An Honest Guys Work

Pigskin Tales Podcast

For those that are new to

listening to the Pigskin Tales Podcast, thanks for choosing to listen. I

appreciate the fact that you took the time out of your busy day to find out

what this podcast is all about.

Before really get into it, I

want to take some time to tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Ross and I grew up in a small

farming community 25 miles south of Fargo, North Dakota. Colfax, is one of the

closest high schools that I attended. Technically it’s in the Richland school

district and its comprised of Colfax, Abercrombie, Christine, Galchutt, and

Barney.

I am part of a family of 3 boys

and no sisters. But now that my 2 brothers and I have been married for a while,

I can say that I have 2 sisters and a wife.

My wife and I don’t have any

kids of our own, but we’ve fostered kids within Grand Forks County and since

that didn’t work out to adopt, we have now been looking into adopting from the

Village. The Village is a small company that helps people in many different

ways; like financial counseling, adopting children and just counseling in

general. Anyway, my older brother lives with his wife and 2 boys in Minneapolis

and my younger brother lives in Waconia with his wife and 5 boys.

My younger brother just turned

40 on the 8th and so, now we’re all officially in the 40 and older

club. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or bad thing. Maybe we’ll just say

that we’re all a little older and wiser.

Ok, so now that I have that you

know a little bit about me and my family, I want to tell you about this

podcast. First, the easiest and simplest way of explaining what it is, is a

collection of stories I have found on ex-NFL players that came from Minnesota.

That’s what it has evolved into. At first, I just started out analyzing

Minnesota Vikings players, news, and games that I watched. Then I decided to

research the history of the Vikings and try to put it into a biography of

sorts. I was attempting to do my own version of ESPN’s 30for30, but that didn’t

work out. So really I just wrote the players biography from the internet. I

know I am not supposed to use Wikipedia, but I used it for some of the research

links. And at the end of an episode, I used to say all the links I used. But

then I decided to shorten things up.

Now, what I have been doing is

sort of the same thing as before, writing a biography about a player, but now I

do it in a short series if I can. Some series have gotten really long; like

Ernie Nevers, but I been trying to limit myself to only 4 parts so that it

doesn’t get too long.

If you have listened to this

podcast in the past and have enjoyed it, please review my work. I have an email

address you can send a message to or you can find my profile on Twitter,

Instagram, and Facebook. I have attempted to create a You-tube account, but

have not used that as of late, because my computer doesn’t seem to want to save

my video work. So I’m working on saving money to buy a new computer. If you

want to send me an email my address is [e-mail].

I also have a patreon account

in which you can support me monetarily. There are membership levels so low that

it only costs you a dollar to support me if you so choose. I am also part of

the sports history network ran by Arnie Chapman who doubles as host of the

podcast the Football History Dude. His stuff is good too. Take a listen! He

just made his 200th episode!

So there ya have it. A little

bit about the Pigskin Tales Podcast. I hope you enjoyed listening to this and I

hope that you decide to listen to more episodes moving forward.