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Brooklyn Dodgers vs NY Giants broadcast - Dec 7, 1941

GiantsUA : 12/7/2018 8:28 am
The football game radio broadcast was interrupted on December 7, 1941, announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.


Dodgers vs Giants - December 7, 1941 - ( New Window )
Here it is.  
GiantsUA : 12/7/2018 8:30 am : link
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Forgot there was a Brooklyn Dodgers football team  
Post Time : 12/7/2018 9:18 am : link
Pretty common back then to name football teams after the baseball team in the same stadium. I think there was a Yankees football at some point, wasn't there?
there were actually multiple Yankees football teams  
Greg from LI : 12/7/2018 9:25 am : link
The first one was in the 1920s NFL and had Red Grange. The second was in the AAFC of the late '40s and featured Tom Landry and Arnie Weinmeister. The last one was the NY Yanks, which had an odd history. They had been the Boston Yanks (which is very odd itself), moved to NY and became the Bulldogs in 1949, then the NY Yanks in 1950-51, then moved to Dallas as the Dallas Texans in 1952, and then folded.
Unbelievable...  
Chris684 : 12/7/2018 9:38 am : link
The thought of a World War is terrifying.

What those of the greatest generation did and how they handled it is incredible.
RE: Unbelievable...  
mrvax : 12/7/2018 9:59 am : link
In comment 14208220 Chris684 said:
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The thought of a World War is terrifying.

What those of the greatest generation did and how they handled it is incredible.


Chris, if there is ever another one, it will bring us to the end of days, IMO. Horrific. My dad who was born in 1936 used to tell me about these gov't food ration stamps people needed to buy meat, etc. during WW2.
There are some people on here  
K-Gun? Pop-Gun : 12/7/2018 10:02 am : link
who were at that game.
I actually have  
GFiLA : 12/7/2018 10:08 am : link
That game day program. Grandfather was there.
Wild Bill Donovan was paged  
jeff57 : 12/7/2018 10:31 am : link
during the game.
I wasn’t alive then, but I have the ticket  
Big Blue '56 : 12/7/2018 11:07 am : link
stub from the game
When I read the thread headline,  
Section331 : 12/7/2018 11:09 am : link
I thought, why were they playing baseball in December? Forgot about the Dodgers football team.
both my grandfathers were  
Paulie Walnuts : 12/7/2018 11:22 am : link
there..
My  
noro9 : 12/7/2018 10:00 pm : link
Dad was there
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