Comments on: YOU SPOILED, SPOILED CRETINS

By: NCHawk

NCHawk — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:12:54 +0000

I’ll bet you a month’s wages that the other announcer was NOT Bud Wilkonson.

But it was The Great Chris Shenkel.

By: JPG

JPG — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:06:35 +0000

Here is a link to the list of Alabama’s National Championships that we claim along with some recognized that we do not. You newboys do not recall, but many schools did not attend bowls back in the day. Also, Big Ten schools that were edged from the Rose Bowl did not attend other bowls. Bowls were also viewed as a chance for the players to party as opposed to deciding the ultimate champion. This was especially the case when Notre Dame did not attend bowls and the Big 10 would not allow a team to go to the Rose Bowl in back to back years in the event of a tie. The SEC had a tiebreaker for the Sugar Bowl (when the SEC champion was the home team for the Bowl) in which the team that has been to the Sugar the year before would be edged for the other team in the event of a tie. I provide this historical information only to educate those unaware of the historical relationship between the bowls and national championships – not to justify or support any of the titles we claim in Tuscaloosa. I would also recommend the NCAA site for lists of past football championships.

http://www.rolltide.com/fls/8000/files/football/2007/supplement/71-117.pdf?&DB_OEM_ID=8000#page=4

Roll Tide!

JPG

By: VandyJ

VandyJ — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:34:27 +0000

I think the UPI voted Bama the championship before the bowl game – and promptly moved their title vote to post-Jan. 1 starting the following season.

I think more than a few of the Tide titles were won in that manner and followed by a bowl loss (think Joe Namath not getting the inch against Texas in ‘64? ‘65?) but then, apparently Alabama has some sort of consensus MNC in 1945 that I’ve never seen them claim.

Of course, I think the Dores have some MNC from 1904 or 1907 or so…

By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:31:33 +0000

Kleph @ 16
Did Bennett take a few years off Beurlein’s career there? I’ve always wondered.

GeronimoRumplestiltskin at 29 points out a time when it was not, in fact, entirely about the money. Hard to imagine those rules today.

Also, I hope to never be unimpressed by the ability to watch clips of something from decades ago at my every whim. Interwebs, you r my lolfriend.

By: WDamnE

WDamnE — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:30:41 +0000

What a blast of nostalgia. When sideburns ruled the earth.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:00:53 +0000

Alabama still claimed the MNC.

By: GeronimoRumplestiltskin

GeronimoRumplestiltskin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:16:55 +0000

“one game a week, shot on no more that six or seven cameras”

Actually, back in the olden days, we usually got a whopping two games a week – one at noon and the other at 3:30, with at least one of them being the maddening “regional coverage”. With the NCAA controlling TV rights, the rule was that a team could only be on 5 times (excluding bowl appearances) in 2 years in any given region. With no satellite or pay-per-view available, if the game you wanted to see wasn’t shown in your region, you were out of luck. You could only hope to find it on radio or just watch the occasional score updates given during the game shown. Here’s a few of the games not shown in Orlando, FL from 1977-81:

1977 Oklahoma at Ohio State
1978, 1979, 1980 Notre Dame vs. Michigan
1978 Penn State at Ohio State
1979 Penn State at Nebraska
1979 Notre Dame at Tennessee
1979 #1USC at LSU
1979 #1 Alabama at LSU
1979 Texas at Houston
1980 Florida State at Nebraska
1981 Florida State at Ohio State
1981 Florida State at Notre Dame
1981 Florida State at Pitt
1981 USC at Washington
(All of the above games featured teams ranked in the Top 15 at the time, if not both in the Top 10, with the exception of the 1979 LSU games – LSU was tough, though losing to USC 17-12 and ‘Bama 3-0)

I’m sure that there were other games missing from the above list, but I’m getting old and the memory’s a-slippin’…..

By: Boston Frog

Boston Frog — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:55:26 +0000

Howard Cosell was awesome. Monday Night Football hasn’t been the same without him.

But, I agree that Keith and Frank made college football, even though Frank is kind of an ass. I especially liked the way Frank would say, at least three or four times a game, talking about one of the players, “Keith, I coached his daddy…” or, “Keith, I played with his granddaddy…”

Always good times.

By: GEAUX

GEAUX — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:21:48 +0000

Sorry – I was talking about the fight song.

By: GEAUX

GEAUX — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:20:49 +0000

I hadn’t noticed it before really, but the Oklahoma one is pretty annoying. During the bowl game this year they were playing it after every play it seemed. The only times that they didn’t play it (it seemed) were when WVU got a first down or scored, or when OU lost yardage.

By: Southern Papa

Southern Papa — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:27:53 +0000

Gotta agree that Keith & Frank Broyles were what I looked forward to for college football announcing. Keith lost a little luster when he started homering for USC. Keith also was on the original MNF crew, but was drowned out by Howard. He was fired from there, and became the voice of college football. If you can ever see the movie “Monday Night Mayhem”, it told a lot about the interplay in the booth on MNF.

Howard’s book, “I Never Played the Game” was almost as obnoxious in print as he was in voice. How in pete’s sake he was calle dto testify when the USFL sued the NFL for antitrust I will never completely figure out.

By: Big 11th Blog

Big 11th Blog — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:11:02 +0000

Too much HD viewing has left me blind to the proportions and color of analog TV.

So can someone fill me in on exactly who is boxing in this clip?

http://thebigeleventh.blogspot.com/

By: drogue

drogue — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:05:20 +0000

Howard was entertaining on MNF especially when paired with Dandy Don Meredith. He was basically a rock star and milked it for all it was worth. By the end of the 3rd quarter he’d be really gooned up on scotch. Then it was just sit back and wait for the first thing that pissed him off. He’d get on his drunken soapbox and rail on it for the remainder of the game.

By: yoyofutbawl

yoyofutbawl — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:29:22 +0000

I met the TE (Webber) who caught the ball about six years after that game. The one funny thing he noted was that that was his ONLY catch in his entire career.

By: Biggus Rickus

Biggus Rickus — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:25:14 +0000

PTTO,

Those are the two best fight songs around. You want annoying, go watch Tennessee beat the shit out of your team in their own stadium. Rocky Top will be the soundtrack of your nightmares.

Story time: I was in seats right next to the Tennessee band for the 18-13 game in Athens in 2002. It was a lot of fun watching the band get geared up to play Rocky Top on every third down for three quarters only to have Georgia stop them. You could see them sort of deflate. The fourth quarter, when Tennessee almost came back, was less fun.