CURIOUS INDEX, 9/23/2008
by Orson on Sep 23, 2008 10:14 AM EDT
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Larry's done. Munson, retired, effective immediately, done. UGA's iconoclastic, oddball Minnesotan radio announcer is leaving the booth because his body can't do it anymore, there's nothing to be done about it, and even he knows it at this point. It is easy get maudlin and sentimental over Munson--Lord knows we have--but choosing the way you leave and doing so with dignity is an undeniably important thing in any facet of life. This is an end of life issue, and Munson's being a veritable Spartan about the whole thing. In the meantime, there's always Youtube for your Munson-based needs. Root, root, root for Penn Schtate. From Andrew Carter's Chopping Block blog in the Orlando Sentinel: He also had a hysterical reaction when told that Joe Pa had to coach the rest of his teams game on Saturday from the press box because his leg was bothering him. The implication there, of course, is perhaps this is one more sign that Joe Pa will be hanging it up. When told of this news about Paterno, Bowden got this maniacal grin on his face and pounded the table with both his hands like a child whod just received the toy hed always wanted. He did it in a completely joking manner, though, and was just having a good time with it, so dont get in a tizzy. Still, if there had been cameras there, this clip of Bowden banging on the table with this crazy smile on his face would have become a YouTube classic. Guess you had to be there. Yes, yes. He was joking! Does death take sides? From our vast experience reading about Death in Terry Pratchett novels, we know that he only types IN ALL CAPS, likes cats, and really would have preferred to be a chef instead of the Grim Reaper and Collector of Souls. Whether he takes sides or not, who knows, but Bowden openly joking about Paterno not making it is either so sick we have to admire it, or so despicable we can just plug it into the wall of disgust bricks we already have built around Bowden. TAKE NOTES, LEVELLER OF SOULS. Dante Love, Godspeed, baby. Dante Love's football career is done; sad. Dante Love, former Ball State footballer, will walk again, and will not suffer any lasting damage from a bruised spinal cord and fractured spine. According to Brady Hoke, he's done, but that' okay because, you know, not being paralyzed is a fair trade on these kind of exchanges. Potatoes. Idaho's cheerleaders will be changing their skimpy uniforms after complaints about them eventually scuttled the Vandals attempt to bring sexy to Moscow. Quote magic! The previous uniforms didn't flatter every member of the team, and some girls said their outfits were uncomfortable, Robson said. "Girls are just bigger these days, not everybody's a size zero," Robson said. "We're not being a bunch of prudes." And that will pass without commentary because it is its own. It's gonna destroy your mouth, but only after I stab you. Notre Dame football best come back soon and come back with a fury: the citizens of South Bend are stabbing each other over Hot Pockets. |
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Mmmmm. Hot Pockets™. I can’t wait for the Steak-Umms Battle Royale, perhaps with Segway-chariots drawn by eunuchs.
by Der Schatten on Sep 23, 2008 10:22 AM EDT reply actions
My favorite Munson call is the “70-X Takeoff” catch by Michael Johnson at Auburn. Sheer, unadulterated joy……..Man, I’ll miss that guy.
by Sean Glennon's Jersey on Sep 23, 2008 10:23 AM EDT reply actions
Here’s a link to that Michael Johnson touchdown:
by Sean Glennon's Jersey on Sep 23, 2008 10:26 AM EDT reply actions
If it was one of those meatball Hot Pockets, it was worth it.
by Sundawg on Sep 23, 2008 10:27 AM EDT reply actions
So…in order to get what you want at the Univ. of Idaho, all you have to do is complain.
no…you da ho!!!
by Scumdog on Sep 23, 2008 10:28 AM EDT reply actions
I repeat, that if God is good and glorious (He is anyways, but this will make him that much cooler) those two (Joe and Bobby) will pull into a tie and have a bowl/national championship that goes into 11ty billion overtimes.
If it happens you atheists have to deflect.
by ThreenOut on Sep 23, 2008 10:33 AM EDT reply actions
You don’t want to know what my “Munson based needs” are.
by George on Sep 23, 2008 10:34 AM EDT reply actions
More in depth coverage of the Idaho cheerleader story:
http://www.uiargonaut.com/content/view/6501/48/
“a disgrace to you, me, and the entire Gem State”
by Seven Years in Gainesville on Sep 23, 2008 10:38 AM EDT reply actions
Quote of the day: “Girls are just bigger these days.” How true… how true.
by Tom on Sep 23, 2008 10:41 AM EDT reply actions
On Munson,
They’re almost all gone now, the voices of my childhood. John Forney, John Ward, Cawood Ledford, Jim Fyffe, and now Larry Munson. Only Jack Cristal at Mississippi State survives. Before ESPN, before games morning to night, there was one, maybe two games on TV a weekend. To follow your team was to listen to the radio and here your school’s announcer. Oh, the memories.
Now everybody sounds alike, and that they’re auditioning for an ESPN gig.
(Wipes away tear). Sucks getting old.
by BamaTaxMan on Sep 23, 2008 10:50 AM EDT reply actions
The Lindsay Scott call is great:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6U_7sfANY
From a GT grad, I’ll miss Larry as much as anyone.
by mb on Sep 23, 2008 10:51 AM EDT reply actions
My favorite close to a story ever:
“Police said the final fate of the disputed Hot Pocket is not known.”
Stabbing over a hot pocket is trailer-parkian awesomeness.
by Biggus Rickus on Sep 23, 2008 10:52 AM EDT reply actions
Doesn’t “iconoclastic” mean someone who destroys or damages religious images or beliefs? Munson is certainly iconic, not so much iconoclastic.
Go Dawgs!
by C-Train on Sep 23, 2008 10:53 AM EDT reply actions
It also sucks not being able to type. That should be “hear your announcer”, not “here your announcer”.
by BamaTaxMan on Sep 23, 2008 10:53 AM EDT reply actions
On Idaho… Perhaps had they made the unforms out of something other than pleather and trash bags they would not look as creepy. They look like they took the make your costume idea from Stanford and transferred it to the cheerleaders, except the winning design went to the Pedophile on campus with an S&M fetish.
by Carolina_girl on Sep 23, 2008 11:00 AM EDT reply actions
@14: no, we meant iconoclastic, because the guy broke damn near every “rule” of announcing a game imaginable, including disregarding the down and distance, using profanity, discarding all objectivity whatsoever, and using colorful to bizarre language in doing so.
If broadcasting were a church, he was a bull set loose in the nave at his peak.
by Orson Swindle on Sep 23, 2008 11:15 AM EDT reply actions
Makes sense…and if broadcasting were a church, the metal chair he broke after the lindsay scott call would be the pulpit.
Wish he would stick around for the Alabama game this weekend…
by C-Train on Sep 23, 2008 11:21 AM EDT reply actions
Well, you know, if Idaho had any cheerleaders that looked better than a standard potato… What? WHAAAT? Hold on a second, I have to deal with something…
Yeah, what now? Sure, sure I know you have a Victoria Secrets photo shoot coming up… Ask me if I care. Ask me if i fuckin care! No, I don’t and you will damn well keep your clothes off until I tell you otherwise!
Sorry bout that, anyway, as I was sayin, if Idaho had any cheerleaders worth lookin at, this wouldn’t be a problem. Count me in the offended camp, not because they are too skimpy, but because the chicks are so damn ugly!
I am not sure what the pose for the Blog Commentator Award for Keepin Bitches Humble! is, but I just did it in the end zone!
by skinnyphatman on Sep 23, 2008 11:22 AM EDT reply actions
(darn. thought i had a bit of code rendering that ‘squeak’ in small-caps.)
by Rich on Sep 23, 2008 11:29 AM EDT reply actions
skinnyphatman @ 20:
… giggity?
by Seven Years in Gainesville on Sep 23, 2008 11:29 AM EDT reply actions
Good news indeed about Dante Love. Most of us were significantly worried. Sucks he can’t play anymore, but the fact that he won’t be in a wheelchair is a blessing.
by AlanInDC on Sep 23, 2008 11:33 AM EDT reply actions
RE: Dante Love.
Ignore for a moment the A) sucktasticness of losing his career, and B) the Norns permitting him to still leave a normal life, but…this has GOT to be crippling to Ball State. That was a two-man team, and they just lost 1/2 of their punch.
by Der Schatten on Sep 23, 2008 11:36 AM EDT reply actions
Wait, so you are telling me that we have the technology for Brad Nessler and Kirk Herbstreit to discribe my NCAA 09 video football game in astonishingly accurate detail, but we can’t take recordings of Larry Munson and create a virtual Larry that will announce Georgia games in perpetuity? I refuse to believe that this is an impossibility.
Blasphemy? Probably, but so is the alternative. Give me virtual Larry Muson and virtual Keith Jackson over any of the a-holes cluttering the airwaves today.
by Tommy's Co-Pilot on Sep 23, 2008 12:09 PM EDT reply actions
My favorite quote:
I push the envelope to rock the crowd I guess Idaho is not ready for that.
No, they’re not ready to see #1 and #2 in those horrid outfits. However #3 can stay. Good job, Swiss Mocha.
by Raider Red on Sep 23, 2008 12:10 PM EDT reply actions
Orson @18
“They tore out our hearts and they were bleeding. But we just stuffed ’em back in”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGGFjnwcOM4
Btw, that interference call did look a bit questionable.
by hlh on Sep 23, 2008 12:36 PM EDT reply actions
like the great story tellers who once sat with us around a campfire, Munson inspires us with grand pictures related through words and touches of passion each time we hear a certain phrase
may “hob nail boots” live forever
by InsaneCoachPosse on Sep 23, 2008 1:34 PM EDT reply actions
Der Schatten:
Darius Hill and MiQuale Lewis would like to have a word with you…
(Seriously, there’s no question that losing Dante is a big blow to our Cardinals. However, the squad is sufficiently deep enough that they turned a 14-13 game when Dante went out into a 42-20 rout of a Big Ten team — on the road. Some of the Big Ten writers who covered that game noted how Love’s injury opened their eyes to the amount of talent that Brady Hoke has amassed on offense. And our defense wasn’t half-bad, either.)
We’ll certainly miss Dante, and his absence will definitely cost us a game or two. But this team will still be pretty good as long as #13 is playing QB.
by Papa Lou BSU on Sep 23, 2008 1:40 PM EDT reply actions
I am not a UGA fan, but as someone who grew up with Johnny Most’s calls of Celtics games, it’s a sad day. When one of these sandpaper-voiced partisans hangs it up, there is no replacement to be found among the legions of Stepford dudes in sport coats. Best to Mr. Munson and his family.
by The Gurgling Cod on Sep 23, 2008 1:44 PM EDT reply actions
This is going to sound sort of bizarre, but my most memorable moment listening to Larry Munson was in 1999, when UGA lost to Tech on the Jasper Sanks “fumble”. I had always been a UGA fan, but I had never really experienced the emotional tug-of-war until I heard this game.
I was traveling with my parents from Blairsville back to Buford. As we were crossing Blood Mountain, the radio signal kept going in and out. I was on the brim of my seat trying to understand what was happening as UGA drove down the field for what was supposed to be the game-winning score. Right as the play happened, the signal came in crystal clear and I heard Munson’s description of the fumble. The agony and the anger screamed at me through the radio and I felt like I was right there on the field with the players, devastated that the vast ACC conspiracy had somehow robbed me of a win.
It was the first time that I felt like I was part of UGA and Munson was the one who made it feel that way. When it came time to apply for college in 2002, UGA was the only school I even considered.
There isn’t much you can say about a man like Larry Munson, other than to tell a personal story about how he changed the way you listen to football games. And even if you could find the words to express your gratitude, they would never live up to the reputation of the man who can put feelings into words better than any other I have ever heard.
May the bass be five pounds or greater, Larry.
by Jason on Sep 23, 2008 3:14 PM EDT reply actions
Well said, Papa Lou. Being a Ball State student, it’s going to be difficult to watch the games without seeing #86 streak down the sidelines. It was really great to see us rally and embarrass the Loosiers in B-Town. You’re right—we may lose a game or two, but I’m certainly glad (as well as everyone else is) that Dante will still be able to live a wonderful life.
by Stuck in 'Fun'cie on Sep 23, 2008 3:21 PM EDT reply actions
Blon @17: Yeah but you guys make that sound like a bad thing…
by oc phil on Sep 23, 2008 4:09 PM EDT reply actions
by Ted on Sep 23, 2008 4:55 PM EDT reply actions
Papa Lou,
My apologies to BSU’s other ‘weapons’…but, not being a MAC guy, and only seeing the two-headed monster of Nate Davis-to-Dante Love, from the outside it seems pretty crippling to a team that relies on outscoring folks.
by Der Schatten on Sep 23, 2008 6:41 PM EDT reply actions
“Police said the final fate of the disputed Hot Pocket is not known.”
That’s because the Police Dog ate it.
by Studley on Sep 23, 2008 8:32 PM EDT reply actions
Sorry to hear about Munson giving it up, that takes more than many of us will ever know.
In a semi-related story, I don’t know if it has been posted anywhere here before or not, but for fans of Pratchett…
http://www.matchitforpratchett.org/
by Kecalf Bailey on Sep 24, 2008 4:18 AM EDT reply actions
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