Press Box Chronicles with Jeff Pearlman
Ep.18 - Press Box Chronicles - John Jefferson
Season 2, Episode 18
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Sports, Talk Show, 03-Dec-2025
Today, we're diving into one of the coolest football players of all-time - no, actually, maybe THE coolest football player of all-time - John Jefferson. The goggles-wearing, 1,000-yard receiver may just be the coolest football player I've ever seen in my lifetime - and his downfall and subsequent departure from the NFL is one of the saddest, quickest falls from grace we've ever seen.
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