Episodes

  • Quick Kicks: eight of nine
    May 2 2024

    The CFL Draft marks the beginning of the 2024 season. Three teams go over the CFL's Salary Expenditure Cap in 2023. Shawn Lemon is indefinitely suspended by the Alouettes and CFL (recorded May 1, 2024).

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    32 mins
  • Quick Kicks: Darren Flutie (part two).
    Apr 25 2024

    Hall of Fame receiver Darren Flutie discusses the BC Lions and his decision to sign with Edmonton, his relationship with quarterback Danny McManus, joining with McManus and Head Coach Ron lancaster to sign with Hamilton in 1998, the 1998 and 1999 Grey Cups, then ending his playing career in Steeltown, joining the CFL on CBC, and his life after football (part two of two) (recorded March 15, 2024). (game audio recordings courtesy CFL on CBC)

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    30 mins
  • Quick Kicks: Darren Flutie (part one).
    Apr 18 2024

    Hall of Fame receiver Darren Flutie discusses his life before coming to play football at Boston College, his years in the NFL, his arrival in BC to play for the Lions, and the 1994 playoffs and Grey Cup versus Baltimore (part one of two) (recorded May 15, 2024). (game audio recordings courtesy CFL on CBC)

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    33 mins
  • Quick Kicks: a good idea in search of money.
    Apr 11 2024

    Special Guest Upton Bell (former New England Patriots General Manager -NFL, former Charlotte Hornets Owner -WFL) discusses the hurdles the fledgling National Football League overcame to become a massive success, the problems the upstart World Football League eventually did not overcome to survive, and much more (recorded March 12, 2024).

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    50 mins
  • Quicks Kicks: on the side of caution.
    Apr 4 2024
    Touchdown Pacific sells out in minutes. Edmonton Elks have plenty of ownership suitors. Ottawa RedBlacks celebrate 10 years, Edmonton Elks 75 years in the CFL. Kickoffs are under fire, what will the NFL and CFL do about this part of the game? Hip-drop tackles, expanded booth reviews, it's the off-season and rule-tweaking abounds (recorded April 2, 2024).
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    33 mins
  • Quick Kicks: our talent is good.
    Mar 28 2024

    Special Guest Reid Johnson (The Markcast) joins to dicuss the new United Football League starting play on March 30, 2024, the UFL's origins through the merger agreement, its rules, and its future (recorded March 18, 2024).

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    35 mins
  • Quick Kicks: should not be forgotten (part two).
    Mar 21 2024

    Mark Speck (writer and historian) discusses the wild 1974 World Football League playoffs, the innvoations the league brought (Action Point), and those who started in the WFL and made a career elsewhere in part two; recorded February 29, 2029.

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    36 mins
  • Quick Kicks: coulda, woulda, shoulda (part one).
    Mar 14 2024

    Writer and historian Mark Speck provides insight into the World Football League, from its origins, to its owners, its bid to bring in Joe Namath, the attempt to play in Canada, and much more in part one; recorded February 29, 2024.

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    41 mins