How the Air Raid Changed Football Forever
ESPN Daily
English - December 13, 2023 10:00 - 21 minutes - ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratingsSports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ground and pound. That’s what defined college football offenses for the first 100 years the game was played. But then a coach named Hal Mumme hooked up with some lawyer from LA named Mike Leach … and everything changed. Playbooks were tossed. Passes were thrown. Records were broken. And the Air Raid offense was born.
Now everyone from your local high school QB to Patrick Mahomes is executing some version of this on Game Day. And when it’s done right … man, it is fun to watch.
So today, Dave Wilson delivers the origin story of this innovative offense and tells us how this once taboo concept changed the game of football forever.
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Ground and pound. That’s what defined college football offenses for the first 100 years the game was played. But then a coach named Hal Mumme hooked up with some lawyer from LA named Mike Leach … and everything changed. Playbooks were tossed. Passes were thrown. Records were broken. And the Air Raid offense was born.
Now everyone from your local high school QB to Patrick Mahomes is executing some version of this on Game Day. And when it’s done right … man, it is fun to watch.
So today, Dave Wilson delivers the origin story of this innovative offense and tells us how this once taboo concept changed the game of football forever.
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