Talking Penn State Football History: Irv Pankey
We have one of Penn State's unsung players this week. Irv Pankey played at Penn State from 1976-1979 and was moved around quite a bit during his Penn State career, mostly from tight end to offensive tackle. However, Irv flourished when he got into the…
Talking Penn State Football History: Mark Robinson
This week's guest is arguably the "hardest hitter" in Penn State football history. Mark Robinson, safety 1980-1983, joins us this week and talks about his Penn State career, which includes the 1982 National Championship team. Mark was a 4th round…
Talking Penn State Football History: Steve Davis
Steve Davis joins me on the podcast this week and what a story he is. Steve came out of Overbrook High School in Philadelphia and walked on at Penn State in 1969. Overbrook High School is well known as it produced Wilt Chamberlain and many other…
Going, going, gone
James Franklin could never quite reach the penthouse at Penn State, so he went through the outhouse instead. As in out the door. Sayonara.Hit the road, James, don’t ya come back no more, no more, no more, no more.Don’t pass go, and don’t collect…um…
Talking Penn State Football History: Ted Kwalick
When you talk about Penn State football history at the tight end position, a few names regularly come up in the conversation. We are lucky to talk with the one whom many feel is the best PSU tight end of all-time. Ted Kwalick is our guest today on the…
What lessons have we learned?
Ranking football teams in September is a fool’s errand. We truly don’t know much about the teams, especially those teams that load up on the Valdosta States of the world. The calendar has turned to October, and we have plenty of anecdotal evidence to…
Talking Penn State Football History: Milt Plum
We are privileged this week to have Milt Plum, who Rex Naylor considers Penn State's most underrated quarterback in the history of the program. Milt played at Penn State from 1954-1956. He played with Lenny Moore at Penn State and with Jim Brown when he…
Maybe the answer is never
When I picked Penn State to win it all this year I asked the question, “If not now, when?”Saturday night James Franklin may have given me my answer.Never.This Penn State team is senior laden with a five star senior quarterback. A quarterback who got…
The season starts Saturday
The sky is falling.Or maybe the sky is not falling.For fans of the Penn State Nittany Lions, the season starts Saturday. So the sky is falling crowd could turn out to be correct, but they just might be wrong.Playing Nevada, FIU, and Villanova doesn’t…
