"What it Was, Was Football" is a monologue by comedian Andy Griffith. At the request of Andy Griffith, a 19-year-old, Milton Alderfer, recorded and produced the original master tape in Greensboro, North Carolina. From that tape, Andy then had the master tape mass-produced in Chapel Hill, North Carolina by Colonial Records label in 1953. Soon, Colonial had sold nearly 50,000 copies of the record and then sold the masters to Capitol Records.