I loved him on the Del Reeves Country Carnival ...
"Put those Baptist chords on me ..."
I'm with Tom T.: "One of America's great television shows ..."
Too, Hoptown 1970 me might well get out this weekend to get some Christmas shopping done ...
Some good matches in the NFL on Sunday afternoon ... Colts at Dolphins, Packers at Vikings, Cardinals at Chiefs ...
Steelers at Bengals could end up being interesting, too ...
Giants at Eagles is no great shakes, but I"m always excited to see the new NFL Monday Night Football show ...
Oh, speaking of Christmas gifts ...
Everybody just needs to get off Bob Griese's back.
ReplyDeleteIt's only his fourth year, and now he's got a new head coach. Everybody needs to just settle down and let him develop.
ReplyDeleteThis Week in Pro Football is such a great show. Nashville's Channel 4 shows it at 11 on Saturday mornings, and then, after a Wild Kingdom, they show NFL Game of the Week with Jack Whitaker, which, of course, is also great.
ReplyDeleteEverybody's getting excited about the Cardinals after they blanked Dallas, 38-0, on NFL Monday Night Football last week. That's three straight shutout wins for St. Louis! Pat Summerall predicts they will upset the Super Bowl-champ Chiefs this week. (Tom Brookshier disagrees.)
ReplyDeleteAnd the Cardinals scored 113 points over the three shutout wins.
DeleteThe AP reported that, during the Cowboys' loss to St. Louis, Dallas fans chanted, "We! Want! Meredith!" Craig Morton threw three interceptions; Roger Staubach, one. Meredith, the once-maligned Cowboys quarterback, was on hand to comment on the game for ABC.
The Friday-night Brady Bunch was the crucial "Not-So-Ugly Duckling" episode, featuring the harshest line of dialogue in the show's history: "Jan, if boys don't find you attractive, don't blame it on me."
ReplyDeleteHoptown 1970 me has been watching TV since its popular inception, and he's here to tell you that it just keeps getting better and better and better.
ReplyDeleteShirley Jones is a national treasure.
ReplyDeleteI like the cut of this Schembechler's jib.
ReplyDeleteFrank Gifford's, too.
ReplyDeleteWoody Hayes sure seems like a nice guy, too.
ReplyDeleteWatching this Ohio State-Michigan football game, I keep thinking about one of the Buckeyes' quarterbacks of the early 1960s, Joe Sparma. What a crazy sports career this guy has had: two-sport star at Ohio State ... rumored to have been recruited by Woody Hayes only to keep him from a Big Ten rival ... 9-1 start with 1965 Tigers but snubbed for the All-Star Game ... on-again, off-again feud with Mayo Smith ... pennant-clinching 2-1 winning pitcher in 1968 ... opening-day starter for the Expos in 1970 ... demoted after nine appearances ... 3-13, 8.22 ERA the rest of this summer with Triple-A Winnipeg Whips (which played all road games in old Buffalo Bisons uniforms) ... and this 1970 fall back in suburban Detroit, managing a health club ... hmmm?
ReplyDeleteI wonder how the choice-of-two-movies-on-every-movie-flight thing worked on TWA.
ReplyDeleteHalftime: Ohio State 10, Michigan 3.
ReplyDeleteYou can learn a lot from baseball cards. For example, Hector Torres--per his 1969 card--pitched a one-hitter at age 12 in the final of the 1958 Little League World Series. This was the second-straight championship for the Industrial Little League team of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, and it came against the Jaycee Little League of Kankakee, Illinois.
ReplyDeleteTopps named Torres its shortstop on its All-Star Rookie team of 1968 (and there's a cool trophy saying so on the front of this 1969 card), and he'll join the Cubs for MLB71 after being trade by Houston last month 1970.
1958 was not the famous Little League World Series win for Monterrey Industrial; the famous one was the year before.
This Michigan-Ohio State game is a good one: 10-9, Buckeyes, through three quarters.
ReplyDeleteA Holiday Inn Guest Certificate is an excellent Christmas-gift idea.
ReplyDeleteWow. Ohio State surges to a 20-9 lead on a field goal, Stan White interception and Rex Kern-fake-to-John Brockington-and-option-pitch-to-Leo Hayden touchdown. There are about 6 minutes to play. That should do it, I would imagine.
ReplyDeleteAnd now the Michigan kick returner recovers a fumble near the goal line and is taken down at the 2.
ReplyDeleteBill Flemming: "Now we have an almost-animal instinct here. The Buckeyes don't just want to win--they want to win big."
ReplyDelete"They want to destroy."
ReplyDeleteBut the Ohio State punt returner touches the bouncing ball, and Michigan recovers at the 50!
Michigan, however, drops a fourth-down pass at about the Ohio State 30. The Buckeyes resume possession with their 11-point lead, with about 4 minutes to play.
ReplyDelete"This was the revenge crusade that took 52 weeks to do," Flemming says as Columbus rushes the field after Ohio State's 20-9 win.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, on Wide World of Sports later this afternoon 1970, ...
ReplyDeleteEight of the new TV shows for this fall have already been canceled: The Young Rebels, Nancy, The Tim Conway Show, Matt Lincoln, Barefoot in the Park, The Immortal, The Most Deadly Game and The Silent Force. Pearl Bailey and Henry Fonda are getting shows for the second half of the season, and CBS is going to try out a new comedy, All in the Family. Love, American Style is moving to a full hour on Friday nights, instead of just 30 minutes.
ReplyDeleteThe only new show to be going great guns, ratingswise, is The Flip Wilson Show. It, Marcus Welby, Here's Lucy, Ironside and Gunsmoke are the top five shows of the year.
It's actually called, The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, by the way. Here's one with Merv Griffin and Judy Carne that features a skit in which a losing football team resembling the Minnesota Vikings is coached by somebody resembling Adolph Hitler.
ReplyDeleteThis show aired its Christmas episode back in September--Tim Conway said on the episode that he wanted to make sure it got on the air before the show was canceled.
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