Did you see that Selectoslide around 9 minutes of that clip? Man, I might have to get me one of those things.
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Monday, July 14, 2014
American Football Update, 1964: Let's Go to the Hall of Fame
The 1964 Pro Football Hall of Fame Game will pit the Baltimore Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers on Sept. 6. This will be the third Hall of Fame Game and second since the museum opened in Canton, Ohio, on Sept. 7, 1963. Chris Schenkel of Bippus, Ind., (who would later sleep through the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich, Germany) took us on a tour last season shortly after its opening ...
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Jack Olsen in the Jan. 22, 1973, Sports Illustrated:
ReplyDeleteSchenkel is so irrepressibly and enthusiastically upbeat that he sometimes makes constant listeners want to throw up. He seems to be broadcasting perfect events in a flawless world; unseemly developments are simply ignored, and the positive is accentuated with gusto. He refers to the flag as "Old Glory," and when the colors are marched into the stadium before a game he says, "Oh, what a beautiful sight!" His favorite all-purpose remark is "I love it!" which he applies to motherhood, the Protestant ethic, fidelity, beer, the work of Winslow Homer, conservatism in politics and anything customarily regarded as old-fashioned. His best friend, Indiana dairyman Rodger Nelson, says, "Old-fashioned values are the greatest things in Chris' world. Like consideration for others. When he doesn't point out a missed tackle, it's not because he's a Pollyanna or because he's a dummy, it's because he knows that player's family might be watching, and Chris is just not gonna single the kid out for criticism. That's old-fashioned courtesy. Chris is an Indiana farm boy in the best sense of that term."