THE NIGHT THE ORANGE BOWL CAUGHT FIRE
The Orange Bowl's been rotting at the seams for years, so much so that a leak in the roof caused a short circuit in 1991 that then caused a small fire in the broadcast booth during the Miami/Nebraska Orange Bowl.
The NBC team had to switch to the Japanese feed, which luckily was not turned to teacher/student bondage porn at the time. You can hear the Japanese announcers for a second:
"And the smells-like-butter rapist gives the ball to smells-like-butter rapist number two...Miami, Japanese listeners, is full of cocaine! Cheap and affordable cocaine! I have consumed piles of it in between using my crazily overvalued yen to pay for fat-buttocked prostitutes! Invest now!"
Then Gayle Gardner and Paul Maguire gamely attempt to keep up with the grainy footage from the studio, with Gayle asking if Paul could help out with translating the Japanese. The only shame is that Dick Enberg is not shown running from the booth in flames, since we agree with Quentin Tarentino that every film needs a man on fire running through the background of at least one shot. Director's commentary tracks for Kill Bill represent! That's something a Miami crowd would definitely clap like mad trained seals for, dear reader.
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I miss that old orange bowl logo. He seemed so happy.
Maybe it’s cause he caught a big old whiff of the yayo from downtown.
by Wooderson on Jul 13, 2007 1:39 PM EDT reply actions
Good Christ, it’s not as if this is the only place on the internet to see a world-class posterior.
Something tells me Lamar Thomas would have welcomed a studio fire.
by Oops Pow Surprise on Jul 13, 2007 1:40 PM EDT reply actions
Lamar Thomas would definitely warn us not to go bring that “fire” shit into the OB.
And so we would be treated to our tarantino moment.
by Wooderson on Jul 13, 2007 1:48 PM EDT reply actions
No no no no no.
Set Maguire on fire, not Dick Enberg. What’s that nice old man from Michigan ever done to you, Orson?
Besides, can you imagine the call? “Maguire’s on fire! Maguire’s on fire! Oh, the humanity!”
by PJ from NU in SF on Jul 13, 2007 1:54 PM EDT reply actions
See I’m more picturing Enberg yelling “Oh… myyyyyy” while being engulfed in flames… and it strangely pleases me.
You can find pictures of bunda elsewhere? Who knew?
by Whitey on Jul 13, 2007 2:05 PM EDT reply actions
Maguire was in the studio. Otherwise, we would have had him immolated in that scenario.
by Orson Swindle on Jul 13, 2007 2:15 PM EDT reply actions
Remind me again, how many national championships and super bowls have been played in the swamp? Oh right, but at least the 300 lb, back country hookers are in rampant…bring on a big game.
by F Noles on Jul 13, 2007 2:27 PM EDT reply actions
The Orange Bowl bit me in 2001 (this is not a euphemism; I required a tetanus shot), and is not to be trusted.
by Holly on Jul 13, 2007 2:40 PM EDT reply actions
From now on I will claim all life problems whether from fire, drunkeness, or peeing my pants to by due to “atmospheric conditions.”
by letsplaytummysticks on Jul 13, 2007 2:53 PM EDT reply actions
Fire-
Next you want to start something at the Orange Bowl, my crutches are at your service.
by A'Mod Ned on Jul 13, 2007 3:01 PM EDT reply actions
Too bad the clip didn’t have Gayle Gardner’s feeble attempts at doing play by play during the mishap. It was God awful and I believe it precipitated the end of her network ascendancy.
by SeaTrojan on Jul 13, 2007 3:03 PM EDT reply actions
So that’s what The Rock was cookin’!
(sorry)
by jebushchrist on Jul 13, 2007 3:06 PM EDT reply actions
You know it’s a long hot summer that won’t end so football can start when a hated rival defends another hated rival’s shithole of a stadium. Gawd, I love me some football.
by Out of Conference on Jul 13, 2007 3:07 PM EDT reply actions
Holly, what exactly are you into? that’s some craziness.
by Wooderson on Jul 13, 2007 3:10 PM EDT reply actions
You just know that 75% of Japanese television programming is teacher/student bondage porn.
by PW on Jul 13, 2007 3:10 PM EDT reply actions
Holly, now that I know you’re caught up on your tetanus shots, I want your number.
by PW on Jul 13, 2007 3:12 PM EDT reply actions
Holly, now that I know you’re caught up on your tetanus shots, I want your number.
Who am I kidding, I wanted it anyway.
by PW on Jul 13, 2007 3:13 PM EDT reply actions
Orson, I’d forgotten about that break in the reign of Criqui and Trumpy over the OB press box, and that Bill Walsh was the color guy with Dick for those years… for some reason I can see both of them in South Park Hell.
by PJ from NU in SF on Jul 13, 2007 3:13 PM EDT reply actions
Immolation of Enberg’s fine by me. Ever since he referred to Wimbledon as “delicious tennis.” Haven’t watched a match since.
by beast in 'bama on Jul 13, 2007 3:16 PM EDT reply actions
#8, you are right, when it comes to a structurally unstable, urine-soaked den full of the most football-IQ challenged bandwagon fans located in the worst neighborhood in D-1 football, nobody beats the OB!
Hail to the gangsta rap played during TV timeouts!
by Refuse to stab a pig on Jul 13, 2007 3:28 PM EDT reply actions
More importantly, where are the pictures of women available on the internet? I’ve never heard of such a thing, and I don’t believe that they exist. The internet is only for educational/research purposes!
Racy pictures of females on the internet . . . who’s ever even heard of such a suggestion?
by Kipp on Jul 13, 2007 3:31 PM EDT reply actions
I’m surprised they weren’t able to switch to a Spanish feed of one form or another. After all, this is Miami, there has to be Spanish broadcasting going on.
by SC_Gator on Jul 13, 2007 4:32 PM EDT reply actions
- - Delicious Tennis is my pimp name. I got ho’s on the’ track at the country clubs. A lot goes down in those tennis rooms.
Spanish feed for football that long ago? Don’t think too many latins were into pigskin back then. Funny enough, I remember that game. I didn’t even know the rules and I loved college football, and never gave a damn for the Saints.
by MCab on Jul 13, 2007 5:59 PM EDT reply actions
Kipp, let me know if you run across any of those “racy pictures” I never even thought of such a thing, but what a great idea
by BobTyDavieham on Jul 13, 2007 6:49 PM EDT reply actions
Funnily enough, I"m reading this from a hotel room in Japan. And yes, there’s porn on the TV, but haven’t you heard? The NEW Hottness here in Japan is maid costumes, not the schoolgirl. That’s an old standby though.
And to translate the Japanese, it was "We’re sorry everyone, we’re having technical difficulties with your nightly schoolgirl pornfest. Please watch these lumbering foreigners run around in this game they call “football” for a while until we can bring you your regularly scheduled schoolgirls being tortured with candlewax"
by Joe on Jul 14, 2007 8:32 AM EDT reply actions

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