If you’re like me you love football but twelve hours of Super Bowl pregame analysis is overkill. If that’s the case here’s something for you to enjoy while you’re preparing for the big game!

1957 marked the 25th annual National Football League championship game held on December 29, 1957 at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan. The game pitted the home town Detroit Lions against the Cleveland Browns. Detroit had faced Cleveland three times before with the championship on the line with the Lions winning in 1952 and 1953. The Browns, who had wrested the title away by crushing Detroit 56-10 in 1954, had won the Eastern Conference with a record of 9-2-1 while the Lions (9-4) took part in one of the greatest comeback victories in NFL postseason history. On the road and trailing the San Francisco 49ers 27–7 in the 3rd quarter of the 1957

Western Conference Playoff game, Lions quarterback Tobin Rote rallied the team back with 24 unanswered points to beat the 49ers 31–27 at Kezar Stadium.

55,263 were on hand as the George Wilson coached Lions, without future Hall of Fame quarterback Bobby Layne, prepared to take on an always dangerous Cleveland squad led by rookie of the year Jim Brown with the legendary Paul Brown calling the Xs and Os.

Unfortunately for the fans in Motown, this would be the last time the Lions would play for a championship.

Ray Scott had the play by play duties for NBC.

1957 NFL Championship Game – Cleveland vs Detroit

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Since it’s New Years Day and there are quite a few Bowl games going on I thought I’d share this memory from the golden age of radio sports.

Back when college football was king two of the biggest powerhouses in the game were Army and Notre Dame. Whenever the two teams met there was sure to be an epic clash.

Both teams were undefeated going into this 1946 game at Yankee Stadium with both teams averaging over 30 points per game. This was going to be the first true “game of the century”!

The Cadets of Army had a 25-game winning streak, last losing to Notre Dame in 1943 (26-0), but had won the last two contests between the schools by scores of 59-0 and 48-0. Army had the defending Heisman Trophy winner, Doc Blanchard, also known as “Mr. Inside,” the man who would win it that year, Glenn Davis, also known as “Mr. Outside,” and one of the nation’s top quarterbacks in Arnold Tucker.

The Fighting Irish had the quarterback who would win the Heisman the next year, Johnny Lujack. Both Tucker and Lujack were also outstanding defensive backs at a time when football players, college as well as professional, usually played both offense and defense. Notre Dame had defeated eventual 1947 Rose Bowl participant Illinois in Champaign-Urbana 26-6 to open the season. On October 26, they won at #17 Iowa 41-6. The game leading up to this one was a 28-0 Irish defeat of Navy at Baltimore.

Bill Stern has the NBC radio call from Yankee’s Stadium.

Football – Army vs Notre Dame 1946

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