Week of December 25th

Relive some of the greatest moments in Sports History

Episode Transcript

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Looking back at the world of sports. It's the iHeartRadio Weekend Sports Time Capsules.
What's happening, fellow sports fans.It's Andy West and I'm here to
take you on a journey back tothis week in sports history. We'll start
off. In nineteen sixty two,the American Basketball League or ABL announced the
suspension of operation. The ABL onlyplayed one full season nineteen sixty one through

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nineteen sixty two. The ABL wasthe first basketball league to have a three
point shot. This week in nineteensixty seven, the NFL Championship game between
the Packers and Cowboys was nicknamed theIce Bowl. The temperature at lambeau Field
in Green Bay was about negative fifteendegrees and an estimated wind chill of about
negative thirty five. The Packers beatthe Cowboys twenty one seventeen. This Week

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in nineteen eighty eight, Mario Lemieuxof the Pittsburgh Penguin scores a goal in
each of the five different ways possiblein one game, even strength, power
play, shorthanded, penalty shot,and empty nest. This week in nineteen
eighty nine, sin another nicknamed NFLgame took place. The Fog Bowl,
a dense fog rolled into Soldier Fieldin Chicago. The fog was so thick

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that both teams were forced to usetheir running game because receivers could not see
passes. TV and radio announcers,and the fans in the stadium had trouble
seeing what was happening on the field. The Bears beat the Eagles twenty to
twelve. And this week in twentyseventeen, the Cleveland Browns lose twenty eight
to twenty four to the Pittsburgh Steelersto become only this second team in NFL

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history to finish the season oh tosixteen. And that's just some of what
happened this week in sports history.The Weekend Sports Time Capsule on iHeartRadio