OT Your NCAA Football Selection Committee Predictions

Obviously I'm somewhat biased but he was the greatest. What I would typically do when watching one of the Bulldogs' games was to turn on the TV game, turn down the volume of the network broadcast and listen to Munson doing the "play by play" on the radio at the same time with the volume turned way up.

 

Dude, when I was a teen...I did the same thing for Blazer games and The Schonz.

 

Me too. In my thirties.

 

I'm assuming that "Schonz" was the radio guy for Blazer's games?...was he around for Bill Walton?

 

I'm talking 1972-73. Thanks for the history lesson.

 

Absolutely And Jimmy Barnett. Hence. "Riiiiiip City!!"

 

I watched the program at 4 this afternoon and AB nailed it this am.

 

Those two are always duking it out for the higher ranking.

 

I highly dislike the Jazz (ever since the Brian Grant vs. Karl Malone days - see cool video, below, though...). I pretty much don't really like anything Utah, other than the beautiful scenery.

That said, I don't have a very good feeling about the Ducks, should they face Utah in the PAC-12 Championship. Not certain why....I just don't.

 

and in 72-73 majority of all games were only on the radio so not sure what TV broadcast you had to turn down.

 

The ones that were televised. May have been 74ish, not sure. My other fanatical habit was listening to Portland Buckaroos radio broadcasts under the bed sheets when I otherwise should have been sleeping.

Ahh...well.

 

Weren't they televised closed circuit at the Paramount then?

 

I remember going to the Paramount Theater in, like, January of '78. The mantra cry at the time was "40-8 by the All-Star break!!" We were playing Chicago and Lionel Hollins led a highly improbable (I mean, like, SUPER improbable) comeback win against the Norm Van Lier Bulls. Following the game....we all went streaming out of the building to the sound horns blaring up and down Broadway. It was almost as if we'd won the championship! Boy, dem were the days!

50-10....and then it all came crashing down with Walton's injury.


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https://www.oregonlive.com/behindblazersbeat/2010/03/trail_blazers_top_40_no_15_lio.html

In the 1978 season, Hollins twice beat the Bulls in heartbreaking fashion, including playing a key role in what is widely considered the best Blazers comeback ever.

Trailing the Bulls by four points at Memorial Coliseum, Portland scored with 16 seconds left to cut the lead to two and set the stage for Hollins.

After a timeout, Chicago inbounded at halfcourt, where Hall of Famer Norm Van Lier inbounded. Hollins stepped in front of his pass and raced down the court for a dunk to tie the game with seven seconds left. After another inbound at halfcourt, Bobby Gross tipped Van Lier's pass to Dave Twardzik, who fed Hollins for a game-winning layin with two seconds left.

"Besides winning the championship, that game versus Chicago when we came back and won, that is my best memory," Hollins said.

One month later, Chicago thought it exacted revenge at old Chicago Stadium. Leading by one in the final seconds, Blazers guard Johnny Davis had his shot blocked from behind, and the Bulls quickly executed a fast break to go up one with four seconds left. That's when Hollins took an inbounds pass from Corky Calhoun at halfcourt, dribbled three times and took an off-balance shot over the defense of Van Lier.

From 30-feet away, it banked in at the buzzer.

"There were 22,000 people in there, and they were so loud in the timeout that we couldn't hear the play from Jack Ramsay. He had to write the play on the floor in chalk," Hollins said. "But when I hit that shot off the glass to win it ... it just went silent."

 

I got to see one of the games of the Blazer's Championship. In Philly of all places. I think is was the 3rd game the Blazer's won. I was Back in DC, working with the Federal Reserve, and those guys were rabid Sixer fans. They had a block of seats in the Philly
facility as well as the Washington one. But Philly was the deal then. Geez! I was lucky enough to have them take me to one of those games. I always thought that was about the greatest benny for being a Federal Reserve consultant, not much else was great about it.

 

Now THAT's a great story!

 

The Paramount Theater closed-circuit broadcasts began, I believe, following the Blazers championship season. It allowed an additional 2,000 or so fans to watch selected games in a "live" type of environment. From what I've heard it was a tremendous success. I think I attended a handful of those events. Yet another case of watching the games while Schoz did play-by-play.

 

Probably because Bama was crushed at home?

 

I would say that your feeling is based on the fact that the two teams are virtually tied in the quality of their play.

 

But that's got nothing to do with what happened in the past.

 

You are correct.