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One Leg Up 12-28-24- Bob Wolff’s One Leg Up on the Greatest Game Ever Played , December 28, 1958 and How NFL Can Honor The 70th Anniversary · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 3: Network United.
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  Speaker 1: Union that right there happened on this date in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you're a sports historian. You know this
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  Speaker 2: date very well.
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  Speaker 1: I know Loui Tornado does, and that was Bob Wolf
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  Speaker 1: with the call on December twenty eighth, nineteen fifty eight.
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  Speaker 1: There's a NFL slave today in twenty twenty four, and
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't include the Giants and Colts. That's tomorrow, on
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  Speaker 1: December twenty ninth, twenty twenty four, the day after the
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of the greatest game ever played. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Both teams are absolute dumpster fires. The Giants have planes
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  Speaker 1: flying over MetLife Stadium. I get it. It's horrible what's
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  Speaker 1: been going on. They're on a ten game losing streak.
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  Speaker 1: But can we put aside the record and just honor history.
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  Speaker 1: There is a three game slight today.
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  Speaker 2: For the NFL, and you're all, well look up on sports.
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  Speaker 1: I am calling out Commissioner Goodell for not making one
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  Speaker 1: of those games the Colts versus the Giants, because that
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  Speaker 1: is history.
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  Speaker 4: But I think if you preserve the history of the
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  Speaker 4: game and what that game meant in nineteen fifty eight,
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 2: That would give the.
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  Speaker 1: Young NFL fans an appreciation of the game then and
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  Speaker 1: maybe even appreciate it even more now.
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  Speaker 2: And interesting enough, I played that Bob Wolf Audio.
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  Speaker 3: United. Yes, Jim.
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  Speaker 1: And I actually got the chance to talk with mister
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  Speaker 1: Wolf personally. He was a mentor of mine about that
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  Speaker 1: call on then the Sports Hour with Alex Kart.
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  Speaker 5: There you go. Well, Bob Wolf has been behind the
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  Speaker 5: mine for some great events, Bob lars, Don Martin's Perfect
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  Speaker 5: Game and a Meadtree Scorers. The lead Tree Scorer is
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  Speaker 5: the greatest game ever played. That was the Giants against
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  Speaker 5: the Baltimore Colt nineteen fifty eight, and all of those
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  Speaker 5: moments where you've seen what stands out to you the most.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Basically, a lot of people do great shows, great teams,
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  Speaker 3: but it's more important from a career standpoint, the app
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  Speaker 3: to do those great shows the great teams before the
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  Speaker 3: largest audience possible. So I was very fortunate that when
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  Speaker 3: I did that Cold Giant game, it was a game
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  Speaker 3: that was instrumental in making football of the pros a
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  Speaker 3: major sport. After that, everybody wanted to be part of it,
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  Speaker 3: and that was the big football game that got them
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  Speaker 3: over the top. It was the first overtime game in
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  Speaker 3: National Football Championship history. It involved two great teams, the
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  Speaker 3: Giants and the Colts at Yankee Stadium, New York City.
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  Speaker 3: It had all the elements of splendor and drama, and
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  Speaker 3: it made the Pro football what it is today. And
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  Speaker 3: with the baseball by Colin Medawn Larceneau hitter, of course,
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  Speaker 3: that's the greatest feat in World Series history. So that
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  Speaker 3: helped because I had nationwide audiences. But I've had a
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  Speaker 3: lot of other sports. I did the championships on TV
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  Speaker 3: of the New York Knickabonkers and for basketball. They were
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  Speaker 3: big sports. But I was at the right place at
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  Speaker 3: the right time, and that's part of the look of
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  Speaker 3: the business.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, it's about timing. It's about being in the
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  Speaker 1: right place. And that is why four years from now,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL should do something really much more epic than
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  Speaker 1: playing the Colts and Giants on the seventieth anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest game ever played. They should play it across
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  Speaker 1: the streets at the new Yankee Stadium. How is that
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  Speaker 1: for a recreation of history? Because today, while there are
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  Speaker 1: three NFL games that do not include the Giants and Colts,
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  Speaker 1: there was a football game at Yankee Stadium, the Pinstripe Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: featuring Nebraska and Boston College.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the kids aren't aware of that history, but they
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  Speaker 1: were on the field across the street from where the
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  Speaker 1: first nineteen fifty eight December twenty eighth game was played
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  Speaker 1: on that anniversary, and that's pretty damn special. So we
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  Speaker 1: know there could be football played at Yankee State. We
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  Speaker 1: know there was a game played today at Yankee Stadium
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  Speaker 1: on the anniversary of this historic day. But what we
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  Speaker 1: don't know yet is if the NFL will actually have
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  Speaker 1: the brains to put two and two together and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's Thursday Night football. It'll be the Giants and the
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  Speaker 1: Colts at Yankee Stadium, drum up the seventieth anniversary special idea,
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  Speaker 1: and let's watch some football at Yankee Stadium. Let's watch
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  Speaker 1: some NFL football. We've seen college year after year. We've
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  Speaker 1: seen Notre Dame a few times. We've seen Syracuse. We
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  Speaker 1: actually saw Syracuse. I personally did see them when the
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  Speaker 1: first pin Stript bawl back in what twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Ten I believe it was, or yeah, twenty ten. So
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  Speaker 2: we've seen football in the new Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: But let's take that to another level of NFL football.
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  Speaker 1: And if it's not anytime before now, let's make the
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  Speaker 1: seventy anniversary.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Giants versus the Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: Colts truly historic by playing it in the new Yankee Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: across the street from the hollow ground of the original
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  Speaker 1: Yankee seity. But what do I know, I'm just a
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  Speaker 1: podcast try. I have one leg up before you and
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  Speaker 1: not in the league office. But I think it's only
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  Speaker 1: right that this idea come to fruition four years from now,
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  Speaker 1: on December twenty eight, twenty eight. But speaking of archive,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm so thankful my mom and my friend Ashi,
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  Speaker 1: You've always encouraged me to.
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  Speaker 2: Preserve my archives because these are so cool. Bob Wolf
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  Speaker 2: gave his tapes.
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  Speaker 1: To the Library of Congress back in twenty thirteen. In
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  Speaker 1: a press release back on April twenty fifth, twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: it wrote the Library acquired sportscaster Bobb Wolves rare audio
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  Speaker 1: visual recordings that spanned over seventy four years and featured
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  Speaker 1: more than a thousand hours of him interviewing the greatest
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  Speaker 1: stars in sports history, as well as his famous calls
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  Speaker 1: known such as Don Larson's.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect game in nineteen fifty six.
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  Speaker 1: Also Yankee Stadium play by playing the Baltimore Colts overtime,
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  Speaker 1: went over the Giants in the NFL Championship Game to
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight, called the greatest football game ever played, televised
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  Speaker 1: play by play at the New York.
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  Speaker 2: Knicks two Championships, an.
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  Speaker 1: Interview with Jackie Robinson in his early career, plus Robinson's
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  Speaker 1: last major league hit, which was a game winner in
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  Speaker 1: Game six of the nineteen fifty six World Series. Wolfe's
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  Speaker 1: performances with the Washington Singing Senators, and in fact his
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  Speaker 1: name is be selling the broadcast booth at Nationals Park
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  Speaker 1: because he was such a legend calling Washington Senators baseball,
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  Speaker 1: and then Cannon interviews with numerous sports legends including Get
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  Speaker 1: This Bay, Ruth, Jim Thorpe, Ty Cobb, Vince Lombardi, Trince
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  Speaker 1: trist Speaker, Mickey Mannele, Joe Lewis, Yogi Bearra, George Steinbrener,
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  Speaker 1: Clark Griffith, Rocky Marciano, and hundreds of others.
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  Speaker 2: In addition to major sports fakers, wolf also talked to.
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  Speaker 1: Bing Crosby, Danny kme Elton Borough, Bob Hope, Jerry.
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  Speaker 2: Lewis, Hendrichard Nixon.
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  Speaker 1: So there are a lot of treasure trove, and he
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  Speaker 1: did this while he was still around, as he averaged
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  Speaker 1: according to the Library of Congress, over two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty play by plays, pre and post shows and nightly sportscasts.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll drop the podcast where we talked about all that,
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  Speaker 1: because as I mentioned, he's.
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  Speaker 2: A mentor even in spirit. He's been with us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, for a very long time, from the days
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  Speaker 1: of the Viscardi Center till now. I feel like he's
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  Speaker 1: with me every day in that radio journey because with
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  Speaker 1: his help, I was able to grow that confidence to
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  Speaker 1: get into radio. And I thank him for that. I
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  Speaker 1: thank him for his time that he took to do
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  Speaker 1: that interview, and.
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  Speaker 6: We'll post the whole thing in the link below, honoring
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  Speaker 6: a historic game, a historic day, and a historic weekend,
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  Speaker 6: because yes, the Giants and Colts.
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  Speaker 1: Are meeting tomorrow, so I know this will be talked
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  Speaker 1: about a lot throughout the course of those four quarters,
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  Speaker 1: But for now, I'm Alex Garrett and at the end
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  Speaker 1: of our truly wants one leg up on history. They
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  Speaker 1: play the Giants and Colts at Yankee Stadium on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: December twenty eighth, twenty twenty eight, marking seventy years of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest game ever played,