415: The NFL's Dallas Texans - With David Fleming

<div> <div> <p><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Peabody Award-nominated writer and <a href= "https://goodseatsstillavailable.com/listen/2025/4/6/episode-389-the-1925-nfl-champion-pottsville-maroons-with-david-fleming"> Episode 389 guest</a> <strong>David Fleming</strong> ("<em><a href= "https://amzn.to/4o3Xya2">Breaker Boys: The NFL's Greatest Team and the Stolen 1925 Championship</a></em>") returns to the show to unpack one of the National Football League's most chaotic and fascinating chapters: the disaster of the 1952 <strong>Dallas Texans</strong>.</span></p> <p><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">In his new book,<em>"<a href="https://amzn.to/3VN2RPg">A Big Mess in Texas: The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History</a></em>," Fleming chronicles the league's first attempt to plant a professional football franchise in football-crazed Texas — a venture so ill...