31 Dec 1976, Fri The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) Newspapers.com
31 Dec 1976, Fri The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) Newspapers.com
31 Dec 1976, Fri The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) Newspapers.com
31 Dec 1976, Fri The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) Newspapers.com
I really like establishing formulaic stuff at the HP (#freakinweekend, #ohky and so forth) to then set up a comments fields to play in as a nice distraction from work or whatever over the course of a week. We'll see how long this particular lark lasts.
Well, anyway, here are my background playlists for this week:
- Sunday, Jan. 2, 1977 (/Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024)
- Monday, Jan. 3, 1977
- Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1977
- Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1977
- Thursday, Jan. 6, 1977
- Friday, Jan. 7, 1977
- Saturday, Jan. 8, 1977
I've really gotten into Rhoda.
Happy new years!
Welcome to 1977, one of my favorite years.
ReplyDeleteOn January 3, 1977, Kentucky will beat Georgia 64-59 in overtime in the first SEC game ever played at Rupp Arena. The Cats will then go down to Memorial Gym and grind out a 64-62 win over Vanderbilt.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, the last SEC game at Memorial Coliseum also went into overtime. On March 8, 1976, Kentucky beat Mississippi St. 94 to 93 in overtime. The Cats then went on to beat Niagara, Kansas St., Providence, and UNC-Charlotte to win the 1976 National Invitation Tournament.
DeleteWith those two wins, UK's record will be 9-1, and they will be ranked Number 2 in the Nation.
ReplyDeleteI really thought Kentucky was going to win it all in 1977.
ReplyDeleteSeasons when I thought UK should win the National Championship (but they did not):
ReplyDelete1977, 1984, 1993, 1997, 2003, 2010, 2015, and 2017
Seasons when I thought UK should win the National Championship (and they did):
1978, 1996, 2012
Seasons when I thought UK would not win the National Championship (but they did):
1998
It’s kind of hard to explain, but the Paducah Sun-Democrat had an unusual layout on Dec. 31, 1976. On Page 1—not the sports front but the front page of the whole newspaper—the banner headline reads, …
ReplyDeleteBlue teams
Wildcats WIN Tornado
The top line and “WIN” are both in straight text and larger point size than the masthead. The “Wildcats” and “Tornado” are both a little smaller and italicized.
The left three columns below the “Wildcats” is the Associated Press story on UK’s 102-78 win over No. 2 Notre Dame, in which Joe Hall says, “This may be the best game we have ever played.” (The story notes that Hall had restarted practices on Christmas night before this game.) The right three columns under "Tornado" are Pat Moynahan’s coverage of the home team’s win in the championship of the Paducah Tilghman Christmas Invitational (over Marshall County).
And then there’s a boxed sidebar among these stories about the weather forecast for Atlanta and the New Year’s Eve afternoon Peach Bowl pitting UK and North Carolina. It is the Wildcats’ first bowl game in 25 years, and they're going to go on to win, 21-0.
I remember UK's win over Notre Dame, and UK's win at the Peach Bowl, and I'm pretty sure I attended at least one round of the Tilghman Christmas Tournament.
DeleteAll of that is to say that it's no wonder you were all whooped up in early 1977. The Sun-Democrat was going ga-ga for sports, and I'm sure we were all caught up in the frenzy.
ReplyDeleteSee the comment above.
DeleteI, meanwhile, was all whooped up also by the upcoming inauguration of Jimmy Carter as the 39th president of the United States. As previously reported, Carter rode the momentum from my campaign speech on his behalf to my and Matthew's third-grade class at Concord Elementary, and he's scheduled to be inaugurated Jan. 20. This would be a grand, grand day in my house. I can't remember if we were already going to be out for some snow day or whatever that Thursday, but I do remember that my dad announced several days before that they would be keeping me home from school this day so I could watch the doings and celebrate my own victory lap.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the Farewell, President and Mrs. Ford special hosted by Barbara Walters on ABC Sunday night. Here were the three most interesting things for me from the program ...
ReplyDeleteOopsy. Dropped the link to the special. Here it is.
Delete1. President Ford rebuffed (cordially) the suggestion that he had been morose since the election. He said that his campaign had a hail-Mary attitude from the start (Roger Staubach's/my modifier, not President Ford's exact words). They got activities rolling unusually late in the election cycle, and they were so far behind at that point that neither he nor the others working on his behalf had much hope they could close ground quickly enough. He said he was impressed how far they came by November and had decided in the days prior that he might catch Carter at the wire--but that he quickly dealt with his disappointment and got to the business of closing out his administration and handing off to the next, that he learned through his sports career to not "replay lost games" (almost his exact words).
ReplyDelete2. Mrs. Ford's sharpest criticism of the living arrangements at the White House were for the loneliness of a first lady without other family members living at home and two rooms which had both been decorated by Jacquelyn Kennedy (now Onassis). There's a sitting room that Mrs. Ford said was way too formal for anyone to feel comfortable sit in (indeed, Barbara Walters said Mrs. Ford called it "the standing room"), and there's a dining room with wallpaper depicting battle scenes from the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Ford said it was too depressing and that she would've redecorated the room had her husband won re-election. This whole section of the program made me wonder if Mrs. Onassis was watching ABC Sunday night.
ReplyDeleteIn Washington, we really like Mrs. Onassis.
Delete3. President Ford said the decision to pardon President Nixon was not among his hardest. He said his work was going to be so totally dominated by activities around the Nixon that he felt it was for the good of the country that he put the matter to rest and focus on other stuff that he felt required more attention. Anyway, this whole part of the conversation, of course, made me think about all of the mess around Donald Trump and all of the thoughts that President Biden has and had about it. It also reminded me of how different pastors are cut out for different congregations--often relative to size, age and denomination/tradition. Some pastors are gifted to have everything run across their desks; some are gifted to root on ministries as programs overseen by called laypeople or other staff. It's always interesting to see what God is doing with a congregation and the people in it.
ReplyDeleteNow, as for last night's Rhoda, ...
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