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Bob Allen and Earl were good buddies from the "Luv Ya Blue" era. For the 10-year anniversary of the Renfro/Pittsburgh fiasco we ran around and interviewed a bunch of players and coaches from the team. I remember we were interviewing Earl and I recall he enjoyed hearing that a buddy of mine lived across the street from him on Candle Lane in Southwest Houston and that no one believes me when I tell them that Earl used to mow his own yard. Anyway, Bob was talking to Earl about Tim Wilson, his former fullback. Tim had some off the field issues and they were fairly well known by then. Earl started talking about vices and drugs/alcohol. Off the cuff Bob blurted out"what's your vice, Earl?" Without pause Earl simply gave a one-word reply referencing a part of female anatomy. Without being told I copied the video to another tape, left out that answer, and destroyed the original. Earl was family to Bob. There's a picture out there somewhere of Earl running into Bevo when he was at Texas. Well, Earl didn't actually run into Bevo. He ran into Buz Webb, who was a photographer for KHOU -11 at the time and our photographer for all my years at KTRK. The momentum carried Buz into Bevo. I remember Earl and Buz laughing about that every time I saw them together. Buz claimed Earl got all the accolades and that he took the worst of both Earl and Bevo, and that he preferred being hit by Bevo.

I will, or I should. My memory of that Bills loss is much different than most of us here. By then it was a job and a story. A sad story, but it was work. My one big recollection of that day was our weekend news anchor, Bob Boudreux, running up and down the hallway screaming about the "dogshit Oilers!" Tim Melton locked our office door so Boudreaux couldn't get in because Bob (who is a pretty intense dude anyway) was just bouncing off the walls, screaming, kicking and pounding at everything. He had already trashed his office and was banging on our door and Tim told him to "go away. We were busy." Boudreaux tried to break our door down. So, my memory of that day is Boudreaux screaming outside our office while I was editing and handing my tapes to the intern after he had crawled through the window to avoid Boudreaux. Also, our news producer made me put together a video for the close of the 10 pm. cast that night using the Mariah Carey song "Don't Want to Cry." That song would instantaneously dredge up memories of that day. Good times.

Too many to tell. When I was a producer at KTRK-13 I would go to the Oiler practice facility a couple of times a week during the season. Some memories include Jeff Alm pretending he was going to drive his Cadillac into the group of reporters/photogs interviewing Jack Pardee in the parking lot. Did a big fish-tail and sped off. He died right after that (I saw the autopsy report, so don't bother). I remember Ian Howfield crying after he got cut for missing a chip-shot in Washington. Saw Buddy Ryan and Kevin Gilbride's first altercation. Ray Childress got me kicked out of the facility one time for telling PR guy Chip Namias that I had told Ray to tell Chip to "get Jack's ass out here because was tired of waiting for him." Actually collected on a bet with Cody Carlson I had made several years before when he was at Baylor. We were at the same black-tie sorority event in Waco when he was quarterback there and I was a pup at Texas. He was trash talking at dinner and I had finally had enough. We bet on the Texas-BU game that year, and he actually remembered it when I brought it up later and paid up. I produced Ray Childress' show, and we also had Ernest Givins in studio every Sunday night after home games. They were both good dudes to work with, though Ray's wife (a UT Tri-Delt) was more pleasant to be around. Also did some of the "Off the Field" material and would go along to the players' homes to shoot interviews and b-roll. Bruce Matthews, Mike Munchak, Chris Dishman. When we would go over to the APC and would see Bud Adams' he would always say the same thing to Bob Allen every, single, time. "Hey, Allen. What marriage are you on now?" Then he would cackle as if it was the first time he ever said it. Adams had to have been the inspiration for the Judge in "The Natural." His office was in the basement of the APC, with no natural sunlight and the lights were always dim. I will also take partial credit in getting Jerry Glanville fired. The day after they lost to the Steelers in the playoffs I was sitting in the office while Bob was doing the six-o'clock and a guy calls from Intercontinental Airport to tell me that Glanville is sitting out there waiting on a flight to Atlanta. Within an hour I had a crew from our Atlanta affiliate on the way to the airport there, but only after Bob got on the phone and screamed at their anchor. That guy would not believe that the Falcons would interview, much less hire Glanville. He refused, but eventually caved. Glanville's face getting off the plane was priceless. He was caught and he knew it. We got the video via satellite about 10-minutes to 10 p.m., and Glanville had made the comment to the effect of he was happy to be there "because if you're not sleeping in Atlanta, you're just camping out." Bob was livid. He called Bud and played it for him over the phone and then went onset and just winged a 2-minute rant on what a piece of shit Glanville was and how he had dissed Houston, the Oilers, errybody. They fired Glanville the next day (or, had a mutual parting of the ways). Last story. After the Chiefs/Montana playoff loss I got fired for a couple of days. The station was being remodeled and the sports department was outside in a trailer. I had told the security guard to make sure the west side door by the heli-pad was unlocked so I could tapes to playback in time. About 5-minutes before Tim Melton (my favorite guy) went on at 10 p.m. I ran out of the trailer with ALL my tapes. Highlights Post-game. Everything. And, the door was locked. No one was coming. No one was answering the phone. So, I sat down on my ass and kicked in the bottom glass panel in and crawled through. Otherwise, our whole Sunday sportscast would have been Tim tap-dancing for five-minutes. The next day they brought me into the station manager's office, showed me the security tape, and fired me. On Wednesday Bob Allen (RIP) called me and told me to "get back here." I don't know what or how, but he and Tim went to bat for me. Two of the best human beings you could ever hope to meet.

Just get him some runs and let him do his thing.

Confucius say man who finger girl while she's on her period get caught red-handed.

I didn't say he was a "dumbass." I posted that I was repeating what I was told by people that had left the game. I didn't give enough of a sh*t to research it. Thanks for your misinterpretation though.

Nope; however, maybe I can help you with your reading comprehension “badge.” . I wasn’t at the game. I can only rely on and relay what I was told. Perhaps I should have gone over to the stadium to verify the score, but frankly there wasn’t enough of an interest in doing that.

Does Mt. Vernon have five wins to forfeit? I was passing through there on a Friday night in mid-September with my kid's Scout troop and the Dairy Queen was packed with folks that had bailed on the Canton game because Mt. Vernon was getting curb stomped.

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I believe the single greatest take-away from BOB was making ordinary guys like Bill Guarnere, Babe Hefron and Carwood Lipton household names. Lipton was my favorite character on the series, but he died a month after the original run on HBO. Post BOB I would check wildbillguarnere.com every so often looking for opportunities to meet and speak with other Easy Company members, but stopped checking when Guarnere died and the website was eventually taken down. His grandson's website is still up ginoguarnere.com . But, it has only a photo of an elderly Wild Bill and a brief summary of his death.

...and who has the back problems? No shite. It remains undefeated.

I love that slice back to the right just inside of the post simply for ripping the hearts out of those Steeler fans behind the goal post already celebrating wide-left. Greatness.

Torbush!

Shakey's was on the north side of Westheimer, just east of Hillcroft/Voss. Near where "Club No Minor" is. Antonio's was just south of Westheimer on Hillcroft. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

True. The loudest noise was always the squeak that Karl Willock's shoes would make when he would pull up just past midcourt to set the offense. I swear I saw him pull up on a three-on-one fast-break because Kaiser Bob was screaming at him to '"set up! set up!"

At least Charlie never had so many players quit that he had to pull a cheerleader off the sidelines to suit up. The good news was that you could go to a basketball game and literally sit anywhere you wanted to. Those were the days.

Interesting. Someone should have told the punt returner, Jitter Fields, who was standing about 20 yards behind Curry.

I thought they just did that for the Egg Bowl. Which is kind of cool. Hell, if we didn't already have more flair on our jerseys than a Chotskies' waitress I'd vote for a patch for Texas-ou every year. Golden Hat with "ou sucks" below it. Or, is that disrespectful to the rivalry? Need to call Urban.

Yes, because listing a player as "probable" or "doubtful" is an egregious violation of federal law. But, Bilbo's the best.

No shit. I was there. The clarification remains, he was not the punt returner.

Craig Curry was not the punt returner. I believe that was Jitter Fields. Curry was the upback.

They would get a ticker-tape parade.

SIAP, Yankees To Use Piggyback Starters In Playoffs SEP 18, 2019 7:48 AM The New York Yankees have dealt with a short-staffed rotation due to injuries and Aaron Boone plans to use piggyback starters and his key relief pitchers in the postseason. "We're going to be a little untraditional," Boone said. "The only one we might use as a traditional starter is [James] Paxton." The piggybacking method falls in the same family as teams using an "opener" or "bullpenning." https://baseball.realgm.com/wiretap/50868/Yankees-To-Use-Piggyback-Starters-In-Playoffs