COUNTDOWN 2009: 34

Hey, yeah, me too. Goin’ to the beach tomorrow. Hooray Beer!

Even Taylor Mays is scared of the Cerberus-back.

How in the holy hells did you choose to go with Bo’s body for 34? If there’s a more iconic running back than the real #34, I haven’t seen them. Hershel would eat him for breakfast. I won’t even get into the travesty of Williams being included in that group.

Yeah, I’m not a big fan of the picture. Kinda unsettling. Although I do like the fact that Ricky is clearly distracted by food, or bright lights, or something over on the sidelines. Think the Bo and Herschel heads keep having to yell at him to pay attention? Me too.

“Although I do like the fact that Ricky is clearly distracted by food, or bright lights, or something over on the sidelines. "

Pretty sure he smelled some sweet cheeba in the stands.

Will—

Curran was yesterday, and we’re not doing two of any team in a row. Especially Georgia.

Looks like a Seminole helmet; not a G anyway.

Ahem. . . I believe the word I’m looking for is ARP!

Is it sad that I thought that was Earl Campbell’s head instead of the Masseuse?

“His ear had a real nasty cut and it was dangling from his head, bleeding badly. He grabbed his own ear and tried to yank it from his head. His teammates stopped him and the managers bandaged him. Man was that guy a tough one. He wanted to tear off his own ear so he could keep playing.”

Who are they talking about and who’s talking?

Are those Herschel’s other two personalities?

Great quote

This picture becomes infinitely more entertaining when Herschel’s multiple personality disorder is taken into account.

Doug will feed you tasteful cheesecake, most likely, and Holly will feed you to the sharks. You’ll love both.

This is so beyond accurate that it’d be simpler just to call it “canon”.

That’s the new design for Ricky’s three-bowled, four-hosed hookah, available this fall.

Leave Herschel alone! Besides, his other personalities wouldn’t be Bo and Ricky, you know that; they’d be Bo (not Luke) and Daisy. Put Hershel’s head and Bo Duke’s head on Daisy’s body in that bikini shot, of course, and there you go. Photoshop icon where are you. . .

Yes, yes, oh yes, that’s better: http://www.blacklabelempire.com/images/whothehellisherschel.jpg

@9 (and others)

Tuscaloosa’s Hargrove Van de Graaff was one tough hombre on the football field.

In a 1913 game against Tennessee, he nearly lost an ear.

It "had a real nasty cut and was dangling from his head, bleeding badly," Tennessee tackle Bull Bayer recalls in Winston Groom’s book, "The Crimson Tide." "He grabbed his ear and tried to yank it from his head. His teammates stopped him and his managers bandaged him … He wanted to tear off his own ear so he could keep playing."

Van de Graaff hung on to his ear and Alabama hung on to a 6-0 lead to beat the Vols.

Sorry, forgot to attribute that to a Tuscaloosa News article (Google is my friend) – I thought at first it was Bully Van de Graff, but I was wrong.

(And yes, we DID play football at Bama prior to the Bear).

Nice quote Orson.

Swindle Beach Invasion. I smell Ted Peters Smoked Mullet right now. And am jealous.

Yeah, that ain’t a Georgia helmet.

@ Silver Britches:

I thought it was Campbell too. He was 34 with the Oilers.

The Weinsteins are cooking up a Hulk sequel where he battles the creature in that picture. And loses. Badly.
Of course, in the movie, it IS Campbell’s head, not Ricky’s.