football wise I’ve had quite a few memorable experiences but I’ll stick with a couple here. In ’98 my dad took me along to Hawaii to see the pro bowl. We also had passes to check out the practice the day before it. There was a lot of all time greats there. Big name players like John Elway (affiliate link), Steve Young (affiliate link), Barry Sanders (affiliate link) to name a few of them. Mike Alstott (affiliate link), who was my favorite player of all time who was hanging out by the pool at our hotel. At practice I was wearing a Randy Moss Jersey (affiliate link) and I asked him to sign it for me, but I got completely snubbed. He just walked right passed me. Needless to say, I didn’t wear that jersey to the actual game the next day. In the end, my favorite football related moment that I have had is probably the Rams winning Super bowl 34. My dad is a huge fan. He had gone his whole life without them bringing the Lombardi home. It happened in such dramatic fashion too. Trent Green going down in the pre-season and the goat Kurt Warner coming in off the streets. It was just really sweet to see his reaction and his joy when Kevin Dyson (affiliate link)) got tackled on the one-yard line reaching out for the end zone. It’s pretty crazy. That’s about it though. Thanks for having me chime in. If anybody would like to talk football-fantasy or otherwise just search “Medieval Gridiron” on Twitter and you’ll find me. Catch you on the flippity flop.
ARNIE
So now that you hear that, I can totally relate to him. Like the part that he said simulating the Madden seasons even though he was a little dude. It reminded me of my past. I really did just sit there all night long. I remember my cousin Chris and my brother Mikey, and we would sit there with Madden and we would try to create a franchise. We would take turns simulating through the season. I mean, it’s just totally relatable. I tell you what, Jaden, I’ll catch you on the flippity flop, man. And like he said, you can go ahead and go on Twitter and find him if you search “Medieval Gridiron”. And his Twitter handle is [@Jaden_Cuypers](https://twitter.com/Jaden_Cuypers). Lets get on to our next listener. His name is Frank Bonicantri. And he has a cool personal experience that most of us cannot replicate. And here is the audio clip:
FRANK BONICANTRI
Hey this is Frank Bonicantri with The Fantasy Football Wire. Find me on Twitter [@thefflwire](https://twitter.com/TheFFLWire). Shout out to Football History Dude, great topic on a favorite football moment. I wanted to throw it in here for my favorite football moment has got to be a game I went to-Packers/Ravens-Monday night football 2009. I grew up in Baltimore. I live in Wisconsin- dual citizenship on both teams. Been to a lot of Packer games. Mostly cold weather games because the only way you can get tickets up here, contrary to what you’ve heard, is if you know people who have season tickets will usually sell you the late season games. They don’t want to sit in the cold. So most of the games I have been to have been regular season December games, so I’ve been out in the cold plenty of times, no big deal. This one was Monday night 2009. A buddy of mine has a sports training business. He trains athletes and college kids and stuff. He said he could get me some tickets. I told him I don’t care what it costs-get them for me. He scored me tickets for like $40 each. We all went, me and my wife, him and his wife. I have no idea where we were sitting or what to expect. I’ve never even been to a Monday night game ever in my life. They’ve all been regular season Sundays. The game is at Lambeau Field, December, 20 degrees. Wind chill is probably 12 or 13. We didn’t do much for tailgating, just for the time and getting up there. But the tailgating, as we walked through the parking lot, it was insane. I mean Raven fans were taking over the place. Green Bay is solid when it comes to tailgating. It’s in the parking lot. It’s in a neighborhood. You’ve got just madness all over the place. But there was a ton of Raven fans. I was pretty curious to see what kind of turnout they’d get, how many guys from Baltimore or Raven fans in general are even in Wisconsin. But they were out in full force. They had spots in the parking lot taking over. There’s a bus converted into like a tailgating hangout flooded with packer fans. They were up in balconies. It was crazy; I couldn’t believe it. I went through the parking lot and I seen guys dressed up like the old Bay- Crab, Johnny Unitas (affiliate link) in full costume. They’re smoking cigars. It was nuts. So it was an experience just getting from the car to our seats. So we get in the stadium. We find our seats. They’re on the second row of the end zone. My guy is money. I don’t even know how he even scored these tickets-how he got them. But I could not believe it was that close. I’ve never sat that close in Lambeau Field. I’ve always been out on the corners, the fringe, and upper area. So to sit that close was insane. I had my coat, jersey, pants-you dress the part when you go to these late season games so you’re warm. The only thing I didn’t have on was gloves because I was taking pictures nonstop. So my hands were pretty much purple the whole game. The first part of the game I had Jermichael Finley (affiliate link)) jump into the stands on his first touchdown. Right in front of me, so we all got to run down and slap his helmet. It was insane to have a Lambeau leap right in front of me. Then later on in the game he had a second touchdown and did the same thing. The Ravens also had a touchdown by Kelly Washington. He tried to jump in the stands and he got rejected. It was great I ran down there, I slapped his helmet, but most of the other fans they all poured beer on him and shoved him back on to the field. And then he was just yelling back at us from the field and I’m just...
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