Football on the Radio
There is something about football that belongs on the radio.
The murmur of the crowd. The marching band somewhere beyond the microphone. The quarterback under center. And the announcer trying, with nothing but words, to put an entire football field inside the listener’s imagination.
In this Chesterton Radio deep dive, we return to a collection of listener-favorite football radio shows and use them as a doorway into the remarkable relationship between American football and radio.
From Friday nights under the lights to Saturday afternoons on college campuses and Sunday professional football, we…
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