November 14, 1953: Andy Griffith's "What It Was, Was Football" is released

Posted Nov 14, 2018
On November 14, 1953 ,the Colonial label in Raleigh, N.C. released Andy Griffith’s monologue “What It Was, Was Football.” Colonial was owned by Chapel Hill newspaper publisher Orville B. Campbell, who had heard Griffith perform the comedy bit earlier that year. The narrator of the story is a young man who happens upon a football game – something he had never experienced. (NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources)

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