tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22040291.post736812417182693052..comments2024-01-09T17:38:35.707-05:00Comments on This Old State: The power of that game back in 1957Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22040291.post-4824582862576023042009-11-20T05:17:37.143-05:002009-11-20T05:17:37.143-05:00Good information and as well as good blog but i al...Good information and as well as good blog but i also want to share some thing about the shoes and the different brands that it is offering.<br />For more information visit the link<br /><br /><a href="http://www.treds.co.uk/manufacturer/dr-martens/28/1" rel="nofollow">doc martens boots</a>doc martens bootshttp://www.treds.co.uk/manufacturer/dr-martens/28/1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22040291.post-40014165968687074402009-04-11T11:17:00.000-04:002009-04-11T11:17:00.000-04:00Basketball is soooooooo boring.Basketball is soooooooo boring.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22040291.post-42835373882335202222009-04-09T11:09:00.000-04:002009-04-09T11:09:00.000-04:00I almost hesitate to say this to all you Tarheels,...I almost hesitate to say this to all you Tarheels, but....I experienced the "power of that game" back in 1974, watching NC State defeat Maryland for the ACC championship. That was the game that hooked this kid on ACC basketball forever! It is a glorious obsession....BethKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22040291.post-46582798866702966812009-04-07T22:01:00.000-04:002009-04-07T22:01:00.000-04:00Jack, you can evoke memories better than anyone I ...Jack, you can evoke memories better than anyone I know. Though I am four years older than you, I did not get to see the game on television. I was stuck outside listening to it on my father's car radio (1947 Ford), but well remember the excitement of the triple overtime. We were visiting my aunt in S.C., and they didn't have a television that carried the game. Thus, sitting in the darkened Ford listening to the end of the Heels perfect 32-0 season.<BR/><BR/>When I entered Carolina in 1960, I had high hopes of seeing some great basketball. It was not to be. My first year was Frank McGuire's last, and although he had good players like York Larese (fastest free-thrower in the league), there was a little gambling scandal underway that caused Dean Smith's first season to be limited to 17 games, and his only losing season, 8 wins and 9 losses. My son still doesn't believe me when I tell him I saw Dean hung in effigy. <BR/><BR/>People thought there would never be players like Rosenbluth, Kearns and Brennan, but remember 1982 and Jordan, Worthy, and Perkins. Now, in 2009, a new generation will be calling the names of Hansbrough Lawson and Ellington. Who knows how long it will take for other UNC players to enter the pantheon of legends. But, we'll always have '57 to rekindle past memoies to and '09 to provide fresh ones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22040291.post-46253576203505030942009-04-07T19:03:00.000-04:002009-04-07T19:03:00.000-04:00Remember that great play Pete Brennan made against...Remember that great play Pete Brennan made against Michigan State in the '57 semifinals when he took the ball up the court and went one-on-two to score and send the game into another overtime? Just prior to that play, with Michigan State at the foul line leading by two points, one Spartans player reportedly taunted the Tar Heels with the comment, "30-and-1," in regard to the 30-0 record UNC took into that Final Four.<BR/><BR/>Then how about Tommy Kearns jumping for the tip-off against Wilt Chamberlain to open the championship game against Kansas the very next night! Don't forget, Kansas and North Carolina fans, former Tar Heels Coach Frank McGuire was coaching the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA when Wilt had his 100-point game a few years later, so Coach McGuire and the former Jayhawks star were able to team up quite effectively in the pro ranks.<BR/><BR/>It was quite exciting to see that telecast back in the '50s. We were living on Truman Road in the Plaza-Midwood neighborhood of Charlotte, as the street had been named for President Harry Truman, and the Final Four of March 1957 was being played out there in Kansas City in the same county (Jackson County, Mo.,) as Truman's hometown in Independence, Mo. I always wondered if the former President took some time that weekend to look in on the games being played there in his home county in the Show-Me State. With Ike in the White House, Truman may as well have taken a break to watch some basketball.<BR/><BR/>It was pretty exciting Tuesday afternoon in Chapel Hill when the UNC team bus came rolling up Franklin Street into the central downtown district on the way to the Smith Center for the celebration activies. But that was quite an exciting welcome-home event back in '57 when the victorious Carolina team of the Rosenbluth-Brennan-Quigg era touched down on the runway at Raleigh-Durham Airport.<BR/><BR/>ACC fans should also bear in mind that back in those early years, you had to win the ACC Tournament to make the NCAA field because the tourney champion received the league's one and only bid for post-season play. This year's Tar Heels were able to recover from a semifinal loss to Florida State in the ACC Tournament in Atlanta and still go on to win the NCAA title in Detroit.<BR/><BR/>Yes, "on the one hand," as Randy Travis's song goes, it might make you feel a bit older when you consider the 1957 and 2009 title runs as bookends on a lifetime of following one or more college basketball teams. But my view is that after a certain point in time, the expanse of years experienced actually can make you feel younger and help you to regain the vigor and zest for life of days gone by.David McKnighthttp://www.itsthemusic.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22040291.post-54608843099109126532009-04-07T18:38:00.000-04:002009-04-07T18:38:00.000-04:00It wasn't just that one game. It was TWO triple o...It wasn't just that one game. It was TWO triple overtimes, two nights in a row. The Tar Heels beat Michigan State in the semi-finals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22040291.post-38553816327600790902009-04-07T16:33:00.000-04:002009-04-07T16:33:00.000-04:00Thanks Jack. Makes me wonder what my boys will thi...Thanks Jack. Makes me wonder what my boys will think of the 50-inch screen they watched the Heels on last night when the 2057 title game rolls around.<BR/><BR/>They gonna have life-size holograms whizzing by?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com