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ETSU Looks To Get Back on the Winning Track at The Citadel
And should take it any way they can.
Don’t let anyone tell you national sports talk radio began with Jim Rome or ESPN radio.
Pete Franklin was a national sports talk radio star in the 1980s out of AM 1100 WWWE (now WTAM) in Cleveland.
Yes, boys and girls, before Mark Cuban took sportscasts to the internet, one would take their AM radio and search for out of town radio stations at night. And since WWWE could famously be heard in “38 states and half of Canada” at night with a 50,000 watt signal, a nation knew “Old Acid Breath,” so much so that when WFAN became the nation’s first all-sports talk station, they hired Franklin to build their lineup around.
But since he was primarily based in Cleveland, the teams of that city were his “Sportsline” program’s focus.
Usually, they lost, but in 1986 the Cleveland Browns came closer to making the Super Bowl than at any other time in franchise history.
They started 4–2 and were preparing to play the 0–6 Green Bay Packers at home.
