Curt Gowdy dies

[Dawg52]

I can remember old Curt describing Joe Namath going back for a pass, in Super Bowl III, just like it was yesterday!  Takes me back to my childhood. Or was it my teen years? I wish they had more like him today.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060220/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/obit_gowdy

 

[HFWR]

Curt Gowdy and PeeWee Reese...

What's more, I remember Dizzy Dean and PeeWee...

 

[REWahoo]

Curt Gowdy and PeeWee Reese...

What's more, I remember Dizzy Dean and PeeWee...

Then you will also remember Red Barber...

 

[Rich_by_the_Bay]

Then you will also remember Red Barber...

And Mel Allen, Phil Rizzuto. Could I really be that old?

 

[JPatrick]

Anyone remember Roger Maris for this??

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Oh yah 60 homers also.

 

[Cut-Throat]

Anyone remember Roger Maris for this??

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Oh yah 60 homers also.

Hey, it was 61 Homers in 1961.

BTW - When I was in the Navy in Central Florida, Roger Maris was our Beer Distributer for the Navy Club for our little 200 man Navy Facility in the Ocala National Forest. This was in 1974

 

[Dawg52]

Since we're reminiscing, do you remember Marlin Perkins? He was the old geezer on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. I always enjoyed watching that on Sundays. Time flies, I read where NBC dropped it in 1971. A syndicated version ran several years after that however. Marlin died in 1986. 

 

[HFWR]

"This is very dangerous", as Marlin would say, while sidekick Jim wrestled a water buffalo...

 

[renferme]

I can remember when Gowdy would do Steeler games on TV.
He was blatantly anti-Steeler.

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

"This is very dangerous", as Marlin would say, while sidekick Jim wrestled a water buffalo...

That used to crack me up. "Jim is going to interact with this 50 foot python", then he'd go off telling you a story while the snake wrapped around jims neck...a little while later...oops, lets go off to a mutual of omaha commercial while we save jim from being killed by the snake....

 

[Nords]

I can remember when Gowdy would do Steeler games on TV.
He was blatantly anti-Steeler.

I can remember my parents blowing their stacks over of his comments. The 1970s turned out to be the wrong decade to bad-mouth that team...