Behind Tha Mike Podcast
Presented by Belly Up Sports! Michael Neal Jr shares his love of NFL history by discussing stories, games, NFL draft, Super Bowls, team origins, and more!
Episodes
May 17, 2024 • 38 mins
The NFL MVP award is the most biased award in all of sports. Only three times in its official history has a player outside of a quarterback or running back ever won it, and one winner is still unbelievable!
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May 8, 2024 • 49 mins
Two brothers born and raised in Chicago. Each worked for rival NFL teams. One would hoist the Lombardi trophy while the other was responsible for the man whom the trophy is named for. Jack & Jerry Vainisi.
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May 2, 2024 • 54 mins
Nobody’s perfect, and that goes for some of the greatest coaches of all time. They all believe they know best, especially the ones that want complete control of their franchise. It doesn’t always end well.
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April 24, 2024 • 46 mins
Drafting is an inexact science, and nothing is guaranteed. Caleb Williams could change the Chicago Bears’ failures at the quarterback position, but when you look at their franchise history? It will take more than that.
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March 6, 2024 • 41 mins
There was a time when champions won with multiple HBCU players on their roster, and no one had more than the 1969 Kansas City Chiefs.
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February 16, 2024 • 53 mins
We run down a Super Bowl that was won on a play named after cartoon legends, and we reminisce about some of the greatest stories in Super Bowl history!
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February 7, 2024 • 51 mins
In the history of the Super Bowl, quarterbacks that have reached the big game, win or lose, you have no idea what their careers were going to be. Sometimes we ought to just enjoy the story.
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January 31, 2024 • 41 mins
It’s been a long time since the Detroit Lions played in the NFC Championship Game…and even longer since they’ve won a championship. Today is a reminder of just how good they were in their early history.
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January 25, 2024 • 52 mins
Two of footballs greatest coaches of all time, Nick Saban retires, Bill Belichick and the Patriots part ways. Both gone within days of each other. We take a quick look back at their careers and their time together with the Cleveland Browns.
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January 17, 2024 • 48 mins
Super Wildcard weekend is now over, and we must remember teams with a bye & home-field advantage don’t always win it all. A team from the first weekend has a chance at the trophy too… Just ask the 1980 Oakland Raiders.
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January 11, 2024 • 52 mins
There is nothing new under the sun! Like that team that wins so much, but always comes up short in the playoffs? Sometimes they finally break through!
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January 4, 2024 • 47 mins
Before there was Brady, Manning, Montana, Unitas, or Graham, there was Samuel Adrian Baugh, a quarterback that did more than just throw a football.
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December 28, 2023 • 50 mins
The 2023 Cleveland Browns have won 6 of 8 games decided by four points or fewer! This has conjured up old memories of the Kardiac Kids, the 1980 Cleveland Browns, who had a similar season… And maybe, just maybe should’ve kicked the ball in the playoffs.
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December 21, 2023 • 53 mins
Most of us know the Pittsburgh Steelers' history by two things. One, the dynasty of the 70s, and two the 40 years of losing. The question I wanted answered, was “What happened? Why were they so bad?”
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December 13, 2023 • 60 mins
Some teams move into existing venues, max them out, and then they may get something new. For some cities, whether they want an NFL team or not, building a franchise a new stadium doesn’t guarantee they will stay… But if they don’t, they will go.
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December 7, 2023 • 47 mins
One minute you’re sharing a stadium with major & minor league baseball, dressing in a high school locker room. The next? You finally get a home of your own. This is part II of our discussion of historic stadiums of the NFL!
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November 29, 2023 • 48 mins
Think about your favorite team and where they play…or played. The stadium. How historic or iconic is or was it? Welcome to the first of a three part series exploring the most historic stadiums in NFL history.
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November 23, 2023 • 40 mins
Some of the greatest players and coaches in NFL history may or may not have passed on great genes to their sons. In some cases the sons were better than the fathers! We celebrate Thanksgiving this year honoring great football families!
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November 16, 2023 • 43 mins
Actress, Jennifer Edwards kicked off Sunday Night Football with this quote: “A movie I was in as a little girl kind of, how do I say this, got in the way of football".
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November 8, 2023 • 50 mins
The 1958 NFL Championship! The New York Giants, the Baltimore Colts, and the story on how two franchises reached the game that put the NFL on the professional sports map!
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