If you are a football fan, this weekend is one of the most important weekends of the year.

Along with the College Football semifinals taking place, there is also the Wildcard matchups in the NFL postseason.

Unlike in previous seasons, there is no clear cut favorite to reach Santa Clara for Super Bowl LX.

Yet what's really cool about this weekend in the NFL, the Playoff games are rematches of past postseason matchups. Some determined who reached the Super Bowl. We had one that was talked about for a week, not for this teams performance, but the peculiar absence of a certain star quarterback.

There is one matchup this weekend that is a rematch of one of the few postseason games in NFL history that went to double overtime. There is also a rematch of a championship game from the American Football League and a game between two football rabid fanbases whose team's matchup in the late 1970s brought about instant replay.

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We are in the mist of College Bowl season and this is the time of year where legends are born, where underdogs rise, dynasties show signs of cracking and one play could live forever.

In this episode, Dana Auguster and Charles Combs are counting down their five most memorable bowl games that they have seen in our lifetimes.

Along with the games, Dana and Charles will add personal antidotes about each game they are describing from personal remembrances to people who watched the game with them.

Their list includes a miracle finish that placed a little known west coast college bowl game and an even lesser known football program on the map. Also on the list a couple of ties that includes one in which one of the coaches turned the tie into a charity event. And also we have a couple of wild finishes in perhaps the most prestigious of all the bowl games, authored by the same player in back to back years.

Also Dana and Charles send a shout out to a sportscaster who was the lead broadcaster of some of these games that we're talking about who is considered the Voice of College football .

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Before the dynasties, before the banners, before Brady, before Belichick, even before Bledsoe, there was the 1985 New England Patriots.

A team built on grit, not glamour.

History often remembers the champions, yet the 1985 New England Patriots didn't win a championship. Yet in this case, they are remembered for the journey, a journey that was one of the most memorable in NFL History.

In this episode of the Historically Speaking Sports Podcast, the place where we give you sports from back in the day, Co hosts Charles Combs and Dana Auguster will bring you back to the mid 1980s.

In this edition will will talk about Patriots' first AFC Championship team that posted three, count them, three postseason upsets that included ending a losing streak that dated back to the Lyndon Johnson administration.

This was a team that was devoid of big names and huge stars. But was comprised of several solid individuals that was the personification of blue collar teamwork.

Leading this group was a head coach who had made his own way into Canton as a Hall of Fame receiver, but his quiet understated style was the trademark of this great team.

Later in the show we will send a shout out to a former Patriot great, whose clutch performance that season made him a New England legend plus a discussion on who was actually the worse Super Bowl participant.

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