5 episodes
Emily Cissell Asks...What If? Emily Cissell
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Join sports and recreation historian Emily Cissell as she takes you on a journey through alternate sports history, examining the ripples and waves that occur throughout the world by tweaking one moment or outcome in history's biggest sporting events.
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What If...The Halftime Show Never Existed?
In this episode, Emily takes you on a musical journey through the history of the Super Bowl halftime show and its impact on the sports industry as we know it. How different would the world be without the big show?
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What If...Baseball Bet the House on the Ponies?
In this episode, Emily discusses the 1929 Black Sox scandal and it's impact on the game of baseball. As legalized sports gambling becomes more and more prominent today, could sports and our society as a whole be totally different if this scandal had gone a different way?
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What If...God Hated Sports?
In this episode, Emily discusses the creation and development of sports by churches and analyzes just how drastically different our lives would be without this contribution.
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What If...The Patriarchy Took Over?
In this episode, Emily takes you back to the 1970s for the Battle of the Sexes between tennis legends Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs to examine just how much a Billie Jean King loss would have set back the world and the fight for women's equality and respect!
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What If...Hitler Won the Olympics?
In this episode, Emily goes back to 1936 Berlin to analyze how the triumph of Olympic wrestler Károly Kárpáti impacted the legacies of the Olympics, Jesse Owens, and Adolf Hitler...and how his loss in an alternate timeline would have changed the world as we know it!