October 31, 2024 • 39 mins
Lists With Chris: this week inspired by the Texas A&M blackout 10-31-24
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Who are the five greatest athletes of all time? Who's
the worst player to ever deliver an iconic sports moment?
Who's the least athletic looking athlete in history? It's time
to rank the best and the worst that sports has
to offer. Let's dive in to lists with Chris.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We do it every week with my good friends Chris
Beckham and Craig Stevenson Craig and Studio. This week for
the list, and there's so many different possibilities that we
could go with this week, but this was inspired by
last week's monumental win for the Texas A and m.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Aggie's over LSU.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
They did it in the blackout, which doesn't always work
at all when you start talking about, hey, we're gonna
work special uniforms or special accouterments or whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, how about that little bit.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I gotta redo my list and we're talking about a tremont.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, let's use uh, just not necessary foreign words.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's the next list.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
So we're going with blackouts and other uniformed choices that
are not you know, it could be repeating, but not
every single week.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We're going for that.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
All right, Chris, you're the visiting team, as always start
us off with this week's list.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Well, I'm sort with one that Rindy you might have seen.
I'm not sure, but it did happen in the Atlanta Olympics,
and that is the golden shoes of Michael Johnson. Yes,
he decided where them in the UH men's two hundred
final and and as he said, uh, you know, it
wasn't inspiration. He said, I don't want to be center
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there gold plated shoes getting a silver medal on my neck,
so you better win. It's just some inspiration stal pressure himself.
And of course he did win, and uh got uh
that he would have been famous anyway as a gold
medal winner. But you know, added, I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I was.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I was at those Olympics in Atlanta covering those but
neither Nadia nor I made it to the actual to
that event.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
So no, I figured, yeah, he was having a candlelight
dinner and yeah and eat.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, we were preparing for gym nastis.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We did not make it to see that. But that's
a going that I did not have.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
This one is very recent, and you know, football throwbacks
don't always work well because the equipment is so much different.
Than it was back in the day. But one that
I thought was really awesome ten days ago Illinois with
the leather helmets versus Michigan leather style helmets, not real leather,
you know. They had the pattern of the leather helmets
in honor of Red Grange in the nineteen twenty four
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game against Michigan. So they look really cool.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I thought, Yeah, I had that that was gonna be
that was gonna be mine because you can't have a
leather helmet, but man, it sure looked like they had
a leather helmet.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It was one hundred years, one hundred years in one
day since Red Grange in Illinois beat Michigan. So yeah,
I had that one as well. That's a uh, that's
a really good one. How about uh, how about this
is one that is recurring but not all the time.
I'm gonna go with the Auburn Tigers and the orange
face mask. Craig, what do you think about Auburn going
orange face mask on?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
You should be permanent, You like the you like the yard.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
What do you think, Chris?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Oh, yeah, it's them.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, okay, orange face mat They don't do it much though, No,
they do it.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, they you know it's in the kind of in
their glory days of the Pat Die era eighty three eighty.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Four, I think Randy Campbell.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, they wore them that. Yeah, for sure, I've seen
but you know there's featos of Abu Jackson wearing them.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
They look awesome. I love them. I wish I wish
that it's just a good you know, it's a it's
a good accent. You wouldn't want to come out in
orange helmets or anything, which they have done, by the way,
years ago. But the orange face masks look really cool.
I think they do it.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
About once a year or so.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
There's no there's no rhyme or reason to it, but
about once a year they'll go orange face mask and
it's pretty cool. It's actually pretty cool. There you go,
all right, we know what we're doing. Now, we're doing
like specialty uniforms. Maybe you do it more than once,
but it's not your regular every game or every week
or every event.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Chris what you got.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yeah, this has been done more than once, but they
tend to bring it out for what they considered big games.
We saw it last Sunday, that is when the Tampa
Bay Bucks bring out the cream sickle. They brought them
out against the Falcons and it did not turn out
well as the Falcons one. But they did it last
year as well. But then before that has been like
a decade before they had won. And it is kind
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of they'll throw back to the seventies when the Bucks,
you know, were the lovable Bucks, because they were the
unsuccessful lovable Bucks. But they did where the uniforms, which
kind of in retro has become cool. At the time,
it was just how the losers got dressed for football games. Yeah, seventies,
whenever they got it started up. But I've got it.
I love them. They do look cool. Now.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, that's what I was going to say, is that
for the first twenty years of their existence or so,
they wore them and they were terrible, and everybody's like,
get rid of these garbage. You know, I saw of
a uniform And now every time they bring them back
and it's like, oh man, it's so great, which is weird,
but you know, Okay, So Rainie did at Auburn in
the last round. I'm going to do Alabama here and
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for I think it was a total of seven games
in nineteen eighty three and nineteen eighty four, Alabama were
white helmets with the number on the side. Yeah, and
ever since then people have been I don't know about clamoring,
but have said win is Alabama ever gonna wear white
helmets again? Than they never have? You know, it was
during the Ray Perkins era. They did it for a
couple of years, and of course back in the early
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sixties it was kind of their standard helmet. But yeah,
they haven't done it and going on forty years now.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And it's so interesting because when you see like on
college game day or anytime you see the Alabama helmet,
it's got like the helmet and the number on the side.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's the crimson helmet.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
But it's got like eighteen on the side or however
many national championships they claim sixteen whatever it is, and
you know how many, well, but it always has that number.
And in reality that's not realistic that they don't have
the number is on the site.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
But they did back in the I call it the
Ricky Moore era.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yeah, that sounds good. Early Mike Shula, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, when Ricky Moore was like the star running back.
There were some down moments there for sure. When that
happened Craig, here's one for you. I'm gonna I'm gonna
steal team you cover on a daily basis South Alabama.
The R City Mobile skyline helmets are absolutely a plus
awesome because Mobile is not a huge city, but it
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does have a distinctive skyline and to have those on
the helmet that whole you know, this is our city,
our team, all that stuff. Those are so cool.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
How do they do that? Correct the Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, they're not with major Apple white here. They're not
doing as many specialty logos as they did when Kane
Womack was was here, but they they, uh they do
do they do that once a year or so.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I think I like those?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I like them.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I mean it goes with the thing. There you go.
All right, Chris, you're next up.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We're doing like Texas A and M successful blackout uniforms
that are one time or not all that often that
teams were.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I believe it's twenty eleven when they had these Nike
Pro Combat uniforms and a lot of teams wore different
style uniforms. And Georgia opened the season against Boise State
and we had heard about the uniforms that are going
to be wearing as far as this, and when they
came out there was like a bunch of Power Range.
It looked ridiculous. Well this is a terrible sign. And
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sure enough it didn't turn out to be a terrible sign,
as Boys to Take To beat Georgia thirty five to
twenty one in the season opener. And you know, if
we I mean, I don't have good Boys State ended
up being that year pretty good probably, But if you're
Georgia and you lose the season under the Boys to State,
you might say, well, this is canceled season. I'll start
next year. I mean, I mean, we're not in the
couse of all playoff yet. But even worse was Malcolm
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Mitchell scored one of the touchdowns and then jumped up
to the chest Blumper came down towards knee, So I mean,
and everybody was blamed it on the power Range uniforms,
but that the case probably, but it didn't help. They
ain't want a sense there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
That Chris, when you mentioned about let's just start over
and play again next year, that reminds me of the
one of the FAMO lists with Chris moments when I
said I didn't know that I didn't never heard of Missouri,
you know, when Alabama lost to them in seventy five.
I was like, they lost him in the open. I
was like, I didn't even know what Missouri was. And
Craig was incredulous about I was eleven years old and
didn't know my states.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
But remember, like, Craig, yes I do.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I was like, I don't know Missouri. I mean, what
is that Missouri. I'm mostly worried about football, not the
states anyway. That that reminded me of that, Like, just
call off the season. You lost the opening, just call
off the rest of it, Craig.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
October seventeenth, twenty fifteen. I tuned in to watch a
Top ten matchup between Penn State and defending national champion
Ohio State. And Ohio State came out in black helmets
and I was like, who is this team? You don't
You've just completely subjugated your brand here. Ohio State needs
the silver helmets with the Buckeye stickers on the back,
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and I don't know who these guys are. It just
doesn't look right. Even when Georgia, when they do the blackout,
they at least have the power g you know, that's
that's Georgia, you know, but yeah, the Ohio State black
jerseys are just awful. And I think they broke them
out again against Nebraska a couple of years ago, but
I don't like them at all.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I remember when that actually happened about when I turned
the TV on. I should know who's playing. Even if
you go alternate uniform, I should still know who's playing.
And yeah, that Ohio State game, I had no clue
that was Ohio State. Yeah, yeah, that's really good. I
think I definitely definitely agree with that. Here's one that
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this may seem sort of crazy to you guys, but
I went to a high school football game in Birmingham.
I saw Huffman High School play because I wanted to
see their legendary kicker, Philip Doyle, who was an All
State middle linebacker, wearing a big linebacker neck roll, which
don't even exist anymore, and he's kicking field goals Phillip Doyle,
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and I just thought, okay, kicker with a neck roll
has to make the category.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I mean, it's.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Uh, that's that's unusual uniforming for an All American kicker.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
When you said you were going to hunting, I thought,
you can say Andre Smith.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I could have gone on Andre Smith. They've had some
pretty good players despite not being a great program. But
Philip Doyle was like really good as a linebacker, and
he looked more like a linebacker than a kicker, at
least on the high school level. Now at Alabama he
looked more like a kicker. But Philip Doyle in his uh,
in his neck roll. I'll just go with him, all right, Chris.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Who you got?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Well, I'll stay in the high school realm. And this
is going to resonate more in my state than in yours.
But Tomorrow Night, one of the big high school rivalries
is Donosta versus Lounges, Lasta Lownes High School. They call
it the Winnersville Classic, and the two schools are very different.
Valdosta the inner city school, Loundes the county school, and
so for years and they don't do it very often.
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In fact, it's it's been many years since they've done it.
But occasionally in a big game, and we could see
the Tomorrow Night laws will come out wearing uniforms that
say Plowboys, and that is the old official nickname of
There's the louds Vikings. But when they wear the plowboy
uniforms and they run out. And let me tell you, so,
you talk about a bunch of Rednecks get excited like
a Lenox Kinner concert, they lose their minds, and I
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love that. I wish the would do it more often,
but uh but I guess it would lose some of
the specialists. So uh yeah, the plowboy uniforms. Uh, and
they only do against Valdosta and only on certain years
and so so you know, again, well, my family gonna
sit it one night, but it will be cool.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Chris, you said the Rednecks get really excited. I sure
wish they would do it more.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Away from I love it, and I say, to be
claiming to be redneck, I just like when red get excited.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
But you're with him on this, you're.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Absolutely yeah, that's right. I mean, come off to happen.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Who's the famous country singer that was a plowboy?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yeah? And Thomas Aki, Yeah, they were. He was lowigh
quarterback from.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, there was uh Stan Frasier who was a wrestler
from Vancleeve, Mississippi, was the Mississippi Plowboy, and then he
became Uncle Elmer when he went to WWF. But anyway,
he was Hillbilly Jim's tag team partner. There you go, Yeah,
anyway at.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Barton Stadium and promises.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
This is just one person, not an entire team. But
on June twenty eighth, nineteen ninety seven, in a start
against the Cleveland Indians, David Wells wore a Babe Ruth
game warn Cap on the mound that he had bought
at an auction for thirty five thousand dollars and wore
it in a game, which was a uniform violation. He
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got a twenty five hundred dollars fine. But you can
see the clips of David Wells wearing this, you know,
like basically like crushed up old style Babe Ruth.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
CAP's got too much money.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, he's got too much of money. That's that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
And there wasn't a loud word again. It was, like
I said, a uniform violation, but it looks pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
April fifteenth is known for two things. Make sure you
filed your taxes and what do you know what else?
April fifteenth? What happens every ap robson Jackie Robinson and
we all wear number forty two. Everybody in baseball, so
you don't even know who's playing because every player on
both teams is where number forty two on April fifteenth.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I love that they do it. I think it's really cool,
but it's annoying to watch when they bring in some
middle reliever in the sixth inning and you have no
idea who it is because they don't have it. He
doesn't have his name on the back of his jersey
or the right number.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We could do a forty two patch.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
No, I mean, I'm fine with him doing it, but
they should wear their names on them.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, yeah, that would be good. Yeah, but everybody wears
forty two obviously. Yeah, April fifteenth was the day Jackie
Robinson broke in and historic figure.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
They do it. They do a Roberto Clemente day now,
but anyone who wants to wear twenty one can wear
twenty one, and a lot of the Puerto Rican players
do because obviously he's a huge hero there. But not
everybody does.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Two great heroes, Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente. I think
it's cool and it's just one day, you know, but
everybody wears forty two. Otherwise, nobody wears forty two. That
jersey is retired for every Major League Baseball team, right, yes,
so just that one.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Day do you get to wear it? So Jackie Robinson
day April fifteenth.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Every year when they did that, which was like I
guess ninety seven for the fiftieth anniversary, they said anyone
who was wearing forty two at the time could continue
to wear it. So, uh, movon was one Mariano Rivera
who wore it for another almost twenty years. But Movon
was you know, he wore specifically because of Jackie Robinson.
Then he wore for the rest of the square.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
That's cool. Yeah, he and Clemented both you can. Yeah,
we could sit here and praise them for the.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Entire show, both those guys. So it's fitting.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
But it is unusual when you're watching if you don't
know in advance that whoa, what are we doing here?
Everybody's got there like Alabama punt return team. Everybody's got
the same number. No, I should too soon, too soon?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
All right, Chris, what you got or as your friend
of mine one said yes to day jack Cross and
get a job. I had start paying taxes. No, that's
exactly if you wanted they we're almost fifty years. I
think it was seventy Uh in the mid seventies, seventy six,
I think when for I think for three games the
Chicago White Socks wore shorts. Oh yes, Oh gosh, it's
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Bill Veck, one of his another his crazy ideas. He
actually attributed it to his wife, which I mean that
would make it an any better terrible idea, but yeah,
it was in August. They were way under five hundred
white socks were and they tried it out with the
with the shorts and actually won the game, which and
somebody said you have to go slide in those and
buildings said if you slide and you hurt me, you
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don't how to slide. Well, but anyway, but then he
said they wore them. They won the game, and then
they wore them twice more after that. But then they
didn't where everything like that. But uh, part of the
crazy seventies the major League baseball.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
In Bill Deck, wasn't that. There was that the same
uniform with the big collars too.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, they wore the Yeah, the white shirt, black collar.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Not tucked in shirts and all that kind is all
on the.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Very softball, yeah, very So that was a Harrold Bains
before Harrol Banks now Ba Burns, my man britt Burns.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I think that may even be before Brett Burns.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Maybe a win.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah, oh Goose wilbur would maybe been on that team.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I think britt Burns speaking of Huffman High School. Britt
Burns went to Hufman High School.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yeah, I think it could be. I'll check on it, but anyway,
all right, this is also baseball in nineteen seventy six
and nineteen seventy six was the one hundredth anniversary of
the National League, so several teams for a few games
wore old style flat bill or flat topped baseball caps,
including the Cardinals, the Phillies, and the Pirates. And the
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Pirates kept them, and they kept them for almost ten years.
It kind of it became their permanent hat, you know,
for years. But it was supposed to be just a
special thing for the one hundredth anniversary of the National League.
But they decided they liked him and they kept them
for almost ten years.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I like it.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Yeah. They think said. One of the things was you
the would also put stars on the pillbox that if
he did something like him, made a great play or whatever.
And the person who determined to get a star or not?
Was Willly Stargell totally up to him a star?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
All right? Real quick. Ritt Burns was seventeen years old
in nineteen seventy six. Close plus yeah he put his
debut was nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Okay, well, yeah that was close.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
We were, by the way on that team short wearing
team Kleon Jones mobiles on Kleon Jones.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Got to got to wear shorts with after he left
the match. Yes last year.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Also list with Chris favorite Ralph garr in the back
of his baseball card. Ralph's first dolen base was a
home plate.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That's true. You can look it up. Greg, his first
dolen base was a home plate.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Terry Forster the Fat Tub of Gooo.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Although I don't think he was official nickname.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I don't think he was the fat fat Tube of
at that point.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
He still slid.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah, Oh my goodness, that's ridicious. Could give me earlier
about a uniform violation. I've got one that was so
cool that never was. Peyton Manning, remember, was the quarterback
of the Indianapolis Colts. Indianapolis, the Indianapolis football team is
the most or the Colts is the more important part
of this. And when Johnny Unanus passed away, Peyton Manning
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decided that for that week's game he was gonna wear
the high top, the black high top shoes made famous
by Johnny Unanas and the NFL the No Fund League
said nope, you'll be fined if you wear those shoes.
Come on, we're trying to honor the great Colts legend
Johnny Uninus, and they said, nope, that's a uniform violation.
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They needed to let that go. So anyway, that's what
I got, black high tops that Peyton Manning could not wear.
All right, Chris, we're doing in honor of the monumental
blackout win for Texas A and m Maggie's over LSU
special uniform choices that maybe you were more than once,
but it wasn't your regular uniform. Famously who you got.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Yeah, I remember this one being cool, although it was weird.
But in twenty nineteen, Purdue University was honoring the fiftieth
anniversary of the moon landing because Neil Armstrong is a
Purdue graduate, and so they had the moon landing uniforms.
They were all white, kind of mimicking astronaut suits and
they had, you know, Purdue Cradle of Astronauts, that kind
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of thing. And then they had a little decal with
like a crater on it, and their face masks were gold.
It was totally it wasn't produce colors. It was totally different.
And then but they said because the aside from the
US military, Purdue had more astronauts than in the school
in the world. I have no idea why that is.
I have no idea why Purdue is the cradle of astronauts,
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but it is, including Neil Armstrong. So I remember the
moon landing uniforms because they looked I mean, it's Craig,
you talk about it. You know, team runs out there,
y'all know who they are. You would have had no
idea that that was Purdue just for that one day.
But the gold, the gold, I remember that I had
to goo with to jog my memory. But the gold
a face mask. I's forgotten about all white uniform pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Chris, Where do you stand on them actually going to
the moon, You're.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I'm not, I'm not find it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Just for the record, we go three for three that
we had landed on the moon.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yes, thank you. Now, the work that the world is bround. Right, Well, uh.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
We'll crowdsource that one. But from now we're good on
landing on the moon. Okay, good, yeah, good. Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
This is one that I like, but they do it
every year. But I don't think Randy likes this. I
think I'm right. I want to and say that you
can tell me.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
When U c l A and U s C play,
they both wear their home jerseys. U c l A.
Where's the powder? Blue? And USC where's the uh?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
What do they call it? Scarlet and gold? You don't
like it?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I don't like it at all.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I love it. I think it looks crowd like. Let's
where are you on this? Break the tie?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
It's just one?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Well, here's my reasoning is that always have sympathy for
the people who only have black and white TV and
you can't tell which team is which if you're watching
in black and white.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
The helmet, the helmet. Let's wait, okay, what year are
we talking about here? What I thought you were going
to say something like it's toured on the officials because
they can't say which color white or red.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
No, it's just they're both wearing dark jerseys.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I can't tell you know my black and white U
c l A is the one that has U c
l A outside of the helmet. That'll get that's a
dead giveaway.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
No, I don't like Planet has a black and white TV,
the last one.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, you're still going down to the
bus station and with those little uh coin operated TVs,
they still have that. Chris.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
When we were growing up, we could hardly afford money
for for dinner, but we had the best TV in
the neighborhood. My dad was like, we're gonna have a
good TV. We might not be able to function otherwise,
we're gonna have the best TV. So I'm just exaggerating.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
About how heavy was.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Oh my goodness, it's like two tons.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
And when that one, when the picture two wore out
on that one, we just put the new TV on
top of it.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Well, you know, my grandfather was an electrician and when
his big TV wore out, he'd take all the guts
out and put another TV inside it inside the case.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh, it was like the biggest piece of furniture in
your house.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah. But no, I don't like color on color. Somebody's
got to be in white. Somebody's got to be in white.
I feel strongly about that one. But yeah, they do
do that, Graig, I did not. I did not think
about that one at all. You guys remember the two
thousand and eight French open, Serena Williams wore the cat suit.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Oh yeah, you remember that now.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
She got to wear it that year. They say she
could never do it again, but for that year she did.
It was black and it had a red band around
the waist, and.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
You know it was it was stylished.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
But she said it was also functional because she had
dealt with blood circulation problems after having her child, and
somehow this outfit was supposed to help with it.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I don't know about all that, but.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Yeah, you couldn't miss it. I would think it would
also stay in place better than other garments that you
weren't having constantly adjust or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I would think, well, you couldn't miss it.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
But they let her wear it that year in twenty eighteen,
but then thereafter they're like, you can't be wearing that anymore.
And I don't know how much of a medical help
it was, but she said it was that too, so
I'll take.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Her at her word.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
So it's got a medical exemption. Yes, NFL players that
take riddling Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Exactly, all right, we're doing like the successful Texas A
and M blackout against LSU uniform choices that are not
commonplace every week or regularly for a team or an athlete.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Chris Well, this is the name. I think most sports
fans probably would not immediately identify that he has had
a lasting impact on sports in America. Greg mcderbott a
men's basketball coach at Creaton University. In twenty eleven, he
introduced pinkout games. Airs wore pink jersey, pink shoes, fans
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wore pink. Everything in the arena was pink that night.
And since then, I mean everybody, every sports, you know,
high school, college, I mean, unofficial or official, everybody's pink
out night. And so it all started twenty eleven at
Crake University with Greg mc dermott. Now there were you know,
teams have had pink as their color. You don't see
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it now. Penn State's regional colors were pink and blackee,
pink and black. And then they got rid of it
because the pink faded. And so they said, well, let's
just a black and white and be cool. And so
they did, but yeah, it was and there's been a
lot of talk now as you see more adventurous colors
with with you know, new team's, new programs. Whatever. When
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is somebody gonna make pink as one of their uniform colors?
I can, you know, professional sports and other than I
think there's a soccer team that does it. But in
the Big four, Big three, nobody had pink as part
of their you know from color. But anyway, yeah, Greg
McDermott started to pink out and that's obviously become a
huge thing.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Did not know the origin of that. Now, of course,
you could have pink as your color just because your
manager doesn't know how to do the laundry, you know.
You know, if you're red and white, you know, for
the second game, you might be pink, you know.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
You know.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
The reason that baseball uniforms traditionally have been gray on
the road and white at home is because those are
the only colors that don't fade. So that's why they were,
you know, instead of other colors, you know, back in
the old days. Now obviously you have all the different
kinds of colors, but this one, uh, this was only
one year, but it was a great year for the
program involved. That is Kentucky basketball nineteen ninety five ninety six.
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The denim uniforms do you remember that they wore. The
road uniforms were denim and the home uniforms had the
denim stripes on the jerseys. And the six they won
national championship Underrick Petino had nine future NBA players on
the team, but Bill didn't really like them, so they
got rid of them. But I think they look kind
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of cool.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Was that the year when they had that come back
at LSU?
Speaker 4 (25:59):
No, there was that was earlier. That was Ashburn. No, No,
this is Ron Mercer, Tony Delkt and Twine Walker. I
mean they didn't hardly lose to anybody. I ei they
went thirty eight and two. So that was it.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Man, that's good. That is a really really good one.
How about this?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
This is a this happens maybe too often for it
to qualify, but I got to bring it up anyway,
just so I can get in a dig. How about
you know the home team is supposed to wear the
dark colors at home, right, Yeah, unless you're the LSU Tigers,
And we saw this year with South Alabama. Craig, Right, Yeah,
didn't the Jags. They had to agree, Hey, we'll we'll
wear the we'll wear the colors.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
The SEC lets l SU wear it whites at home,
but if it's a non conference game, the road team
has to degree. And yes, South Alabama did, UCLA did not,
so LSU had to wear the purple jerseys at home.
They didn't like it, even though they won.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, babies, And how about also, how about they get
to play every home game at night?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I know you and me and Lane Kiff and are
in agreement on man.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, so yeah, the Alabama game coming up is a
night shocker. That's gonna be a night game, and I'm
glad it is. But uh, they do get they do
get that favoritism and the conference let somewhere white at home,
which doesn't bother me because I love the white uniforms,
but uh, I don't know why they get to do it.
Nobody else gets to. That does seem sort of weird.
But if you're like a South Alabama, you're like, yeah,
give us one hundred thousand dollars, you wear whatever color
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you want.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah, you know, so there you go? All right, Chris,
what you got?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
So the Sandiga fandre started this years here where they
wear the camouflage uniforms. They started back in the UH
I think early two thousands. Of course, Sandi is a
huge military town, and so they first started wearing representing
the army, kind of the woodland design, and then they
bavy sealed. Now they've got a marine pattern, they got
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a naval pattern. They wear the digital camouflage, which is
what they were now. But uh, that's kind of the
in their thing and uh and it makes sense. Again
there's a lot of the huge Navy base there in
San Diego, so so I get it. But yes, you know,
I think it's a very smart marking idea and it
you know, as long as you don't do it too often,
because I'm not crazy about to look at the uniforms.
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I won want to see it every day, But you
do it every now and then I think it's great.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
I think it's they do it for Sunday home games.
And you know what used to be in San Diego
but no longer is Top Gun?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Was there? How about that?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
You talk the base where they where they did Top Gun,
the actual program Top Gun, not the movie.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Oh okay, yeah, I got you, Yeah, okay, I got you.
That was a real thing. Hey, I got into top gun.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Right mid nineties, NHL goalies started doing crazy paint on
their masks. Yeah, and probably the coolest one I thought
was Curtis Joseph of the Saint Louis Blues, whose nickname
was Kujoe. So he had the you know, rabid dog
from the Stephen King novel was his uh was his
helmet design. It looked really cool, And there's a whole
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bunch of different ones, but he was kind of the
probably the most famous one.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
No, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, they started, you know, some of them looked really menacing. Yeah,
just really cool stuff. Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Chris, you are a fashionable guy. You're known for that.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
So you may have something from the collection of three words.
Sun Day, Red, Tiger Woods. That's his new apparel company,
because he wears Sunday Red every time he's in contention
for a tournament, or every day on Sunday when he
gets to the final round, he wears red. He does
it in the first three rounds, but on Sunday he
wears red. And that had to do with his mom's
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heritage and her you know, religion and that sort of
thing about you know the meaning of red and power
of that on Sunday and so now he is very
famous for having Sunday Red. Even though the logo is
like awful, I think, but it also has some special significance,
so I shouldn't be too critical. But Sunday Red, Chris?
Are you outfitted in Sunday Red?
Speaker 5 (29:45):
No? I generally am not. There you go, not that
I keep track of it, But.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Okay, that's gonna be a no, that's gonna be a note.
Fair enough, all right, Well then get us to a
different subject. Why don't you go?
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I'm also really in contention of so Max aswell. This
is a This is a guy, and I think as
I get older, I think about this about more people.
This is a guy who I don't mind seeing. I
kind of enjoy watching on TV for a few that
if I were around him, I probably hate his guts.
I will go with Pete Webber, bowling and sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
What's the hate about that guy? What's the hate about him?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Oh? He's a jerk? Come on, man, I mean listen
for twenty minutes. Well he's beating some Gerbroni from Wisconsin
in the bowling match. I go, Yeah, he's fun to watch.
And the fist pumping and all that and the you know,
the the uh oh, those other antics. But how does
that helping him? That's not helping him Bowl Bowl? The
sunglasses let me come on, but h but if if
Listen became a brand, I'm sure he sold a bunch
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of them. And you know, Bowl was out there trying
to make money. I got the problem with him, But
I don't want to hang around me. That's just me.
That's just need being olden crotchety too. So there's a
factor of that.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
In there as well, because you've always been more of
an earl anthony guy, right.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Guy, maybe Mark Roth Uh, he was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Yeah, I see your bys coming out in that your
bowling bys coming out.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
You know, the ABA was kind of fast and loose
with a lot of things. They had the red, white
and blue basketball and you know, players grew their hair
out and all that sort of stuff. But probably the
strangest uniform choice during that era was Larry Brown, head
coach of the Carolina Cougars, coaching on the sideline in overalls.
Oh and not just overalls, but overalls with like all
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these weird colored patches on him. I mean it's like
something like he was on the cast to he haul
or something really weird looking. But there you have it.
Larry Brown with the bell bottom overalls on the sidewine one.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Side of the stadium, yell at b R. On the
other side of you yell at five four nine.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
No, that's a that's an old he haw joke. That
three people got it, maybe you.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Two and.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Three in the room and one other person got the
old he hauw joke. B R five four nine. That
was the phone number two junior samples carlt Right. Anyway,
we already did Serena Williams with her cat suit at
the French Open. What about her sister, Venus Williams with
her beads in her hair that cost her points at
the US Open where she's playing the match and during
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the middle of the point, these beads are falling out
of her head and eventually the umpires like, uh, that's
a point.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
That's a point.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
You can't be running around with these beads on the court.
So it was cool for fashion pre game, but during
the actual event, I think we put style over substance
on that particular day, even though I like Venus Williams,
but on.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That day, the bees that was a true, true fashion.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Statement for her that didn't work out in actual competition.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Chris, what you got?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
We're doing specialty uniforms like the Texas A and M blackout,
which worked famously for them over lsu yep.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
So, this began a tradition and for years and years
during spring training, Uh, Boston Red Sox would wear green
uniforms on Saint Patrick's Day. And they did it for many,
many years, and it was, you know, got his attention.
I like, I thought it was a good ideas. It's
the spring training. He really cares. But they did it
for like twenty years. They ended a couple of years
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ago thanks to Nike, who said, yeah, we no longer
produced green jerseys. Well, what are the Boston Red Sox, Nike,
howbout you make it some green jerseys?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I think, you know, we don't have that anymore.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Sox playing in the Pony League. I mean, come on.
But but they didn't do it. They wouldn't make them
and said Red Sox. A couple of years ago, that
tradition ended. The I think some of the players who
wear green hats, but uh, but no longer the pull
Saint Patti's Day year. Probably some Scotsman at the top
of Nike making decision.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
This is also the Red Sox and a couple of
years ago when they started doing all the city connect
jerseys where they do a special uniform they'd wear a
couple of Saturdays every year, the Boston Red Sox wear
the yellow jerseys in honor of the Boston Marathon. The
leader of the Boston Marathon gets the yellow jersey or
the winner and they wear the yellow jerseys. And it
looks weird when you're watching Red Sox again with the
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red yellow jerseys and powder blue hats, but you know,
that's what they that's why they do it.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
So the blackout work for Texas A and M beautifully
against LSU Chris, not so much for you Georgia Bulldogs
when they decided to do the blackout against Alabama.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
And it did the first time against Auburn, but not
against Alabama.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Scott Cocker famously the strength and conditioning coach at Alabama
later at Georgia, but when he was at Alabama and
he said, they're wearing black because they're going to their
own funeral. And then I think Alabama did like thirty
one to nothing at the half or something. Yeah, complete
blowout in Athens.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Where were you at, Chris, I sat a friend of
mine decks where I never I would never reo for
team were black jerseys.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Again, I was there, and that Georgia did make it
a little bit of a comeback.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Not that it mattered, but they did. They did at
least come back a little bit.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
They never they yeah, they it was forty one thirty,
but I think they scored two touchdowns like the last
four minutes of the game, so it wasn't really that close.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah, it was definitely a blowout in scott Cockran going
to their own funeral was that was very popular with
the Alabama fans. Yeah, as you might imagine, Chris.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
What don't you got?
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Well, Craig mentioned that the Redsox do this, But that's also
I mean that's part of the part of the sport
of cycling and the Twitter Francis to wear the yellow jersey.
I mean that's not just some fashion thing. That's that's
you know what they do. That signified as the leader
of the stage and so that's and listen, I don't
know anything about cycling. I know Advance armstrong cheeks and
they wear a yellow jersey and that's about all I know.
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That is a big part of cycling, sir.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, this is an NBA one. And for some reason,
in the last I don't know, ten twelve years, teams
have started putting airport codes on the front of their jersey.
Phoenix is PHX, Charlotte is CLT, And it's like, how
lazy are you? Yeah, I mean, we can't have it.
We don't have enough decals put phoenix across the jerresey anymore.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Also on the little thing at the at the front
of the helmet that we're supposed to.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Say ry Dell or wolf Pack or whatever, like like
the Broncos do five two eight zero, you.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Know, mile high fifty two eighty.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
That's what they've got now, is the is the fifty
two eighty on the front of their helmet.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Yeah, and the area code thing. I thought that's where
you were going with that when ain't Reggie Bush started
putting the area code for San Diego on his on
his EyeBlack, and then everybody started doing and t Bow
was putting the Bible verses on there, and then they
outlawed it.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Eventually, our friend Daniel Shirley gets very mad about the
former Georgia Tech coach who decided they were going to
take over the area code of Atlanta, and he made
a big deal out of it, Jeff, except there's more
than one area code in Atlanta, and so he's like, well,
I guess he doesn't want us.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
We're eight miles from campus, but okay, we're not in
his area code. Remember that, Chris, I mean, that was that.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Was terrible script. He took none of them over.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
He said he was.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
He said he was taking all those over and he
was going to own every waffle house. He was a
big waffle house guy. That whole thing didn't work. That
did not work for him at all. All right, churrios,
hell you got anything else?
Speaker 5 (37:11):
I've shout out to the Powder of Blues. The Charge
are still the best uniform them in history. They still
wear but hard power blues.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I do like it. I do like it.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
This is uh, this is actually what they do all
the time. But I don't know why they do it.
And they're the only one that does it. The Steelers
only have one logo on their helmet. They only have
it on one side. It's just so strange.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
That is weird.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah, you know, of course the Browns don't have one
at all. But but the Steelers only have it on
one side, and I've never I probably should have looked
up the origin of that, but it's really odd that
they only have one.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Maybe when they started, that's all they could afford. I mean,
I know that sounds ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Now I only had thirty eight stickers. Everybody got one
or whatever it was.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah, that could be.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
That could be.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I'll finish up with today.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
It doesn't seem all that novel or crazy. But I'm
telling you what, when Andre Agassy played the US Open
in Denham shorts, he came out and dam shorts and
that was like.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Well, the sport's over. There is no more tennis now.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
If he's gonna if he's gonna disrespect the sport like that,
we're in denim shorts.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
They wouldn't put up with that in Wimbledon.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
No, or Chelsea. No, we didn't Chelsea, Chelsea.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
We wore the full blue jeans when we played and
no shirt, no shirt and full blue jeans.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Exactly. Come yeah, exactly. No, he didn't wear me at Wimbledon. No, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
They're not they're not putting up with it at Wimbledon,
but at the US Open he wore these denim like
blue jeans shorts. You're like, that is not that, That's
not how we're spoke. We're disrespecting the sport. Now today
you're like, that's ridiculous to even say.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
And I think that I think that may have kind
of started. How Outland can I be? US Open? Is
my time? Yeah? To wear something crazy you know you
can't fit or whatever.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
All right.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
So what do we got for a winner this week?
This is in honor of Texas A and M. They're
blackout was successful in beating L s U in a
huge game that turned out to be just a wonderful environment.
Doesn't always work, but uh, specialty uniforms who were.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Going with the white Sox shorts I think are just
the biggest, the biggest, you know, punchline.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
For how many games do we play in them?
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Three? Right?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Three games in them? That was awesome. That was very softballish,
very softballish.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
All right, we'll go with that. We'll go that, Chris
before we go, who's gonna win the Winterfield Classic? Valdosta
or the Plowboys of Lowndes.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
You have some uh, for the region championship, both of
them one this year. So it's better than usually is uh.
I will I'll pick I'll pick the cats in the
point that.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
That's a Valdosta High White Wildcats.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
There you go, all right, So we'll check in on
that next week, Chris all right, Chris Beckham.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Chris Stevens said, we do it every week.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Awesome stuff lists with Chris here on Sports Talk nine
Speaker 5 (39:43):
H
Who are the five greatest athletes of all time? Who's
the worst player to ever deliver an iconic sports moment?
Who's the least athletic looking athlete in history? It's time
to rank the best and the worst that sports has
to offer. Let's dive in to lists with Chris.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We do it every week with my good friends Chris
Beckham and Craig Stevenson Craig and Studio. This week for
the list, and there's so many different possibilities that we
could go with this week, but this was inspired by
last week's monumental win for the Texas A and m.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Aggie's over LSU.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
They did it in the blackout, which doesn't always work
at all when you start talking about, hey, we're gonna
work special uniforms or special accouterments or whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, how about that little bit.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I gotta redo my list and we're talking about a tremont.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, let's use uh, just not necessary foreign words.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's the next list.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
So we're going with blackouts and other uniformed choices that
are not you know, it could be repeating, but not
every single week.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We're going for that.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
All right, Chris, you're the visiting team, as always start
us off with this week's list.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Well, I'm sort with one that Rindy you might have seen.
I'm not sure, but it did happen in the Atlanta Olympics,
and that is the golden shoes of Michael Johnson. Yes,
he decided where them in the UH men's two hundred
final and and as he said, uh, you know, it
wasn't inspiration. He said, I don't want to be center
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there gold plated shoes getting a silver medal on my neck,
so you better win. It's just some inspiration stal pressure himself.
And of course he did win, and uh got uh
that he would have been famous anyway as a gold
medal winner. But you know, added, I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I was.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I was at those Olympics in Atlanta covering those but
neither Nadia nor I made it to the actual to
that event.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
So no, I figured, yeah, he was having a candlelight
dinner and yeah and eat.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, we were preparing for gym nastis.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We did not make it to see that. But that's
a going that I did not have.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
This one is very recent, and you know, football throwbacks
don't always work well because the equipment is so much different.
Than it was back in the day. But one that
I thought was really awesome ten days ago Illinois with
the leather helmets versus Michigan leather style helmets, not real leather,
you know. They had the pattern of the leather helmets
in honor of Red Grange in the nineteen twenty four
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game against Michigan. So they look really cool.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I thought, Yeah, I had that that was gonna be
that was gonna be mine because you can't have a
leather helmet, but man, it sure looked like they had
a leather helmet.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It was one hundred years, one hundred years in one
day since Red Grange in Illinois beat Michigan. So yeah,
I had that one as well. That's a uh, that's
a really good one. How about uh, how about this
is one that is recurring but not all the time.
I'm gonna go with the Auburn Tigers and the orange
face mask. Craig, what do you think about Auburn going
orange face mask on?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
You should be permanent, You like the you like the yard.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
What do you think, Chris?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Oh, yeah, it's them.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, okay, orange face mat They don't do it much though, No,
they do it.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, they you know it's in the kind of in
their glory days of the Pat Die era eighty three eighty.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Four, I think Randy Campbell.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, they wore them that. Yeah, for sure, I've seen
but you know there's featos of Abu Jackson wearing them.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
They look awesome. I love them. I wish I wish
that it's just a good you know, it's a it's
a good accent. You wouldn't want to come out in
orange helmets or anything, which they have done, by the way,
years ago. But the orange face masks look really cool.
I think they do it.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
About once a year or so.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
There's no there's no rhyme or reason to it, but
about once a year they'll go orange face mask and
it's pretty cool. It's actually pretty cool. There you go,
all right, we know what we're doing. Now, we're doing
like specialty uniforms. Maybe you do it more than once,
but it's not your regular every game or every week
or every event.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Chris what you got.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yeah, this has been done more than once, but they
tend to bring it out for what they considered big games.
We saw it last Sunday, that is when the Tampa
Bay Bucks bring out the cream sickle. They brought them
out against the Falcons and it did not turn out
well as the Falcons one. But they did it last
year as well. But then before that has been like
a decade before they had won. And it is kind
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of they'll throw back to the seventies when the Bucks,
you know, were the lovable Bucks, because they were the
unsuccessful lovable Bucks. But they did where the uniforms, which
kind of in retro has become cool. At the time,
it was just how the losers got dressed for football games. Yeah, seventies,
whenever they got it started up. But I've got it.
I love them. They do look cool. Now.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, that's what I was going to say, is that
for the first twenty years of their existence or so,
they wore them and they were terrible, and everybody's like,
get rid of these garbage. You know, I saw of
a uniform And now every time they bring them back
and it's like, oh man, it's so great, which is weird,
but you know, Okay, So Rainie did at Auburn in
the last round. I'm going to do Alabama here and
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for I think it was a total of seven games
in nineteen eighty three and nineteen eighty four, Alabama were
white helmets with the number on the side. Yeah, and
ever since then people have been I don't know about clamoring,
but have said win is Alabama ever gonna wear white
helmets again? Than they never have? You know, it was
during the Ray Perkins era. They did it for a
couple of years, and of course back in the early
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sixties it was kind of their standard helmet. But yeah,
they haven't done it and going on forty years now.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And it's so interesting because when you see like on
college game day or anytime you see the Alabama helmet,
it's got like the helmet and the number on the side.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's the crimson helmet.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
But it's got like eighteen on the side or however
many national championships they claim sixteen whatever it is, and
you know how many, well, but it always has that number.
And in reality that's not realistic that they don't have
the number is on the site.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
But they did back in the I call it the
Ricky Moore era.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yeah, that sounds good. Early Mike Shula, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, when Ricky Moore was like the star running back.
There were some down moments there for sure. When that
happened Craig, here's one for you. I'm gonna I'm gonna
steal team you cover on a daily basis South Alabama.
The R City Mobile skyline helmets are absolutely a plus
awesome because Mobile is not a huge city, but it
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does have a distinctive skyline and to have those on
the helmet that whole you know, this is our city,
our team, all that stuff. Those are so cool.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
How do they do that? Correct the Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, they're not with major Apple white here. They're not
doing as many specialty logos as they did when Kane
Womack was was here, but they they, uh they do
do they do that once a year or so.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I think I like those?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I like them.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I mean it goes with the thing. There you go.
All right, Chris, you're next up.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We're doing like Texas A and M successful blackout uniforms
that are one time or not all that often that
teams were.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I believe it's twenty eleven when they had these Nike
Pro Combat uniforms and a lot of teams wore different
style uniforms. And Georgia opened the season against Boise State
and we had heard about the uniforms that are going
to be wearing as far as this, and when they
came out there was like a bunch of Power Range.
It looked ridiculous. Well this is a terrible sign. And
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sure enough it didn't turn out to be a terrible sign,
as Boys to Take To beat Georgia thirty five to
twenty one in the season opener. And you know, if
we I mean, I don't have good Boys State ended
up being that year pretty good probably, But if you're
Georgia and you lose the season under the Boys to State,
you might say, well, this is canceled season. I'll start
next year. I mean, I mean, we're not in the
couse of all playoff yet. But even worse was Malcolm
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Mitchell scored one of the touchdowns and then jumped up
to the chest Blumper came down towards knee, So I mean,
and everybody was blamed it on the power Range uniforms,
but that the case probably, but it didn't help. They
ain't want a sense there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
That Chris, when you mentioned about let's just start over
and play again next year, that reminds me of the
one of the FAMO lists with Chris moments when I
said I didn't know that I didn't never heard of Missouri,
you know, when Alabama lost to them in seventy five.
I was like, they lost him in the open. I
was like, I didn't even know what Missouri was. And
Craig was incredulous about I was eleven years old and
didn't know my states.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
But remember, like, Craig, yes I do.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I was like, I don't know Missouri. I mean, what
is that Missouri. I'm mostly worried about football, not the
states anyway. That that reminded me of that, Like, just
call off the season. You lost the opening, just call
off the rest of it, Craig.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
October seventeenth, twenty fifteen. I tuned in to watch a
Top ten matchup between Penn State and defending national champion
Ohio State. And Ohio State came out in black helmets
and I was like, who is this team? You don't
You've just completely subjugated your brand here. Ohio State needs
the silver helmets with the Buckeye stickers on the back,
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and I don't know who these guys are. It just
doesn't look right. Even when Georgia, when they do the blackout,
they at least have the power g you know, that's
that's Georgia, you know, but yeah, the Ohio State black
jerseys are just awful. And I think they broke them
out again against Nebraska a couple of years ago, but
I don't like them at all.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I remember when that actually happened about when I turned
the TV on. I should know who's playing. Even if
you go alternate uniform, I should still know who's playing.
And yeah, that Ohio State game, I had no clue
that was Ohio State. Yeah, yeah, that's really good. I
think I definitely definitely agree with that. Here's one that
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this may seem sort of crazy to you guys, but
I went to a high school football game in Birmingham.
I saw Huffman High School play because I wanted to
see their legendary kicker, Philip Doyle, who was an All
State middle linebacker, wearing a big linebacker neck roll, which
don't even exist anymore, and he's kicking field goals Phillip Doyle,
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and I just thought, okay, kicker with a neck roll
has to make the category.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I mean, it's.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Uh, that's that's unusual uniforming for an All American kicker.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
When you said you were going to hunting, I thought,
you can say Andre Smith.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I could have gone on Andre Smith. They've had some
pretty good players despite not being a great program. But
Philip Doyle was like really good as a linebacker, and
he looked more like a linebacker than a kicker, at
least on the high school level. Now at Alabama he
looked more like a kicker. But Philip Doyle in his uh,
in his neck roll. I'll just go with him, all right, Chris.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Who you got?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Well, I'll stay in the high school realm. And this
is going to resonate more in my state than in yours.
But Tomorrow Night, one of the big high school rivalries
is Donosta versus Lounges, Lasta Lownes High School. They call
it the Winnersville Classic, and the two schools are very different.
Valdosta the inner city school, Loundes the county school, and
so for years and they don't do it very often.
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In fact, it's it's been many years since they've done it.
But occasionally in a big game, and we could see
the Tomorrow Night laws will come out wearing uniforms that
say Plowboys, and that is the old official nickname of
There's the louds Vikings. But when they wear the plowboy
uniforms and they run out. And let me tell you, so,
you talk about a bunch of Rednecks get excited like
a Lenox Kinner concert, they lose their minds, and I
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love that. I wish the would do it more often,
but uh but I guess it would lose some of
the specialists. So uh yeah, the plowboy uniforms. Uh, and
they only do against Valdosta and only on certain years
and so so you know, again, well, my family gonna
sit it one night, but it will be cool.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Chris, you said the Rednecks get really excited. I sure
wish they would do it more.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Away from I love it, and I say, to be
claiming to be redneck, I just like when red get excited.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
But you're with him on this, you're.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Absolutely yeah, that's right. I mean, come off to happen.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Who's the famous country singer that was a plowboy?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yeah? And Thomas Aki, Yeah, they were. He was lowigh
quarterback from.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, there was uh Stan Frasier who was a wrestler
from Vancleeve, Mississippi, was the Mississippi Plowboy, and then he
became Uncle Elmer when he went to WWF. But anyway,
he was Hillbilly Jim's tag team partner. There you go, Yeah,
anyway at.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Barton Stadium and promises.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
This is just one person, not an entire team. But
on June twenty eighth, nineteen ninety seven, in a start
against the Cleveland Indians, David Wells wore a Babe Ruth
game warn Cap on the mound that he had bought
at an auction for thirty five thousand dollars and wore
it in a game, which was a uniform violation. He
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got a twenty five hundred dollars fine. But you can
see the clips of David Wells wearing this, you know,
like basically like crushed up old style Babe Ruth.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
CAP's got too much money.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, he's got too much of money. That's that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
And there wasn't a loud word again. It was, like
I said, a uniform violation, but it looks pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
April fifteenth is known for two things. Make sure you
filed your taxes and what do you know what else?
April fifteenth? What happens every ap robson Jackie Robinson and
we all wear number forty two. Everybody in baseball, so
you don't even know who's playing because every player on
both teams is where number forty two on April fifteenth.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I love that they do it. I think it's really cool,
but it's annoying to watch when they bring in some
middle reliever in the sixth inning and you have no
idea who it is because they don't have it. He
doesn't have his name on the back of his jersey
or the right number.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We could do a forty two patch.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
No, I mean, I'm fine with him doing it, but
they should wear their names on them.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, yeah, that would be good. Yeah, but everybody wears
forty two obviously. Yeah, April fifteenth was the day Jackie
Robinson broke in and historic figure.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
They do it. They do a Roberto Clemente day now,
but anyone who wants to wear twenty one can wear
twenty one, and a lot of the Puerto Rican players
do because obviously he's a huge hero there. But not
everybody does.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Two great heroes, Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente. I think
it's cool and it's just one day, you know, but
everybody wears forty two. Otherwise, nobody wears forty two. That
jersey is retired for every Major League Baseball team, right, yes,
so just that one.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Day do you get to wear it? So Jackie Robinson
day April fifteenth.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Every year when they did that, which was like I
guess ninety seven for the fiftieth anniversary, they said anyone
who was wearing forty two at the time could continue
to wear it. So, uh, movon was one Mariano Rivera
who wore it for another almost twenty years. But Movon
was you know, he wore specifically because of Jackie Robinson.
Then he wore for the rest of the square.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
That's cool. Yeah, he and Clemented both you can. Yeah,
we could sit here and praise them for the.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Entire show, both those guys. So it's fitting.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
But it is unusual when you're watching if you don't
know in advance that whoa, what are we doing here?
Everybody's got there like Alabama punt return team. Everybody's got
the same number. No, I should too soon, too soon?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
All right, Chris, what you got or as your friend
of mine one said yes to day jack Cross and
get a job. I had start paying taxes. No, that's
exactly if you wanted they we're almost fifty years. I
think it was seventy Uh in the mid seventies, seventy six,
I think when for I think for three games the
Chicago White Socks wore shorts. Oh yes, Oh gosh, it's
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Bill Veck, one of his another his crazy ideas. He
actually attributed it to his wife, which I mean that
would make it an any better terrible idea, but yeah,
it was in August. They were way under five hundred
white socks were and they tried it out with the
with the shorts and actually won the game, which and
somebody said you have to go slide in those and
buildings said if you slide and you hurt me, you
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don't how to slide. Well, but anyway, but then he
said they wore them. They won the game, and then
they wore them twice more after that. But then they
didn't where everything like that. But uh, part of the
crazy seventies the major League baseball.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
In Bill Deck, wasn't that. There was that the same
uniform with the big collars too.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, they wore the Yeah, the white shirt, black collar.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Not tucked in shirts and all that kind is all
on the.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Very softball, yeah, very So that was a Harrold Bains
before Harrol Banks now Ba Burns, my man britt Burns.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I think that may even be before Brett Burns.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Maybe a win.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah, oh Goose wilbur would maybe been on that team.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I think britt Burns speaking of Huffman High School. Britt
Burns went to Hufman High School.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yeah, I think it could be. I'll check on it, but anyway,
all right, this is also baseball in nineteen seventy six
and nineteen seventy six was the one hundredth anniversary of
the National League, so several teams for a few games
wore old style flat bill or flat topped baseball caps,
including the Cardinals, the Phillies, and the Pirates. And the
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Pirates kept them, and they kept them for almost ten years.
It kind of it became their permanent hat, you know,
for years. But it was supposed to be just a
special thing for the one hundredth anniversary of the National League.
But they decided they liked him and they kept them
for almost ten years.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I like it.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Yeah. They think said. One of the things was you
the would also put stars on the pillbox that if
he did something like him, made a great play or whatever.
And the person who determined to get a star or not?
Was Willly Stargell totally up to him a star?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
All right? Real quick. Ritt Burns was seventeen years old
in nineteen seventy six. Close plus yeah he put his
debut was nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Okay, well, yeah that was close.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
We were, by the way on that team short wearing
team Kleon Jones mobiles on Kleon Jones.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Got to got to wear shorts with after he left
the match. Yes last year.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Also list with Chris favorite Ralph garr in the back
of his baseball card. Ralph's first dolen base was a
home plate.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That's true. You can look it up. Greg, his first
dolen base was a home plate.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Terry Forster the Fat Tub of Gooo.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Although I don't think he was official nickname.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I don't think he was the fat fat Tube of
at that point.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
He still slid.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah, Oh my goodness, that's ridicious. Could give me earlier
about a uniform violation. I've got one that was so
cool that never was. Peyton Manning, remember, was the quarterback
of the Indianapolis Colts. Indianapolis, the Indianapolis football team is
the most or the Colts is the more important part
of this. And when Johnny Unanus passed away, Peyton Manning
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decided that for that week's game he was gonna wear
the high top, the black high top shoes made famous
by Johnny Unanas and the NFL the No Fund League
said nope, you'll be fined if you wear those shoes.
Come on, we're trying to honor the great Colts legend
Johnny Uninus, and they said, nope, that's a uniform violation.
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They needed to let that go. So anyway, that's what
I got, black high tops that Peyton Manning could not wear.
All right, Chris, we're doing in honor of the monumental
blackout win for Texas A and m Maggie's over LSU
special uniform choices that maybe you were more than once,
but it wasn't your regular uniform. Famously who you got.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Yeah, I remember this one being cool, although it was weird.
But in twenty nineteen, Purdue University was honoring the fiftieth
anniversary of the moon landing because Neil Armstrong is a
Purdue graduate, and so they had the moon landing uniforms.
They were all white, kind of mimicking astronaut suits and
they had, you know, Purdue Cradle of Astronauts, that kind
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of thing. And then they had a little decal with
like a crater on it, and their face masks were gold.
It was totally it wasn't produce colors. It was totally different.
And then but they said because the aside from the
US military, Purdue had more astronauts than in the school
in the world. I have no idea why that is.
I have no idea why Purdue is the cradle of astronauts,
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but it is, including Neil Armstrong. So I remember the
moon landing uniforms because they looked I mean, it's Craig,
you talk about it. You know, team runs out there,
y'all know who they are. You would have had no
idea that that was Purdue just for that one day.
But the gold, the gold, I remember that I had
to goo with to jog my memory. But the gold
a face mask. I's forgotten about all white uniform pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Chris, Where do you stand on them actually going to
the moon, You're.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I'm not, I'm not find it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Just for the record, we go three for three that
we had landed on the moon.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yes, thank you. Now, the work that the world is bround. Right, Well, uh.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
We'll crowdsource that one. But from now we're good on
landing on the moon. Okay, good, yeah, good. Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
This is one that I like, but they do it
every year. But I don't think Randy likes this. I
think I'm right. I want to and say that you
can tell me.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
When U c l A and U s C play,
they both wear their home jerseys. U c l A.
Where's the powder? Blue? And USC where's the uh?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
What do they call it? Scarlet and gold? You don't
like it?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I don't like it at all.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I love it. I think it looks crowd like. Let's
where are you on this? Break the tie?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
It's just one?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Well, here's my reasoning is that always have sympathy for
the people who only have black and white TV and
you can't tell which team is which if you're watching
in black and white.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
The helmet, the helmet. Let's wait, okay, what year are
we talking about here? What I thought you were going
to say something like it's toured on the officials because
they can't say which color white or red.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
No, it's just they're both wearing dark jerseys.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I can't tell you know my black and white U
c l A is the one that has U c
l A outside of the helmet. That'll get that's a
dead giveaway.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
No, I don't like Planet has a black and white TV,
the last one.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, you're still going down to the
bus station and with those little uh coin operated TVs,
they still have that. Chris.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
When we were growing up, we could hardly afford money
for for dinner, but we had the best TV in
the neighborhood. My dad was like, we're gonna have a
good TV. We might not be able to function otherwise,
we're gonna have the best TV. So I'm just exaggerating.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
About how heavy was.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Oh my goodness, it's like two tons.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
And when that one, when the picture two wore out
on that one, we just put the new TV on
top of it.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Well, you know, my grandfather was an electrician and when
his big TV wore out, he'd take all the guts
out and put another TV inside it inside the case.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh, it was like the biggest piece of furniture in
your house.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah. But no, I don't like color on color. Somebody's
got to be in white. Somebody's got to be in white.
I feel strongly about that one. But yeah, they do
do that, Graig, I did not. I did not think
about that one at all. You guys remember the two
thousand and eight French open, Serena Williams wore the cat suit.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Oh yeah, you remember that now.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
She got to wear it that year. They say she
could never do it again, but for that year she did.
It was black and it had a red band around
the waist, and.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
You know it was it was stylished.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
But she said it was also functional because she had
dealt with blood circulation problems after having her child, and
somehow this outfit was supposed to help with it.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I don't know about all that, but.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Yeah, you couldn't miss it. I would think it would
also stay in place better than other garments that you
weren't having constantly adjust or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I would think, well, you couldn't miss it.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
But they let her wear it that year in twenty eighteen,
but then thereafter they're like, you can't be wearing that anymore.
And I don't know how much of a medical help
it was, but she said it was that too, so
I'll take.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Her at her word.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
So it's got a medical exemption. Yes, NFL players that
take riddling Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Exactly, all right, we're doing like the successful Texas A
and M blackout against LSU uniform choices that are not
commonplace every week or regularly for a team or an athlete.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Chris Well, this is the name. I think most sports
fans probably would not immediately identify that he has had
a lasting impact on sports in America. Greg mcderbott a
men's basketball coach at Creaton University. In twenty eleven, he
introduced pinkout games. Airs wore pink jersey, pink shoes, fans
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wore pink. Everything in the arena was pink that night.
And since then, I mean everybody, every sports, you know,
high school, college, I mean, unofficial or official, everybody's pink
out night. And so it all started twenty eleven at
Crake University with Greg mc dermott. Now there were you know,
teams have had pink as their color. You don't see
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it now. Penn State's regional colors were pink and blackee,
pink and black. And then they got rid of it
because the pink faded. And so they said, well, let's
just a black and white and be cool. And so
they did, but yeah, it was and there's been a
lot of talk now as you see more adventurous colors
with with you know, new team's, new programs. Whatever. When
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is somebody gonna make pink as one of their uniform colors?
I can, you know, professional sports and other than I
think there's a soccer team that does it. But in
the Big four, Big three, nobody had pink as part
of their you know from color. But anyway, yeah, Greg
McDermott started to pink out and that's obviously become a
huge thing.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Did not know the origin of that. Now, of course,
you could have pink as your color just because your
manager doesn't know how to do the laundry, you know.
You know, if you're red and white, you know, for
the second game, you might be pink, you know.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
You know.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
The reason that baseball uniforms traditionally have been gray on
the road and white at home is because those are
the only colors that don't fade. So that's why they were,
you know, instead of other colors, you know, back in
the old days. Now obviously you have all the different
kinds of colors, but this one, uh, this was only
one year, but it was a great year for the
program involved. That is Kentucky basketball nineteen ninety five ninety six.
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The denim uniforms do you remember that they wore. The
road uniforms were denim and the home uniforms had the
denim stripes on the jerseys. And the six they won
national championship Underrick Petino had nine future NBA players on
the team, but Bill didn't really like them, so they
got rid of them. But I think they look kind
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of cool.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Was that the year when they had that come back
at LSU?
Speaker 4 (25:59):
No, there was that was earlier. That was Ashburn. No, No,
this is Ron Mercer, Tony Delkt and Twine Walker. I
mean they didn't hardly lose to anybody. I ei they
went thirty eight and two. So that was it.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Man, that's good. That is a really really good one.
How about this?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
This is a this happens maybe too often for it
to qualify, but I got to bring it up anyway,
just so I can get in a dig. How about
you know the home team is supposed to wear the
dark colors at home, right, Yeah, unless you're the LSU Tigers,
And we saw this year with South Alabama. Craig, Right, Yeah,
didn't the Jags. They had to agree, Hey, we'll we'll
wear the we'll wear the colors.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
The SEC lets l SU wear it whites at home,
but if it's a non conference game, the road team
has to degree. And yes, South Alabama did, UCLA did not,
so LSU had to wear the purple jerseys at home.
They didn't like it, even though they won.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, babies, And how about also, how about they get
to play every home game at night?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I know you and me and Lane Kiff and are
in agreement on man.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, so yeah, the Alabama game coming up is a
night shocker. That's gonna be a night game, and I'm
glad it is. But uh, they do get they do
get that favoritism and the conference let somewhere white at home,
which doesn't bother me because I love the white uniforms,
but uh, I don't know why they get to do it.
Nobody else gets to. That does seem sort of weird.
But if you're like a South Alabama, you're like, yeah,
give us one hundred thousand dollars, you wear whatever color
(27:18):
you want.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah, you know, so there you go? All right, Chris,
what you got?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
So the Sandiga fandre started this years here where they
wear the camouflage uniforms. They started back in the UH
I think early two thousands. Of course, Sandi is a
huge military town, and so they first started wearing representing
the army, kind of the woodland design, and then they
bavy sealed. Now they've got a marine pattern, they got
(27:45):
a naval pattern. They wear the digital camouflage, which is
what they were now. But uh, that's kind of the
in their thing and uh and it makes sense. Again
there's a lot of the huge Navy base there in
San Diego, so so I get it. But yes, you know,
I think it's a very smart marking idea and it
you know, as long as you don't do it too often,
because I'm not crazy about to look at the uniforms.
(28:06):
I won want to see it every day, But you
do it every now and then I think it's great.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
I think it's they do it for Sunday home games.
And you know what used to be in San Diego
but no longer is Top Gun?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Was there? How about that?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
You talk the base where they where they did Top Gun,
the actual program Top Gun, not the movie.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Oh okay, yeah, I got you, Yeah, okay, I got you.
That was a real thing. Hey, I got into top gun.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Right mid nineties, NHL goalies started doing crazy paint on
their masks. Yeah, and probably the coolest one I thought
was Curtis Joseph of the Saint Louis Blues, whose nickname
was Kujoe. So he had the you know, rabid dog
from the Stephen King novel was his uh was his
helmet design. It looked really cool, And there's a whole
(28:51):
bunch of different ones, but he was kind of the
probably the most famous one.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
No, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, they started, you know, some of them looked really menacing. Yeah,
just really cool stuff. Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Chris, you are a fashionable guy. You're known for that.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
So you may have something from the collection of three words.
Sun Day, Red, Tiger Woods. That's his new apparel company,
because he wears Sunday Red every time he's in contention
for a tournament, or every day on Sunday when he
gets to the final round, he wears red. He does
it in the first three rounds, but on Sunday he
wears red. And that had to do with his mom's
(29:24):
heritage and her you know, religion and that sort of
thing about you know the meaning of red and power
of that on Sunday and so now he is very
famous for having Sunday Red. Even though the logo is
like awful, I think, but it also has some special significance,
so I shouldn't be too critical. But Sunday Red, Chris?
Are you outfitted in Sunday Red?
Speaker 5 (29:45):
No? I generally am not. There you go, not that
I keep track of it, But.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Okay, that's gonna be a no, that's gonna be a note.
Fair enough, all right, Well then get us to a
different subject. Why don't you go?
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I'm also really in contention of so Max aswell. This
is a This is a guy, and I think as
I get older, I think about this about more people.
This is a guy who I don't mind seeing. I
kind of enjoy watching on TV for a few that
if I were around him, I probably hate his guts.
I will go with Pete Webber, bowling and sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
What's the hate about that guy? What's the hate about him?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Oh? He's a jerk? Come on, man, I mean listen
for twenty minutes. Well he's beating some Gerbroni from Wisconsin
in the bowling match. I go, Yeah, he's fun to watch.
And the fist pumping and all that and the you know,
the the uh oh, those other antics. But how does
that helping him? That's not helping him Bowl Bowl? The
sunglasses let me come on, but h but if if
Listen became a brand, I'm sure he sold a bunch
(30:47):
of them. And you know, Bowl was out there trying
to make money. I got the problem with him, But
I don't want to hang around me. That's just me.
That's just need being olden crotchety too. So there's a
factor of that.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
In there as well, because you've always been more of
an earl anthony guy, right.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Guy, maybe Mark Roth Uh, he was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Yeah, I see your bys coming out in that your
bowling bys coming out.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
You know, the ABA was kind of fast and loose
with a lot of things. They had the red, white
and blue basketball and you know, players grew their hair
out and all that sort of stuff. But probably the
strangest uniform choice during that era was Larry Brown, head
coach of the Carolina Cougars, coaching on the sideline in overalls.
Oh and not just overalls, but overalls with like all
(31:38):
these weird colored patches on him. I mean it's like
something like he was on the cast to he haul
or something really weird looking. But there you have it.
Larry Brown with the bell bottom overalls on the sidewine one.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Side of the stadium, yell at b R. On the
other side of you yell at five four nine.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
No, that's a that's an old he haw joke. That
three people got it, maybe you.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Two and.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Three in the room and one other person got the
old he hauw joke. B R five four nine. That
was the phone number two junior samples carlt Right. Anyway,
we already did Serena Williams with her cat suit at
the French Open. What about her sister, Venus Williams with
her beads in her hair that cost her points at
the US Open where she's playing the match and during
(32:25):
the middle of the point, these beads are falling out
of her head and eventually the umpires like, uh, that's
a point.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
That's a point.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
You can't be running around with these beads on the court.
So it was cool for fashion pre game, but during
the actual event, I think we put style over substance
on that particular day, even though I like Venus Williams,
but on.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That day, the bees that was a true, true fashion.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Statement for her that didn't work out in actual competition.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Chris, what you got?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
We're doing specialty uniforms like the Texas A and M blackout,
which worked famously for them over lsu yep.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
So, this began a tradition and for years and years
during spring training, Uh, Boston Red Sox would wear green
uniforms on Saint Patrick's Day. And they did it for many,
many years, and it was, you know, got his attention.
I like, I thought it was a good ideas. It's
the spring training. He really cares. But they did it
for like twenty years. They ended a couple of years
(33:20):
ago thanks to Nike, who said, yeah, we no longer
produced green jerseys. Well, what are the Boston Red Sox, Nike,
howbout you make it some green jerseys?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I think, you know, we don't have that anymore.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Sox playing in the Pony League. I mean, come on.
But but they didn't do it. They wouldn't make them
and said Red Sox. A couple of years ago, that
tradition ended. The I think some of the players who
wear green hats, but uh, but no longer the pull
Saint Patti's Day year. Probably some Scotsman at the top
of Nike making decision.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
This is also the Red Sox and a couple of
years ago when they started doing all the city connect
jerseys where they do a special uniform they'd wear a
couple of Saturdays every year, the Boston Red Sox wear
the yellow jerseys in honor of the Boston Marathon. The
leader of the Boston Marathon gets the yellow jersey or
the winner and they wear the yellow jerseys. And it
looks weird when you're watching Red Sox again with the
(34:12):
red yellow jerseys and powder blue hats, but you know,
that's what they that's why they do it.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
So the blackout work for Texas A and M beautifully
against LSU Chris, not so much for you Georgia Bulldogs
when they decided to do the blackout against Alabama.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
And it did the first time against Auburn, but not
against Alabama.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Scott Cocker famously the strength and conditioning coach at Alabama
later at Georgia, but when he was at Alabama and
he said, they're wearing black because they're going to their
own funeral. And then I think Alabama did like thirty
one to nothing at the half or something. Yeah, complete
blowout in Athens.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Where were you at, Chris, I sat a friend of
mine decks where I never I would never reo for
team were black jerseys.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Again, I was there, and that Georgia did make it
a little bit of a comeback.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Not that it mattered, but they did. They did at
least come back a little bit.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
They never they yeah, they it was forty one thirty,
but I think they scored two touchdowns like the last
four minutes of the game, so it wasn't really that close.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah, it was definitely a blowout in scott Cockran going
to their own funeral was that was very popular with
the Alabama fans. Yeah, as you might imagine, Chris.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
What don't you got?
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Well, Craig mentioned that the Redsox do this, But that's also
I mean that's part of the part of the sport
of cycling and the Twitter Francis to wear the yellow jersey.
I mean that's not just some fashion thing. That's that's
you know what they do. That signified as the leader
of the stage and so that's and listen, I don't
know anything about cycling. I know Advance armstrong cheeks and
they wear a yellow jersey and that's about all I know.
(35:36):
That is a big part of cycling, sir.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, this is an NBA one. And for some reason,
in the last I don't know, ten twelve years, teams
have started putting airport codes on the front of their jersey.
Phoenix is PHX, Charlotte is CLT, And it's like, how
lazy are you? Yeah, I mean, we can't have it.
We don't have enough decals put phoenix across the jerresey anymore.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Also on the little thing at the at the front
of the helmet that we're supposed to.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Say ry Dell or wolf Pack or whatever, like like
the Broncos do five two eight zero, you.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Know, mile high fifty two eighty.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
That's what they've got now, is the is the fifty
two eighty on the front of their helmet.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Yeah, and the area code thing. I thought that's where
you were going with that when ain't Reggie Bush started
putting the area code for San Diego on his on
his EyeBlack, and then everybody started doing and t Bow
was putting the Bible verses on there, and then they
outlawed it.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Eventually, our friend Daniel Shirley gets very mad about the
former Georgia Tech coach who decided they were going to
take over the area code of Atlanta, and he made
a big deal out of it, Jeff, except there's more
than one area code in Atlanta, and so he's like, well,
I guess he doesn't want us.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
We're eight miles from campus, but okay, we're not in
his area code. Remember that, Chris, I mean, that was that.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Was terrible script. He took none of them over.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
He said he was.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
He said he was taking all those over and he
was going to own every waffle house. He was a
big waffle house guy. That whole thing didn't work. That
did not work for him at all. All right, churrios,
hell you got anything else?
Speaker 5 (37:11):
I've shout out to the Powder of Blues. The Charge
are still the best uniform them in history. They still
wear but hard power blues.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I do like it. I do like it.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
This is uh, this is actually what they do all
the time. But I don't know why they do it.
And they're the only one that does it. The Steelers
only have one logo on their helmet. They only have
it on one side. It's just so strange.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
That is weird.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah, you know, of course the Browns don't have one
at all. But but the Steelers only have it on
one side, and I've never I probably should have looked
up the origin of that, but it's really odd that
they only have one.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Maybe when they started, that's all they could afford. I mean,
I know that sounds ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Now I only had thirty eight stickers. Everybody got one
or whatever it was.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah, that could be.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
That could be.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I'll finish up with today.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
It doesn't seem all that novel or crazy. But I'm
telling you what, when Andre Agassy played the US Open
in Denham shorts, he came out and dam shorts and
that was like.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Well, the sport's over. There is no more tennis now.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
If he's gonna if he's gonna disrespect the sport like that,
we're in denim shorts.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
They wouldn't put up with that in Wimbledon.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
No, or Chelsea. No, we didn't Chelsea, Chelsea.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
We wore the full blue jeans when we played and
no shirt, no shirt and full blue jeans.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Exactly. Come yeah, exactly. No, he didn't wear me at Wimbledon. No, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
They're not they're not putting up with it at Wimbledon,
but at the US Open he wore these denim like
blue jeans shorts. You're like, that is not that, That's
not how we're spoke. We're disrespecting the sport. Now today
you're like, that's ridiculous to even say.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
And I think that I think that may have kind
of started. How Outland can I be? US Open? Is
my time? Yeah? To wear something crazy you know you
can't fit or whatever.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
All right.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
So what do we got for a winner this week?
This is in honor of Texas A and M. They're
blackout was successful in beating L s U in a
huge game that turned out to be just a wonderful environment.
Doesn't always work, but uh, specialty uniforms who were.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Going with the white Sox shorts I think are just
the biggest, the biggest, you know, punchline.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
For how many games do we play in them?
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Three? Right?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Three games in them? That was awesome. That was very softballish,
very softballish.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
All right, we'll go with that. We'll go that, Chris
before we go, who's gonna win the Winterfield Classic? Valdosta
or the Plowboys of Lowndes.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
You have some uh, for the region championship, both of
them one this year. So it's better than usually is uh.
I will I'll pick I'll pick the cats in the
point that.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
That's a Valdosta High White Wildcats.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
There you go, all right, So we'll check in on
that next week, Chris all right, Chris Beckham.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Chris Stevens said, we do it every week.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Awesome stuff lists with Chris here on Sports Talk nine
Speaker 5 (39:43):
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