Heisman Lore

I wish I had an Aunt Gussie. For character on and off the field, you can't beat OJ Simpson. Although someone should.

Heisman lore? Well, my favorite football player is certainly NOT O.J. Simpson (Heisman '68) , but I do not follow the game over the years well enough to name some good ones.

Let's see....there's a site for that....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Heisman_Trophy_winners

I guess Herschel Walker, UGA, '82, and Tim Tebow, more recently would be my picks for character.

The Peterman jersey mentioned looks very good, and I can imagine it on some of our esteemed villagers, but not on my guy who is too round for that.....I am thinking it will look fine on a 20 something fellow who works out at the gym.

Football memories....? Attending the first Peach Bowl in 27 degrees temps with drizzling rain (having a 3 week old child at home), riding a bus from Atlanta to the Gator Bowl in Jax (twice--"World's Largest Cocktail Party"), and those Citrus High School games when I was young (8) and I was the mascot for the majorettes, marching out front in my short skirt and white boots with tassels

Now, I do enjoy following a good (close) game on TV....I watch most of the Falcons games on the weekends, and college games for UGA, FSU, South Carolina, and soon for my alma mater, STetson U. which is bringing back football after a hiatus from 1956....with its new season starting in 2013.

Hey, ya'll out there....Where is everybody? I had to click Newer to get here....The techie guy is still having trouble getting our PE to us on time!

My email announcement today had yesterday's title but linked here. LOL!!
Someone is messing with us.

Not a sports fan and I have a work appointment so I'm outta here.
I;ll check in later, maybe the topic will get to food by then.

I'm with Korthal, and it happened yesterday, too.  Nothing like going backwards to go forward.
 
 

Used to be a Redskins fan, but have not had as much interest of late.   Never was overly enthusiastic about any sport.  I thnk my music kept me to busy to have the time.

That's "think" which sometime I think I remember to do.

Having trouble relating to the topic, still bummed out about the child abuse scandal at Penn State. I realize full well that Jerry Sandusky's serial predatory attacks on children are logically unrelated to nostalgic reflection on prior winners of the coveted Heisman Trophy. Nevertheless the apparent intentional disregard of high credibility warnings by the university simply boggles my mind. Power, prestige, and money trump basic human decency, our moral obligation to protect our priceless treasures (children), and out leagal obligation to refrain from complicity in the commission of high tier felonies (and to report their commission to authorities in timely fashion). Smokey asked me recently how I reconciled representing individuals who I knew were guilty. I didn't answer at that time, since I was in another city on business, furthermore a thoughtful response was a distraction from the topic de jour. My only problem with doing my job comes with a few specific categories of offenders. Pedophiles are usually psychopaths who are incapable of either sincere remorse or any willingness to do what it takes after release (treatment) to avoid relapse. When I was in a European capital in 2008 with my daughter she was touched inappropriately by an adult male. She broke away from him and her group of fellow child travelers (I was riding shotgun, it was like herding cats) and got back to me. Luckily for the perpetrator the train was packed like sardines in a can, and he scurried off like a rat as the doors opened for the next station). While pushing my way through the crowd, my eyes met his eyes). He had the terrified look on his face that meant he fully understood that l intended to kill him with my bare hands.....

Love the football sweater but have to admit that my vintage Chicago Blackhawks Hockey Sweater is the cat's pajamas of my wardrobe. With deference to my Predators, the Blackhawks Brand has the best team image in sports. My wearable piece of vintage art is a fantastic conversation starter and as soft as a baby's bottom, warmer than a pussycat in a wool bag, and smells like a fine cigar mixed with Polo cologne. I put it on and my inner self tells me I don't have to shave. Johnny Majors a local boy who deserves more credit for what he did for Tennessee Football finished second to Paul Hornung in voting for the Heisman Trophy in 1956. It was a very good year. My football heroes had this boy's attention on the field and in that cigar box that held my favorite cards. I don't know what happened to that box. It is like the lost Ark to me.

Do they even play hockey in Tennessee?  I am almost certain you can find something orange to wear that will give you that same mojo.

PAOLOS you are singlehandedly holding the fort.

ChefDeb ~ I do what I can. How was that mimosa?  I used Prosecco instead
of the french variety, but the juice was fresh squeezed. If you don't
know what I'm talking about, skip back a day to earlier this AM.

I fancied the football sweaters as soon as I saw them, but there's a small problem.  I've always been the girl who likes to "borrow" (sometimes permanently) male clothing items such as the football sweater, hockey jersey, flannel shirt, rock concert t-shirt etc, from the men in my life, after the items have been broken in, well loved (sort of like a wearable velveteen rabbit), and acquired the slight scent of his soap or aftershave or cologne.  Buying one brand new for myself would be cheating.

p- Does Smith and Wesson (my two top players) taking on some beer cans on a tree stump constitute s form of field hockey? And yes sir, I have plenty or orange, though for a few seasons, we will be keeping a low profile. The Crimson Tide machine is highly problematic at the moment.  

PAOLOS That mimosa is the only thing keeping me from really commenting about our sales oops I mean topics. I really do appreciate Mr. P and will try to pretend these are topics and not blurbs. I'M SORRY! I didn't mean to say it aloud. But anyway, tomorrow morning I am going to return the favor with Bellinis, also made with Prosecco.

Paolos - If they play hockey in places like Anaheim and Arizona I'm sure they have a rink or two in Tennessee.  Watching hockey in the dessert is a strange experience.  
 
Honestly I couldn't name any Heisman winners.  I'm not a big sports fan, but I don't dislike sports either. 
 
Much like my previous statement about the sweaters and how buying one new is cheating, I feel like watching most sports on tv is cheating.  They are something to be experienced in person, I've never liked watching sports on TV when I have the option of going to the ballpark or arena in person.  I love the experience of going to a football game, even if the home team doesn't win, it is still a great excuse to get outside and enjoy a sunny autumn day in an exciting atmosphere (and get a little people watching in).

MMMMM bratwurst and chili ; tailgating in crisp Automnal air....

T ~ Smith and Wesson trumps just about anything.

CD ~ Bellinis, they almost sound southern.  In Miss Bebe’s Mississippi
dialect..Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Miss Nachista ~ Nashville does have a hockey team, they even
made the playoffs this year, they call themselves the Predators, but after
reading Bert’s post they may want to change that.  I enjoyed reading about Gordon Westcott.  Being the youngest son of the youngest son, I
never got to know my grandfather either. 
Some things are just not meant to be.

Automnal ~ I like that.

A U T U M N A L .......

Paolos - I was lucky in that I acquired a substitute grandfather "uncle" Jim from from Arkansas.  Although in reality he's only a few months older than my father, he and his wife (before she passed away) were surogate grandparents for me.  Sometimes we take what we can get, but I was fortunate in that who I got to choose as a grandpa is someone pretty special.
 
RY - Tailgating and stadium food are half the draw for these sporting events!  Brats, grilled onions, coleslaw, potato salad, bbq, burgers, nachos, fajitas, hot chocolate, and the list goes on and on.  Give me a truck, a camp chef stove, a cooler full of ingredients and an afternoon before a football game to lounge in camp chairs and I'm a happy girl.
 

IVAN ~ I am going to defer to Eli on that one.

Hello Ivan & Co ~ I am here, just nothing to say except being really annoyed today by a hospital appointment where the doc said he hadn't got my test results and would I come back next week.

I am actually excited for the college sports seasons this year.  In the credit union I work for there has been no such thing as "casual friday".  Women must wear nylons at all times, even with pants.  We have a dress code stuck in 1979.  But our President has retired and a new (younger) president is in place.  My first order of business was the dress code.  We have successfully overturned the "no naked ankles" rule for women (seriously who wants to wear pantyhose under slacks?  With dresses, yes, slacks, NO), and we have talked him into something even better 
 
Our credit union was founded at the local university for its staff and students, we even have the university's name in our name.  Our main branch is located 1 block West of the football stadium and 2 blocks Northwest of the basketball arena.  Because of tighter regulations regarding marketing on college campuses and directly to university students we have had less and less direct contact with the school in the last few years.  It seemed that the credit union had given up trying to pretend to be interested in the school we came from. 
 
So I pitched that every university student that signed up for an account in the summer and fall of each new year, be given a game day shirt for the uni.  And that every employee be given one as well.  Part of the proposal was that on game days for the university clubs we be allowed to wear the shirts with khakis or nice jeans to show support and help build community excitment about the sports and the school.  I had initially pushed for all sports (tennis, golf, softball, hockey, gymnastics, volleyball, etc) be included.  They counteroffered with home games only for football and men's basketball, so we took it.  Because a few casual days are better than none at all. 
 
I'm excited for the football season because starting with the first home game on August 30th I get to wear a t-shirt and jeans to work for the first time in 2 years.  And yes I do realize the irony between my comment yesterday and what I'm saying today.  I like formality and think we need a little more of it, but I also love being comfortable when I'm working and having a little fun and showing a little school spirit as well.

Billly Cannon LSU-1959~I hated his ass. Why? My new wife, the Artist loved him. Drew/painted his skeleton a bone at a time, added muscles then skin and later a uniform. She really has always hated sports but she loved Billy Cannon!

BRAVO!!! BERT!!!

Successful day in the diamond mines. Thank you very much. Love my work.

PAOLOS:    As  You  Like  It .......
 
 
"Sweet Are the Uses of Adversity, Which Like the Toad Wears Yet a Jeweled Crown Upon Its Head ......."

GEORGE HALL:
Who was your wife's inspiration when she was covering up the bones and muscles before the uniform?

Sir Ivan …And this our life, exempt from public haunt,

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,

Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.

Paolo...I went to a one and only ice hockey game in Memphis...must have been around 1964/65. Not a big fan....and I have no idea if they have a team...don't even remember the two teams playing that night. Certainly grew up with orange and grey  sweaters, hats etc. as both my parents graduated from UT...University of Tenn. at Knoxville.
 
Ivan...love it

Korthal~I hadn't thought of that! Yeah, maybe I am a force to be  dealt with!? Thanks, man!

Miss Jane ~ You should have been here Sunday.  ChefDeb whipped up a batch of those lemony french cakes.  What are they called? I don't know how you can survive so far away from good ol' Rocky Top.

IVAN ~ You know that I don't like to stray too far off topic, so I will tie into today's fare by telling you that my English teacher (3rd year high school) knew that play word for word.  He also played half back in high school (Purcell, Cincinnati)  behind a Navy veteran you may know from my hometown...Roger Staubach.  I know he ended up in your neck of the woods, somehow.

GH:
That's WOMAN to you and all. LOL!!!
I want to be there when they do the exray.

Football~spent too many years as a cheerleader in a small, piss ant town whose team got their "ass handed to them on a platter" every Friday night. But, Ah, those Friday night lights...they meant so much fun. I quit going to games after the cheerleading payed for my first year of college and I realized I could get by on academics. Or rodeo. Academics was the easiest.
The Dallas Cowboys have (and will) always been my team of choice, despite what they did to Landry. I don't follow the pros so much anymore...college is really where it's at. And when it comes to college, I'm an Aggie 'till death.
NACHISTA~ Gotta say, I love the way you think. Didn't need to comment today because you had it covered. YOU ROCK!!

Korthal~ You know that occured to me when I had already hit SENT. Sorry for the demotion.

UT Knoxville- One of my few "A"'s was in Introduction to Hashpipe 101. Mom was not impressed but the Head Shop down on Cumberland Ave missed me when I had to transfer to Junior College. It was there I learned how to manage a great trailer park. Called it Jellystone II. Digital is nothing compared to scratchy vinyl in the acoustical wonder of a double wide.

A Heisman of the Heismans:

Davey O'Brien, TCU, 1938

Haz====So sorry that you have to wait for your results, don't you hate it when you have to depend on non-competent individuals  to tell you how the rest of your life may play out??? I have a school football sweater with a patch on it. It's too small now :{

GH:
LMAO!!! And I can't afford the loss.

A U T U M N A L  - I'm with Ivan.  It's like autumn with an "al" attached. 

TT:  Can I have your Blackhawk's jersey?  I've got a Smith and Wesson you might like... I covet your Hawk's jersey.  I suspect while it looks good on you, it would look good on me too....I had one once, is why.  Hull, from the 60's, 1966 I think.  Bobby not Dennis.  I LOST it! Of all the things to lose I lost my Blackhawk signed by Bobby Hull himself one night when we had those seats way down there by the ice, and he had a 10 minute penalty a couple of times, and my friend, he knew him by virtue of never missing one regular home Blackhawk game...any how after the game I got the jersey and his autograph and I LOST IT.   So can I have yours?

PARK...........or it could be AUTUMNFRED if it had Fred attached. yuck, yuck, yuck..................
 
I guess I will start saying good morning at 8 at night now. I'm so confused..............da*nit!
 
I accidentally clicked on Eliot Spitzer...........................I screamed outloud.
 
I got no jerseys, I got no nothin'.............................
 
madeleines.................

The crisp scent of burning leaves in the air always brings back memories of junior high, high school, and college football.  I have a shirt from practice sessions for the junior high I attended (Douglas MacArthur, a famous Arkansan) that had on it my boyfriend's number. I've not seen him in 40+ years but that shirt will always carry those memories in its worn old fibers.  It's too small now, but I will never give it up, nor will I give up watching football.

Most memorable time was watching "Toe Joe" (forgot his last name) kick a 69 yard field goal that never made it to the record books (they said it was wind assisted...in a sunken bowl???) for the Arkansas State Indians in 1975.  (They are now the politically correct Arkansas State Red Wolves.  My Indian name is Red Wolf!)  What a game!  Watching the Indian Chief race his horse across the field..and jumping the logo in the middle like a Lipizzaner.  Listening to the TKE bell and the KA cannon go off.  It was beyond great; it was a time out of time.

The roar of the greasepaint...the smell of the crowd!

BTW, TT don't fret.  I went to UT when Johnny Majors was the football coach and they had a T-shirt (yes, paolos, in Big Orange) that said "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Johnny!"

For those of you who are curious, Pooka had a great day...even ate her treats for the first time in a week!!!!!

Favorite Heisman winners:
 
1940: Tom Harmon (RB, Michigan State and father of another great football player, recipient of the 1973 National Football Foundation Award for All-Round Excellence, and People Magazine Sexiest Man Alive, NCIS actor Mark Harmon, OB, UCLA)
 
1963: Roger Staubach (QB, Navy, went on to be a great Dallas Cowboy and a true leader)
 
1974 and 1975: Archie Griffin (RB, Ohio State, only man to win twice)

Miss Park ~ Our friend Mr. Road Yacht coined the word A U T O M N A L at 12:23 pm today (as best I can tell) combining both the aroma of the season and the fumes of the auto into one crisp AUTOMNAL word that describes the air when an AUTO is running on a Crisp Autumn morning while a tailgating party is in progress. I maintain that it is a clever and appropriate portmanteau word on par with any such word Lewis Carroll or James Joyce ever coined. I tip my hat to the man and hope that you and Sir Ivan are as awe inspired as I am by Eli's wit and any other awe inspiri

let me finish dammit! ng characteristics that our dear Road Yacht may have acquired in his journeys beyond the Village gates.

Road Yacht, don't worry...you still rule!
 
BTW, Mr. P--you left out the Grand-daddy Bowl of them all, the Rose Bowl which, if memory serves me correctly, started in 1902.
 
Eye Guys, "Let's do the Time Wrap agaaaaaaaaiiiiinnnnnn!!!!!!!"

Just where has Smokey been keeping himself today anyway?

w/ the bandit.................................

TMBbanditITW?

Ginger, Pooka will love Autumn... :) It's a great time of the year to feel good...

Just checked. No new topic yet.
I'll catch you all in the morning.

John Heisman is buried in Rhinelander With. Think its time to buy a sweater & take a road trip. PL, RY, Stoney, Nachista & anyone else are you in?

Paolo...I popped in late Sunday and marveled at your memory. As bebe might say ... mmmmmmadeleines....and I agree. 

Paolos had it right: autos have tailgates, Autumn does not. But tailgating with Brats,and Chili, and libations of choice, can actually take place at any time of the year, and even at the beach.

Yes, that's the one.....................

JANE.......................huuuuuullllooooooooooooooo!

Rings, pick me up at the nearest airport next August and I'll go on that road trip with you!
Just had my official game day tshirt delivered to my desk at work, and all I can say is:
Hail the Utah Aggies
We'll play the game
With all our might
See the colors flying
The Aggie blue
And fighting white
How they stir us onward
We'll win the victory all right,
Hail the Utah Aggies
We're out to win
So fight, fight, fight!
Utah State, hey
Aggies all the way
Go Aggies
Go Aggies
Hey, hey, hey!!
 
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/nachista/hoof.jpg
 
Sorry I've been working since 6am, I'm a little loopy this morning.

Graygoose: Welcome to the $EC. Tommy Typical is right, our Chicago Blackhawks (and Blackhawks IS all one word) have the best logo in all of sports.  GO BIG BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PAOLOS:  Those poor Bastards that find Good in everything, live lives of continuous and devastating disappointment ....... Pondering that leads us to understand why some say that, Murphy Was An Optimist .......

I still agree with Ivan, although I'm forgetting what the subject was.  I like that word, portmanteau though.

IVAN ~ If you are still out there, this is for you and your lovely, forgetful and every bit as contentious sidekick...MissPark4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQBdj4-3610