Herschel Walker is coming to Murray. I was looking at a little television yesterday afternoon and came upon a 1980 South Carolina-at-Georgia college-football game on ESPN Classic. In the second half, Walker whips around right end and takes off for what seemed to be about a 435-yard touchdown run. He was honestly still lengthening the distance between him and the nearest South Carolina defenders as he crossed the goal line. That guy was something else.
Then, in 1981 in Murray, ...
Miss Talley of Princeton roasts the field.
Ah, footbah--from Draffenville.
Bad jobs news from Campbellsville.
The Kentucky desk was ecstatic this weekend to add the Citizen Voice & Times ("proudly serving Irvine, Ravenna and Estill County") to its battery of RSS feeds, and it's already clear that the excitement was justified. I love imagining what I might be eating in other times and places. For example, if I was a student at Estill Springs Elementary today, I'd be all over the "Big Daddy Pizza."
Rest in peace, Mr. Roan, engineering veteran, prodigious author, Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival stalwart and husband of 56 years.
Here's my all-time list of SEC football players I have seen:
ReplyDelete1. Bo Jackson
2. Herschel Walker
3. Cam Newton
4. Tim Tebow
Poor Major Ogilvie.
ReplyDeleteI think someone could write a great book about Rickey Henderson and Herschel Walker. Both guys were huge stars and both guys seemed willing to do whatever later in their careers just to keep playing. There was some insight into Henderson as he was trying to get on teams when he was in his early 40's, but I never read anything about this with Walker. I was living in Philly when he was playing there and no one even seemed to ask him why he was playing kick coverage. That whole Dallas / Minnesota trade seemed to hang over everything about his entire NFL career.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, I used to spend hours at night fiddling with the radio in my room trying to pick up stations from far away. One of the all-time great radio moments of my childhood was in 1980, when I was desperate for football in a pre-ESPN era. On a Saturday night in early September, I pulled in WSB from Atlanta, which was broadcasting Herschel's first college game -- which was also the first game of Georgia's 1980 championship run. Georgia was in Knoxville, and they pulled out an amazing 16-15 win over Tennessee. It was the beginning of the Herschel legend -- and it was stunning to me, because I had never heard of him before that night.
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