BLOGTOBERFEST! EASTBOUND AND DOWN EDITION

by Orson on Sep 3, 2008 4:01 PM EDT

Blogtoberfest: a party you have after you run screaming out of the jungle to freedom.

A moment of silence, please: Jerry Reed, dead at the age of 71. He sang "Amos Moses," "She Got the Goldmine (and I Got the Shaft)," and "When You're Hot, You're Hot," but we owe Mr. Reed the greatest debt for making the song we play in our head when, just seconds after the cops turn on the lights to pull you over for an expired tag, we think about gunning the engine and seeing who's the better wheel-jockey, baby.

R.I.P., Snowman.

American Greatness In One Image: Fres-no? Fres-yes. (HT: The Wiz.)

Oklahoma State, discriminating against the childless again. Take a kid to the game! Any kid! Just grab one from a nearby preschool or crib, and they get into the game free with the purchase of one adult ticket for yourself! Their parents will understand without you ever telling them. Hell, some of them might not even want them back. Then you'll have your own child, ready-made and willing to do all of the things children excel at like crawling under the house to change airfilters and cleaning other people's chimneys for cash only.

Our team is ass. It's only fitting. Fight on, BSU points out the unfortunate location of Idaho's logo on their pants.

Excitement equals diagrams. When Duke fans get football-excited, they begin to cough up graphs and everything.

I-4 is lined with the bodies of those swept up in this tragic conflict. How red-hot is the rivalry between UCF and USF? So caustic that Matt Grothe makes jokes about how they ran out of bottled water at the games thanks to the delayed installation of water fountains at UCF's stadium. It's those kind of words that rip unhealable wounds in a relationship. Mr. Grothe.

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I’d be careful taking Bobby or Cindy to an OU Lite game. Gundy could scare the hell out of any kid.

by blon on Sep 3, 2008 4:09 PM EDT reply actions

This morning on a popular boston rock radio show, they asked Former Purdue player and current Patriots player Matt Light about Jerry Reid. Light was a huge fan, and sang most of Amos Moses on air. pure gold.

by Brian on Sep 3, 2008 4:17 PM EDT reply actions

“When You’re Hot, You’re Hot”, for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1972 . – via Wikipedia.

And people say that music in the 80’s sucked.
RIP, Jerry.

/@Blon – why did you lose the “57”?

by GamecockTony on Sep 3, 2008 4:18 PM EDT reply actions

Jerry Reed’s song (She got the gold mine, I got the shaft) was, in fact, immortalized in a classic divorce judgment in Palm Beach County in which the Judge opined that if he had ruled the way the wife had requested – that the husband would be singing said song. The judge ruled against the wife.

On a somewhat related note, seeing Burt Reynolds on the Bobby Bowden show takes your breath away. That facelift of his would scare children far more than Gundy could screaming.

by hobeg8r on Sep 3, 2008 4:33 PM EDT reply actions

The Blon Formerly Known As Blon57.

Too lazy to type it now. Besides, I’ll be the only female complaining about Big 12 treatment and standing up for the hapless Aggies.

by blon on Sep 3, 2008 4:40 PM EDT reply actions

He did an awesome cover of Jim Croce’s “I Got a Name.” It’s on the Youtubes somewhere, check it out.

by PW on Sep 3, 2008 4:41 PM EDT reply actions

Don’t forget Jerry Reed’s great contribution to college football: Coach Red Beaulieu from The Waterboy.

by Ramblin' Jeff on Sep 3, 2008 4:47 PM EDT reply actions

Anyone else catch the sign for Diesel at .47 cents a gallon?

by jensen on Sep 3, 2008 4:52 PM EDT reply actions

Burt Reynolds can’t even blink anymore

by Erdinger on Sep 3, 2008 4:52 PM EDT reply actions

I know it’s an old joke…but, in regards to the Vandals’ ass logo…one Idaho Alumnus, Sen. Larry Craig, approves.

by The Gentleman Masher on Sep 3, 2008 4:59 PM EDT reply actions

I wonder if the beer in the GA dome was from Texarkana.

We were certainly thirsty in Atlanta.

by Tater Salad on Sep 3, 2008 5:14 PM EDT reply actions

Grothe: when USF gets a football stadium, then you can talk shit. In the meantime, at least UCF isn’t renting anymore.

PS: Nice hair cut.

by Gen. Stoopnagle on Sep 3, 2008 5:27 PM EDT reply actions

Hey Stoopnagle

64-12.

by AstroBull on Sep 3, 2008 5:38 PM EDT reply actions

I’ll always remember Jerry Reid for the stunning gravitas he portrayed in his guest appearance on Scooby Doo.

by The Song of Hiawatha Francisco on Sep 3, 2008 5:51 PM EDT reply actions

@10

“The RNC is in Minnesota this week. Or, as Larry Craig likes to call it, Reacharoundsylvania.”

ht: Jon Stewart

by NRBQ on Sep 3, 2008 7:10 PM EDT reply actions

Was that Norm Chow driving the yellow car hauler that tore off the sheriff door while yelling “BONZAI !!!”?
I swear I hate growing old and seeing all my childhood heroes grow old and die…..or watching them get bad plastic surgery…..although I enjoyed Burts role in the remake of The Longest Yard….
For the longest time, I thought the name of the song was “He’s found a dime, loaded up and truckin”, I spent my middle school years thinkin it was about haulin dope.

by Mr. Pelican Pants on Sep 3, 2008 7:37 PM EDT reply actions

Orson Swindal spoke at last nightsGOP party just before Big Fred Thompson. REAL GD American Hero!! We need more Orson Swindals in this world!!

“if I say go to 10, we aint goin to 10, we goin to 7, and if I say go to 7 we aint going to 7, we going to 5” “hell, i aint got time for this Shit” RIP Snowman indeed, here is to a big 10-200 in the sky…

by crow on Sep 3, 2008 8:14 PM EDT reply actions

The under 45 generation has NO IDEA what Jackie Gleason was.

He was DA MAN. Nixon even took him to see the UFOs.

“HOW SWEET IT IS!!!!” Ahh, for the return of Mr McGillicudy to Joe The Bartender.

Jackie got more good poontang than Sinatra in his heyday.

by yoyofutbawl on Sep 3, 2008 8:59 PM EDT reply actions

I’ll hoist a Gold Can Coors in honor of the Snowman. SMATB is like the top 1 movie of all time.

RSF

by RockSteadyFreddie on Sep 3, 2008 11:38 PM EDT reply actions

@17

I’d say it’s closer to under 40. Smokey and the Bandit was probably the first movie I saw without my parents at the theee-a-ter.

“The First Thing I’m Gonna Do When I Get Home Is Punch Your Momma In The Mouth.”

by immikefazz on Sep 4, 2008 6:38 AM EDT reply actions

Let me have a Diablo sammich, a Dr. Peppah, and make it fast. I’m in a God damn hurry.

by sonofsamford on Sep 4, 2008 7:17 AM EDT reply actions

I prefered “Hooper” to “Smokey and the Bandit”.

Hollywood stuntman, stuntman.

by plastic paddy on Sep 4, 2008 8:02 AM EDT reply actions

Appartently, Reed also played his own music as well as sang. For instance, I think that his him playing banjo in “East Bound and Down”. So in sum, he was more talented that 99.9% of the musicians we have today.

“Smokey and the Bandit” was good, but its no “Rent”.

by meatybob on Sep 4, 2008 10:00 AM EDT reply actions