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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air on Mom phillips
(00:31):
one hundred second birthday. A quick moment to reflect on
your favorite love you Blue memory. You have twenty seconds,
so get right to it. Let's start with Gloria and
go down the list. Gloria, you're up, go ahead?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
What was nineteen eighty nine? My husband and I were
in Port of the Arta on our honeymoon and we
shared a cab with another couple. Once we get to
the restaurant introductions from and the guy said he was
Alan Pinkett of the Houston Oilers, and my husband responded, well,
I'm a Cowboys, saying myself, I wanted to crawl under
(01:10):
the table.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That is not love you Blue, but I don't mind
you shearing Wes.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
E're up?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah. My favorite memory is watching Silo seven man. He
was the best. And the day they fired bum Phillips
and Tom Landry, I quit watching football.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You know, the reason Bud Adams fired bum Phillips was
much like Jerry Jones firing Jimmy Johnson. Bud Adams didn't
like bum Phillips getting more attention than he got That's
what it came down to. Bud Adams was an ass,
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complete and utter ass. He was my neighbor, and I
would walk past his house and hiss, hoping one day
he'd come out mouthed off to me, or in some
way create a situation where I could tell him what
I thought of him, because it had bothered me for
so many years. And I finally move in in six
(02:16):
houses over low and behold there is a house with
Columbia blue trim. It's got to be Bud Adams. So
as my wife and I are walking the neighborhood, another
neighbor comes out and he introduces himself. He said, you know,
Bud Adams was right here. And I proceeded to run
Bud Adams down, thinking he would defend him, and nope,
(02:37):
not quite the opposite. Wes, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
What you say?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I just said it, Michael, Silo seven was the best?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Oh my bad? Okay? Uh bev what you got to say?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well, on my birthday August twentieth, we got Fox tickets
with all the food and drinks, and the game started
and all of a sudden they're out there trying to
level the astra turf. I believe it was the last
game and they forfeited it.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh did they not get the turf down?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Huh huh?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
And we had to leave.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
And we had the best seats.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh now, please tell me you're a hairdresser.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, I am not.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
What do you do?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I take care of my awesome husband who is so
crazy about you. He had a complete laryngec to me
in twenty twenty three after the COVID shot he lost
his voice.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
And that man thinks you hung the moon and so
do I.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
What is his name?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Ray Durham used them pump Service, their family business almost
ninety years. He's third generation.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well yeah, that is a true testament to love that
you are there taking care of him. Yeah. So thank
you to Ray Durham, and thank you to Bed for
being a great a great wife. Mike, you're up? What
you got? Oh? This is me, Mike? Are you there?
(04:34):
Truyt Stacy? Stacy, you're up, sir? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
It was nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
I was thirteen.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Me and my cousin lived in some apartments in bel
Air on Visinette, Rampart and sed Washington, Number fifty nine
linebacker Litt next door to us, and one Saturday morning,
he took us at his own personal car, took us
to the camp, introduced as to some guys. I remember
meeting Billy White's shoes and man, we feel pretty special
about that. And I did get to see Warren Moon
also play. I got to see Moon play with the
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oilers right there on the pill So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And that's my story.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, I'm a damn PASTORNI partisan, but I will say this,
Warren Moon through one of the most beautiful passes in
NFL history. When he would throw passes across the middle.
That spiral was so tight and so beautiful. And to
think that we only saw Warren Moon on the back
side of his career. Think about that, he goes to
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Canada and plays the bulk of his career by the
time he comes here, and you forget he went from
here to Minnesota. My goodness of love, Leslie, you're up
what you got?
Speaker 9 (05:45):
Hey, Michael? My love you Blue story is that my
oldest son was born on the same day in the
same hospital as Earl Campbell's oldest son in nineteen eighty two,
and they were both in the hospital nursery at the
same time. And you know, back then the hospital nurseries
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were pretty public, so there was a lot of and
a lot of people kept looking at my little boy
thinking he because he was bigger than Earl Campbell's little boy.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I bet he didn't stay bigger than Earl Campbell's little boy.
Speaker 9 (06:21):
No, I don't think. I don't know how big Earl
Campbell's boy is now, but minus six foot and a
little under two hundred pounds. So he's a He's a
good guy, but he's not He's not.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Earl Campbell's not that mean. Although Earl wasn't that tall,
it was just thick. I saw a picture of who
was it, Earl Campbell and like Kareem and somebody else,
and you realize that Earle wasn't big in that sense.
He was just thick and strong. Jason, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. What's say you, sir?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I would say, growing up, so many good memories, but
one of my fondest memories of a child growing up
is seeing Mojo go out there and get that tea
and roll around and look crazy on the sideline.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Jason, that's what.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
You offered, yes, sir, Okay, it's a story, baby.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Well no, it's technically it fits within the confines of
a story. Yes, Cat, you're up, go ahead, Okay, okay.
Speaker 11 (07:31):
Houston Oilers plays Pittsburgh Steelers for the championship, kick the
door down. They were projected to win. They did not.
They had a big celebration party. It's almost having campground.
I believe that's in Manville. And the promoter asked, who's
a friend of ours? Ask my husband, and if we
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would do blue oil drink and we would do love
You Blue stickers. Well, and I was to sing with
a country band. Well, of course we didn't win. Hardly
anybody showed up. They got their liquor license. We vote
before we got there, and I said, on it. I
mean I stood up on a flat bed track truck
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singing to a bunch of lawn chairs. We gave the
blue oil to a school and the parents complained, because.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
All right, it's a quick memory of your remembrance of
the love you Blue oilers. You've got twenty seconds. We'll
start with Scott and go down the list. Scott, You're up,
go ahead.
Speaker 12 (08:43):
Yeah, this is pre that, but I think it's pretty
good stories. Yeah, I was an oiler buddy when I
was like eighteen years old, saw the Oilers and Jepson
Stadium and also got to meet George Blanda when I
was an Oiler buddy. He scared the living.
Speaker 13 (08:57):
Day light, said it'd be pretty tough, dudes.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
But the best.
Speaker 12 (09:00):
Memory was Jim Norton, the then punter, lived right behind
me in Sharpstown in a circle drive area, and he
used to punt to us when we were kids, and
we could never catch we could never catch it on savors.
So so far and so really good memories of the
Wheler's loved him.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You know what I love about that is people's stories
from in those days. His players weren't rich. They lived
in you know, they lived in you know, Sharpstown wasn't
low end, but it wasn't rich.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
It's it's just interesting how many times, you know, Jose
Cruz I sold when I had a brokerage for him,
I sold Jose Cruz's home in uh like Meyerland Maerland
Bondering area. And it was a nice house, the solid house.
In fact, at the time he bought it, it was
you know, upper middle class, but they weren't rich like
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they are today. Jose l Two Bay is building a
house now that is, I mean it's yes, I would
estimate based on where it is, probably a twenty five
to thirty million dollar house. I mean it's they don't
live in in, you know, middle class neighborhoods anymore. Once
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once they've they've achieved some fame. Back in those days,
they did Mike, you're.
Speaker 14 (10:16):
Up, go ahead, your boy, Dan Pasterini roughing up Dale
Robinson after Dale wrote some some negative stuff about Dan
in the Houston Post.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Are you the guy I used to call in as
Astro's Mike or some other name.
Speaker 14 (10:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, you used to call sports radio and you used
to call Baker's Show. I don't I don't know if
you called our show. Have you called us before?
Speaker 14 (10:42):
Oh? Yeah, the first time I ever called you, you
called me an elitist. I didn't even know what that was.
I had to look up the word.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
What year would that have been, Oh.
Speaker 14 (10:54):
Like twenty thirteen or fourteen something?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Okay, I used to hear you call you remember him Astro's.
He used to call him on Matt Thomas's show. He
just call him Baker's Show. Used to call him all
the time. Yeah, I enjoyed the uh the Pastorini punching
Dale Robertson through the door story. I once I heard
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it from Chris Bagala, who was a sports reporter for
k I K K or KLT I can't remember at
the time, but Chris told the story and Pastorini. Robertson
was such a little prick that he would cause constant
he would just constantly criticize Pastorini, and it was kind
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of like Jim Romo, Jim Rome and Jim Everett, and
Jim Everett finally pushes him back. I mean, Everett could
have beaten the guy to death, but Jim Rome this
a little bit sawt off five foot six, you know,
talking head is calling him Chris Evert, Chris Evertt, the
tennis player, email tennis player, and he got what was
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coming to him. But Dale Robertson is one of these
guys that just mowed off and maledoff and maldoff and
finally maldolf to Pastorinni to his face, and he got
what was coming to him. And it's since then he uh,
I guess he apologized and Pastorini forgave him, and so
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I laughed about it and Pastorini wouldn't you know, He's like, no, no, No,
we put that behind us. But Dale Robertson is such
a little turd, or used to be. I don't know
if he's still alive on social media. That one time
he mouthed off about Republicans or something and I said,
I made a comment about what Pastorini did to him,
and he claimed it didn't happen, which I thought was
(12:46):
sort of okay, all right, yeah, stick with that story there, Dale,
Let's go to Bobby. Bobby, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, like the show. But anyway, just
calling uh to let what I was thinking about. I'm
a Cowboys fan, but back in the day we all
hated the Steelers. And my Love You Blue story would
be Earl Campbell. It was I can not tell you
the year it was, but I want to say it
was his third or fourth year in the NFL, and
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it was in a playoff game against the Steelers, and
I just remember the line partying like the Red Sea
and it was a standoff between Michael Lambert. Mike Lambert
middle linebacker that was going wrong and tough, and Earl
Campbell rolled him over. It was the funnest. We laughed
so hard that was a great moment. He just kept going.
Now I think he even scored on that play, probably,
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but I don't know if you remember that one that
was my Love You Billy story.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I don't remember that play in particular, but I would
tell you I've spent some time for years. I would
mc dan Pastorini's Legends event that he has every year,
and some of those guys would would come into town
and me and Joe Green comes in and mean, Joe
came in at the super Bowl and they came out
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to the RCC. Dan had a party at the RCC
and ended up being the best super Bowl party that year.
And there was me and Joe Green, there was Bob Lilly,
there were all these guys. But it's just amazing to
me how much respect those guys have for each other,
considering how they beat the snot out of it. I mean,
I don't know of a rivalry today that is as
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brutal as those Steelers Oilers rivalries, and but for being
but for having to play the Steelers twice a year,
And you know, you think about that. Back then, it
was the Steelers, the Browns, the Bengals, the Oilers, and
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that was a time when those four teams, especially into
the eighties, those four teams were all rock solid. Those
Bengals teams with Ken Anderson and before that that Archie Griffin,
those were some good teams. Those Browns teams were good.
They would get those Brown teams. Was it Retigliano? Are are?
(15:07):
It must have been Samratiglia. And I don't think Marty
Schottenheimer is there. How funny that Marty Schottenheimer's son is
now the Cowboys head coach? Is that crazy? Small world?
Small world? Good times? All right, let's get one more
quick one in here. Let's go to Josh. Josh, you're up.
Speaker 10 (15:21):
Go ahead, Michael, thanks for taking my call. A huge fan.
All the best to you and your family. My stepfather,
interesting that you were talking about ernstin Young earlier in
eighty eight he became the man she partnered for Ernstein
Young and their Moscow office, So him and my mother
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moved over there for the majority of the year, and
they'd come home every once in a while. But he
had season tickets from the early eighties until they moved
to Tennessee. Well, he ended up giving me, well, well,
I was the one who would always get to keep
going to the games. Because he kept those tickets. And
so man, me and my my friends. I'm fifty two,
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so we were right in our twentieth was writing our
will house. So the love you, I mean, the running
shoot days and all that, and it was just a boy.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
A damn shame.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. That guy
called in earlier under the name Mike was a longtime
Houston caller to sports and talk radio, mostly sports, under
the name Astros Mike. And I remember the host losing
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their mind when he would call, which amused me and
Jim Mudd, who at the time was at six' ten
and then came over With Josh ennis on seven ninety
and he was the one having to take these calls
and put them on the, air and he was a
longtime sports radio. Guy he, SAID i can't believe you
were nice to. Him he used to get on my damn.
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Nerves he would call in and correct us for something
we said three days, earlier AND i, said, yeah that's
that was what was so funny about. It y'all would
get so, mad and you were never really sure If
Astros mike was in on the, joke or if maybe
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he was really just THAT ocd and not anything going,
on and kind of rainman ish and calling you never really,
Knew and it was the not knowing which made it.
Fun plus he had that that real Whiny New York
Southern baptist. Accent you don't think He's Southern, Baptist, well
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well he's real whiny In New. YORKY i DON'T i
don't know which, denomination but you you, know you that
added to the. Character it, was, uh you, KNOW i, mean,
Look Tom cruise's character didn't Like. Rainman the rest of
us Liked rainman And Poor jim and all the all the.
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Folks you, know he's probably sitting there dialing each one
of them and probably making notes on what they did.
Wrong AND i thought it was. GREAT i, mean you,
know a caller that becomes a character without even meaning.
TO i don't. Know there's a charm to me about.
That let's start With. Robert, robert you got twenty seconds
for your love your blue memory.
Speaker 13 (18:21):
Got, okay since you already stole My Dan, Pastrini dale Robertson,
Thunder my next one would be The Monday Night football
finger when they fan flipped off the camera On Monday
night footballs.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Terrible, yeah and it Was Raiders, oilers And Don meredith, says,
yep his team is number. One we'll get back to
some fan reaction here in just a moment That Don
meredith was the best at moments like, That, david you're,
up go. Ahead by the, way that nineteen seventy two
team was, Terrible DAN pastorni talking about that. SOMETIME i
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think they. WERE i think they were two and twelve that.
Year were only fourteen games in the season back. THEN
i think they were two and twelve If i'm not.
Mistaken and and he got Beat you, know people forget
by the time they were really good in the late.
Seventies he had been knocked around in those early, years
so Like David. Carr but you, know everybody's down On David.
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Carr AND i don't think that was the right choice
for The texans at that. TIME i don't think he
was the. Guy but, man that poor guy by the
time they had a few offensive linemen after a few,
years he had been beat up so. Bad it was
it was. Bad david Got.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Billy.
Speaker 15 (19:44):
White Hugh johnson couldn't wait to watch that guy, score
just to see him do the DANCE i don't even.
Remember for fifth sixth grade we would practice that thing
because it wasn't just flapping his. LEGS i mean it
was it was coreyograph type. Dancing finally got, it but,
uh that Was that's, probably amongst other, things one of
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the one of my.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
HIGHLIGHTS i think he went from here to The? Falcons
is that?
Speaker 16 (20:08):
RIGHT i don't.
Speaker 15 (20:12):
RECALL i, KNOW i think eighty was his last.
Speaker 10 (20:14):
YEAR i believe.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
What, YEAH i can't remember if he came, here came
from The falcons, here went from here to The. Falcons
but WHENEVER i see footage Of Billy white Shoes johnson
and he's playing and he's in The falcons, UNIFORM i
always have just a little tinge of like we're being
cheated on just a little. Bit i've gotten to know
a lot of those guys from From pastorena because he
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brings them back together and in over the years you
get to spend some time with, them AND i got
to tell, you they are the neatest bunch of, guys
and they really are a. Family THEY i don't know
that the eighty five oilers or the sixty five, oilers
or you, know any other team or most other TEAMS
i don't think would have an, identity but That Love
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You blue. Group there's so many characters on that and
and and they genuinely love each. Other and there's a
few of them that are that you wouldn't expect are
the leaders of the. Group Like pastorini is the. Leader
when it's time to take a photo and everybody's standing
around here goes guys get over, here and they'll, go come.
On quarterback says we have to. Go and they don't
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call Him, paserina call him. Quarterback but it's like he's the.
Leader he's still the. Leader H another one who's the
leader in that in that group in a in a
cut up Is Vernon. Perry people love people in that.
Group they Love Vernon. Perry let's go To. Cat did
we go To cat?
Speaker 13 (21:37):
Already?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah we? Did, catyah we Did. Cat cat used to
be a hair. Stylist you don't. Know, yeah did we
talk to you? ALREADY i.
Speaker 11 (21:45):
Didn't, WELL i don't. KNOW i didn't know if you
heard me because it went to. Commercial it's hard to.
Hear but if if you heard they heard me, already.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Then, yeah your husband was a. Fan, no what'd you?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Say?
Speaker 11 (22:01):
No, okay it was The Pittsburgh stinglers And Euston. Oilers
Euston oilers were scheduled to win By, YEAH i got, it.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Got, It, Kat i'm. SORRY I ramone screwed that one.
Up that was On. Ramone i'll blame myself WHEN i
and even WHEN i, didn't but on that one Does
Ramon roger eure.
Speaker 16 (22:24):
Up we moved here in nineteen seventy. Seven august didn't
know anything about the. Oilers were At Pinos restaurant Hill
croft And West. Timer, Yep we're eating with my parents
and these two guys in the corner start carrying, on
dropping f, bombs yelling and. Screaming management didn't do. Anything
when we were paying our, bill my dad, goes who
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were those? Guys That's dantash training Bum. Phillips they come
in here all the. Time that was my introduction to the.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Oilers you, know if you Mentioned pinos to a certain
group of, people And i'm not one of them who
were who were In, Hue houston at that, time that
was a favorite for. PEOPLE i had a friend when
we moved To houston and was a big supporter of,
mine and for his, birthday my wife And i'd go
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pick up gift cards and we'd bring him bring A
pinots gift. Card it was on its last leg by.
Then did you ever go? There he was kind of
a Stately italian eight, building kind of a white the
thin pillarsters uh and then kind of a green and red.
Trim but it WAS i think it was kind of
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like a carabas of its, day but it was REALLY i,
mean people loved that. Restaurant you hear a lot of
people talk about that. Restaurant let's go To, skip not
that one.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Go, Yeah.
Speaker 17 (23:47):
Michael my story is a good friend of mine was
good friends With Earl. Campbell in On Earl campbell's certain, BIRTHDAY.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
I don't remember what year it, was but he had already.
Speaker 17 (23:58):
Retired we h he wanted to go To Virginia city
up here In. Tomball so we all met there and
went inside and we sat over there in the corner
in the, dark so nobody would recognize him And earl
anybody that's ever been Around, earl he's got a beer
bottle in.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
One hand to drink.
Speaker 17 (24:19):
And another one to spit.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
In and they sat.
Speaker 17 (24:23):
There there was another guy From congo that they played
high school ball against each other and they argued the whole,
time who was the better, team who was the better?
Speaker 7 (24:32):
Players New cattle cole.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Lu i had a fine box.
Speaker 12 (24:39):
Grund Michael barry.
Speaker 18 (24:48):
Stay to The rockets see The rockets years, ago fifteen
years ago, Roughly AND i think it was about the
time he had JUST i think they had announced he
was going into The hall Of, fame but he.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Hadn't put the jacket, on because that happens at The
hall Of fame game at the end of the summer
in Ken but they announced it, earlier SO i think
we were IN i don't want to Say, february AND
i Called George, postolis who was running The rockets at the,
time AND i, Said, Hey i'm going to Have Elvin
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bethay with me in case you wanted to do. Something
it's up to. You and they stopped in between in
between the in the middle of the, game when they'd
normally have some you, know pie eating contest or put
a do a sack race or whatever, else they stopped
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and got very serious when they announced that we have
in our midst A houston. Legend And conn was halfway
hoving was talking about me be honest with, you and,
that uh he was here with, us Mister Elvin, butthay
AND i nudged him BECAUSE i had, said you, know
do you realize how much this city loves? You he,
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said nobody remembers WHO i am? Anymore and the place went,
wild and SO i made him stand up because he
was sitting kind. Of he's shy. Guy if you ever see,
him even his public, personality he's a very very shy.
Guy and two interesting things About Elvin. Bethay number, one
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he has a, diastema WHICH i researched Because crockett had,
one doesn't. Anymore we closed it with. Braces he wanted it.
CLOSED i, didn't and, yeah, no, no he didn't close.
His that's the gap between your teeth Like Yannick noah.
Had the other thing is he And Johnny baker the
Third Johnny baker triplesticks have fingers that start out hidden
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north to, south but about halfway they just like, squirrel
they go off. EAST i mean almost at a ninety
to grangle it is probably. Ramon would that be a
see that's a, ninety that's one, eighty it's about a
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one thirty. Five would that be a one thirty five
or would that just be a thirty. FIVE i think
that'd be a one hundred and thirty five, anyway that
UH i came ver as a pink pinky or the
ring one of. Them it's the, ring which means to
be be. Worse but they can't put. THERE i, mean
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you couldn't put your hand in a. Mitt your hand
will be poking out the side like a big old.
Bunion but that finger is so. Shattered AND i asked
one or the other of, THEM i don't remember which,
one how you end up with a finger like, That
and both of them told me the same. THING i
think it Was Johnny baker told. Me he, said that's
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somebody coming in our. Gate oh it's. Girlough he said
that back in those, days a defensive lineman could when
the ball was, snapped a defensive lineman could rear back
and slap the head the helmet of an offensive lineman
to discombobulate. Them and the lineman hated, that like a
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horse or. Something they hated. It so what they developed
as a response was they would shake their head like
a dog shaking off water in hopes that if you
hung your finger in, there if they could get hold
of like a fishing, line it would shred your. Finger
so what would happen is you slapped enough dudes on the,
head you fafo and eventually you get your finger hung in.
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There and they both had had that happen to, them
and both of them walked around their entire lives with
them just awfully crooked. Fingers it. Was it was, amazing just,
amazing interesting, stories both of. Them interesting. Stories let's go to, Unknown,
unknown you're on The Michael Berry. Show Because ramon didn't
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bother to get your. Name, bill we'll go To. Bill you're, Up,
bill go.
Speaker 13 (29:08):
Ahead, Heywood Jeffries.
Speaker 19 (29:12):
All this story, WAS i was me and some coworkers
went To Laftland Air Force base to go do some.
Work so a man on this big lake went out
walked way out there a mile or two to go meet.
Him it happened to Be, Heywood jefferys', brother a big
man in the military. Base and there was the day
or the next day the all has played The Buffalo
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bills in that game where they was up twenty points
and then, HALFTIME i think it was snowing up their.
Coal but we had a big party at his, house
a Big houston all his, party and it was so much.
Cheering he showed us they family photos and told us
the history of they, family and, man we just met
like we knew him for thirty. Years but after halftime
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it was a totally different everybody knows that. Game it
was sad AND i was pumping. Up i'm all the,
same BUT i just, yeah it was an awesome thing
to be With Heywood jeffery's brother up there at that
Air force base and at that.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Party i'll never. Forget Frank wright came in AND i
don't even think they'd scored, yet and the NETWORK i
think it WAS, cbs BUT i could be, wrong played
a video of him backing up boomera size and IF
i remember, correctly At maryland and The terrapins were down,
whatever it was twenty eight to nothing And Frank wright
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comes in and leads them to a comeback and they
said could he do it again? Today AND i remember, thinking, well,
no it stopped talking like that and lo and be.
Home if they didn't come back and win that, Game
oh my, goodness that was.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
That was.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Rough that was a rough. Game we were coming back
from the airport and we stopped north of town because
weren't going to make it home in. Time my, Buddy
Earl William spencer the third lived In New, caney and
we came out of the airport on the north side
and we went to his house and watched the end of. It,
man was that a rough way to lose a?
Speaker 16 (31:13):
Game?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Ah believe that was a rough way to lose a. Game,
wow that that one still stings to this. Day, rick you're,
Up go, Ahead.
Speaker 12 (31:24):
This Is RICK.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
K thank.
Speaker 10 (31:25):
YOU i wanted to let Everybody i'm working with an old.
Speaker 20 (31:31):
Love you blue player. Back he was backup player for
quarterback Behind, pascerini punter and defensive. Bat so they were
playing three or four different ways at that. Time and
he played one year with The oilers and then went
To canada played another four or five years up. There
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but you want to talk about IF i can remember
half the stories.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
He tells, Me does he have a? Name it would be,
yes he, Does Randy. Kerbo that was was.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
One of the more awkward storytelling. Mechanisms the art of that.
Story you, know sometimes you'll put like like if you're
you're You're Paul, Harvey you'll cover that till the end
and then there's the grand. Reveal BUT i DIDN'T i
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didn't get the idea that this was going to be
like The. Mystique you, know you got the, reveal and
THEN i didn't get the. IDEA i got the idea
that that story might that might, story that story might
end without the old boy's name even being. Mentioned and
THEN i, thought, well maybe he can't remember. It, no,
no he remembered. It, Well i'm just wondering when you're
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thinking about telling a. Story. What let me say this
before the end of the, Show, pastorini OBVIOUSLY i Adore
Old Campbell's Earl campbell Bum philip's aways been so nice
to me And Wade PHILLIPS i consider a dear person.
Primed you know who was so nice to me during
those gatherings Was Robert. Brazilian what a nice, Fellow what
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an amazing.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
Man
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air on Mom phillips
(00:31):
one hundred second birthday. A quick moment to reflect on
your favorite love you Blue memory. You have twenty seconds,
so get right to it. Let's start with Gloria and
go down the list. Gloria, you're up, go ahead?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
What was nineteen eighty nine? My husband and I were
in Port of the Arta on our honeymoon and we
shared a cab with another couple. Once we get to
the restaurant introductions from and the guy said he was
Alan Pinkett of the Houston Oilers, and my husband responded, well,
I'm a Cowboys, saying myself, I wanted to crawl under
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the table.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That is not love you Blue, but I don't mind
you shearing Wes.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
E're up?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah. My favorite memory is watching Silo seven man. He
was the best. And the day they fired bum Phillips
and Tom Landry, I quit watching football.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You know, the reason Bud Adams fired bum Phillips was
much like Jerry Jones firing Jimmy Johnson. Bud Adams didn't
like bum Phillips getting more attention than he got That's
what it came down to. Bud Adams was an ass,
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complete and utter ass. He was my neighbor, and I
would walk past his house and hiss, hoping one day
he'd come out mouthed off to me, or in some
way create a situation where I could tell him what
I thought of him, because it had bothered me for
so many years. And I finally move in in six
(02:16):
houses over low and behold there is a house with
Columbia blue trim. It's got to be Bud Adams. So
as my wife and I are walking the neighborhood, another
neighbor comes out and he introduces himself. He said, you know,
Bud Adams was right here. And I proceeded to run
Bud Adams down, thinking he would defend him, and nope,
(02:37):
not quite the opposite. Wes, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
What you say?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I just said it, Michael, Silo seven was the best?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Oh my bad? Okay? Uh bev what you got to say?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well, on my birthday August twentieth, we got Fox tickets
with all the food and drinks, and the game started
and all of a sudden they're out there trying to
level the astra turf. I believe it was the last
game and they forfeited it.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh did they not get the turf down?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Huh huh?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
And we had to leave.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
And we had the best seats.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh now, please tell me you're a hairdresser.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, I am not.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
What do you do?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I take care of my awesome husband who is so
crazy about you. He had a complete laryngec to me
in twenty twenty three after the COVID shot he lost
his voice.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
And that man thinks you hung the moon and so
do I.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
What is his name?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Ray Durham used them pump Service, their family business almost
ninety years. He's third generation.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well yeah, that is a true testament to love that
you are there taking care of him. Yeah. So thank
you to Ray Durham, and thank you to Bed for
being a great a great wife. Mike, you're up? What
you got? Oh? This is me, Mike? Are you there?
(04:34):
Truyt Stacy? Stacy, you're up, sir? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
It was nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
I was thirteen.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Me and my cousin lived in some apartments in bel
Air on Visinette, Rampart and sed Washington, Number fifty nine
linebacker Litt next door to us, and one Saturday morning,
he took us at his own personal car, took us
to the camp, introduced as to some guys. I remember
meeting Billy White's shoes and man, we feel pretty special
about that. And I did get to see Warren Moon
also play. I got to see Moon play with the
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oilers right there on the pill So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And that's my story.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, I'm a damn PASTORNI partisan, but I will say this,
Warren Moon through one of the most beautiful passes in
NFL history. When he would throw passes across the middle.
That spiral was so tight and so beautiful. And to
think that we only saw Warren Moon on the back
side of his career. Think about that, he goes to
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Canada and plays the bulk of his career by the
time he comes here, and you forget he went from
here to Minnesota. My goodness of love, Leslie, you're up
what you got?
Speaker 9 (05:45):
Hey, Michael? My love you Blue story is that my
oldest son was born on the same day in the
same hospital as Earl Campbell's oldest son in nineteen eighty two,
and they were both in the hospital nursery at the
same time. And you know, back then the hospital nurseries
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were pretty public, so there was a lot of and
a lot of people kept looking at my little boy
thinking he because he was bigger than Earl Campbell's little boy.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I bet he didn't stay bigger than Earl Campbell's little boy.
Speaker 9 (06:21):
No, I don't think. I don't know how big Earl
Campbell's boy is now, but minus six foot and a
little under two hundred pounds. So he's a He's a
good guy, but he's not He's not.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Earl Campbell's not that mean. Although Earl wasn't that tall,
it was just thick. I saw a picture of who
was it, Earl Campbell and like Kareem and somebody else,
and you realize that Earle wasn't big in that sense.
He was just thick and strong. Jason, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. What's say you, sir?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I would say, growing up, so many good memories, but
one of my fondest memories of a child growing up
is seeing Mojo go out there and get that tea
and roll around and look crazy on the sideline.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Jason, that's what.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
You offered, yes, sir, Okay, it's a story, baby.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Well no, it's technically it fits within the confines of
a story. Yes, Cat, you're up, go ahead, Okay, okay.
Speaker 11 (07:31):
Houston Oilers plays Pittsburgh Steelers for the championship, kick the
door down. They were projected to win. They did not.
They had a big celebration party. It's almost having campground.
I believe that's in Manville. And the promoter asked, who's
a friend of ours? Ask my husband, and if we
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would do blue oil drink and we would do love
You Blue stickers. Well, and I was to sing with
a country band. Well, of course we didn't win. Hardly
anybody showed up. They got their liquor license. We vote
before we got there, and I said, on it. I
mean I stood up on a flat bed track truck
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singing to a bunch of lawn chairs. We gave the
blue oil to a school and the parents complained, because.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
All right, it's a quick memory of your remembrance of
the love you Blue oilers. You've got twenty seconds. We'll
start with Scott and go down the list. Scott, You're up,
go ahead.
Speaker 12 (08:43):
Yeah, this is pre that, but I think it's pretty
good stories. Yeah, I was an oiler buddy when I
was like eighteen years old, saw the Oilers and Jepson
Stadium and also got to meet George Blanda when I
was an Oiler buddy. He scared the living.
Speaker 13 (08:57):
Day light, said it'd be pretty tough, dudes.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
But the best.
Speaker 12 (09:00):
Memory was Jim Norton, the then punter, lived right behind
me in Sharpstown in a circle drive area, and he
used to punt to us when we were kids, and
we could never catch we could never catch it on savors.
So so far and so really good memories of the
Wheler's loved him.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You know what I love about that is people's stories
from in those days. His players weren't rich. They lived
in you know, they lived in you know, Sharpstown wasn't
low end, but it wasn't rich.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
It's it's just interesting how many times, you know, Jose
Cruz I sold when I had a brokerage for him,
I sold Jose Cruz's home in uh like Meyerland Maerland
Bondering area. And it was a nice house, the solid house.
In fact, at the time he bought it, it was
you know, upper middle class, but they weren't rich like
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they are today. Jose l Two Bay is building a
house now that is, I mean it's yes, I would
estimate based on where it is, probably a twenty five
to thirty million dollar house. I mean it's they don't
live in in, you know, middle class neighborhoods anymore. Once
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once they've they've achieved some fame. Back in those days,
they did Mike, you're.
Speaker 14 (10:16):
Up, go ahead, your boy, Dan Pasterini roughing up Dale
Robinson after Dale wrote some some negative stuff about Dan
in the Houston Post.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Are you the guy I used to call in as
Astro's Mike or some other name.
Speaker 14 (10:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, you used to call sports radio and you used
to call Baker's Show. I don't I don't know if
you called our show. Have you called us before?
Speaker 14 (10:42):
Oh? Yeah, the first time I ever called you, you
called me an elitist. I didn't even know what that was.
I had to look up the word.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
What year would that have been, Oh.
Speaker 14 (10:54):
Like twenty thirteen or fourteen something?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Okay, I used to hear you call you remember him Astro's.
He used to call him on Matt Thomas's show. He
just call him Baker's Show. Used to call him all
the time. Yeah, I enjoyed the uh the Pastorini punching
Dale Robertson through the door story. I once I heard
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it from Chris Bagala, who was a sports reporter for
k I K K or KLT I can't remember at
the time, but Chris told the story and Pastorini. Robertson
was such a little prick that he would cause constant
he would just constantly criticize Pastorini, and it was kind
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of like Jim Romo, Jim Rome and Jim Everett, and
Jim Everett finally pushes him back. I mean, Everett could
have beaten the guy to death, but Jim Rome this
a little bit sawt off five foot six, you know,
talking head is calling him Chris Evert, Chris Evertt, the
tennis player, email tennis player, and he got what was
(12:03):
coming to him. But Dale Robertson is one of these
guys that just mowed off and maledoff and maldoff and
finally maldolf to Pastorinni to his face, and he got
what was coming to him. And it's since then he uh,
I guess he apologized and Pastorini forgave him, and so
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I laughed about it and Pastorini wouldn't you know, He's like, no, no, No,
we put that behind us. But Dale Robertson is such
a little turd, or used to be. I don't know
if he's still alive on social media. That one time
he mouthed off about Republicans or something and I said,
I made a comment about what Pastorini did to him,
and he claimed it didn't happen, which I thought was
(12:46):
sort of okay, all right, yeah, stick with that story there, Dale,
Let's go to Bobby. Bobby, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, like the show. But anyway, just
calling uh to let what I was thinking about. I'm
a Cowboys fan, but back in the day we all
hated the Steelers. And my Love You Blue story would
be Earl Campbell. It was I can not tell you
the year it was, but I want to say it
was his third or fourth year in the NFL, and
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it was in a playoff game against the Steelers, and
I just remember the line partying like the Red Sea
and it was a standoff between Michael Lambert. Mike Lambert
middle linebacker that was going wrong and tough, and Earl
Campbell rolled him over. It was the funnest. We laughed
so hard that was a great moment. He just kept going.
Now I think he even scored on that play, probably,
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but I don't know if you remember that one that
was my Love You Billy story.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I don't remember that play in particular, but I would
tell you I've spent some time for years. I would
mc dan Pastorini's Legends event that he has every year,
and some of those guys would would come into town
and me and Joe Green comes in and mean, Joe
came in at the super Bowl and they came out
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to the RCC. Dan had a party at the RCC
and ended up being the best super Bowl party that year.
And there was me and Joe Green, there was Bob Lilly,
there were all these guys. But it's just amazing to
me how much respect those guys have for each other,
considering how they beat the snot out of it. I mean,
I don't know of a rivalry today that is as
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brutal as those Steelers Oilers rivalries, and but for being
but for having to play the Steelers twice a year,
And you know, you think about that. Back then, it
was the Steelers, the Browns, the Bengals, the Oilers, and
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that was a time when those four teams, especially into
the eighties, those four teams were all rock solid. Those
Bengals teams with Ken Anderson and before that that Archie Griffin,
those were some good teams. Those Browns teams were good.
They would get those Brown teams. Was it Retigliano? Are are?
(15:07):
It must have been Samratiglia. And I don't think Marty
Schottenheimer is there. How funny that Marty Schottenheimer's son is
now the Cowboys head coach? Is that crazy? Small world?
Small world? Good times? All right, let's get one more
quick one in here. Let's go to Josh. Josh, you're up.
Speaker 10 (15:21):
Go ahead, Michael, thanks for taking my call. A huge fan.
All the best to you and your family. My stepfather,
interesting that you were talking about ernstin Young earlier in
eighty eight he became the man she partnered for Ernstein
Young and their Moscow office, So him and my mother
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moved over there for the majority of the year, and
they'd come home every once in a while. But he
had season tickets from the early eighties until they moved
to Tennessee. Well, he ended up giving me, well, well,
I was the one who would always get to keep
going to the games. Because he kept those tickets. And
so man, me and my my friends. I'm fifty two,
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so we were right in our twentieth was writing our
will house. So the love you, I mean, the running
shoot days and all that, and it was just a boy.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
A damn shame.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. That guy
called in earlier under the name Mike was a longtime
Houston caller to sports and talk radio, mostly sports, under
the name Astros Mike. And I remember the host losing
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their mind when he would call, which amused me and
Jim Mudd, who at the time was at six' ten
and then came over With Josh ennis on seven ninety
and he was the one having to take these calls
and put them on the, air and he was a
longtime sports radio. Guy he, SAID i can't believe you
were nice to. Him he used to get on my damn.
(16:55):
Nerves he would call in and correct us for something
we said three days, earlier AND i, said, yeah that's
that was what was so funny about. It y'all would
get so, mad and you were never really sure If
Astros mike was in on the, joke or if maybe
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he was really just THAT ocd and not anything going,
on and kind of rainman ish and calling you never really,
Knew and it was the not knowing which made it.
Fun plus he had that that real Whiny New York
Southern baptist. Accent you don't think He's Southern, Baptist, well
(17:41):
well he's real whiny In New. YORKY i DON'T i
don't know which, denomination but you you, know you that
added to the. Character it, was, uh you, KNOW i, mean,
Look Tom cruise's character didn't Like. Rainman the rest of
us Liked rainman And Poor jim and all the all the.
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Folks you, know he's probably sitting there dialing each one
of them and probably making notes on what they did.
Wrong AND i thought it was. GREAT i, mean you,
know a caller that becomes a character without even meaning.
TO i don't. Know there's a charm to me about.
That let's start With. Robert, robert you got twenty seconds
for your love your blue memory.
Speaker 13 (18:21):
Got, okay since you already stole My Dan, Pastrini dale Robertson,
Thunder my next one would be The Monday Night football
finger when they fan flipped off the camera On Monday
night footballs.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Terrible, yeah and it Was Raiders, oilers And Don meredith, says,
yep his team is number. One we'll get back to
some fan reaction here in just a moment That Don
meredith was the best at moments like, That, david you're,
up go. Ahead by the, way that nineteen seventy two
team was, Terrible DAN pastorni talking about that. SOMETIME i
(19:02):
think they. WERE i think they were two and twelve that.
Year were only fourteen games in the season back. THEN
i think they were two and twelve If i'm not.
Mistaken and and he got Beat you, know people forget
by the time they were really good in the late.
Seventies he had been knocked around in those early, years
so Like David. Carr but you, know everybody's down On David.
(19:24):
Carr AND i don't think that was the right choice
for The texans at that. TIME i don't think he
was the. Guy but, man that poor guy by the
time they had a few offensive linemen after a few,
years he had been beat up so. Bad it was
it was. Bad david Got.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Billy.
Speaker 15 (19:44):
White Hugh johnson couldn't wait to watch that guy, score
just to see him do the DANCE i don't even.
Remember for fifth sixth grade we would practice that thing
because it wasn't just flapping his. LEGS i mean it
was it was coreyograph type. Dancing finally got, it but,
uh that Was that's, probably amongst other, things one of
(20:04):
the one of my.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
HIGHLIGHTS i think he went from here to The? Falcons
is that?
Speaker 16 (20:08):
RIGHT i don't.
Speaker 15 (20:12):
RECALL i, KNOW i think eighty was his last.
Speaker 10 (20:14):
YEAR i believe.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
What, YEAH i can't remember if he came, here came
from The falcons, here went from here to The. Falcons
but WHENEVER i see footage Of Billy white Shoes johnson
and he's playing and he's in The falcons, UNIFORM i
always have just a little tinge of like we're being
cheated on just a little. Bit i've gotten to know
a lot of those guys from From pastorena because he
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brings them back together and in over the years you
get to spend some time with, them AND i got
to tell, you they are the neatest bunch of, guys
and they really are a. Family THEY i don't know
that the eighty five oilers or the sixty five, oilers
or you, know any other team or most other TEAMS
i don't think would have an, identity but That Love
(20:59):
You blue. Group there's so many characters on that and
and and they genuinely love each. Other and there's a
few of them that are that you wouldn't expect are
the leaders of the. Group Like pastorini is the. Leader
when it's time to take a photo and everybody's standing
around here goes guys get over, here and they'll, go come.
On quarterback says we have to. Go and they don't
(21:19):
call Him, paserina call him. Quarterback but it's like he's the.
Leader he's still the. Leader H another one who's the
leader in that in that group in a in a
cut up Is Vernon. Perry people love people in that.
Group they Love Vernon. Perry let's go To. Cat did
we go To cat?
Speaker 13 (21:37):
Already?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah we? Did, catyah we Did. Cat cat used to
be a hair. Stylist you don't. Know, yeah did we
talk to you? ALREADY i.
Speaker 11 (21:45):
Didn't, WELL i don't. KNOW i didn't know if you
heard me because it went to. Commercial it's hard to.
Hear but if if you heard they heard me, already.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Then, yeah your husband was a. Fan, no what'd you?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Say?
Speaker 11 (22:01):
No, okay it was The Pittsburgh stinglers And Euston. Oilers
Euston oilers were scheduled to win By, YEAH i got, it.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Got, It, Kat i'm. SORRY I ramone screwed that one.
Up that was On. Ramone i'll blame myself WHEN i
and even WHEN i, didn't but on that one Does
Ramon roger eure.
Speaker 16 (22:24):
Up we moved here in nineteen seventy. Seven august didn't
know anything about the. Oilers were At Pinos restaurant Hill
croft And West. Timer, Yep we're eating with my parents
and these two guys in the corner start carrying, on
dropping f, bombs yelling and. Screaming management didn't do. Anything
when we were paying our, bill my dad, goes who
(22:45):
were those? Guys That's dantash training Bum. Phillips they come
in here all the. Time that was my introduction to the.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Oilers you, know if you Mentioned pinos to a certain
group of, people And i'm not one of them who
were who were In, Hue houston at that, time that
was a favorite for. PEOPLE i had a friend when
we moved To houston and was a big supporter of,
mine and for his, birthday my wife And i'd go
(23:12):
pick up gift cards and we'd bring him bring A
pinots gift. Card it was on its last leg by.
Then did you ever go? There he was kind of
a Stately italian eight, building kind of a white the
thin pillarsters uh and then kind of a green and red.
Trim but it WAS i think it was kind of
(23:33):
like a carabas of its, day but it was REALLY i,
mean people loved that. Restaurant you hear a lot of
people talk about that. Restaurant let's go To, skip not
that one.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Go, Yeah.
Speaker 17 (23:47):
Michael my story is a good friend of mine was
good friends With Earl. Campbell in On Earl campbell's certain, BIRTHDAY.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
I don't remember what year it, was but he had already.
Speaker 17 (23:58):
Retired we h he wanted to go To Virginia city
up here In. Tomball so we all met there and
went inside and we sat over there in the corner
in the, dark so nobody would recognize him And earl
anybody that's ever been Around, earl he's got a beer
bottle in.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
One hand to drink.
Speaker 17 (24:19):
And another one to spit.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
In and they sat.
Speaker 17 (24:23):
There there was another guy From congo that they played
high school ball against each other and they argued the whole,
time who was the better, team who was the better?
Speaker 7 (24:32):
Players New cattle cole.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Lu i had a fine box.
Speaker 12 (24:39):
Grund Michael barry.
Speaker 18 (24:48):
Stay to The rockets see The rockets years, ago fifteen
years ago, Roughly AND i think it was about the
time he had JUST i think they had announced he
was going into The hall Of, fame but he.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Hadn't put the jacket, on because that happens at The
hall Of fame game at the end of the summer
in Ken but they announced it, earlier SO i think
we were IN i don't want to Say, february AND
i Called George, postolis who was running The rockets at the,
time AND i, Said, Hey i'm going to Have Elvin
(25:27):
bethay with me in case you wanted to do. Something
it's up to. You and they stopped in between in
between the in the middle of the, game when they'd
normally have some you, know pie eating contest or put
a do a sack race or whatever, else they stopped
(25:49):
and got very serious when they announced that we have
in our midst A houston. Legend And conn was halfway
hoving was talking about me be honest with, you and,
that uh he was here with, us Mister Elvin, butthay
AND i nudged him BECAUSE i had, said you, know
do you realize how much this city loves? You he,
(26:09):
said nobody remembers WHO i am? Anymore and the place went,
wild and SO i made him stand up because he
was sitting kind. Of he's shy. Guy if you ever see,
him even his public, personality he's a very very shy.
Guy and two interesting things About Elvin. Bethay number, one
(26:30):
he has a, diastema WHICH i researched Because crockett had,
one doesn't. Anymore we closed it with. Braces he wanted it.
CLOSED i, didn't and, yeah, no, no he didn't close.
His that's the gap between your teeth Like Yannick noah.
Had the other thing is he And Johnny baker the
Third Johnny baker triplesticks have fingers that start out hidden
(26:57):
north to, south but about halfway they just like, squirrel
they go off. EAST i mean almost at a ninety
to grangle it is probably. Ramon would that be a
see that's a, ninety that's one, eighty it's about a
(27:17):
one thirty. Five would that be a one thirty five
or would that just be a thirty. FIVE i think
that'd be a one hundred and thirty five, anyway that
UH i came ver as a pink pinky or the
ring one of. Them it's the, ring which means to
be be. Worse but they can't put. THERE i, mean
(27:37):
you couldn't put your hand in a. Mitt your hand
will be poking out the side like a big old.
Bunion but that finger is so. Shattered AND i asked
one or the other of, THEM i don't remember which,
one how you end up with a finger like, That
and both of them told me the same. THING i
think it Was Johnny baker told. Me he, said that's
(27:58):
somebody coming in our. Gate oh it's. Girlough he said
that back in those, days a defensive lineman could when
the ball was, snapped a defensive lineman could rear back
and slap the head the helmet of an offensive lineman
to discombobulate. Them and the lineman hated, that like a
(28:19):
horse or. Something they hated. It so what they developed
as a response was they would shake their head like
a dog shaking off water in hopes that if you
hung your finger in, there if they could get hold
of like a fishing, line it would shred your. Finger
so what would happen is you slapped enough dudes on the,
head you fafo and eventually you get your finger hung in.
(28:44):
There and they both had had that happen to, them
and both of them walked around their entire lives with
them just awfully crooked. Fingers it. Was it was, amazing just,
amazing interesting, stories both of. Them interesting. Stories let's go to, Unknown,
unknown you're on The Michael Berry. Show Because ramon didn't
(29:05):
bother to get your. Name, bill we'll go To. Bill you're, Up,
bill go.
Speaker 13 (29:08):
Ahead, Heywood Jeffries.
Speaker 19 (29:12):
All this story, WAS i was me and some coworkers
went To Laftland Air Force base to go do some.
Work so a man on this big lake went out
walked way out there a mile or two to go meet.
Him it happened to Be, Heywood jefferys', brother a big
man in the military. Base and there was the day
or the next day the all has played The Buffalo
(29:32):
bills in that game where they was up twenty points
and then, HALFTIME i think it was snowing up their.
Coal but we had a big party at his, house
a Big houston all his, party and it was so much.
Cheering he showed us they family photos and told us
the history of they, family and, man we just met
like we knew him for thirty. Years but after halftime
(29:55):
it was a totally different everybody knows that. Game it
was sad AND i was pumping. Up i'm all the,
same BUT i just, yeah it was an awesome thing
to be With Heywood jeffery's brother up there at that
Air force base and at that.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Party i'll never. Forget Frank wright came in AND i
don't even think they'd scored, yet and the NETWORK i
think it WAS, cbs BUT i could be, wrong played
a video of him backing up boomera size and IF
i remember, correctly At maryland and The terrapins were down,
whatever it was twenty eight to nothing And Frank wright
(30:36):
comes in and leads them to a comeback and they
said could he do it again? Today AND i remember, thinking, well,
no it stopped talking like that and lo and be.
Home if they didn't come back and win that, Game
oh my, goodness that was.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
That was.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Rough that was a rough. Game we were coming back
from the airport and we stopped north of town because
weren't going to make it home in. Time my, Buddy
Earl William spencer the third lived In New, caney and
we came out of the airport on the north side
and we went to his house and watched the end of. It,
man was that a rough way to lose a?
Speaker 16 (31:13):
Game?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Ah believe that was a rough way to lose a. Game,
wow that that one still stings to this. Day, rick you're,
Up go, Ahead.
Speaker 12 (31:24):
This Is RICK.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
K thank.
Speaker 10 (31:25):
YOU i wanted to let Everybody i'm working with an old.
Speaker 20 (31:31):
Love you blue player. Back he was backup player for
quarterback Behind, pascerini punter and defensive. Bat so they were
playing three or four different ways at that. Time and
he played one year with The oilers and then went
To canada played another four or five years up. There
(31:56):
but you want to talk about IF i can remember
half the stories.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
He tells, Me does he have a? Name it would be,
yes he, Does Randy. Kerbo that was was.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
One of the more awkward storytelling. Mechanisms the art of that.
Story you, know sometimes you'll put like like if you're
you're You're Paul, Harvey you'll cover that till the end
and then there's the grand. Reveal BUT i DIDN'T i
(32:30):
didn't get the idea that this was going to be
like The. Mystique you, know you got the, reveal and
THEN i didn't get the. IDEA i got the idea
that that story might that might, story that story might
end without the old boy's name even being. Mentioned and
THEN i, thought, well maybe he can't remember. It, no,
no he remembered. It, Well i'm just wondering when you're
(32:53):
thinking about telling a. Story. What let me say this
before the end of the, Show, pastorini OBVIOUSLY i Adore
Old Campbell's Earl campbell Bum philip's aways been so nice
to me And Wade PHILLIPS i consider a dear person.
Primed you know who was so nice to me during
those gatherings Was Robert. Brazilian what a nice, Fellow what
(33:14):
an amazing.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
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