Episode 1956: The Hollywood Story Of The Last Irishman To Play In The NFL, Rainin’ Reds, My Name Is Ken
Neil O’Donoghue was a teenager from Clondalkin working a part-time job and playing for Shamrock Rovers in the early ’70s when the offer of a soccer scholarship from a small college in Georgia took him to the US for a year.
OTD 1984: Neil O’Donoghue’s 37 yard game winning FG lifted the #BigRed to a 17-16 win over the #Eagles at Busch Stadium. pic.twitter.com/aQQiu0YDRR
— St. Louis Football Cardinals (@BigRed_STL) November 25, 2019
Within another couple of years and after a pretty amazing turn of events, he was an All-American kicker being drafted by OJ Simpson’s Buffalo Bills. That was the start of a career that spanned a decade in the NFL, and one in which Neil’s brightest moment came for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a clutch game against the Kansas City Chiefs, the two teams lining out in the Super Bowl this Sunday. We chat to Neil on today’s show.
Plus there’s an avalanche of red cards in the Premier League, David Luiz’s innocent knee, the GAA’s Vigilance Committee and My Name Is Ken.
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Go to PatreonDays after Barca released financial statements showing the club to be in a very grim spot, someone has leaked the details of Messi’s enormous contract…
A coincidence? Ken reportshttps://t.co/v9XHaEWOJ8 pic.twitter.com/QoFgbXlw6F
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