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Happy 80th Beano Cook!

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Steak Snabler, Aug 31, 2011.

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  1. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Love him or hate him (and I think if you love college football, you have to love him), I think it's pretty cool that Beano Cook turns 80 on the first day of the college football season (Thursday).

    ESPN sent out this press release today, which includes some of Beano's best one-liners:

    http://www.espnmediazone3.com/us/2011/08/31/happy-birthday-beano-cook-college-football-analyst-turns-80-on-first-day-of-season/

    Long live The Bard of Pittsburgh!
     
    Steak Snabler, Aug 31, 2011
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  2. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Obligatory Ron Powlus reference.
     
    DanOregon, Aug 31, 2011
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  3. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    By the time this thread is finished, it'll have four responses.
     
    Batman, Aug 31, 2011
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  4. Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)

    Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L) Active Member

    Hope there's no truth to the rumor that he plans to release a sex tape on his birthday
     
    Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L), Aug 31, 2011
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  5. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Beano's Top 5. Just change the year.

    1. Notre Dame
    2. Pitt
    3. Army
    4. Navy
    5. Penn St.
     
    dixiehack, Aug 31, 2011
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  6. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    You do know what I came into this thread for, don't you?
     
    jr/shotglass, Aug 31, 2011
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  7. UPChip

    UPChip Well-Known Member

    TELL HIM!

    TELL HIM WE CAN HEAR HIM!
     
    UPChip, Aug 31, 2011
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  8. Gator

    Gator Well-Known Member

    Did you mean Happy 180th?
     
    Gator, Aug 31, 2011
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  9. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    In your face, Batman!
     
    Steak Snabler, Aug 31, 2011
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  10. Point of Order

    Point of Order Active Member

    His outtakes are some of the funniest video I've ever seen.
     
    Point of Order, Aug 31, 2011
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  11. Pete Wevurski

    Pete Wevurski Member

    That ESPN release wrapped up with Beano's greatest quote. My other all-time favorite Beano line takes a while to set up:

    One summer day shortly before training camp opened while he was SID at Pitt, Beano answers his office phone. The female caller asks for a copy of the Panthers football roster.
    "Sure," Beano says. "What's your name, affiliation, address?"
    "My affiiliation?"
    "Yeah, you know, your newspaper, magazine or ... "
    "Oh, I'm not a reporter or anything like that."
    "But," answers Beano, "we don't usually give rosters out to the general public. Why would you want one?"
    "Well, you see, I've already had all the available pro athletes in town. It's time to (screw) my way through the college jocks."
    "I see," says Beano. "You seem to be an enterprising young lady; I'm going to send you a roster. But, you know, delivery of U.S. Mail being as slow as it is these days, why don't I give you the first four or five players' names right now over the phone?"
    "Oh, that'd be great!"
    "OK, then, got a pen? Here we go:
    "No. 55, Cook, Beano, guard, 5-10, 230 ..."
     
    Pete Wevurski, Aug 31, 2011
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  12. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Awesome, Pete!
     
    Liut, Aug 31, 2011
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