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The Football Odyssey with Aron Harris

The Football Odyssey

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Frequency: 1 episode/24d. Total Eps: 71

A football history podcast that explores the past, present, and future of football through in-depth interviews with guests from all levels and backgrounds.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - football
01/08/2026
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The First Ever NCAA Playoffs

Thursday, January 23, 2025 • Duration 06:35

A video essay that dives into the very first time the NCAA implemented a playoff system in football. Originally uploaded to YouTube on 1/3/2025.

Armen Keteyian - The Price: What It Takes To Win in College Football's Era of Chaos

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 • Duration 01:19:08

Armen Keteyian is an author and journalist. His newest book, The Price: What It Takes To Win in College Football's Era of Chaos, co-authored with John Talty, is an inside look at the rapidly changing world of college football that covers Name, Image and Likeness deals, conference re-alignment, the transfer portal and much more.

The Price

https://www.amazon.com/Price-Takes-College-Footballs-Chaos/dp/0063345250

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Michael Oriard - The End of Autumn, King Football & Brand NFL

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 • Duration 01:07:07

Michael Oriard is a former professional football player, a retired professor at Oregon State University and the author of numerous books that analyzes the cultural relevance of football in America, including The End of Autumn: Reflections On My Life In Football, King Football and Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport. Today, Michael joins Aron to discuss a wide variety of subjects that Michael has explored in his books, including his odyssey within the game at every level, how football is portrayed in various forms of media, the economic and cultural impact that will be brought about from changes within the NFL and NCAA, the future of football, and much more. TFO Blog https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/ TFO Social Media Accounts https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Kv_NInjlOAlE4lrpWu4zw/playlists

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Alvin Roy: Football's First Strength Coach

Wednesday, October 5, 2022 • Duration 14:08

Alvin Roy was a fitness pioneer who introduced weight training into the game of football, debunking the long held myth that weight training impeded a player's speed and flexibility. His impact was felt at the high school, college and pro ranks, and his contributions are felt today more than ever before.

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Bob Cowser Jr. - Dream Season: A Professor Joins America's Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team

Monday, August 29, 2022 • Duration 01:05:48

Bob Cowser Jr. is an author and English professor at St. Lawrence University. In 2001, Bob embarked on a writing project in which he embedded himself as a player on the Watertown Red and Black football team, the oldest gridiron semi pro team in the United States. In 2004, Bob published his first book about his experiences playing on the Red and Black, titled Dream Season: A Professor Joins America's Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team. Today, Bob sits down with Aron and looks back on that experience from 20 years ago, including what motivated him to want to play for the team to write this book, analyzing football from an academic standpoint, Bob's observation about semi pro ball and those who play it, and much more.

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https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Season-Professor-Americas-Semi-Pro/dp/0802142184

TFO Blog

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TFO Social Media Accounts

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Kevin Bryant - Spies on the Sidelines: The High Stakes World of NFL Espionage

Friday, August 19, 2022 • Duration 01:22:00

Kevin Bryant is an Army veteran with over twenty years of experience safeguarding and gathering information for the Department of Defense, including thirteen years as a Special Agent during which he conducted national security investigations and instructed federal agents in training. His book, Spies on the Sidelines: The High-Stakes World of NFL Espionage details the collection techniques that NFL teams utilize to gather information on their opponents in order to gain a game-day advantage, as well as the countermeasures used to defend against these. The book spans the entire history of the league and contains anecdotes from every NFL team. Topics include spying on practices, stealing paperwork and signals, debriefing personnel that switch teams, listening devices, headset tampering, elicitation, Spygate, Deflategate, and so much more. Kevin's Book https://www.spiesonthesidelines.com/ TFO Blog https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/ TFO Social Media Accounts https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Kv_NInjlOAlE4lrpWu4zw/playlists

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Parke H. Davis - The Grandfather of Football Statistics

Wednesday, August 3, 2022 • Duration 09:18

Parke Hill Davis is widely regarded as the first football historian who chronicled the rich history of the early autumn athletes of gridiron football, earning the nickname "The Grandfather of Football Statistics." Here is a short biography of his career.

Written by Darin Hayes of Pigpen Sports

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Edited by Benaiah Newhall

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Produced by Aron Harris

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The History of the Line of Scrimmage

Wednesday, June 29, 2022 • Duration 11:29

Today's episode is an audio version of a new Football Odyssey documentary about the history of the line of scrimmage, the most important rule in gridiron football. If you'd like to watch the video, here is the link to the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUwEu0uhizw&t=2s

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, click the link below to browse more option at The Football Odyssey YouTube Channel, including interviews and curated playlist of football games and documentaries.

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Brett Forrest - Long Bomb: How the XFL Became TV's Biggest Fiasco

Friday, June 10, 2022 • Duration 01:05:47

Brett Forrest is an author and writer for the Wall Street Journal. Today, Brett joins Aron to discuss his 2002 book Long Bomb: How the XFL Became TV's Biggest Fiasco, in which Brett chronicled the lone 2001 season of the catastrophic XFL through the eyes of the Las Vegas Outlaws and how XFL founders/partners Vince McMahon and NBC's Dick Ebersol failed to capitalize on a prime opportunity. https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/ https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Kv_NInjlOAlE4lrpWu4zw/playlists

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MEMORIAL DAY SPECIAL - Original Broadcast of the 1946 Army vs. Notre Dame "Game of the Century"

Friday, May 27, 2022 • Duration 02:13:05

Today's episode is a special Memorial Day presentation: the original broadcast of the 1946 Army vs. Notre Dame contest that became of one the first games to be labeled the "Game of the Century" that featured four eventual Heisman Trophy Award winners and numerous World War II veterans battling it out in front of 70,000 spectators at Yankee Stadium.

Happy Memorial Day everyone, and thanks to all those who served.

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The Football Odyssey with Aron Harris – Details, episodes & analysis

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