May 9, 2022
We revisit the endlessly
fascinating World Football League - and its enigmatic founder/first
commissioner Gary Davidson - with ESPN.com senior writer Ryan
Hockensmith ("The Renegade Who
Took On the NFL [And the NBA and the NHL]").
Drawing on recent interviews
with Davidson, former NFL defectors Larry Csonka & Paul Warfield,
and previous podcast guests
Howard
Baldwin &
Upton Bell, Hockensmith delves into some of the more memorable
(and a few of the truly unbelievable) historical moments in the
WFL's brief mid-1970s existence - all one-and-a-half seasons of
it.
The tales are tall, but the
history is real - and Hockensmith makes it seem as fresh and vivid
as the original events themselves nearly 50 years after its flashy
debut and quickly spectacular flameout.