Episode 10 - A Yank on the Footy
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In this episode, I take a look at the financial struggles that the VFL faced in the 1980’s, and how the future Commissioner of the NBA played a small role in helping the VFL survive the 80’s which led to thriving today.
https://australianfootball.com/articles/view/The%2Bbirth%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bdraft/68
https://www.espn.com/afl/story/_/id/28517677/how-david-stern-little-help-tv-star-changed-aussie-rules-history
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/how-curt-flood-changed-baseball-and-killed-his-career-in-the-process/241783/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Foschini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning_(Australian_rules_football)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/29/us/curt-flood-mlb-free-agency-trnd/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2019/12/24/curt-flood-letter-mlb-free-agency-bowie-kuhn/2722291001/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_agent#Australian_Football_League_usage
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/saving-football-new-documents-reveal-how-close-the-vfl-came-to-shutting-down-20160408-go1x0m.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Oakley
https://www.britannica.com/event/Jim-Crow-law
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#169 - A Yank on the Footy - Rd. 10 Tips and BIG News
#168- A Yank on the Footy - My talk with “Catman”, Troy West
#167 - A Yank on the Footy - Rd. 9 review, Can we say the “F”(inals) word?
#166 - A Yank on the Footy - A Giant ”Swan Song”
#165 - A Yank on the Footy - Rd. 8 Review, A really good weekend
#164 - A Yank on the Footy - Rd. 8 Preview, Welcome back Rory Thompson! (Explicit)
#163 - A Yank on the Footy - Rd. 7 Review, Heave Ho, don’t ya know
#162 A Yank on the Footy - Rd. 7 Preview, Hunches in bunches
#161 A Yank on the Footy - Rd. 6 Review, The reverence that is the ANZAC Round (EXPLICIT)
#160 A Yank on the Footy - A chat with Doug Hering, father of Dani Marshall, the 1st American woman to play in the AFLW
#159 - A Yank on the Footy - Rd. 5 Review, Raise your hands in the air…if you dare! (EXPLICIT)
#158 A Yank on the Footy - Saints/Suns? Yes please. Preview of Rd. 5 of the AFL
#157 A Yank on the Footy - Rd. 4 review Explicit
#156 A Yank on the Footy - Rd. 4/AFLW Grand Final Preview (Explicit)
#155 A Yank on the Footy - Rd. 3 Review EXPLICIT
#154 A Yank on the Footy - My talk with Sarah Burt of The Age and AFL.com
#153 - A Yank on the Footy - Rd. 3 Tips for the AFL+AFLW Prelims (Explicit)
A Yank on the Footy Live, 28 March 2022 - Are you sure that’s the ladder?
#152 - A Yank on the Footy - Rd. 2 Tips (Explicit)
A Yank on the Footy Live, 21 March 2022, Anything you can do, I can do better EXPLICIT
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