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These days, the New England Patriots are often thought of as one of the elite teams in the NFL. However, that hasn’t always been the case, especially during the team’s infancy, when they were a charter member of the upstart AFL and chaos and confusion often reigned. The Patriots of the 60s and early 70s were a transient team and played its home games in no less than 5 different stadiums. The Pats also cycled thru its head coaches quite frequently back then and one coach in particular is often remembered as the one who best epitomized the team’s failings during this time.

In this 4-part series, we will take a look at the team’s humble beginnings in Boston in 1960 to their first years in Foxboro. We will also do a deep dive into the timeline between 1969 – 1972 to relive some of the most shocking and bizarre events to ever impact a professional sports franchise. The Patriots: From Boston to Foxboro.

HOST - JOE SANTOS:

Joe Santos grew up in Massachusetts and is an avid football fan, with a special fondness for the NFL in the early 70s. This Week in Pro Football and NFL Game of the Week were must-see TV back in the day. And living in Massachusetts meant you saw all of the NY Giants games on tv, both home and away, as they were the de facto home team for the NFC. Due to the blackout rules at the time, only the Patriots away games were shown. Being a huge sports history fan, Joe will continue to tell the unusual stories from an era that's considered to be the golden age of pro football.

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EPISODE SUMMARY

Kathrine Switzer wasnt the 1st women runner, but she was the 1st women to run the Boston Marathon, even though it wasnt allowed. And let to an iconic photo and help for title IX.

Starring Emma Stone, Steve Carroll, and JK Simmons. With a surprise singer cameo.

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Hollywood’s next sports movie. We tell true sports stories as if they are getting made into movies. We cast the leads and give you the facts and inspiring moments that actually happened. Be ahead of Hollywood and know the story before they do.

Sports Film Pitch is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.

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Ben Malcolmson was a writer just looking for a story and ended walking onto the USC football team during the 2000s dynasty.

This pitch we cast Tom Holland (spiderman) , Owen Wilson (wedding crashers), and Rico Rodriguez (modern family.

SHOW BIO

Hollywood’s next sports movie. We tell true sports stories as if they are getting made into movies. We cast the leads and give you the facts and inspiring moments that actually happened. Be ahead of Hollywood and know the story before they do.

Sports Film Pitch is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.

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Row One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!

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Ivory Coast was an African country in a bitter civil war. Divided by religion and the only thing they agreed on was soccer. When they finally make it to their 1st World Cup, they country start to make its way to peace.

Starring Sterling K Brown, Winston Duke, and Hugh Grant

SHOW BIO Hollywood’s next sports movie. We tell true sports stories as if they are getting made into movies. We cast the leads and give you the facts and inspiring moments that actually happened. Be ahead of Hollywood and know the story before they do.

Sports Film Pitch is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.

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Row One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!

EPISODE SUMMARY

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SHOW BIO

Hollywood’s next sports movie. We tell true sports stories as if they are getting made into movies. We cast the leads and give you the facts and inspiring moments that actually happened. Be ahead of Hollywood and know the story before they do.

Sports Film Pitch is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.

NETWORK SPONSORS

Row One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!

EPISODE SUMMARY

Ireland best fight and arguably the best fighter in the world, Conor Mcgregor's Orgins bio pic, until 2017. Best this fight deservse more than 1 movie.

Starring Taron Edgerton, Sophie Turner, and Aaron Taylor Johnson

SHOW BIO

Hollywood’s next sports movie. We tell true sports stories as if they are getting made into movies. We cast the leads and give you the facts and inspiring moments that actually happened. Be ahead of Hollywood and know the story before they do.

Thanksgiving Day, 1924. The recently-established tradition of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team hosting the Pennsylvania State Nittany Lions on the afternoon of the national autumnal holiday continues.

Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is sent to cover the Pitt-Penn State “Keystone Classic” of 1924; in so doing, he discovers a throughline of the football-on-Thanksgiving tradition going back to 1621 (okay, actually, that’s going back to 1869) and reminds us that high-level football games on Thanksgiving are nearly as old as the official Thanksgiving holiday itself.

Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is an audio drama podcast from Number 80 Productions and the Sports History Network.

Thanksgiving and Football (or maybe Vice Versa) script & story by Os Davis.

Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer stars Doug Fye, Ilona Fye, and Eric Bodwell. Thanksgiving and Football (or maybe Vice Versa) co-stars, in order of appearance, Caedmon Holland, Forrest Hartl and Wayne Brett.

Additional direction by Eric Bodwell. Sound recording and primary editing by Don McIver.

The theme song of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is “the Dayton Triangles Rag” and was arranged and performed by Bruce Smith.

Other tracks in this episode include

• “Jazz Club” by Kriss (available through fair-use agreement via FreeMusicArchive.org);

• “Litany of the Street” by Silverman Sound Studios;

• “Bimini Bay” (1921) by the Benson Orchestra of Chicago; and

• “Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer (Outro)” by David Liso of Dynamo Stairs.

Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is produced by Os Davis and Darin Hayes. Series concept by Darrin Hayes.

Stay tuned for more episodes of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer – coming soon!

Sports Film Pitch is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.

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EPISODE SUMMARY

Tommy John has a name that will live forever, but do you know the man behind the surgery, do you how it happened and why did he want to risk his body to play a game.

Our film would star: Andrew Garfield (Social network, Amazing Spiderman, Hackshaw Ridge), Amanda Bynes (She's the man, Hairspray, Easy A) Hugh Laurie (House and 101 Dalmations)

SHOW BIO

Hollywood’s next sports movie. We tell true sports stories as if they are getting made into movies. We cast the leads and give you the facts and inspiring moments that actually happened. Be ahead of Hollywood and know the story before they do.