NEW PATREON EXCLUSIVE: This Week in Sports (Patreon)

34 years ago this week, history was made.

Some of it was major, some of it was minor, some of it was weird, and some was stupid and dangerous. But in each case, it was history and it all happened this very week in 1992.

For today's project, Seth, Ryan and I (hi it's Will) dipped into stories that span the NHL, NBA, the Olympics, even a hot air balloon race. Weirdly enough, it's not our first time to create something having to do with any of those sports (RIP my article about an old timey balloon race that I can no longer find). But, this is our first time approaching stories by exploring a moment in time.

That's what "This Week in Sports" is trying to do. A lot of the time while we're researching a video topic, we dig through newspapers.com for something specific, but become distracted by the surrounding stories. As Seth describes it, it's a sense of, "oooo what's that?" The topic you were originally chasing can lead you into a period of time that is often interesting simply because it feels so different, but weirdly connected to what originally brought you to that moment. So, those "what's that?" stories are what we want to focus on.

Instead of looking back at one moment, one team or athlete, we're here to explore one week. This week in fact, just from a different year. It's a show-and-tell style that we've utilized since the start of this Patreon, but borrowing from a format I've wanted to do for a while. The original idea was a weekly podcast in 2021 that looked back at the events that took place that same week, just 20 years earlier. At the time, it was too much to pull off.

But now, thanks to all of you, we're able to try out an updated version that honestly I (and Seth & Ryan too, unless they were lying) found to be way more fun and interesting.

Since it's a new thing, let us know what you think. There's a lot directions to take it, we'll keep finessing to get it feeling right, but I like the path it's heading down so far.