Pottsville Maroons
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Sep 5, 2026
Joe LexHOST
Barry's football career extended beyond college.
Joe LexHOST
Accounts connect him with professional football after his pen years, including the Pottsville Maroons and the Frankfurt Yellow Jackets.
Joe LexHOST
If you go up to Frankfurt Historical Society, they have a display of the Yellow Jackets that prominently features Barry.
Joe LexHOST
The Pottsville Maroons were a coal region professional team.
Joe LexHOST
They rose into the early NFL, but they became famous for the disputed 1925 championship, which is still one of the league's enduring controversies.
Joe LexHOST
The Maroons were one of the strongest teams in the NFL that season.
Ross TuckerHOST
That, that shirt is amazing.
Ross TuckerHOST
I actually don't know who I like more, the Pottstown Firebirds or the Pottsville Maroons.
Ross TuckerHOST
You familiar with the Pottsville...
Ross TuckerHOST
Oh, we got a Pottsville Maroon guy?
Ross TuckerHOST
That shirt is amazing.
Ross TuckerHOST
I actually don't know who I like more, the Pottstown Firebirds or the Pottsville Maroons.
Ross TuckerHOST
You familiar with the Pottsville? Oh, we got a Pottsville Maroon guy? This is unbelievable.
Ross TuckerHOST
I think, yeah, I feel like I probably know more about Pottsville and Pottstown than a lot of people if you combine the two.
Andrew CooperGUEST
terrible brutal dude why i was looking it up because people are like oh yeah they won championships the championships they won before the super bowl era one was in 1925.
Andrew CooperGUEST
Even you look it up, and there are people that say the Pottsville Maroons should have won that year.
Andrew CooperGUEST
Back then, they just said whoever had the best record wins.
Andrew CooperGUEST
To the point where they actually brought it to the committee a few years back.
Darren HayesHOST
David is a powerhouse author behind 48 books already, and we're diving into his latest two releases today.
Darren HayesHOST
First up is The Pennsylvania Maid, a celebration of the state's sports heritage that tackles an 1897 Latrobe-Greensburg professional pay dispute, all the way to the immortal 1925 Pottsville Maroons and the unmatched legacy of legendary coach Jock Sutherland.
Darren HayesHOST
Dave Finoli, welcome to the Pigpen.
Dave FinoliGUEST
Hi, happy to be here.
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Dave FinoliGUEST
And we went from there.
Dave FinoliGUEST
But to me, that is still one of the most fascinating stories.
Dave FinoliGUEST
We did one on the Pottsville Maroons, which you wrote a fabulous book on.
Darren HayesHOST
Thank you.
Andrew CooperGUEST
terrible brutal dude why i was looking it up because people are like oh yeah they won championships the championships they won before the super bowl era one was in 1925.
Andrew CooperGUEST
Even you look it up, and there are people that say the Pottsville Maroons should have won that year.
Andrew CooperGUEST
Back then, they just said whoever had the best record wins.
Andrew CooperGUEST
To the point where they actually brought it to the committee a few years back.
Darren HayesHOST
But I don't think this is a year for the Cardinals.
Darren HayesHOST
I think, you know, that Cardinals curse from the Pottsville Maroons that, you know, from my book that was written that, you know, from taking that 1925 championship, they'd still be with them a little bit.
Darren HayesHOST
And, you know, it might be a long year for Arizona.
Darren HayesHOST
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