Episode 12: Presenting our back-up quarterback Hall of Fame (happy birthday mom and dad)

A little history first, because in early football, you know, I was thinking about this.

I was like.

Were there always backups? Probably not, right? Like the rosters look different.

I think they were smaller back in there.

So anyways, so going back to the early 1900s and the earliest forms of the game, especially in college football programs like the Yale Bulldogs or the Harvard Crimson football teams, they didn't have deep benches or strict positional hierarchy.

So players were often... playing defense and offense and substitutions are really limited um and or even prohibited in our early rules of football okay so if a quarterback um got injured back in those days or was fatigued actually another player often like a running back or a lineman would just step in there wasn't a backup qb in the yeah

it seems like it wasn't as specialized

yeah

Wait, when the F did football start?

That's a good question.

Maybe we should do an early football eras episode like we did basketball last week.

People are probably like, no.

Not

again.

And we have to talk like this the whole time.

I've been crimson.

No more eras.

How many episodes have we used that one?

Probably like half of them now.

There's been more accents than I thought.

Even though it's not warranted.

Yeah.

So anyways, fast forwarding a little bit.

So there were some rule changes, some more specialization later into the 20s, even into the 40s.

Right.