tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post7292291457591859529..comments2024-03-29T00:38:31.950-04:00Comments on The Heath Post: The Freakin' Weekend (1974)GoHeathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122010542579322600noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-48076190477377817952020-08-16T08:10:22.900-04:002020-08-16T08:10:22.900-04:00I always enjoy getting to see the NFL Films people...I always enjoy getting to see the NFL Films people do the do on a golf major, and <a href="https://youtu.be/Ni_UWDTaf8Q" rel="nofollow">this movie directed put together by Steve Sabol, John Facenda and the gang is especially good</a>. YouTube user "SepoTube" has helpfully posted the document in 12 parts, and you might at least enjoy watching from <a href="https://youtu.be/KIbDUFTOQRc" rel="nofollow">Part 11, covering Trevino, Nicklaus and Hubert Green over Sunday's final hole</a>. (<a href="https://youtu.be/RlThmxiRG8g?t=33" rel="nofollow">Am I the only one who fails to see any indication of Nicklaus's OKing Trevino's putting out?</a>)Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-88430195194841453102020-08-15T09:42:22.899-04:002020-08-15T09:42:22.899-04:00Speaking of Grambling and institutional racism, .....Speaking of Grambling and institutional racism, ...<br /><br /><i><a href="https://vault.si.com/vault/1974/08/19/scorecard" rel="nofollow">Now that the subject of a black manager for major league baseball has been disposed of for yet another season and Bowie Kuhn has made assurances that his efforts in that direction are "constant and ongoing," and now that it has been explained that Ernie Banks and Frank Robinson and the Aaron brothers were passed over by the Cubs, the Angels and the Braves because they lacked interest or experience or were otherwise occupied, we are free to turn our attention elsewhere.<br /><br />To pro football, for instance.<br /><br />"I have never been offered a position in the pros," says Eddie Robinson, who for 33 years has been head football coach at tiny Grambling College and whose school has sent as many players into pro ball as any college in the country over the past 10 years. "I really love what I'm doing at Grambling, but I would at least like to have had the opportunity to turn down a job. Every white coach in the country with my tenure has had that opportunity."<br /><br />Even the creation of a whole new league has not altered the situation. "Do you know," says Robinson, "I read that the Jacksonville team in the WFL has a coach who worked in high school last year? Wasn't there a black man anywhere that had his qualifications?"<br /><br />For the record, Eddie Robinson's record is 225 wins, 80 losses and 11 ties, and 32 of his former players are currently on NFL rosters.</a></i>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-51064182618722081422020-08-15T09:38:58.601-04:002020-08-15T09:38:58.601-04:00The Birmingham Americans are dominating the WFL, a...<a href="https://vault.si.com/vault/1974/08/19/americans-need-no-papergate" rel="nofollow">The Birmingham Americans are dominating the WFL, and their quarterback, Matthew "Rip" Reed, sounds amazing.</a> <a href="https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/sports/college/2014/07/15/dual-threat-pioneer-reed-enjoyed-great-run/12658269/" rel="nofollow">He's a 6-foot-4 former Grambling star who once passed for 12 touchdowns and 600 yards in a 116-0 win in high school.</a> The highlights <a href="https://youtu.be/m5Ry9Rb1Buw?t=104" rel="nofollow">in this video</a> are beautiful.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-39516047894865912502020-08-15T09:18:29.664-04:002020-08-15T09:18:29.664-04:00I underrate Lee Trevino. Dan Jenkins did not. Here...I underrate Lee Trevino. Dan Jenkins did not. Here he is in the Aug. 19, 1974, <i>Sports Illustrated</i> on the PGA Championship:<br /><br /><i><a href="https://vault.si.com/vault/1974/08/19/he-left-them-laughing" rel="nofollow">Lee Trevino came back again, wisecracking every step of the way, and doing that thing he has done so often in the past—dragging Jack Nicklaus along behind him. This is how Trevino won the PGA, the last of this year's major titles, by throwing his game up against that of Nicklaus and writing the same old ending.<br /><br />It was a strange tournament in a strange place, and what it finally came down to on Sunday was a Trevino-Nicklaus confrontation of the kind that has taken place so frequently. Not always head to head, but at least emotionally. In the two U.S. Opens and the two British Opens that Trevino had won, it was Nicklaus, essentially, that Lee had to beat. And on the outskirts of Winston-Salem in this PGA, on a golf course that only Trevino expressed any devout love for, they were in the same threesome for the final 18, separated by a fragile stroke, and all Nicklaus did was inspire Trevino to play near-perfect golf.<br /><br /><br />When they reached the last nine holes, which is where most big championships are decided, Trevino did that gutty, hustler's thing he is so well equipped to do. He outdrove Nicklaus when he had to, stuck his irons inside of Jack's when he had to, and he liked to say, as always, that it wasn't because he was playing Nicklaus "personally" but because Jack stimulates him. Everybody who believes that can crawl inside a Titleist. ...<br /><br />This PGA, incidentally, was Trevino's fifth major championship in the eight years he has been on the tour. And as far as statistics went, there was one to be added to Nicklaus' imposing total. Everyone knows about the 14 major titles he has now collected, but few realize that Jack has also been second more times than any human. This was the 12th time Nicklaus finished as a runner-up in one of the Big Four, four of them behind Trevino. Thus, Nicklaus has been either first or second in no less than 26 major championships.</a></i>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-50173339662925838442020-08-14T11:44:42.365-04:002020-08-14T11:44:42.365-04:00To Tell the Truth is not a good game show. It is a...<a href="https://youtu.be/CAVRab1uQKo" rel="nofollow"><i>To Tell the Truth</i> is not a good game show. It is a <i>great</i> game show.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.com