Man behind Super 70s Sports went from ‘bored college professor’ to OutKick host with nostalgic humor

Ricky Cobb, who started @Super70sSports as a hobby, explained how he landed a new show at OutKick.

Ricky Cobb, the founder and creator of the wildly popular Super 70s Sports, never thought his social media presence would land him a daily program on OutKick. 

"Initially, it started as something that I was going to do, I think, just as a hobby to dabble with comedy, and my love of sports, and the nostalgia that I had for my childhood. So, it was sort of a natural marriage of comedy, sports and reflecting on the era that I grew up in," Cobb told Fox News Digital. 

Cobb, a longtime sociology professor at Moraine Valley Community College, started posting about sports of the 1970s when he was "bored" in 2013. The X handle @Super70sSports now has over 750,000 followers and the feed has evolved as its popularity increased.  

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Ricky Cobb created Super 70s Sports in 2013. 

"I'm touching on the '70s and sports every day, but it's also about the ‘80s, and sometimes the ’90s creep in there, and sometimes I go back to the ‘60s or the ‘50s," Cobb said. 

"I'm talking also about pop culture and the cars and the furniture and the cigarette smoking and everything that sort of went with it, because I discovered as I went on and started to build an audience, people wanted to talk about those things, too," he continued. "There's so much rich material there. Why limit yourself artificially?"

Now, instead of only posting about 1970s icons such as Reggie Jackson and "Mean" Joe Greene, Cobb finds himself poking fun at everything from vintage Flintstones vitamins and toys from his childhood to reminiscing about iconic sports and pop culture moments.

"I've found a voice in doing this over the