April 22, 2025 • 48 mins
We thought we would try another sports themed episode because the last one did so well!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, bussheads, Welcome to the Seventies Buzz Podcast. I'm Curtis Tucker.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I'm Todd Wheeler, bringing you our memories or lack thereof,
of growing up in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We are not a history podcast. We just want you
guys to know that sometimes we get things wrong, and
if you listen to us long enough, you're going to
be screaming at your device trying to give us the
right answers.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Listen up as we recount growing up in the Midwest
and our unique experience. Go to seventies Buzz dot com
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
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you could write that song today, could you? Ah?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Sure you can? Funky?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
What what's wrong with being on?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Funky?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
White Boy? Well, white boy, you.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Can't do anything nowadays without somebody getting text off. That
grumpy dude in a truck?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Were you a lollygagon in the wrong lane?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I was in I was in city limits most of
the time.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I mean he didn't anyway. Yeah, uh, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh, and Ruggridge and and and I saw uh coming
back from the city last night there was a high
patrolman in the left lane all the way from Dover
to Hennessy.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Well they do that because you're not supposed to be
in the left lane except to pass, and if you're passing,
your speeding. So he makes sure nobody speeds or passes.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
There's dozens and people do it all the time on
eighty one. Anyway, Hey, welcome to his Shoondies Wife podcast.
Oh my.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Episod, What did you say exactly? Hey, everybody hit us
up at five eighth five four one three eighth five
or buzz buzzidmedia dot com. We got we got a
decent amount of feedback on last week's exciting poor episode. Yeah,
we kind of figured we would. But so before we
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get into anything, let me let me explain last week's episode. Okay,
So here was the deal. I had a mindset going on,
and I had that so it was the same thing
when Gretchen texted me. In my mind, I was reading
that Gretchen was wanting to call and talk to me,
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when it was she was wanting me to talk to
her son, and I just wasn't. I had already gotten
in my mind that was her. So last week, in
my mind, I was thinking, Okay, Deep Throat is a
significant movie of the seventies. I would like to see it,
but like to see what the acting, the lighting.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
The sound, you know, just the watch the interviews.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, but I was I was thinking of it as
a movie, not porn. And so when I when I
first said to you, I wonder if it's on like
Amazon or Netflix. In my mind, I was thinking movie
on a streaming service on my television, right, because I
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don't watch television on my computer unless I just absolutely
have to, you know, like so anyway, so in my mind,
I'm thinking television TV streaming. And when I asked you
and you're acting like you know where to go see that,
but you won't tell me where, I'm like, why won't
he tell me what streaming TV thing to go watch?
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And then you kept saying internet. Well, I kept in
my mind I was thinking you were saying, go to
the internet and search and find the streaming service where
you could watch it. In my mind, I had the
word pornography at that point or x rated was not
even in my thinking. I was thinking of it as
a movie that I just wanted to check out. I
(03:57):
wasn't thinking I So unfortunately, I'm gonna have to admit, Yeah,
I can find porn on the Internet. I mean you
type in porn dot com and it's just you go
down the rat hole. So yeah, no, I can find
porn on the internet. That but it wasn't I and
I didn't realize that's what you were insinuating. In my mind.
I was still thinking movie on TV. So that's what
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I was like, Todd, tell me, like, why can't you
just tell me?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, let me ask you this. Did you go look
for it? Yeah, I couldn't find it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Well I found it on a porn website. Oh okay,
because I couldn't find it, Oh yeah I found it.
Yeah yeah, but I and I searched again and again.
It is definitely not on a streaming service, which I understand.
But I wasn't thinking that last week because but think
about and I don't have showtime and I don't have HBO.
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But it seems like fifteen twenty years ago when I did,
they used to show soft porn movies on them like
it late at night. Yeah, Skinemax. Yeah, so I just
I don't know. For some reason, I just thought maybe
there was a channel that would have had it on there.
But then then when I got home, I was like, oh,
Todd must have been in seen it. So yeah, so
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I found a porn site and sure enough it was
on the porn site. So did you watch it? I
watched like five minutes, just they're pretty cheesy.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I saw some clips, but I couldn't find the whole
movie anywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Oh yeah, you can order it from Amazon. You can
order the movie all over the place. And then there
is a deep Throat documentary which is is on a
lot of streaming services, so if you want to kind
of watch some of the behind the scenes. So to
clarify Dave, Yeah, I can find porn on the internet,
so I'm not as And then what did Steve say,
(05:47):
I'm not as pornoic. Yeah, I'm the porn deficit deficit
as Todd deficit pornotic, just pornotic, pornotic, So I'm as pornotic.
I could be as pornotic as to Steve if I
chose to move. So anyway, hope that clarifies my confusion,
and it wasn't odd. It was my confusion because I
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was in my mind it was like movie movie on
a movie channel, on a movie channel. Okay, so Dave
called he did? He actually did?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
He remembered this week he kind of called. He says, whatever.
We he had a suggestion for a show if he.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Wants us to do posts of the seventies, okay, Dave
for it. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
His first experience with the how do I say the
female body and it's all of his glory on and
photos was the nude volleyball magazines that they found in
his friend's basement.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
His friend's grandma's basement and grandma's So that means grandpa
must have been looking at nude volleyball. Yeah. They used
to do that on mash remember volleyball? Nud volleyball?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Oh really? Yeah, you don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It may have been in the movie. I bet it
was in the movie. Not that it's tight.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I didn't know there was. I didn't know there was
such a thing. Oh yeah, nude volleyball in the seventies.
Who knew?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Interesting?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And yes, Dave, it was the candy loving that my friend.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh yeah, okay, so yeah, to get into that did
you get any more information than that on candy? Candy?
She was very Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I was talking to the guys and they said she
was very quiet and didn't you but very beautiful.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah. So her name was Candace Loving American model. She
was a Playboy's Playmate of the Month for January seventy nine,
which made her the magazine's twenty fifth anniversary playmate. That's right,
that's like big time. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwyat
Dwight Hooker. Imagine that. So get this, Dave. She born
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in Oswego, Kansas, and moved to Ponca City, which is
where Kip lived. So that's why he went out with
her because they both lived in Ponca City at the
age of three with her mother and four siblings. She
graduated from Ponca City High School. I used to run
around with a lot of kids from Ponca City. In
seventy four, she married Ron Prather. She then enrolled in
public relations at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. In
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seventy eight, the Playboy magazine began a year long nationwide
Great Playmate Hunt for its twenty fifth anniversary. She was
a junior at OU and working in a dress shop
and as a waitress, saw the ad in the paper, applied.
Seven months later. The twenty two year old beat out
more than three thousand, five hundred other models. Her center
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Old came out in January of seventy nine. Da Da
Da Da da. Let's see. By eighty one, she realized
celeberty life was not for her, so at age twenty four,
she re enrolled at OU to finish her bachelor's degree
in journalism and later began a Master of Arts degree
in human relations. She's pretty hot, Todd, showing me picks.
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She used the money from her work at Ployboy at
Playboy to fund her studies, and she went on to
lead a regular life. So yeah, oh wow, she's hot.
She is hot from punka punka City, Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
With clothes on.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
She's hot, Dave, So come come to Oklahoma, Dave. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Kip was telling me that Facebook keeps suggesting her as
to be friends.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Really yeah, he's like my going to find I.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Was hoping to see pictures of her on Facebook anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, so there you go. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah. Yeah, they just went on one day though he
said nothing happened, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
But another it seems like all the big cool stuff.
There's always kind of an Oklahoma connection. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I like the Oklamo Boys concert. That was a big deal.
I guess it made probably made national news.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, we'll talk about that more over on bus Said Radio.
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Gretchen called Gratch and called, uh, I'm sorry, I remember
that we watched Ghost now.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I totally forgot about that. I just a lot of
her stuff will be over on Busshead Radio to.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Uh, pretty much the rest of it. I think all
of it is actually yeah, okay. Uh. Stephen san Antonio
called he reminded us of the Penthouse forum that people
used to ride and I used to like reading.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oh, it was hilarious. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
And he's the one that coined the phrase poor.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Not And he did say we kept the episode classy.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Which was kind of our as we tried.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, and he was cracking up at you and me
doing our little dance.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And Larry from Washington called, Hey, Larry, he has some
male for some guy named.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Whacker had his wing from the universe. From the universe.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
He was a freshman in high school. First time he
found the girly magazines and his friend's camper.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
A camper one of those that's kind of just sitting
out by the house that you hang out in every
now and then.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, so the spend the night in their friends camper.
I think that's all of the call ins coverying there,
except we'll get catch Gretchens up. Bus it great?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Okay, and here's the big one. Are you guys ready?
Jeffrey sent it in. Hello Jeffrey, here, how is your easter?
My easter was bittersweet. I'm gonna start out with a
little bad news. Food was delicious, mass delightful, and the
weather more so. However, I got terrible news.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
To inn.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'm gonna say, Ton, one of my best friends who
gave me his sixties and seventies LP record collection that's
a big deal, had a stroke and he's now paralyzed.
As you might imagine, that puts a wrench on any
merry moment. So sorry to hear that, jeff We Oh
that sucks, yeah, he says. Anyway, thank you for finally
delivering the much awaited seventies pornography episode. As you guessed correctly,
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I have indeed seen all of the movies you mentioned.
Most of them are very funny, more than really erotic,
and that's the draw of the seventies porn. It has
a story, and it has lots of fun. It is
Mary porn, not like today. Porn stars during the seventies
were also much less fake and more girl next door
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than porn stars today, and much more natural. Today's porn
stars are also as bald as a newborn baby between
their legs, which might be more hygienic, but also looks
childish and plasticish to me.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I hope the letters I sent to my Amazon friends
have found their way by American friends have found their
way by now, especially black Letter to Sweet Julie and
Beautiful Green with Gold Rimmed from mister Staton Petty John.
They were written with much joy. Mind you, almost all
my letters are sincerely yours Jeffrey. So I think we
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got the seal of approval.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
All right, good job, diff So there we go.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And he did send me links to every movie mentioned
and they are all on porn sites. Okay, so if
anybody's looking, I'll forward it to you. Let me know.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, yeah, it's Nether're not hard to find, well except
I can't find Deep Throat. But I didn't really want
to watch it. I just want to see if I
could find it anyway.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
That's out there.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Okay, anyway, Okay, are we even easy for me to say?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah? So this week's episode, you know, we never talked
about sports because we kind of we did one episode
on sports and got blasted. Yeah, that was kind of
I think. I think that's what kind of led into
our having to do the intro of Hey, we are
not a history podcast sports podcast. Yeah, but we are
going to attempt uh, we're going to scratch the surface
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of sports.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I got some gold man somewhat. I got some gold
oh you do.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah? And I got none of my information on the internet.
Oh really? Yeah? You know where I got it? Where? Where?
Come on AI? Now? Not at the internet? Oh the warehouse?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Warehouse Yeah okay, Gretchen screaming warehouse.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So Paul every Monday, he's like, so, what's the show
about the borrow? And I was like, you know, I
don't know. So it's text you real quick, and it is.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And then.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I started I started having to put it down on
my phone, so I got a whole bunch of notes
and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, So I was thinking, I don't know what I
was thinking. It popped in my head. Doctor J had
popped into my head. But so, so what we're gonna
be talking about tonight is sports nicknames. I don't want
to say from the seventies. Names of the seventies.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You said nicknames? Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh, what do you think? I said?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Hey, I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
What did you do? Is a podcast episode on hang on,
where're you at? What did I say?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I don't know? Let's tackle sports memory biggus sports nicknames, teams, individuals,
et cetera. So, yeah, you had nick in there, but teams, individuals?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Wou'd you do it on sports stuff? It's all sports? No, okay, yeah, no, no,
it's gonna be sports related. So anyway, what I was
going to say is not everything originated in the seventies,
but the players or the teams were popular to us
in the seventies. Right now, some of them, some of
the names were kind of cool from the sixties. Yeah,
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there was a few kind of cool in the early
early eighties, but the best and it was I think
I read somewhere that it was the golden age of
sports knicks names was in the seventies. And why why
is that, mister.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Wheedlers, Because they didn't know to ben.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Oh, I'm gonna be curious as to what you're going
to talk about.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I got it, I got I got some trivia. Oh
blasted out, I get a trivia question. It's just just
just skidd it out.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
So these are from the boys at the in the warehouse.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah okay, so where it go? Okay, this is a
trivia question. You guys got all in?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Nah? Which you can five eighth five four one three
eight oh five?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah? Yeah? Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Who who used to be known as Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Junior,
a famous sports figure from the seventies, very famous.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I know that one? You do? I didn't know them.
I think everybody knows how I didn't know that. Oh
well you don't. You don't like the NBA and you
don't do some clues. I think everybody. I think everybody
knows that. Really. Yeah, but we'll see what we'll give
you guys ten more seconds to call in. Phone's not ringing.
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But that's okay, it doesn't work that way. Are you
going to give him the answer? Are we gonna not.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Give him the answer?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Okay? So if you don't know, we're not going to
give you the answer. Okay, So real quick, this is
what caused this is why I started this. I got
the idea. I remember it must have been like the
first year of high school. Do you remember Bobby Williams,
Bobby Williams from here in town, williem school with uh
huh yeah, okay, So Bobby was a big NBA fan
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in junior high and high school. So he comes bopping
in one day just talking about Darryl Dawkins and Doctor
J and how Doctor J had dunked on Darryl Dawkins.
And I'm like, why are you what are you even
talking about? What's a Doctor J? And so that's that
was kind of my first introduction into nicknames and so
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so Doctor J was kind of my first big NBA
nickname guy. But Julius Winfield Irving, the second, also known
as Doctor J. Played He first played for the ABA
in the seventies, which was the American Basketball Association, and
then it later merged with the NBA and they all
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both together became the NBA after the seventy five seventy
six season. But as he was growing up in his
high school and college career, he was called the Doctor
and had that nickname all the way through college, and
then as he got into the NBA. He realized that
a whole bunch of other players were already calling themselves Doc,
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so he didn't want to be known as Doc. And
so one day he was talking to a trainer and
the trainer made him a unique name and said, you
should be doctor J.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
There you go, and the rest.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
They say is history. So that's how doctor J got
his name. I don't think I have any nicknames. I'll
just give him, so hit him with that's all I got.
That's what I guess. That's what I meant the episode
to be back. Hit him with other sports facts.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Or these are like memorable sports figures from the seventies, okay,
and some cool little factoids about him.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Remember Reggie Jackson, Uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, he played, He played, He was in We were
debating whether or not he played in the seventies, but
he did. He played seventy eighty. Started his childhood home
was being demolished this month.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Oh really, hang on real quick.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Remember, Bobby Riggs, what are you looking for.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It's gonna see if Reggie Jackson had a nickname. Did
Reggie Jackson have a nickname? We'll just tie this whole
show in together, Mister October so he did. Oh yeah,
so that's a big one.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Is an American professional baseball player who's out stage.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Okay, that's is that you or me?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Mister October?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I think that might have been you.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I didn't do it, Okay, you did anyway, you didn't
say the A word.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I know. But okay, weird, so mister October, Okay, go ahead.
So yeah, Bobby Riggs.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Bobby Riggs remember the Battle of the Sexes. I do
remember that he turned pro in forty one, forty two,
so he was old during the Battle of the Sexes
because that was in seventy three. He he joined the
what was it in the Navy. Yeah, he was in
the navy and he was job was to teach an
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admiral backhand to improve his backhand. And there was a
big controversy that he lost that big tennis match with
Billy Jean King.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yep, I don't battle the Battle of the Sexes.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I don't remember him being a big gambler, but I
guess he was. They say he bet on himself or
bet against.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Himself, bet against himself. Yeah, he probably threw that match,
or I think he had got whooped in probably.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
But yeah, they say he probably bet against himself.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Huh yeah. Here here's a few other NBA names from
the seventies. George the Iceman, Gervin Larry Special, k Keenan Artists,
The A Train Gilmore, and David the Skywalker Thompson Skywalker.
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Another big nickname in the seventies, probably one of the biggest,
is the steel Curtain. Do you know where the steel
curtain comes from? In Germany? Everybody's screaming at their device.
Todd doesn't know who the steel Curtain is. The steel
Curtain nickname for the defensive line of the seventies defensive
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unit of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I guess what what Bobby Rigs.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Had a nickname?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I was going to look that up, Rigsy or BBI
or Bobby Biolta.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Or loser loser.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
But he won because he made money an he did.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Let's see. The Steel Curtain was the backbone of the
Steelers dynasty, which won four Super Bowls in six years.
They began in seventy six. They were Let's see. The
Steelers began their seventy six season one in four and
lost their quarterback, won Terry Bradshaw for the nine games
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remaining in the season. The Steelers courted five shutouts, three
of them uninterrupted, and only allowed two touchdowns, both in
a single game, and five field goals. The defense allowed
an average of three point one points per game and
the team had an average margin victory of twenty two points.
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Eight of the Steelers starting eleven defensive players were selected
for the Pro Bowl, and four would be selected for
the Hall of Fame. The big four were men Joe Green,
Elsie Greenwood, Ernie Holmes, and Dwight White.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Dwight White, Dwight White.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yep. And so the name came from a play on
the phrase iron curtain popularized by the British British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill. Oh yeah. And then they had a contest,
I guess a radio station out of contest to name
the Pittsburgh defensive line. And they had seventeen people who
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submitted the Steel Curtain. So they had to draw a
name out of the seventeen, and a boy, Gregory Kranz,
ninth grader, was the one chosen to be the winner
of naming them the Steel Curtain.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
We don't yeah, okay, this isn't a nickname, but do
let me back up. Do you know who Vinco bogotas
is Bogatta, Bogotta b O g A T A J.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
What was the first name again, vink v I n
k O vinkla I did don't.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
How about if I said Agony of Defeat that was
in the sixties, but we watched it in the seventies wide.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Older sports or dude that goes off the off the
high jump.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, yeah, that was his claim to fame.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, boy, that's a good video.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I always felt bad for that guy because that show
was on forever.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I think I remember him doing a like a mini
documentary on what really happened to him or how he
was doing, but I can't remember any of the facts
of it.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Well, that's funny, okay. So if you lived where we
lived in the seventies, of course the big team was
the Dallas Cowboys, because of course Oklahoma doesn't have a professional.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Football team football team and we never will.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And so the closest we had was the Dallas Cowboys,
and they were known as America's team. There you go,
America's team, and that was based off of a nineteen
seventy eight NFL Network highlight film and then their defense
in the sixties late sixties and the seventies, was nicknamed
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the Doomsday Defense after the franchise went to five Super
Bowl games. Oh so there you go, little little Dallas
Cowboys stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I think every one of these people have a nickname,
No that I talk. I think about it, like my
next guy.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Okay, Kareem abdul Jabbar. Oh that sounds familiar.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Did you do you know what his nickname was, Lou?
I thought it was being sneaky. I know it was
captain or cat I get. I don't know why didn't
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I don't think I knew that.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Another little interesting tidbit about Kareem abdul Jabbar. There was
a murder at his house. Uh, he bought do nick
wouldn't He didn't live there, but he he bought and
donated the house in January of nineteen seventy three to
the some Islamic thing, And there was a I think
it was like a religious motivated murder there at that
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really yeah, I don't remember that, but it was there.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Do you remember his house burned down too? At one
point everything that he owned was burned. And then I
think we've mentioned this before if we haven't, then he
moved to Enid, Oklahoma and was the captain of the
Oklahoma Storm basketball team. Here it Enid, Oklahoma. Forgot about that? Yeah,
so how odd was that to see Kareem strolling around Enid, Oklahoma?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yea, the dude was tall. You know.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You know why they changed their name him and Cassius
Clay to do not go to war? So here speaking
of Cassius Clay. Before changing his name to Muhammad Ali,
Cassius Clay was widely known as the Lewisville Lip Louisville Louisville,
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the nickname that reflected his confident and boastful persona, especially
when talking about his boxing abilities. This nickname stuck with
him during his early career and was a point of
discussion even after he became a Globe Well icon. Do
you remember another boxer name Thomas Hearns Thomas Hitman. There
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you go, hit Man. He was also known as the
Motor City of Cobra and he was a professional boxer
from seventy seven to two thousand and six. His claim
to fame was back when him and Sugar Ray Leonard
used to battle back and forth.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yeah, okay, I got a little interesting factoid, but this
is a twofer Tom Landry, whose nickname was the Plastic Man.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Really didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And Bear Bryant, well, Bear was his nickname. What was
his first Israel name? Remember Bear Bryant? Not really Bear,
is it?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
It don't matter. I'm trying to think. No.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
You know how they were famous for their hats. They
would not wear their hats and when they played in
in like a indoor stadium. Yeah, I don't I've ever
seen Tom Andrew that his hat. But anyway, interesting that interesting?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah? Well, speaking of football, body's good to me? Can
you imagine what the Minnesota Vikings dominant defense in the
late sixties and early sevens was called. Their uniforms were purple?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Oh, the Purple Eating People Leaders.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, the Purple People Leaders. The nickname derived from the
nineteen fifty eight novelty song The Purple People Eater, became
synonymous with their fearsome reputation. Their core membership was Jim Marshall,
Allen Page, Carl Eller, and Gary Larson. Not the Gary
Larson that drew the far side.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Okay, how about Don Meredith, Dandy Andy Dandy down Dandy Don.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, he did like the Party's over.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
He's famous for singing that on Monther The Night Football,
which he colosed with Keith Jackson and Howard Cosat Jackson. Yeah,
he played for He played for Dallas in the sixties.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Well, I really miss Howard Cosell.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
That voice was, yeah, very distinct. So, oh, Jay, did
you really kill that lady? And her boyfriend was her
boyfriend by the way, they were just friends.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah, I always thought that was her boyfriend acquaintances. I
think had they not been murdered, that he might asked
her out.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
You never know, yeah, I mean, you never know, could
have had a little on Goldman's flating ring around.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah. How about a guy named Joseph William Namath. Oh yeah,
remember his nickname?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Uh was it Smoking Joe?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
It was Broadway Joe Broadway Joe Broadway Joe, American football
player played for the American Football League and then later
the National Football League for thirteen seasons. Spit the majority
of his career at the New York Jets. Let's see,
so when he first was in the NFL, and some
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guys figured they would go uptown in New York because
where they came from, the lights were uptown. So Nameath
told that story of Sports Illustrated. Naturally, we went uptown
and they found Broadway. Upon their arrival, Namath and his
friends were astounded by the lights and sounds of Broadway
all of the action going on there. Namath said, it
was theater rush our time in the evening, and people
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were looking around seeing what the heck was going on
because they had all those lights on, because Sports Illustrated
was doing a story on them. The lights that Namath
speak of were for the Sports Illustrated photoshoot that landed
Nameath on the cover of the magazine. Back in those days,
rookies weren't supposed to get much attention, much less find
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themselves on the cover of Sports Illustrated. He said, we
were out practicing at Shay Stadium, came off the field
into the locker room, and there was Sports Illustrated on
everybody's stools with him on the cover. While some of
the veterans on the Jets did not take too kindly
to the magazine cover, offensive tackle Sherman Plunkett had a
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reaction that landed Nameth with a nickname that would stick
with him forever. Plunkett sitting over there looking at this
thing straight across the locker room, Namas said, I look
at him He looks at me and a big smile
breaks out on his face and he says, old Broadway, Broadway, Joe,
there you go. And that's where the name came from.
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What about George George Foreman, the the uh, the George
Forman Grill Grill. Yeah, he had nicknamed do you know
that he? Uh, he named almost all I guess he
named all his sons George Foreman.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, we talked about that.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Did he did he name his daughters George? I don't
think the daughters, hope not. What was George's nickname? George
the dad? Yeah, big George, Big George, Big George.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You know what? He almost didn't get the George Foreman
a Grill deal?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Oh really? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
So he and Hulk Hogan shared the same agent. The
agent actually called Hulk Hogan first. Hulk Hogan didn't answer
the phone. Oh, and so he calls his next guy
out his list, which was George Forman, and George Forman
became a go bazillionaire.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I was just say, I wonder how much money George
made off that deal.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I heard it's like hundreds of millions of dollars. Sweet. Yeah,
So I watched an interview with Hulk on one of
the late night shows. I don't know if it was
Conan or whatever. It was just been a while back,
it's been it was older one, it must have been. Anyway,
it doesn't matter talking about that, like, yeah, he goes, yeah,
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he goes. I can't remember what he said he was doing.
He's taking a shower or something, but I'd have been
mad at my agent if he didn't call again or
try again.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
The Hulk Hogan grill.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
So he wound up doing a he didn't get to
do a grill. He did a blender or something like that,
and he goes it socked.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So anyway, you know he he's got his own beer now, Cogan. Yeah,
he's like out promoting beer now go yeah. How about
Charles Edward Joseph Green. Mean Joe Green, better known as
Mean Joe Green, six three and seventy pound tackle, acquired
his nickname in reference to his school's nickname, The Texas
(33:20):
North Texas State University, home of the Mean Green. Short
of State went oh yeah, I remember. Green played defensive
tackle for North Texas. The Mean Green posted a twenty
three and five and one record. There you go.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Remember Emerson Fittipaldi. Uh, yeah, not football, this is racing one.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
How's I say?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, yeah, he had a nickname, he actually had two
that was Emo or Ratto.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
That's Portuguese for mouse.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I don't know why, but there was a funny story
about so back then, when you would win a big
car race or whatever, you know, if it was like televised,
I guess because usually they gave you champagne, you know,
and he scored anything that or you drink the champagne.
But if it's televised, they didn't want to do that
because they didn't.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Want Is that where they started drinking milk?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah? Okay, yeah, orange juice and milk. Yeah. Interesting, Yeah,
that's where they came from.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
How about Billy White Shoes Johnson.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Billy why Shoes Johnson Basketball.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Blazing Billy White Shoes Johnson Note Football seventy three NCAA
Football Guide had let's see say before the season he
had nine point five speed white football shoes and an
end zone touchdown dance. He earned the nickname Blazon Billy
White Shoes Johns. So he was kind of one of
the first guys. He was He would do the chicken
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dance in the end zone after he's so he kind
of started the whole dancing in the end zone thing.
Back in high school, a friend dared him to wear
white shoes to football camp because their coach was really grumpy,
and of course all players back then were black shoes,
and so he took the dare and never never wore
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anything but white shoes.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Again, that's all. I wears white chin of shoes. I can't.
I can't wear black kin of shoes.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, so that's where he got it.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Okay, how about uh, how about we haven't don any
baseball yet?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Well, yeah we did, No, I it seems like I
don't know. Go ahead, Pete Rose right here on my
list from Oklahoma right Uh banger, No Pete Rose. I'm
trying to think. Are you thinking of Johnny? I think
Johnny Bench? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Uh, Pete Rose had nickname he did Charlie Hustle.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Charlie Hustle. I don't remember these, Oh you don't, well,
I don't know if he didn't watch them. I mean, yeah,
Charlie Hustle played for the Cincinnati Reds. They think the
origins of that nickname are fuzzy, they say, but they
think it came from Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford. Of
the New York Yankees, and they were basically they called
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him Charlie Hustle in a sarcastic way because he was
famous for stealing bases. So that's why they call him
Charlie Hustle. And then speaking of his team, the Cincinnati Reds,
they were known as in the seventies the Big Red Machine,
one of the greatest teams in MLB history, including future
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Hall of famers Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, and
Pete Rose.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yeah, speaking of Johnny Bench, he had a nickname the Little.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
General, the Little General. Now he was from Oklahoma. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
One of his nicknames was the Banger Banger. Really yeah, apparently,
Baner's a really, really small town, but there's a lot
of signage that touts the fact that he was.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
It's funny when you hear it, because there'll be a
tornado warring and if you're in Binger right now, you
better get in your basement.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
He was also known as the Binger Kid. I don't
know why they do Binger Binger Banger is just kind
of fun to say.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yeah, now, one of the heart Now I didn't have
this written down, but it just popped into my head.
One of the Harlem Globetrotters was from cress And, Oklahoma.
He had a nickname Goose, Goose, Curly, Curly, the bald one.
Curly is from from Crescent. I think it was curly.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
I thought it was a goose.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I look it up anyway, one of those guys. How
about Kenny Stabler. Do you remember kenny'stabnake. The Snake played
for the National Football League for seventeen seasons, primarily with
the Oakland Raiders. He started his college career he played
at Alabama. Kenny was a zig zagging down the field
(38:06):
for a touchdown run one night and Brenda told the
al Friday Morning Kenny's father he was running like a snake,
and so that's where he got his nickname, running down
the field zigzagging.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
So it was it was Hubert Geese Osby Geese. Yeah,
from Crescent, Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
And that was in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Oh ye.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
So that group of Harlem Globe Trotters used to come
to Enid. Oh yeah a lot. I remember see him
like almost every year.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
It seems like it was a blast.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Yeah yeah. I mean that was like metal Arc Lemon
and that was like all of the dudes.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, I always felt sorry for that other team because
they never won the Washington Generals.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah. Yeah, Now here's a nickname of a play. It's
do you do you remember? The iMac reception was given
to a famous game winning touchdown scored by Pittsburgh Steeler
in the seventy two AFC Divisional playoff game against the
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Oakland Raiders. Franco Harris, a rookie running back, caught the
ball after it was deflected by Raiders safety Jack Tatum.
And there's a big, long story about about it, but anyway,
he basically caught it. At first, they didn't know if
it was deflected, so they had to look at it
and anyway, they ended up winning the game. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Remember Pete Pete Maravich. Oh yeah, he played for the
Atlanta Hawks. Pistol Pete was a pistol Pete sure enough
was his nickname. And of course Oj was Jews.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yeah, we got an episode on him. The seventy nine
to eighty Southern Methodist had the duo rushing of Eric
Dickerson and Craig James. They were known as the Pony
Express Express.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Did uh Yeah, Bruce Jenner, he had a nickname Bruce Jenner.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Bruce Jenner was known as.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
I don't know what Bruiser.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Oh really, Bruiser, Bruce Jenner. Yeah, I didn't remember that.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Yeah, he's a lot cuter now he used to be.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Yeah, I guess I don't know. I mean, if I
didn't know that was Bruce Jenner. He's not very attractive.
He's not man that guy.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Why did he do that?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Who knows. Pittsburgh Pirates of the mid seventies were known
as the Lumber Company because of their great hitting ability.
Oh I see that.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Buffalo Bill's offensive line of the mid seventies was nicknamed
the Electric In this here's what you just mentioned. They
were nicknamed the Electric Company for their because they were
always leading the way. For O. J. Simpson because he
turned on the juice. Yeah, okay, race car driving. Another one.
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Richard Petty, what do they call him? Richard Petty? Richard Petty?
What was Richard Petty's name? I can't think of it.
The King, Oh, the King, he was the King. How
about the Redskins from nineteen seventies known as the Over
the Hill Gang because many of the veterans. It was
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filled with veterans on the team. The average age of
a red Skins starter was thirty one. Oh really.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Starter?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Yeah, that's when they were tired.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
Now, I know. That's wild.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Miami Dolphins Super Bowl years, their defense was nicknamed the
no Name defense because players on the offense always received
all of the attention.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Now, I no, it's not Niclea's sport. But in chess, oh,
Bobby Fisher, you know what they called him? He had
shuttle nicknames. No, the boy Robot, the corduroy killer, or
the bad boy of chess.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
The corduroy killer. I don't know. That's interesting. I wonder
if the Russian dude worked corduroy all the time.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Maybe. Apparently there was a big match on TV. I
don't remember it. The guys whare House were like, oh yeah,
everybody watched that.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah, I think I remember it. I don't remember it.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
I guess he won, didn't he?
Speaker 1 (42:34):
I think he did?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah? Yeah, well, you know sure.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
The Broncos defense of the nineteen seventies was nicknamed the
Orange Crush after the color o, the jerseys, and the
soft drink. Walter Payton, Walter Peyton. You know, I didn't
look that one up.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
But Sweetness, sweetness, yeah yeah, played for the Bears for
thirteen seasons back when the guys stuck with their teams.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
It's probably because he was so sweet.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Hey, he was sweety.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Uh. Don Correl's offense with the San Diego Chargers from
seventy eight to eighty six was nicknamed Air Correl after
its coach and the pass first approach about hockey hockey. Oh, yeah,
the great one. The Philadelphia Flyers from seventy two to
seventy eight were nicknamed the Broad Street Bullies after their
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physical play.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Bob Buker, Bob Bucker.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Bob Bob, Bob, Bob Buker. He was in a bunch
of movies.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Yeah, I'm trying to think of what his nickname was though.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Oh you'll know, you'll excuse me, pardon me.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
That was rude.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
That was my club savwig talking mister baseball.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Mister baseball. That's right. Yeah, how are we doing on time?
I was getting closed. We're getting really close. See the
Seattle Socks. Seattle Seahawks backfield was known as the Legion
of Boom, legiond of Boom.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Squeeze.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
A few more in here. Let's see the Ron Jaworski
of the Philadelphia Eagles back in the day. He was
known as the Polish rifle, Polish rifle Tennis. How about
John McEnroe, Oh, bad, bad boy, bad bad somewhere that
kind of.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
What was his nickname, super Brat Brat that super brat,
super brat.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
That's right, you got that from a British from the
British press. Now, I'm not sure these were on this list.
Was did Barkley play in the seventies, Charles Barkley? Yeah, Mailman,
round Man of Rebound.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
I thought he was.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
I thought he was Mailman. I'm not sure if he
might have also been, but he was. He was also
the round Mount of Rebound, but I don't remember him
Round Mound brown Hound. And then Elvin Hayes from the
Washington Bullets was known as the Big e. Irvin Magic
Johnson was Magic. I don't remember him being in the seventies,
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but I guess, yeah, I guess he was. Connie Hawkins
from the Philadelphia seventy six ers was known as the Hawk.
Sam Perkins from the New York Knicks was known as
Big Smooth. Kevin Garnett from the Minnesota Timberwolves was known
as the Big Ticket, and Tom Hammonds from the San
Antonio Spurs were known as dot parmonital Let's get to
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the chopper.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Okay, what was Larry's anker's nickname? Quick?
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Hurry who Larry's ankle? Larry Zonka? He was known as Kazonk.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Close Zonk, just Zonk.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
It could have been Ka.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
I don't know, I don't know, it was on it
was on though?
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Well okay, uh did I trying to think? Is there
there was a Miracle on ice? But that was basically
nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Miracle on ice.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Miracle on ice.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
That's a that's a.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
So that's what they called the them winning the game,
the miracle on ice. It was the nickname of.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
The beating the Riskies and at the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Yeah, uh yeah, okay, So anyway, that was uh some
of the highlight and of course we didn't get them all.
There was like a I didn't realize almost every stinking
person had a nickname.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
Yeah, so I think it did.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Actually we kind of covered hopefully the heavy hitters. But
if there was a player on your favorite team that
we missed out on, let us know, we'll mention it.
Or if I don't know, somebody some team in your
area has a cool nickname, we were known as the
Enid Planes and I still do so there was talk
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of changing that, but that gut.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
So our mascot, even though it's the plain I guess Plainsman,
is an Indian and so our mascot used to be
you almost always was somebody darker skinned.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Yeah, there's always a student, a senior who is the
mascot for the there used to be if they don't
do anymore, no, and he.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Would dress up in Indian headdress without a shirt on. Yeah,
actually had paint face. That was our mascot. No, they had.
They stopped back quite a few years back. Even though
we're still the Plainsman, we don't get to use the
so now like when they run out on the field,
it's a guy painted in blue. Oh yeah. So anyway, okay,
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Funky?
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White Boy? Well, white boy, you.
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Can't do anything nowadays without somebody getting text off. That
grumpy dude in a truck?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Were you a lollygagon in the wrong lane?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I was in I was in city limits most of
the time.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I mean he didn't anyway. Yeah, uh, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh, and Ruggridge and and and I saw uh coming
back from the city last night there was a high
patrolman in the left lane all the way from Dover
to Hennessy.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Well they do that because you're not supposed to be
in the left lane except to pass, and if you're passing,
your speeding. So he makes sure nobody speeds or passes.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
There's dozens and people do it all the time on
eighty one. Anyway, Hey, welcome to his Shoondies Wife podcast.
Oh my.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Episod, What did you say exactly? Hey, everybody hit us
up at five eighth five four one three eighth five
or buzz buzzidmedia dot com. We got we got a
decent amount of feedback on last week's exciting poor episode. Yeah,
we kind of figured we would. But so before we
(02:04):
get into anything, let me let me explain last week's episode. Okay,
So here was the deal. I had a mindset going on,
and I had that so it was the same thing
when Gretchen texted me. In my mind, I was reading
that Gretchen was wanting to call and talk to me,
(02:26):
when it was she was wanting me to talk to
her son, and I just wasn't. I had already gotten
in my mind that was her. So last week, in
my mind, I was thinking, Okay, Deep Throat is a
significant movie of the seventies. I would like to see it,
but like to see what the acting, the lighting.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
The sound, you know, just the watch the interviews.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, but I was I was thinking of it as
a movie, not porn. And so when I when I
first said to you, I wonder if it's on like
Amazon or Netflix. In my mind, I was thinking movie
on a streaming service on my television, right, because I
(03:12):
don't watch television on my computer unless I just absolutely
have to, you know, like so anyway, so in my mind,
I'm thinking television TV streaming. And when I asked you
and you're acting like you know where to go see that,
but you won't tell me where, I'm like, why won't
he tell me what streaming TV thing to go watch?
(03:36):
And then you kept saying internet. Well, I kept in
my mind I was thinking you were saying, go to
the internet and search and find the streaming service where
you could watch it. In my mind, I had the
word pornography at that point or x rated was not
even in my thinking. I was thinking of it as
a movie that I just wanted to check out. I
(03:57):
wasn't thinking I So unfortunately, I'm gonna have to admit, Yeah,
I can find porn on the Internet. I mean you
type in porn dot com and it's just you go
down the rat hole. So yeah, no, I can find
porn on the internet. That but it wasn't I and
I didn't realize that's what you were insinuating. In my mind.
I was still thinking movie on TV. So that's what
(04:20):
I was like, Todd, tell me, like, why can't you
just tell me?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, let me ask you this. Did you go look
for it? Yeah, I couldn't find it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Well I found it on a porn website. Oh okay,
because I couldn't find it, Oh yeah I found it.
Yeah yeah, but I and I searched again and again.
It is definitely not on a streaming service, which I understand.
But I wasn't thinking that last week because but think
about and I don't have showtime and I don't have HBO.
(04:50):
But it seems like fifteen twenty years ago when I did,
they used to show soft porn movies on them like
it late at night. Yeah, Skinemax. Yeah, so I just
I don't know. For some reason, I just thought maybe
there was a channel that would have had it on there.
But then then when I got home, I was like, oh,
Todd must have been in seen it. So yeah, so
(05:12):
I found a porn site and sure enough it was
on the porn site. So did you watch it? I
watched like five minutes, just they're pretty cheesy.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I saw some clips, but I couldn't find the whole
movie anywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Oh yeah, you can order it from Amazon. You can
order the movie all over the place. And then there
is a deep Throat documentary which is is on a
lot of streaming services, so if you want to kind
of watch some of the behind the scenes. So to
clarify Dave, Yeah, I can find porn on the internet,
so I'm not as And then what did Steve say,
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I'm not as pornoic. Yeah, I'm the porn deficit deficit
as Todd deficit pornotic, just pornotic, pornotic, So I'm as pornotic.
I could be as pornotic as to Steve if I
chose to move. So anyway, hope that clarifies my confusion,
and it wasn't odd. It was my confusion because I
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was in my mind it was like movie movie on
a movie channel, on a movie channel. Okay, so Dave
called he did? He actually did?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
He remembered this week he kind of called. He says, whatever.
We he had a suggestion for a show if he.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Wants us to do posts of the seventies, okay, Dave
for it. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
His first experience with the how do I say the
female body and it's all of his glory on and
photos was the nude volleyball magazines that they found in
his friend's basement.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
His friend's grandma's basement and grandma's So that means grandpa
must have been looking at nude volleyball. Yeah. They used
to do that on mash remember volleyball? Nud volleyball?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Oh really? Yeah, you don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It may have been in the movie. I bet it
was in the movie. Not that it's tight.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I didn't know there was. I didn't know there was
such a thing. Oh yeah, nude volleyball in the seventies.
Who knew?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Interesting?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And yes, Dave, it was the candy loving that my friend.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh yeah, okay, so yeah, to get into that did
you get any more information than that on candy? Candy?
She was very Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I was talking to the guys and they said she
was very quiet and didn't you but very beautiful.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah. So her name was Candace Loving American model. She
was a Playboy's Playmate of the Month for January seventy nine,
which made her the magazine's twenty fifth anniversary playmate. That's right,
that's like big time. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwyat
Dwight Hooker. Imagine that. So get this, Dave. She born
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in Oswego, Kansas, and moved to Ponca City, which is
where Kip lived. So that's why he went out with
her because they both lived in Ponca City at the
age of three with her mother and four siblings. She
graduated from Ponca City High School. I used to run
around with a lot of kids from Ponca City. In
seventy four, she married Ron Prather. She then enrolled in
public relations at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. In
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seventy eight, the Playboy magazine began a year long nationwide
Great Playmate Hunt for its twenty fifth anniversary. She was
a junior at OU and working in a dress shop
and as a waitress, saw the ad in the paper, applied.
Seven months later. The twenty two year old beat out
more than three thousand, five hundred other models. Her center
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Old came out in January of seventy nine. Da Da
Da Da da. Let's see. By eighty one, she realized
celeberty life was not for her, so at age twenty four,
she re enrolled at OU to finish her bachelor's degree
in journalism and later began a Master of Arts degree
in human relations. She's pretty hot, Todd, showing me picks.
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She used the money from her work at Ployboy at
Playboy to fund her studies, and she went on to
lead a regular life. So yeah, oh wow, she's hot.
She is hot from punka punka City, Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
With clothes on.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
She's hot, Dave, So come come to Oklahoma, Dave. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Kip was telling me that Facebook keeps suggesting her as
to be friends.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Really yeah, he's like my going to find I.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Was hoping to see pictures of her on Facebook anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, so there you go. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah. Yeah, they just went on one day though he
said nothing happened, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
But another it seems like all the big cool stuff.
There's always kind of an Oklahoma connection. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I like the Oklamo Boys concert. That was a big deal.
I guess it made probably made national news.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, we'll talk about that more over on bus Said Radio.
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Gretchen called Gratch and called, uh, I'm sorry, I remember
that we watched Ghost now.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I totally forgot about that. I just a lot of
her stuff will be over on Busshead Radio to.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Uh, pretty much the rest of it. I think all
of it is actually yeah, okay. Uh. Stephen san Antonio
called he reminded us of the Penthouse forum that people
used to ride and I used to like reading.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oh, it was hilarious. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
And he's the one that coined the phrase poor.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Not And he did say we kept the episode classy.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Which was kind of our as we tried.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, and he was cracking up at you and me
doing our little dance.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And Larry from Washington called, Hey, Larry, he has some
male for some guy named.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Whacker had his wing from the universe. From the universe.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
He was a freshman in high school. First time he
found the girly magazines and his friend's camper.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
A camper one of those that's kind of just sitting
out by the house that you hang out in every
now and then.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, so the spend the night in their friends camper.
I think that's all of the call ins coverying there,
except we'll get catch Gretchens up. Bus it great?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Okay, and here's the big one. Are you guys ready?
Jeffrey sent it in. Hello Jeffrey, here, how is your easter?
My easter was bittersweet. I'm gonna start out with a
little bad news. Food was delicious, mass delightful, and the
weather more so. However, I got terrible news.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
To inn.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'm gonna say, Ton, one of my best friends who
gave me his sixties and seventies LP record collection that's
a big deal, had a stroke and he's now paralyzed.
As you might imagine, that puts a wrench on any
merry moment. So sorry to hear that, jeff We Oh
that sucks, yeah, he says. Anyway, thank you for finally
delivering the much awaited seventies pornography episode. As you guessed correctly,
(11:54):
I have indeed seen all of the movies you mentioned.
Most of them are very funny, more than really erotic,
and that's the draw of the seventies porn. It has
a story, and it has lots of fun. It is
Mary porn, not like today. Porn stars during the seventies
were also much less fake and more girl next door
(12:16):
than porn stars today, and much more natural. Today's porn
stars are also as bald as a newborn baby between
their legs, which might be more hygienic, but also looks
childish and plasticish to me.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I hope the letters I sent to my Amazon friends
have found their way by American friends have found their
way by now, especially black Letter to Sweet Julie and
Beautiful Green with Gold Rimmed from mister Staton Petty John.
They were written with much joy. Mind you, almost all
my letters are sincerely yours Jeffrey. So I think we
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got the seal of approval.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
All right, good job, diff So there we go.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And he did send me links to every movie mentioned
and they are all on porn sites. Okay, so if
anybody's looking, I'll forward it to you. Let me know.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, yeah, it's Nether're not hard to find, well except
I can't find Deep Throat. But I didn't really want
to watch it. I just want to see if I
could find it anyway.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
That's out there.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Okay, anyway, Okay, are we even easy for me to say?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah? So this week's episode, you know, we never talked
about sports because we kind of we did one episode
on sports and got blasted. Yeah, that was kind of
I think. I think that's what kind of led into
our having to do the intro of Hey, we are
not a history podcast sports podcast. Yeah, but we are
going to attempt uh, we're going to scratch the surface
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of sports.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I got some gold man somewhat. I got some gold
oh you do.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah? And I got none of my information on the internet.
Oh really? Yeah? You know where I got it? Where? Where?
Come on AI? Now? Not at the internet? Oh the warehouse?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Warehouse Yeah okay, Gretchen screaming warehouse.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So Paul every Monday, he's like, so, what's the show
about the borrow? And I was like, you know, I
don't know. So it's text you real quick, and it is.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And then.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I started I started having to put it down on
my phone, so I got a whole bunch of notes
and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, So I was thinking, I don't know what I
was thinking. It popped in my head. Doctor J had
popped into my head. But so, so what we're gonna
be talking about tonight is sports nicknames. I don't want
to say from the seventies. Names of the seventies.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You said nicknames? Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh, what do you think? I said?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Hey, I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
What did you do? Is a podcast episode on hang on,
where're you at? What did I say?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I don't know? Let's tackle sports memory biggus sports nicknames, teams, individuals,
et cetera. So, yeah, you had nick in there, but teams, individuals?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Wou'd you do it on sports stuff? It's all sports? No, okay, yeah, no, no,
it's gonna be sports related. So anyway, what I was
going to say is not everything originated in the seventies,
but the players or the teams were popular to us
in the seventies. Right now, some of them, some of
the names were kind of cool from the sixties. Yeah,
(15:25):
there was a few kind of cool in the early
early eighties, but the best and it was I think
I read somewhere that it was the golden age of
sports knicks names was in the seventies. And why why
is that, mister.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Wheedlers, Because they didn't know to ben.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Oh, I'm gonna be curious as to what you're going
to talk about.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I got it, I got I got some trivia. Oh
blasted out, I get a trivia question. It's just just
just skidd it out.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
So these are from the boys at the in the warehouse.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah okay, so where it go? Okay, this is a
trivia question. You guys got all in?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Nah? Which you can five eighth five four one three
eight oh five?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah? Yeah? Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Who who used to be known as Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Junior,
a famous sports figure from the seventies, very famous.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I know that one? You do? I didn't know them.
I think everybody knows how I didn't know that. Oh
well you don't. You don't like the NBA and you
don't do some clues. I think everybody. I think everybody
knows that. Really. Yeah, but we'll see what we'll give
you guys ten more seconds to call in. Phone's not ringing.
(16:41):
But that's okay, it doesn't work that way. Are you
going to give him the answer? Are we gonna not.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Give him the answer?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Okay? So if you don't know, we're not going to
give you the answer. Okay, So real quick, this is
what caused this is why I started this. I got
the idea. I remember it must have been like the
first year of high school. Do you remember Bobby Williams,
Bobby Williams from here in town, williem school with uh
huh yeah, okay, So Bobby was a big NBA fan
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in junior high and high school. So he comes bopping
in one day just talking about Darryl Dawkins and Doctor
J and how Doctor J had dunked on Darryl Dawkins.
And I'm like, why are you what are you even
talking about? What's a Doctor J? And so that's that
was kind of my first introduction into nicknames and so
(17:29):
so Doctor J was kind of my first big NBA
nickname guy. But Julius Winfield Irving, the second, also known
as Doctor J. Played He first played for the ABA
in the seventies, which was the American Basketball Association, and
then it later merged with the NBA and they all
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both together became the NBA after the seventy five seventy
six season. But as he was growing up in his
high school and college career, he was called the Doctor
and had that nickname all the way through college, and
then as he got into the NBA. He realized that
a whole bunch of other players were already calling themselves Doc,
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so he didn't want to be known as Doc. And
so one day he was talking to a trainer and
the trainer made him a unique name and said, you
should be doctor J.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
There you go, and the rest.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
They say is history. So that's how doctor J got
his name. I don't think I have any nicknames. I'll
just give him, so hit him with that's all I got.
That's what I guess. That's what I meant the episode
to be back. Hit him with other sports facts.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Or these are like memorable sports figures from the seventies, okay,
and some cool little factoids about him.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Remember Reggie Jackson, Uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, he played, He played, He was in We were
debating whether or not he played in the seventies, but
he did. He played seventy eighty. Started his childhood home
was being demolished this month.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Oh really, hang on real quick.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Remember, Bobby Riggs, what are you looking for.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It's gonna see if Reggie Jackson had a nickname. Did
Reggie Jackson have a nickname? We'll just tie this whole
show in together, Mister October so he did. Oh yeah,
so that's a big one.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Is an American professional baseball player who's out stage.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Okay, that's is that you or me?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Mister October?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I think that might have been you.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I didn't do it, Okay, you did anyway, you didn't
say the A word.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I know. But okay, weird, so mister October, Okay, go ahead.
So yeah, Bobby Riggs.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Bobby Riggs remember the Battle of the Sexes. I do
remember that he turned pro in forty one, forty two,
so he was old during the Battle of the Sexes
because that was in seventy three. He he joined the
what was it in the Navy. Yeah, he was in
the navy and he was job was to teach an
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admiral backhand to improve his backhand. And there was a
big controversy that he lost that big tennis match with
Billy Jean King.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yep, I don't battle the Battle of the Sexes.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I don't remember him being a big gambler, but I
guess he was. They say he bet on himself or
bet against.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Himself, bet against himself. Yeah, he probably threw that match,
or I think he had got whooped in probably.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
But yeah, they say he probably bet against himself.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Huh yeah. Here here's a few other NBA names from
the seventies. George the Iceman, Gervin Larry Special, k Keenan Artists,
The A Train Gilmore, and David the Skywalker Thompson Skywalker.
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Another big nickname in the seventies, probably one of the biggest,
is the steel Curtain. Do you know where the steel
curtain comes from? In Germany? Everybody's screaming at their device.
Todd doesn't know who the steel Curtain is. The steel
Curtain nickname for the defensive line of the seventies defensive
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unit of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I guess what what Bobby Rigs.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Had a nickname?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I was going to look that up, Rigsy or BBI
or Bobby Biolta.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Or loser loser.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
But he won because he made money an he did.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Let's see. The Steel Curtain was the backbone of the
Steelers dynasty, which won four Super Bowls in six years.
They began in seventy six. They were Let's see. The
Steelers began their seventy six season one in four and
lost their quarterback, won Terry Bradshaw for the nine games
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remaining in the season. The Steelers courted five shutouts, three
of them uninterrupted, and only allowed two touchdowns, both in
a single game, and five field goals. The defense allowed
an average of three point one points per game and
the team had an average margin victory of twenty two points.
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Eight of the Steelers starting eleven defensive players were selected
for the Pro Bowl, and four would be selected for
the Hall of Fame. The big four were men Joe Green,
Elsie Greenwood, Ernie Holmes, and Dwight White.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Dwight White, Dwight White.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yep. And so the name came from a play on
the phrase iron curtain popularized by the British British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill. Oh yeah. And then they had a contest,
I guess a radio station out of contest to name
the Pittsburgh defensive line. And they had seventeen people who
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submitted the Steel Curtain. So they had to draw a
name out of the seventeen, and a boy, Gregory Kranz,
ninth grader, was the one chosen to be the winner
of naming them the Steel Curtain.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
We don't yeah, okay, this isn't a nickname, but do
let me back up. Do you know who Vinco bogotas
is Bogatta, Bogotta b O g A T A J.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
What was the first name again, vink v I n
k O vinkla I did don't.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
How about if I said Agony of Defeat that was
in the sixties, but we watched it in the seventies wide.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Older sports or dude that goes off the off the
high jump.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, yeah, that was his claim to fame.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, boy, that's a good video.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I always felt bad for that guy because that show
was on forever.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I think I remember him doing a like a mini
documentary on what really happened to him or how he
was doing, but I can't remember any of the facts
of it.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Well, that's funny, okay. So if you lived where we
lived in the seventies, of course the big team was
the Dallas Cowboys, because of course Oklahoma doesn't have a professional.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Football team football team and we never will.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And so the closest we had was the Dallas Cowboys,
and they were known as America's team. There you go,
America's team, and that was based off of a nineteen
seventy eight NFL Network highlight film and then their defense
in the sixties late sixties and the seventies, was nicknamed
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the Doomsday Defense after the franchise went to five Super
Bowl games. Oh so there you go, little little Dallas
Cowboys stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I think every one of these people have a nickname,
No that I talk. I think about it, like my
next guy.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Okay, Kareem abdul Jabbar. Oh that sounds familiar.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Did you do you know what his nickname was, Lou?
I thought it was being sneaky. I know it was
captain or cat I get. I don't know why didn't
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I don't think I knew that.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Another little interesting tidbit about Kareem abdul Jabbar. There was
a murder at his house. Uh, he bought do nick
wouldn't He didn't live there, but he he bought and
donated the house in January of nineteen seventy three to
the some Islamic thing, And there was a I think
it was like a religious motivated murder there at that
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really yeah, I don't remember that, but it was there.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Do you remember his house burned down too? At one
point everything that he owned was burned. And then I
think we've mentioned this before if we haven't, then he
moved to Enid, Oklahoma and was the captain of the
Oklahoma Storm basketball team. Here it Enid, Oklahoma. Forgot about that? Yeah,
so how odd was that to see Kareem strolling around Enid, Oklahoma?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yea, the dude was tall. You know.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You know why they changed their name him and Cassius
Clay to do not go to war? So here speaking
of Cassius Clay. Before changing his name to Muhammad Ali,
Cassius Clay was widely known as the Lewisville Lip Louisville Louisville,
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the nickname that reflected his confident and boastful persona, especially
when talking about his boxing abilities. This nickname stuck with
him during his early career and was a point of
discussion even after he became a Globe Well icon. Do
you remember another boxer name Thomas Hearns Thomas Hitman. There
(27:09):
you go, hit Man. He was also known as the
Motor City of Cobra and he was a professional boxer
from seventy seven to two thousand and six. His claim
to fame was back when him and Sugar Ray Leonard
used to battle back and forth.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yeah, okay, I got a little interesting factoid, but this
is a twofer Tom Landry, whose nickname was the Plastic Man.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Really didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And Bear Bryant, well, Bear was his nickname. What was
his first Israel name? Remember Bear Bryant? Not really Bear,
is it?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
It don't matter. I'm trying to think. No.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
You know how they were famous for their hats. They
would not wear their hats and when they played in
in like a indoor stadium. Yeah, I don't I've ever
seen Tom Andrew that his hat. But anyway, interesting that interesting?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah? Well, speaking of football, body's good to me? Can
you imagine what the Minnesota Vikings dominant defense in the
late sixties and early sevens was called. Their uniforms were purple?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Oh, the Purple Eating People Leaders.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, the Purple People Leaders. The nickname derived from the
nineteen fifty eight novelty song The Purple People Eater, became
synonymous with their fearsome reputation. Their core membership was Jim Marshall,
Allen Page, Carl Eller, and Gary Larson. Not the Gary
Larson that drew the far side.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Okay, how about Don Meredith, Dandy Andy Dandy down Dandy Don.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, he did like the Party's over.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
He's famous for singing that on Monther The Night Football,
which he colosed with Keith Jackson and Howard Cosat Jackson. Yeah,
he played for He played for Dallas in the sixties.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Well, I really miss Howard Cosell.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
That voice was, yeah, very distinct. So, oh, Jay, did
you really kill that lady? And her boyfriend was her
boyfriend by the way, they were just friends.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah, I always thought that was her boyfriend acquaintances. I
think had they not been murdered, that he might asked
her out.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
You never know, yeah, I mean, you never know, could
have had a little on Goldman's flating ring around.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah. How about a guy named Joseph William Namath. Oh yeah,
remember his nickname?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Uh was it Smoking Joe?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
It was Broadway Joe Broadway Joe Broadway Joe, American football
player played for the American Football League and then later
the National Football League for thirteen seasons. Spit the majority
of his career at the New York Jets. Let's see,
so when he first was in the NFL, and some
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guys figured they would go uptown in New York because
where they came from, the lights were uptown. So Nameath
told that story of Sports Illustrated. Naturally, we went uptown
and they found Broadway. Upon their arrival, Namath and his
friends were astounded by the lights and sounds of Broadway
all of the action going on there. Namath said, it
was theater rush our time in the evening, and people
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were looking around seeing what the heck was going on
because they had all those lights on, because Sports Illustrated
was doing a story on them. The lights that Namath
speak of were for the Sports Illustrated photoshoot that landed
Nameath on the cover of the magazine. Back in those days,
rookies weren't supposed to get much attention, much less find
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themselves on the cover of Sports Illustrated. He said, we
were out practicing at Shay Stadium, came off the field
into the locker room, and there was Sports Illustrated on
everybody's stools with him on the cover. While some of
the veterans on the Jets did not take too kindly
to the magazine cover, offensive tackle Sherman Plunkett had a
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reaction that landed Nameth with a nickname that would stick
with him forever. Plunkett sitting over there looking at this
thing straight across the locker room, Namas said, I look
at him He looks at me and a big smile
breaks out on his face and he says, old Broadway, Broadway, Joe,
there you go. And that's where the name came from.
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What about George George Foreman, the the uh, the George
Forman Grill Grill. Yeah, he had nicknamed do you know
that he? Uh, he named almost all I guess he
named all his sons George Foreman.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, we talked about that.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Did he did he name his daughters George? I don't
think the daughters, hope not. What was George's nickname? George
the dad? Yeah, big George, Big George, Big George.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You know what? He almost didn't get the George Foreman
a Grill deal?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Oh really? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
So he and Hulk Hogan shared the same agent. The
agent actually called Hulk Hogan first. Hulk Hogan didn't answer
the phone. Oh, and so he calls his next guy
out his list, which was George Forman, and George Forman
became a go bazillionaire.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I was just say, I wonder how much money George
made off that deal.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I heard it's like hundreds of millions of dollars. Sweet. Yeah,
So I watched an interview with Hulk on one of
the late night shows. I don't know if it was
Conan or whatever. It was just been a while back,
it's been it was older one, it must have been. Anyway,
it doesn't matter talking about that, like, yeah, he goes, yeah,
(32:40):
he goes. I can't remember what he said he was doing.
He's taking a shower or something, but I'd have been
mad at my agent if he didn't call again or
try again.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
The Hulk Hogan grill.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
So he wound up doing a he didn't get to
do a grill. He did a blender or something like that,
and he goes it socked.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So anyway, you know he he's got his own beer now, Cogan. Yeah,
he's like out promoting beer now go yeah. How about
Charles Edward Joseph Green. Mean Joe Green, better known as
Mean Joe Green, six three and seventy pound tackle, acquired
his nickname in reference to his school's nickname, The Texas
(33:20):
North Texas State University, home of the Mean Green. Short
of State went oh yeah, I remember. Green played defensive
tackle for North Texas. The Mean Green posted a twenty
three and five and one record. There you go.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Remember Emerson Fittipaldi. Uh, yeah, not football, this is racing one.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
How's I say?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, yeah, he had a nickname, he actually had two
that was Emo or Ratto.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
That's Portuguese for mouse.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I don't know why, but there was a funny story
about so back then, when you would win a big
car race or whatever, you know, if it was like televised,
I guess because usually they gave you champagne, you know,
and he scored anything that or you drink the champagne.
But if it's televised, they didn't want to do that
because they didn't.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Want Is that where they started drinking milk?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah? Okay, yeah, orange juice and milk. Yeah. Interesting, Yeah,
that's where they came from.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
How about Billy White Shoes Johnson.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Billy why Shoes Johnson Basketball.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Blazing Billy White Shoes Johnson Note Football seventy three NCAA
Football Guide had let's see say before the season he
had nine point five speed white football shoes and an
end zone touchdown dance. He earned the nickname Blazon Billy
White Shoes Johns. So he was kind of one of
the first guys. He was He would do the chicken
(34:57):
dance in the end zone after he's so he kind
of started the whole dancing in the end zone thing.
Back in high school, a friend dared him to wear
white shoes to football camp because their coach was really grumpy,
and of course all players back then were black shoes,
and so he took the dare and never never wore
(35:18):
anything but white shoes.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Again, that's all. I wears white chin of shoes. I can't.
I can't wear black kin of shoes.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, so that's where he got it.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Okay, how about uh, how about we haven't don any
baseball yet?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Well, yeah we did, No, I it seems like I
don't know. Go ahead, Pete Rose right here on my
list from Oklahoma right Uh banger, No Pete Rose. I'm
trying to think. Are you thinking of Johnny? I think
Johnny Bench? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Uh, Pete Rose had nickname he did Charlie Hustle.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Charlie Hustle. I don't remember these, Oh you don't, well,
I don't know if he didn't watch them. I mean, yeah,
Charlie Hustle played for the Cincinnati Reds. They think the
origins of that nickname are fuzzy, they say, but they
think it came from Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford. Of
the New York Yankees, and they were basically they called
(36:14):
him Charlie Hustle in a sarcastic way because he was
famous for stealing bases. So that's why they call him
Charlie Hustle. And then speaking of his team, the Cincinnati Reds,
they were known as in the seventies the Big Red Machine,
one of the greatest teams in MLB history, including future
(36:35):
Hall of famers Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, and
Pete Rose.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yeah, speaking of Johnny Bench, he had a nickname the Little.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
General, the Little General. Now he was from Oklahoma. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
One of his nicknames was the Banger Banger. Really yeah, apparently,
Baner's a really, really small town, but there's a lot
of signage that touts the fact that he was.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
It's funny when you hear it, because there'll be a
tornado warring and if you're in Binger right now, you
better get in your basement.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
He was also known as the Binger Kid. I don't
know why they do Binger Binger Banger is just kind
of fun to say.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yeah, now, one of the heart Now I didn't have
this written down, but it just popped into my head.
One of the Harlem Globetrotters was from cress And, Oklahoma.
He had a nickname Goose, Goose, Curly, Curly, the bald one.
Curly is from from Crescent. I think it was curly.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
I thought it was a goose.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I look it up anyway, one of those guys. How
about Kenny Stabler. Do you remember kenny'stabnake. The Snake played
for the National Football League for seventeen seasons, primarily with
the Oakland Raiders. He started his college career he played
at Alabama. Kenny was a zig zagging down the field
(38:06):
for a touchdown run one night and Brenda told the
al Friday Morning Kenny's father he was running like a snake,
and so that's where he got his nickname, running down
the field zigzagging.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
So it was it was Hubert Geese Osby Geese. Yeah,
from Crescent, Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
And that was in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Oh ye.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
So that group of Harlem Globe Trotters used to come
to Enid. Oh yeah a lot. I remember see him
like almost every year.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
It seems like it was a blast.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Yeah yeah. I mean that was like metal Arc Lemon
and that was like all of the dudes.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, I always felt sorry for that other team because
they never won the Washington Generals.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah. Yeah, Now here's a nickname of a play. It's
do you do you remember? The iMac reception was given
to a famous game winning touchdown scored by Pittsburgh Steeler
in the seventy two AFC Divisional playoff game against the
(39:11):
Oakland Raiders. Franco Harris, a rookie running back, caught the
ball after it was deflected by Raiders safety Jack Tatum.
And there's a big, long story about about it, but anyway,
he basically caught it. At first, they didn't know if
it was deflected, so they had to look at it
and anyway, they ended up winning the game. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Remember Pete Pete Maravich. Oh yeah, he played for the
Atlanta Hawks. Pistol Pete was a pistol Pete sure enough
was his nickname. And of course Oj was Jews.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yeah, we got an episode on him. The seventy nine
to eighty Southern Methodist had the duo rushing of Eric
Dickerson and Craig James. They were known as the Pony
Express Express.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Did uh Yeah, Bruce Jenner, he had a nickname Bruce Jenner.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Bruce Jenner was known as.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
I don't know what Bruiser.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Oh really, Bruiser, Bruce Jenner. Yeah, I didn't remember that.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Yeah, he's a lot cuter now he used to be.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Yeah, I guess I don't know. I mean, if I
didn't know that was Bruce Jenner. He's not very attractive.
He's not man that guy.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Why did he do that?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Who knows. Pittsburgh Pirates of the mid seventies were known
as the Lumber Company because of their great hitting ability.
Oh I see that.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Buffalo Bill's offensive line of the mid seventies was nicknamed
the Electric In this here's what you just mentioned. They
were nicknamed the Electric Company for their because they were
always leading the way. For O. J. Simpson because he
turned on the juice. Yeah, okay, race car driving. Another one.
(41:08):
Richard Petty, what do they call him? Richard Petty? Richard Petty?
What was Richard Petty's name? I can't think of it.
The King, Oh, the King, he was the King. How
about the Redskins from nineteen seventies known as the Over
the Hill Gang because many of the veterans. It was
(41:28):
filled with veterans on the team. The average age of
a red Skins starter was thirty one. Oh really.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Starter?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Yeah, that's when they were tired.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
Now, I know. That's wild.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Miami Dolphins Super Bowl years, their defense was nicknamed the
no Name defense because players on the offense always received
all of the attention.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Now, I no, it's not Niclea's sport. But in chess, oh,
Bobby Fisher, you know what they called him? He had
shuttle nicknames. No, the boy Robot, the corduroy killer, or
the bad boy of chess.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
The corduroy killer. I don't know. That's interesting. I wonder
if the Russian dude worked corduroy all the time.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Maybe. Apparently there was a big match on TV. I
don't remember it. The guys whare House were like, oh yeah,
everybody watched that.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah, I think I remember it. I don't remember it.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
I guess he won, didn't he?
Speaker 1 (42:34):
I think he did?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah? Yeah, well, you know sure.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
The Broncos defense of the nineteen seventies was nicknamed the
Orange Crush after the color o, the jerseys, and the
soft drink. Walter Payton, Walter Peyton. You know, I didn't
look that one up.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
But Sweetness, sweetness, yeah yeah, played for the Bears for
thirteen seasons back when the guys stuck with their teams.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
It's probably because he was so sweet.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Hey, he was sweety.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Uh. Don Correl's offense with the San Diego Chargers from
seventy eight to eighty six was nicknamed Air Correl after
its coach and the pass first approach about hockey hockey. Oh, yeah,
the great one. The Philadelphia Flyers from seventy two to
seventy eight were nicknamed the Broad Street Bullies after their
(43:32):
physical play.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Bob Buker, Bob Bucker.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Bob Bob, Bob, Bob Buker. He was in a bunch
of movies.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Yeah, I'm trying to think of what his nickname was though.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Oh you'll know, you'll excuse me, pardon me.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
That was rude.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
That was my club savwig talking mister baseball.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Mister baseball. That's right. Yeah, how are we doing on time?
I was getting closed. We're getting really close. See the
Seattle Socks. Seattle Seahawks backfield was known as the Legion
of Boom, legiond of Boom.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Squeeze.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
A few more in here. Let's see the Ron Jaworski
of the Philadelphia Eagles back in the day. He was
known as the Polish rifle, Polish rifle Tennis. How about
John McEnroe, Oh, bad, bad boy, bad bad somewhere that
kind of.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
What was his nickname, super Brat Brat that super brat,
super brat.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
That's right, you got that from a British from the
British press. Now, I'm not sure these were on this list.
Was did Barkley play in the seventies, Charles Barkley? Yeah, Mailman,
round Man of Rebound.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
I thought he was.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
I thought he was Mailman. I'm not sure if he
might have also been, but he was. He was also
the round Mount of Rebound, but I don't remember him
Round Mound brown Hound. And then Elvin Hayes from the
Washington Bullets was known as the Big e. Irvin Magic
Johnson was Magic. I don't remember him being in the seventies,
(45:23):
but I guess, yeah, I guess he was. Connie Hawkins
from the Philadelphia seventy six ers was known as the Hawk.
Sam Perkins from the New York Knicks was known as
Big Smooth. Kevin Garnett from the Minnesota Timberwolves was known
as the Big Ticket, and Tom Hammonds from the San
Antonio Spurs were known as dot parmonital Let's get to
(45:46):
the chopper.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Okay, what was Larry's anker's nickname? Quick?
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Hurry who Larry's ankle? Larry Zonka? He was known as Kazonk.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Close Zonk, just Zonk.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
It could have been Ka.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
I don't know, I don't know, it was on it
was on though?
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Well okay, uh did I trying to think? Is there
there was a Miracle on ice? But that was basically
nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Miracle on ice.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Miracle on ice.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
That's a that's a.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
So that's what they called the them winning the game,
the miracle on ice. It was the nickname of.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
The beating the Riskies and at the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Yeah, uh yeah, okay, So anyway, that was uh some
of the highlight and of course we didn't get them all.
There was like a I didn't realize almost every stinking
person had a nickname.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
Yeah, so I think it did.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Actually we kind of covered hopefully the heavy hitters. But
if there was a player on your favorite team that
we missed out on, let us know, we'll mention it.
Or if I don't know, somebody some team in your
area has a cool nickname, we were known as the
Enid Planes and I still do so there was talk
(47:02):
of changing that, but that gut.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
So our mascot, even though it's the plain I guess Plainsman,
is an Indian and so our mascot used to be
you almost always was somebody darker skinned.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Yeah, there's always a student, a senior who is the
mascot for the there used to be if they don't
do anymore, no, and he.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Would dress up in Indian headdress without a shirt on. Yeah,
actually had paint face. That was our mascot. No, they had.
They stopped back quite a few years back. Even though
we're still the Plainsman, we don't get to use the
so now like when they run out on the field,
it's a guy painted in blue. Oh yeah. So anyway, okay,
(47:45):
let us know what your mascots were five eight oh five,
four one three eight oh five or buzz a Bustimmediate
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