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Morton Downey

Bill Stern Sports Newsreel · January 1, 1946 · 14 min · 2,633 words

The transcript of “Morton Downey”, an episode of Bill Stern Sports Newsreel first broadcast January 1, 1946. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Bill Stern Sports Newsreel plays Bill Stern Sports Newsreel free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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We are all the APP, forget, protect those sterns. Whether, for a new trail, little spandex, or a state of mind at all, those sterns of all be taken into mind with all, they can't decide to use what needs to be a state, to be a corporate right.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Let's go, sir and gentlemen. We're bringing you the free and 70th edition of the court. Cream sport's nose real, trains in fantastic stories. Here's a, but also interesting, we'd like a past, two, our guests tonight, the famous singing star warden downy but you know how many in person let's begin

with real one of a man to remember this is the story of a man to remember he's dead now but as long as stories are told his to inspire athletes the world over there's a little use in your china I don't think you can suppose it just listen to the story see how much of it you already know right most men

his the shape is man for the young boy he loved sports he loved tennis golf wrestling he loved the right horseback some of as much as a hundred miles a day wish I could say he loved all sports but he hated hated the game he thought football was brutal that it was a waste of time

yet pure enough it was this back Team Five who saved the game of football for football that year had killed 32 youngsters. And from one end of this nation to the other, there arose a great human cry to do away with a game of football.

The churches of America banded together to stop this game. States began to pass laws to make football illegal. Seemed that everybody was against football. And yet this one fan, this one man who hated it.

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