OH, BLAND IS JUST FINE WITH ME.

Wow…That is perhaps the longest smirk I have ever held. Good work man.

The two of you deserve a Nobel prize. Norman Borlaug never made me laugh that hard.

That’s hilarious! And you worked in a “Lost in Translation” note, too! Well done.

Ziggy, Iggy and Ozzie. gold , jerry.

Compared to A.A. Stagg, Tom Osbourne was positively Joel-Grey-in-Cabaret level exciting!

What? No musical theater references?

Purely amazing….

Scarlett Johanssen and Dr. Tom in the same post? I’m at full mast…

GBR

Not to disagree with Corn Nation or anything, but the list was made for the 5 most “legendary” coaches.

Osborne wasn’t even the most iconic coach in the Big 8 days, let alone all time.

At first I thought it was sacrilege, being a Nebraska fan and all, but it’s pretty fuckin funny. By the way, Dr. Tom won three titles not “a pair”.

While I appreciate the effort of digging up pictures of a young Tom Osborne (though it’s damned difficult to tell) the idea of him cramming two fingers in Grace Jones’ ass while resting his nuts on David Bowie’s chin and snorting coke off Debbie Harry’s tits at Studio 54 is going to put me right off my lunch.

Brizzle @9

Orson may not be counting the one against Florida yet. He is still waiting for the Huskers to quit scoring.

@ 8
So what qualifies as legendary or iconic from Osborne’s Big 8 days? Having your team put on probation a couple times and drinking with your players?

Yeah… whatever happened to Lindsay Buckingham?

@11 Crabapple

They could have scored all night long, but if you recall Tom had the 3rd stringers in and had the QB kneel down at the one as time was running out…that’s classy shit right there.

I like David Bowie, but Osborne was the shiat! He parties like ten motherfuckers! I saw him do ten qualudes and drink a gallon of Jack Daniels—and that was before he took the hooker on the subway train.

Dude!

The visual of Scarlet naked covered in corn oil made my day. Thank you.

Bianca Jagger…for some reason she sets off internal caution flags and seems to stir the courting tackle in ways I simply do not understand…and in the same vein (?!) Andy Warhol seems to provide excessive levels of ice-water…so I guess its a nullity. Fuck. Oh, yeah, Scarlett in corn oil…that would be cool, but that visual brings to mind Van Wilder’s Taj Mahal Badlamabad and his unfortunate and excessive use of oil on the blonde slip-n-slide while on fire…I’d be on then off, while I’d handcuff Bianca to the bedstead for a long weeke, uh, er, month.

Brizzle @ #9…I think the thing for Tom was it was a “pair” in a row…which is really cool.

’Preciate it O.

@12

Iconic does not always imply “good guy”. Bear Bryant wasn’t a “good guy”, but he’s the first person that comes to mind when someone says the words “all-time” and “football coach” in the same sentance.

Iconic and Legendary mean that the coach’s name comes up every time the “all-time” conversation is started. Like the article said, the legendary ones are the personalities that will stick with the average fan 30 years after the coach has retired.

For further proof, do a search of any large-readership blog (such as EDSBS) on Bear Bryant, Joe Paterno, Steve Spurrier (yeah, I went there), and Barry Switzer, and compare the number of results to Tom Osborn.

I’m not saying he wasn’t a great coach, but he’s not top-5-legendary either. However, I do agree with Corn Nation that Woody Hayes isn’t top-5-legendary.

@18
If you win 84% of your games over 25 years at one university, win three national championships, and graduate your players, you SHOULD be top-5 legendary. And yes, I’m biased as shit, but that call in the 84 Orange Bowl IS top-5 legendary.

Cinci @ #18…I will remember Woody Hayes for at least the next thirty years for his assault on the Clemson player and for no other reason…and wouldn’t that fit your definition of top 5-legendary? I do agree with the Steve Spurrier addition, and that Good Ol’ Tom does not immediately come to mind…although if he got to hit Bianca back in the day (when I was a pre-teen rockin’ out to my cousin’s Stones album) I’m gonna buy him a beer…

Oh shit, do Nebraska types end all their speeches with “Go Huskers” like Gators do with their team?

It’s like a Baptist sermon with all the “amens” sometimes.

And me the uncomfortable agnostic among them.

Tim, we often mix it up with a “Go Big Red.”

@Cincy

Well, OK, by that reasoning, then Weasels and Arrrrgh are the most iconic coaches in the history of and for everything. I don’t think “iconic” in this sense really means “most discussed coaches in the blogsphere”, more like the successful coaches who have some measure of respect. Having said that, Osborne probably doesn’t deserve to be on that list. Up there? Sure, but there are 5 others.

Besides, somebody has to be boring. If every coach acted like Weasels and Weasels Sr. (Switzer), then, well …… actually that would be awesome. Please disregard.

Brizzle, meaty, and sb,

fair enough fellas… a list like that is going to be way more subjective than your average top 5 list.

Don’t limit yourself to the blogoshpere when you think about it though. I was just using that as an example. Think about all the times you’ve been at a bar or tailgate and had the same top5 discussion. Excluding local favorites (i.e. Osborn will always get mentioned in Lincoln, Spurrier will always be mentioned in the south) what are the names that pop up over and over again?

Also, who are Weasels, Aaaaarrrgh, and Weasels Sr.?

I’m dating myself here, but the original TO would come into the restaurant I used to work in every Friday and order Spaghetti with tomato sauce. Just tomato sauce, thank you sir. No meat, no bread, don’t even get near that parmesan cheese. And don’t try and pull any freaky Arrabiata on him. Bland doesn’t even begin to describe it.

It’s tough to narrow a “legendary” list like that down to just five for many reasons, but leaving Osborne off the list because his personality ranks up there with a bag of sawdust is outstanding.

Par for the course from Stewart “Don’t call me Howie” Mandel.

Umm, was I the only one who watched the 1995 Orange Bowl when Nebraska finally beat Miami…finally got that national title…and how emotional it was afterwards, especially Tom? Or the year before when they took FSU to the limit?

And the dumbest thing Stewart wrote was that Osborne’s appeal doesn’t leave Nebraska when 99% of the country that didn’t go to Ohio State or grew up in Ohio gives a crap about Woody Hayes. I’m not being mean or rude…that’s fact.

TO could be a little dry, but he represents the stoic hard worker archtype that is the western Nebraskan. Not the urban d-bag Omaha Eastern Nebraska type. I know of what I speak here I live in Ralston (look it up) and I’ve lived the Nebraska my whole life and have driven all over it. Yep been to to Car Henge (look it up) chimney rock, etc etc etc and then some. So to us TO is Nebraska, we love that guy becuase he is of us and he embodies much of what we hold dear as Nebraskans. Of course Lincoln and our Huskers have a special place in our hearts becuase it is literally the only game in town for us and they we’re so very good for so very long becuase of the Bobfather and TO.

And to say Tom was always so milquetoast look no further than the 1997 Orange Bowl a game in which he was postively angry and aggressive… He said DANG IT for god’s sake. That a TO equivalent of f-bomb tossing. He clam placid deamnor is to be appluaded and emulated IMO. I wish I could be half as collected as that man in my own Professional life.