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EDSBS LIVE Goes Retro!

It's Tuesday, which means another edition of EDSBS LIVE this evening with Orson and I. Tonight, we go retro...


What: EDSBS LIVE online radio

Where: At NowLive, where you can chat with each other and the show hosts throughout the broadcast in the online forum (which has gotten damn lively). To phone in to the show, just call (310) 984-7600.

What: Tonight we're going back in time to talk college football history. Retro-theme throughout the show, including a conversation with Houston Chronicle columnist John Lopez - who knows a thing or two about Texas football history - and Ronald Smith, author of Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics.

Four Questions: As always, our four questions for the night.

1. Who’s the best pre-1990 college football team of all time? Yes, we're opening that can of worms.

2. Your favorite pre-1990 football player? Did Vince Young's father play as a youngster? If so, that's my choice.

3. Get in touch with your inner Luddite: strike one aspect of the modern game and/or the way its broadcast. Personally, I'd bring back the old idea of planting the field goal posts right on the goal line. The accidental collisions on near-touchdown catches would provide enough entertainment for its own half-hour weekly show.

4. In our quest to prove Angelina Jolie is the most overrated hottie of all time, we ask you: who's your favorite retro babe? I'll take two portions of Sophia Loren and a side of Elizabeth Taylor, please.

See you tonight at 6:30.

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can you please

ask Lopez about Richard Justice?  i want answers.

by billyzane on Apr 24, 2007 12:46 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

just listened to most of the rebroadcast

thanks a lot for working in the dick justice question.  total non sequitur, which i think made it even more entertaining.  obviously lopez can't really answer the question, but there was definitely some recognition on his part that part of justice's schtick is being a dick (i.e. "playing devils advocate").

Good interview though.  I like John Lopez a lot.

by billyzane on Apr 25, 2007 12:08 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

My picks
  1. The right answer might be OU 1971, but I can't bring myself to say it. Let's take Pitt 1976 (Tony D)
  1. Earl Campbell, no question
  1. Legalize the fumblerooski
  1. Stella Stevens or Ann Margaret, can't decide

by Caradoc on Apr 24, 2007 1:41 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Who?

71 OU? Hello 71 NU beat them and won the MNC. Just because OU is your rival doesnt make them the best.

by Huskergod on Apr 25, 2007 1:22 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Pronoun usage for question 1?

I was going to make fun of you for it, but I really don't know if it is correct or not.

As for answers:
Longhorn answer:

  1. 69 Horns
  1. Earl Campbell

Longhorns Excluded answers:

  1. Not sure, 74 Nebraska or 74 OU (If you cheat, do you get to be included in this competition?)
  1. Jim Thorpe?  The stories about him are just ridiculous.  
  1. The guy on the field telling when the game can start again after the commercial.  Man I hate that guy and everything he represents.
  1. Jane Fonda in Barbarella; seeing a rerun of this movie in 6th grade may have shaped my career choice.  Goes well with Angelina Jolie because Fonda was the original self important actress.

by Wells on Apr 24, 2007 1:49 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

UH...

Do you mean 71 NU? 74 NU went 9-3.

by Huskergod on Apr 25, 2007 1:24 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Right

71.

It is weird, I always seem to get confused about Nebraska, because every time I think about them, this is all I can remember:

by Wells on Apr 25, 2007 7:05 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

pre-1990?

holy cow you guys are young.

  1. 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers. Beat Oklahoma in the 'Game of the Century' - both of those teams were incredible, but Nebraska won the game. You might point out Bud Wilkinson's Sooners and their 57 game winning streak. Or Not. Ha!
  1. possibly Nebraska's Johnny 'The Jet' Rodgers - see same '71 game against OU. Earl Campbell is a great choice - watching him run over people, he had thighs like no other human being. Billy Sims was great to watch, even if he played for the Godless Sooners.

Bo Jackson and Herschel Walker were unstoppable.

Who the hell can pick just one of these? I guess you could if ancient history is 1990! Ha!

  1. Without any doubt or hesitation, the modern game has been pansified by the 'Roughing the Passer' penalties that are called like it's the NFL. Same with a lot of the contact penalties on passing plays - although not as bad as the NFL - still a lot wimpier.
  1. Ann Margret - no contest.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Corn Nation - Graduating more of our players than you are!

by cornnation on Apr 24, 2007 2:05 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Four Questions
  1. '74 Huskers
  1. The Tyler Rose
  1. Time management:  I would (1) get rid of extra periods and sudden death, and (2) undo last year's quick-starts of the timeclock.  Let the bears, raiders and aggy play for ties. If we cannot beat them outright during 4 regular quarters then they deserve the tie.
  1. Natalie Wood

by bravobevo on Apr 24, 2007 2:13 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

3.2

I will grant your wish and get rid of last year's quick-starts.

Your welcome.

by Wells on Apr 24, 2007 2:17 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

God yes

The sudden death system is an abomination.

by Caradoc on Apr 24, 2007 3:39 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

question 4

how about catherine deneuve?  or is it wrong to havve a french woman be the pick two weeks in a row?

by billyzane on Apr 24, 2007 2:17 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

4 Answers
  1. Didn't care about college ball too much back then, but I was impressed with the 1990 Hurricanes.  Since their season was in 89 does that count?
  1. Has to be Earl.  Longhorn bias or not.  
  1. Two words - Mark May
  1. Seriously?  Raquel Welch.  No contest.

by GoHorns on Apr 24, 2007 2:55 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Sophia

1.)  don't care
2.)  don't care
3.)  don't care

4.)  since we are in the way back machine.  Sophia was

    an excellent choice.  I would also add Rita Hayworth.  Here is a picture for those of the younger set.

http://claudia79.tripod.com/

by UTeed on Apr 24, 2007 3:59 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

why not
  1.  I really didn't follow it too closely back then, so I abstain.
  1.  Billy Cannon (LSU).  For anybody growing up in Louisiana, he's a legend.  There is at least one song written about him and his amazing touchdown run.
  1.  It would be nice if Longhorn Sports Net could figure out the delay problem between radio & TV.  Oh, and I'd like to be able to buy a damn beer at the game.
  1.  Can't believe there's no mention yet of Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly.  I'll go with Audrey.

by SelimSivad on Apr 24, 2007 5:38 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Audrey?

Grace I understand but Audrey (whom I love) is the little freckle face girl not in the babeocity category
of Sohia, Rita, Ann-Margaret, et al.

by UTeed on Apr 25, 2007 12:33 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

option football
  1. Nebraska 71
  1. Tommy Nobis
  1. I feel quite strongly about this.  Show the teams from the break of the huddle to the final whistle.  When you watch old games on ESPN classic, they didn't have as much replay or as many graphics in between plays.  Seeing the team go from the huddle to the line, and then the execution of the play gave the game a forward momentum that is seriously lacking today; it was like a team was truly marching down the field, and it gave the game a rhythm.  Now the game is broken up into fragments, you don't see the action until a second before the snap, so there's no sense of continuity.  In other words, the way they shoot it today, for all we know, a team could be starting each play from the same yardline, whereas you used to watch the team move the ball from point A to point B quite literally, and the camera kept you at point B so that you had a feel for the drive.  
  1. Any of those pretty, young, 1920's flappers that Fitzgerald wrote about so much.

by BrooklynHorn on Apr 24, 2007 10:00 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

4 answers...
  1. 71' NU without a doubt.
  1. Johnny Rogers. With respect to Earl, he was a great running back but Johnny could do it all. Run, pass, catch and he returned kicks and punts. Overall a better player then Earl.
  1. Just hope they dont bring the in the grasp rule from the NFL. But I would keep OT just the way it is.
  1. Farrah Fawcet or Heather Locklear.

by Huskergod on Apr 25, 2007 1:30 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

well....
  1. I'll agree with you on NU '71...   not a no-doubter, though...
  1. I'm going to make a rule here that you can't say anybody's a better player than Earl if you can't even spell their name correctly, and especially if he was on your own hometeam.  Plus, sorry, Rodgers was great, and still nowhere nearly as good as Earl.  If you want to argue Bo and Herschel or OJ I'm on weaker ground, but I still go with Earl.
  1. I hate the grounding rule where the qb can just throw it in the ground to avoid a sack.  There should at least be a pretense of throwing it towards a receiver, I don't care how far outside some mythical box you've run.
  1. My first thought was Rita Hayworth, but I always had a major crush on Suzanne Pleshette.

by agent orange on Apr 25, 2007 4:51 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

tough, especially question 4.
  1. Any of the OU teams during their 57 game run.  That speaks for itself.
  1. Thorpe.
  1. 6-5 teams in bowl games.
  1. Hot?  Catherine Deneuve, Bridget Bardot, or Grace Kelly, I can’t decide. But who would I like to hang with?  Myrna Loy.  Not so much for looks (which were just fine thank you), as for attitude.

by rom on Apr 25, 2007 9:54 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Like Arsenio would say........
things that make you say "hmmmm":
1) The land of thieves of the 80's were damn good so lets pick '87
2) My heart goes w/ Earl but I grew up watching and loving Tony Dorsett( the one and only reason I liked the cowboys)
3) I would like not to hear that Notre Dame is back after every 1 game winning streak
4) I like to keep it slutty, Marilyn Monroe baby!!  
I'm sort of a big deal, people know me

by slimmy on Apr 25, 2007 11:04 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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