Between the years of 1985 thru 1996, the New Orleans Saints had risen from the cellar of the NFL to become a perennial playoff team.

Though they never won a playoff game during that time, the Saints, behind quarterback Bobby Hebert and a legendary linebacking corps known as the Dome Patrol, became one of the NFL's elite teams. Behind it all was the quotable head coach with ties to the USFL, Jim Mora.

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Dana Auguster and Charles Combs will talk about the key players and moments from that time in Saints history along with there own personal memories of that team, both growing up in Louisiana at the time.

Later in the show we will send a shout out to the Who Dat Chant. a chant, which actually became famous in the 1960s thanks to high school and colleges in the area but actually predates the NFL itself and we will settle....sort of ...the debate which have raged on for decades. Which came first the Who Dat chant in New Orleans or the Who Dey chant in Cincinnati?

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September 3rd, 1995 was the start of the 76th season of the National Football league. The San Francisco 49ers were the defending Super Bowl champions and every team was looking at the new season with new hope, possibilities and opportunities.

For two of the now 30 teams in the National Football League however, the hope, possibilities and opportunities were new.

On this early fall afternoon, in 1995 were the first games of the Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville jaguars as newly minted members of the NFL.

Though they both lost their opening games of the regular season, no one had any idea just 16 months later, some 497 days later, both would be playing for a right to play in Super Bowl XXXI.

In this all new edition of the podcast, Co Hosts Dana Auguster and Charles will take a look at the first two seasons of the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars. Two franchises that shocked fans and football experts alike, crawling from expansion obscurity to the darlings of the NFL in just two seasons.

Later in the show, we will send a shout out out one of the members of the Carolina Panthers team who embodied the leadership and toughness of that team that was one step away from the Super Bowl. An undersized linebacker who came up with the teams motto that it still follows today and thus far, the only player to have his number retired by the team.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, football is back and not a moment too soon.

In this episode of the Historically Speaking Sports Podcast, hosts Dana Auguster and Charles Combs are joined by fellow football fans and good friends Mark Boutte and David Bashay to talk out of course, football.

We will discuss our our hopes this year for out teams as well as debate on who is the most overrated and underrated quarterbacks, coaches and teams heading into the the 2025 NFL season.

Also later in the show, on a lighter note, our favorite all-time football movies as well as out top five favorite fictional football players.

all that and more as well welcome back football in our lives.

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There are teams that linger on in the memory long after they had vanished from the scene.

One such team was the Brooklyn dodgers who was one if the winningest teams in the mid 20th century and had a storied and devoted following in the borough that was known as the bedroom of New York.

The Montreal Expos was not as storied as the boys of summer Brooklyn Dodgers but over its 36 years of existence, "Les Expos" was as big to French speaking Canadians as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider and Pee Wee Resse was to Brooklynites.

Hello this is Dana Auguster, and my co-host Charles Combs will be along shortly or this new edition of the new and improved Historically Speaking Sports podcast where we give you the best of sports from back in the day.

As you have probably noticed we have a new theme song...so thanks to my main man Ron Tyke Oliver and Donovan D who wrote produced and performed the theme... thanks for that gentlemen

In this episode of the podcast we will continue out Forgotten Franchise series with a team that is hardly forgotten by baseball fans.

The Montreal Expos are maybe more popular now then they were 20 years ago where their existence were hanging by a thread and was ran my Major League Baseball.

yet during there time in Montreal before their move to Washington DC, the expos had some of the greatest players in baseball history over the last 50-plus years.

Those players included the likes of Rusty Staub, known as the Grande Orange' the teams first superstar. also the likes of Andre Dawson, Tim Raines, John Wetteland, Steve Rogers, Vladimir Guerrero, and a catcher nicknamed "The Kid".

We have that coming up as well as as shout out to the original team in Montreal....the Montreal Royals that had at one time a who-who of players to play for this minor league team in the international league including one Jack Roosevelt Robinson and a heartfelt tribute to Chicago Cubs great Ryne Sandburg

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During the decade of the 1980'sz in the time between the retirement of Muhammad Ali and the rise of Mike Tyson, the sport of boxing was never more popular. Thanks to the talents, toughness and swagger of four fighters with various talents and differing styles.

In this episode of the podcast. Dana Auguster and Charles Combs discuss the Four Kings era highlighted by Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler.

This era of boxing was highlighted by epic fights, controversial decisions and a whole lot of swagger and personality.

Later in the show, we will send a shout out to one of the most incredible and famous fights that involved two of the gentlemen that we talked about.

On April 15, 1985 in Las Vegas in a fight that was nicknamed "The War", Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler put on one of the greatest fights in boxing history. A fight that only lasted three rounds.

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The 95th mid-summer classic, also known as the MLB All-Star game is now upon us as the best of Major League baseball converge on the city of Atlanta.

In this edition of the Historically Speaking Sports Podcast, hosts Dana Auguster and Charles Combs get to get to select their own all-stars.

With a mixture of Hall of Famers and other all-time greats, the co-hosts of the show will select from players over the last 45 years in Major League Baseball to fill out their fantasy rosters.

Dana Auguster selected his best from the American League while co-host Charles Combs selected his favorites from the National League.

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There are losses that can endure for a day or a week or maybe even a year.

But there are losses that some fans deal with that last for years, decades and some that they never get over.

On this edition of the Historically Speaking Sports podcast, Charles Combs and Dana Auguster will reveal the losses that they have endured as fans which they have never gotten over and may have finally come to terms with.

These losses were historically relevant big games, some even championship games. But all of them rank as some of the most memorable moments in the history of sports in this country. We even have a boxing match from the early 1990s that makes the list and no it is not Buster Douglas beating Mike Tyson.

Later in the show, we are going to send a shout out to an NFL regular season game from December of 2003.

A game that featured a miraculous finish by a team looking to return to the playoffs. However the team that pulled off the gridiron miracle failed to complete the deal. And to this day, some 22 years later, I still somewhat feel responsible for that teams loss.. Simply because I opened my mouth and said something that I shouldn’t have.

All that and more on this all new edition of the Historically Speaking Sports podcast here on the sports history Network.

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Every month of the calendar is known for different things that are synonymous with that time of year.

For example, the Month of December is known for Christmas.

October is the time of year for both Halloween and the World Series.

The month of June is no different.

Not only does it mark the start of summer vacation, but it is also the month that sees the crowning of the new champions of the NBA and NHL.

In this edition of the Historically Speaking Sports Podcast hosts Dana Auguster and Charles Combs share their favorite and not-so favorite moments of the NBA Finals.

Also later in the show, Dana and Charles delve into the hockey's most cherished possession - the Stanley Cup. They will discuss its history and the traditions that surround the Stanley Cup and all of the trophies and other individual awards that make that sport as special as it is here in North America.

To close out the show the show hosts will send a shout out to the events of June 17th 1994. That night the sports watching public was setting in for Game 5 of the NBA finals between the New York Knicks and the Houston Rockets.

However that game was serve as a backdrop as the sports watching public was captivated by what was happening on a southern California freeway with a white Ford Bronco.

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