There is my list. My NY City bias is pretty clear.
Dave Spiegel
Pete Rose of the Reds, who was on a hitting streak of his own before seeing it
end against the Braves, and delivering a live, obscenity-filled news conference
afterward...
NASCAR drivers Bobby Allison and David Pearson...
Former Alabama Quarterback Kenny Stabler...not to mention another Crimson Tide
alumnus, Broadway Joe Namath...
Wilt "the Stilt" Chamberlain...
...and the greatest "sideshow" athlete of the era, Evel Kneivel...
Dixon
=============
"Now let's get THAT vehicle OUTTA here!!"
--Barney Fife
Remember THE Hollywood Squares...the original and the best
http://www.geocities.com/screenjockey/classicsquares.html
>Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves, who broke Babe Ruth's homerun record by
>hitting #715...
I had forgotten Hank Aaron. I watched the game he broke the record. He was a
good guy all around as well. My best recollection of him includes his absolute
saint like patience with interviewers who asked really dumb questions.
Dave Spiegel
While not an athlete Bob Knight also made a great impression on me.He has
the ability to bring out the best in his players,although his methods are
obviously are not embraced by all.He took the '76 team from pre-season
nobodies to the only undefeated NCAA basketball team in history.
Another would be Reggie Jackson.I kind of so-so followed his career after
watching him in the '71 All Star game,then after his performance in the '77
World Series.......WOW! I was greatly impressed by him.
Rick Barry also seemed to mesmerize me.It was his unorthodox method of
underhanded free throw shooting that hooked me and I was a Golden State fan
from that point on.
And who wasn't impressed by Broadway Joe,the epitome of coolness in the
early 70's.I even requested (and received) a Joe Namath football uniform for
Christmas in '70 and boy did I think I was the shit!!!
-Doug
>...and the greatest "sideshow" athlete of the era, Evel Kneivel...
>
I'd have to agree there! I remember really looking forward to Evel's stunts
back then. I also quite liked the Harlem Globetrotters. They were on ABC's Wild
World Of Sports a lot. Who the heck was that poor skier they always showed
wiping out in the opening as the voice-over said "The agony of defeat"?
Otherwise I wasn't a huge sports nut at the time. However, I did root for the
John Madden coached/Kenny Stabler anchored Oakland Raiders.
Shawn
The Cincinnati Reds' Big Red Machine: Bench, Rose, Perez, Morgan, etc. The
first time a team of any sport held my attention. I was young, and it was
so easy to get caught up in this thing that had the "grownups" all excited.
Jeff Troutman
--
Buddy
from Brooklyn
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"Jeff Troutman" <yourhe...@starpower.net> wrote in message
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that poor skier they always showed
> wiping out in the opening as the voice-over said "The agony of defeat"?
I always wonder after that pounding he took...how did they get him to do it
again the next week?
--
Dennis/Endy
~dancing us from the darkest nights is the rhythm of love powered by the
beating of hearts~
http://home.mindspring.com/~endymion9/index.htm
Terry Bradshaw
Mean Joe Greene
Lynn Swann
Franco Harris
Jack Ham
L. C. Greenwood
Rocky Bleier
Where I grew up, you didn't dare go to school unless you had an article of
clothing with one of the above on it.
>I am not sure if we have covered this ground yet, but I have a question.
>Besides I have to get my posting stats up. Who were the athletes in the 70's
>who had the most impact on you. It could be anyone from a local star to a
>major international celeb.
Since I was a wrestler and baseball player I worshipped Dan Gable and
was a big fan of Mickey Lolich and the late Aurelio Rodriguez.
I also liked Doctor J in the late 70s.
Chris Taylor was a guy I thought never got the proper kind of credit
for what he did. Nowadays he wouldn't even be allowed to wrestle.
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Earl Campbell. The greatest running back to have never won the Super Bowl. I
watched him in college & to think of him playing for the Oilers was just a
pipe dream. Then the day came when they announced on the news that the
Oliers had traded Jimmy Giles and a coupla picks to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
for the right to draft Earl. He & Bum Phillips put Houston football on the
map. Prior to them the only thing the Oilers had done was winning the first
2 AFL championships in 60 & 61. It still sends chills up my when I see
replays of his game against the dolphins in the Dome where he got 199 yards
rushing & busted one for 81 & the T. There were 2 pep rally's held in the
Dome for them. I was at the second. I have yet to be involved in anything as
electric as that night after referee Donald Orr screwed us out of a
touchdown against the steelers. Also on the baseball side I liked Astros
pitcher J.R. Richard. This man threw the ball about 190 m.p.h. I vividly
remember at the 1980 All Star game Mr. October saying he couldn't wait to go
up against J.R. to see what he's got. 1-2-3 pitches & he was outta there. On
the last pitch J.R. made him look like a fool. Reggie swung wildly & hit the
deck as a result. About ten years or so ago J.R. was living under a bridge,
& totally penniless. Well except for the money he would get for selling
crack. He really hit the gutter. He ballooned up to well over 300 pounds.
The Astros gave him some type of job at this point but he didn't last long.
Haven't heard much about him lately tho. Really sad.
Billy
It was a catch!!! Do you know of what I speak Dave??
Billy
Do you mean the Immaculate Reception?
>"Beatlfilms" <beatl...@aol.com> wrote in message
>
> that poor skier they always showed
>> wiping out in the opening as the voice-over said "The agony of defeat"?
>
>I always wonder after that pounding he took...how did they get him to do it
>again the next week?
LOL! And year after year!
"What are you doing this weekend, Dan?"
"Same as usual. Tumbling down a mountain on TV..." :-)
Shawn
I *KNEW* had it in my book. From The Complete Unabridged Super Trivia
Encyclopedia it says:
Vinko Bogataj
Yugoslavian ski jumper on introduction to ABC Televison's "Wide World Of
Sports." He is shown going off the side of the ski jump in the 1970 Winter
Olympics. Amazingly he was not injured seriously.
Billy
No no. From the 1980 AFC Championship game between the Oilers & the
steelers. Dan Pastorini threw a touchdown pass to Mike Renfro but the
officials waved it off. That was the play that brought in instant replay for
the officials to use. The first
time that is.
Billy
>I always wonder after that pounding he took...how did they get him to do it
>again the next week?
Some people will do anything to be on TV.3
Dave Spiegel
>I *KNEW* had it in my book. From The Complete Unabridged Super Trivia
>Encyclopedia it says:
>
>Vinko Bogataj
> Yugoslavian ski jumper on introduction to ABC Televison's "Wide World Of
>Sports." He is shown going off the side of the ski jump in the 1970 Winter
>Olympics. Amazingly he was not injured seriously.
Thanks for the info! What an odd thing to be known for, eh? I wonder if he's
still alive and what else he did?
Shawn
ROLL TIDE
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I wonder if he's
> still alive and what else he did?
>
> Shawn
Not a lot of skiing, I would guess.
Roberto Clemente (baseball)
Willie Stargell (baseball)
Bob Griese (football)
Franco Harris (football)
Julius Erving (basketball with Nets, not Sixers)
Tiny Archibald (basketball)
Bill Walton (basketball)
Chico Resch (hockey)
Mike Bossy (hockey)
John Shumate (college basketball)
Adrian Dantley (college basketball)
Kelly Tripucka (college basketball)
Joe Montana (college football)
Joe Frazier (boxing)
Ken Norton (boxing)
Danny "Little Red" Lopez (boxing)
Carlos Palomino (boxing)
I had a cousin who delivered papers in a place
called Canonsburg. One night he went out collecting
on the same night a Steelers game was on. To prove
a point to me he asked what the score of the game
was at every door. Every single place they were
watching. Amazing.
-Jeff B.
yeff at erols dot com
MsTx
"MartiDave" <jun...@aol.combos> wrote in message
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> I am not sure if we have covered this ground yet, but I have a question.
> Besides I have to get my posting stats up. Who were the athletes in the
70's
> who had the most impact on you. It could be anyone from a local star to a
> major international celeb.
> Foe me there were a few. First was Pele. He opened up a whole new world
for
> me. The man was a magician. I remember doing to Randall's Island to see
his
> debut with the Cosmos, what an incredible player.
> Second was Tom Seaver. My favorite player on my favorite team. When the
Mets
> traded him in 77, I cried!
> Third Billy Jean King/Chris Everet(sp). I was raised in a chauvinistic
house.
> These two ladies showed me that women could be great athletes and engage
in
> heated competition.
> Fourth Dave Wottle 1972 800m Olympic Gold Medalist. Ran from behind,
never
> gave up.
> Fifth, OJ Simpson, the athlete, not the guy as he is now. No one was
smoother.
> Sixth, Joe Namath. Commanded attention no matter what he was doing.
>
> There is my list. My NY City bias is pretty clear.
> Dave Spiegel
Ah, yes! Canonsburg. Home town of Perry Como and Bobby Vinton. It's
really not that much of a stretch to tell you they could have told you, back
then, each of Bobby Vinton's singles were, where they charted, and how long
they were at their peak position.
Good question, Shawn, let's fire up Google, shall we?! I love net projects :-)
Oooo, here's a good one right off the bat:
http://www.ew.com/ew/fab400/tv100/70s_p1.html
Little blurb and pic (and they dispute the venue, not the Olympics according
to them anyway):
March 21, 1970
Even the most sports-phobic TV viewer has the image stamped indelibly on
the brain: Yugoslavian Vinko Bogataj illustrating the "agony of defeat" by
careening off a ramp during the International Ski Flying Championship in
Oberstdorf, West Germany. Bogataj not only survived the hideous spill but
went on to become a celebrity thanks to ABC's Wide World of Sports
coordinating producer Dennis Lewin, who inserted the segment into the
show's opening credits. Lewin recalls the U.S. ski-jumping team being none
too pleased with his use of Vinko's tumble: "They thought we were giving the
sport a bad name."
Really nice site, gang, have a look. This is page one of seven covering the '70s
part of Entertainment Weekly's list of The 100 Greatest Moments in Television.
Okay, here we go, from Britannica's reprint of Sports Illustrated's Where Are
They Now? issue from July 2000:
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/magazine/article/0,5744,382408,00.html
Oh, the Agony of it All
He remembers entering the starting gates and racing downhill at 65 mph.
The next thing Vinko Bogataj remembers is waking up in the snow. Most
Americans can fill in the blank, since Bogataj's skis-over-ski-cap tumble
has symbolized the "agony of defeat" on ABC's Wide World of Sports
since 1971. Eight years passed before Bogataj--whose famous crash
occurred at the 1970 International Ski Flying Championship--learned that
his fall had been immortalized, which made him a minor celebrity and
allowed him to hobnob with the likes of Frank Sinatra and O.J. Simpson.
Today Bogataj, 52, and his wife, Lilijana, live in his native Slovenia, where
they raised two daughters. A truck driver who enjoys oil painting, Bogataj
still isn't sure what to make of his peculiar notoriety. "I think it's a bit unusual,"
he says. "But the crash was nasty and thrilling. It was good for TV."
So, there ya go, he survived all that agony after all :-)
Cheers,
TD
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
from Don McLean's "Vincent"
For a good time call
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Tiny Dancer's X-Files Episode Guide
http://www.insanity.com.au/td/
The Sesame Street Lyrics and Sounds Archive
http://i.am/tinyd
<snip>
>Please forgive the length of this response.
No problemo, Steve, we'll take all the wordy members we can use, welcome! :-)
As for the subject, I didn't really follow sports at the time, Ali was really the
biggest "hero" I had and that was more for his presence than his actions
(not a boxing fan, can't watch it). I always dug him.
Evel Knievel was a fave for the same reason, he was part of pop culture and
always made for good TV. Not that I didn't enjoy watching his stunts but they
were killers on the nerves!
The only baseball memory I have is being so excited when Toronto finally
got a team in 1977. Once we moved back to TO, I spent more than a few
hours numbing my bum on those snow and wind-swept bleachers of good
old Exhibition Stadium! They're also memorable as the only ones I went to
with my Dad.
Otherwise, I followed the Olympics with the '76 ones in Montreal an especially
vivid memory (we were in Newfoundland). I loved watching Nadia Comaneci,
Olga Korbut, and Nikolai Andrianov in the gymnastics, Canuck swimmers
Shannon Smith, Nancy Garapick, and Becky Smith along with Bruce Jenner
and Leon Spinks.
I was just eight for the '72 Munich Olympics so the terrorist attack, I'm sorry to
say, barely registered with me at the time but Mark Spitz sure did! ;-) Seven
world records, seven gold medals *and* that killer all-American smile and
mustache?! Please, I was putty in his golden hands! Who knows how many
more records he could have broken if he hadn't been forced to leave early.
Also enjoyed young Aussie swimmer Shane Gould and my first glimpse at
the amazing Olga Korbut, two "kids" acting out my fantasies on TV.
Cheers,
TD
In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
from Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer"
>Today Bogataj, 52, and his wife, Lilijana, live in his native Slovenia, where
>
>they raised two daughters. A truck driver who enjoys oil painting, Bogataj
>still isn't sure what to make of his peculiar notoriety. "I think it's a bit
>unusual,"
>he says. "But the crash was nasty and thrilling. It was good for TV."
>
>So, there ya go, he survived all that agony after all :-)
Thanks a million, TD! Ain't the Internet wonderful? How else could we keep
track of truck driver from Slovenia who had a skiing mishap 30 years ago? :-)
Shawn
Other faves:
Dick Butkus
Fergie Jenkins
Ernie Banks
Billy Williams
Ron Santo
Bobby Hull
Tony Esposito
"NJROB65" <njr...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Ah, yes! Canonsburg.
>
I was born just down the road in
Washington, PA. To those of us in
the know it's "Little Washington".
Heard of it?
> Home town of Perry Como and Bobby Vinton.
There was a wrestling guy from there, though
I forget his name. I'm banging my head on
my desk and getting nothing but a bloody
forehead. Don't suppose you know who I'm
trying to remember?
Hmmmm....athlete from the 70s? Hmmmm....let me think...ummm....who was an
athlete from the 70s that had an impact on me....ummmm...gee, this is such a
hard one for me...ummmm... (teehee!)
Sandy
2-60
Class of 78
Jamie ;)
Bob Uecker?
Jeff Troutman
Oh yeah, Jamie!...I remember him!! ;)
No, no Jeff....say it with me Bo-bby-Orr...
there ya go! :)
Oh, I remember him! Yeah, the tennis guy that Billie Jean King beat up on!
I got it now...
:)
Jeff Troutman