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Posted on 10/7/14 at 1:28 pm to SummerOfGeorge
The amount of Alabama callers who were "in the know" about Cam getting paid, the Casino being rigged, etc.. You couldn't make it up. Call it low grade, but it was entertaining..
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Posted on 10/7/14 at 1:29 pm to auburnphan23
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Now you just have a bunch of callers who think they are celebrities but bring little or nothing to the show like I-Man and Jim from Tuscaloosa
It was the show's lack of self awareness that made it great. Once it got big, you lost that.
When it goes from "Listen to how crazy these rednecks are" to "Listen how crazy these rednecks want you to think/know they are" you have moved into a different realm.
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Posted on 10/7/14 at 1:31 pm to APIEE
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It was the show's lack of self awareness that made it great. Once it got big, you lost that.
When it goes from "Listen to how crazy these rednecks are" to "Listen how crazy these rednecks want you to think/know they are" you have moved into a different realm.
Yep
Posted on 10/7/14 at 2:00 pm to SummerOfGeorge
I just want I-man to call in today
Posted on 10/7/14 at 2:03 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Did the phone lines crash every time bama lost? I bet that was a tough time for Phyllis and the like
Posted on 10/7/14 at 2:07 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Yep, the show used to be so damn good when Neil Vickers was the sidekick. You had Mildred calling in and talking about having love affairs with Bear Bryant, Shane, Don from Downtown, and Bobby from Homewood.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 2:07 pm to Royal
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Did the phone lines crash every time bama lost? I bet that was a tough time for Phyllis and the like
Unlike now there weren't 1.8 Million people from across America with what they thought was a witty one liner trying to get in and get famous on account of mighty BAMAH losing.
So no.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 2:24 pm to LarrytheGolfer
My favorite was the caller that was a “ supposed ” 80 year old woman who claimed to have had sex with Bear Bryant, I wanna say Mildred, but I am not 100 % sure.
PAWLLL I I I met bare in the film one, ummm he was strong pawll. We bumped ( something I forgot ), thats when Vickers lost it for about 10 minutes, with his weird laugh, and paul kept feeding the beast by aging her own.
Of course everyone thinks Mildred was really a man calling as an old woman.
The show is nothing like it was then, comedy central.
PAWLLL I I I met bare in the film one, ummm he was strong pawll. We bumped ( something I forgot ), thats when Vickers lost it for about 10 minutes, with his weird laugh, and paul kept feeding the beast by aging her own.
Of course everyone thinks Mildred was really a man calling as an old woman.
The show is nothing like it was then, comedy central.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 2:38 pm to SummerOfGeorge
I despise Finebaum's show, just because of the raving stupidity of the people that he allows to call in with regularity.. Absolute garbage, I really can't believe that the ESPN affiliate in Baton Rouge will carry it at night. If I were the manager of the station, I'd rather have soccer talk on then that abortion of a show.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 2:41 pm to SummerOfGeorge
I actually believe the "Tigerette story" that SBB posted was what killed the show. Paul let a few callers get way out-of-line with that and I quit listening for awhile.
But I'll agree with others that the WERC years were the best. Neal Vickers' laugh was as contagious as any I've ever heard. And the late Shane from Centerpoint always had some Auburn scandal he was dreaming up. Other great moments and callers:
Jim from Tuscaloosa arguing with then Samford basketball coach Jimmy Tillette (a real academician) over Barry Bonds. This was the call where Jim declared he would've been a better hitter than Ted Williams.
Jeff from Pinson: Probably the most bizarre caller ever - his calls are hard to describe and they usually involved him playing two or three different people.
Mildred: "She" was guaranteed to get Vickers going; talked constantly about having relations with Bear, Dye ("we bumped uglies a few times"), and any other coach out there. After one appearance by former SEC official Dick Burleson, Mildred called and kept repeating "I wanna talk to Dick!" My favorite call was a joke - "Why did Paul Fingerbaum (sic) cut holes in his pocket? So he could run his fingers through his hair."
Michael the Prophet: A real head case, he constantly called and prophesied that Mike Shula would eclipse Bear Bryant's success at Alabama. I'm almost certain he has recently resurfaced - he called Tiger Talk a few weeks back asking how much it would take to get Gus Malzahn to move to Alabama. The day after, he called the JOX Roundtable and asked Dunaway the same thing.
Phyllis: Two great moments from her. She called and Paul began playing the song "Bear from Alabama" insinuating that Phyllis once had a relationship with singer Roger Hallmark (or was it Bear?). Phyllis got pissed. The other was after Paul's interview with Luverne High School AD Butch Norman was abruptly cut short when Norman told Paul, "I tell you what you do, you kiss my a**." Paul was grilling Norman over his hiring of Mike Dubose and Phyllis went nuts.
The Shane and Bobby battles were always epic, and then there was Joe who was going to spend a few thousand dollars to expose Vickers' past (assuming there was something to expose).
Other great callers who haven't been heard from in awhile:
Chris from Gulf Shores, Everett, Don from Downtown, B.O.B., Bama Earl, Catfish, Libertee Belle, etc. Those days of the Finebaum show were radio gold.
But I'll agree with others that the WERC years were the best. Neal Vickers' laugh was as contagious as any I've ever heard. And the late Shane from Centerpoint always had some Auburn scandal he was dreaming up. Other great moments and callers:
Jim from Tuscaloosa arguing with then Samford basketball coach Jimmy Tillette (a real academician) over Barry Bonds. This was the call where Jim declared he would've been a better hitter than Ted Williams.
Jeff from Pinson: Probably the most bizarre caller ever - his calls are hard to describe and they usually involved him playing two or three different people.
Mildred: "She" was guaranteed to get Vickers going; talked constantly about having relations with Bear, Dye ("we bumped uglies a few times"), and any other coach out there. After one appearance by former SEC official Dick Burleson, Mildred called and kept repeating "I wanna talk to Dick!" My favorite call was a joke - "Why did Paul Fingerbaum (sic) cut holes in his pocket? So he could run his fingers through his hair."
Michael the Prophet: A real head case, he constantly called and prophesied that Mike Shula would eclipse Bear Bryant's success at Alabama. I'm almost certain he has recently resurfaced - he called Tiger Talk a few weeks back asking how much it would take to get Gus Malzahn to move to Alabama. The day after, he called the JOX Roundtable and asked Dunaway the same thing.
Phyllis: Two great moments from her. She called and Paul began playing the song "Bear from Alabama" insinuating that Phyllis once had a relationship with singer Roger Hallmark (or was it Bear?). Phyllis got pissed. The other was after Paul's interview with Luverne High School AD Butch Norman was abruptly cut short when Norman told Paul, "I tell you what you do, you kiss my a**." Paul was grilling Norman over his hiring of Mike Dubose and Phyllis went nuts.
The Shane and Bobby battles were always epic, and then there was Joe who was going to spend a few thousand dollars to expose Vickers' past (assuming there was something to expose).
Other great callers who haven't been heard from in awhile:
Chris from Gulf Shores, Everett, Don from Downtown, B.O.B., Bama Earl, Catfish, Libertee Belle, etc. Those days of the Finebaum show were radio gold.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 2:42 pm to chesty
If it was 10X better, then it still sucked. 10 times 0 is 0. He adds nothing and his callers are all loud idiots.
I cannot believe with all of the talent out there that he is on the SEC channel. Even Tebow at least tries to add value.
I cannot believe with all of the talent out there that he is on the SEC channel. Even Tebow at least tries to add value.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 2:45 pm to Broncothor
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If it was 10X better, then it still sucked. 10 times 0 is 0. He adds nothing and his callers are all loud idiots.
I cannot believe with all of the talent out there that he is on the SEC channel. Even Tebow at least tries to add value.
Quite frankly that is kind of the point. It was morons from Alabama talking about sports in Alabama and it was funny. If you weren't from Alabama I don't know why you would find it funny, which is why I never understood why it expanded outside of that area (except, of course, for money).
Posted on 10/7/14 at 2:47 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Find it hilarious ESPN thinks they discovered this hidden gem with stuff like Phyllis.
I will never forget the call she made in October 2002. This guy named Barnhouse wrote an article about Alabama football and how it was dirty. She went off. It was classic. Yesterday was nothing.
She's also had many others that were just as good. The whole Roger Hallmark thing was priceless if any of you remember that.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 2:51 pm to ifr4
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Mildred
Whoever that person was, I had never heard someone who could get Vickers going like that. She had one story where she got fungus from her dog down in her private area. They had to cut to commercial because the studio was laughing its arse off so much.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 2:54 pm to Broncothor
That's because you like format radio, where you hear the same jock or radio nerd ( cowherd mike and mike ) say the same BS over and over every day.
I prefer to hear the fans point of view. Different strokes for different folks, but I think anyone who listens to the same opinions of the same people day after day has a screw loose, I can't stand mike & mike or cowterd.
I prefer to hear the fans point of view. Different strokes for different folks, but I think anyone who listens to the same opinions of the same people day after day has a screw loose, I can't stand mike & mike or cowterd.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 2:59 pm to RollTide1987
Funniest I heard was Tammy talking about getting married to a guy she'd met a couple months earlier and how they had love at first sight in some dive bar in BF, Alabama.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 3:06 pm to Broncothor
The callers at one time weren't all high school drop outs. Bobby from Homewood was an Auburn grad and he was at least fairly intelligent. He did have a bad case of little brother syndrome because his calls were always about Alabama.
Bobby's calls were like nails on a chalkboard to a lot of Alabama fans. It drove them insane. He would call in and bash Alabama and then every single call for the next hour would be from an Alabama fan bashing him
Bobby's calls were like nails on a chalkboard to a lot of Alabama fans. It drove them insane. He would call in and bash Alabama and then every single call for the next hour would be from an Alabama fan bashing him
Posted on 10/7/14 at 3:07 pm to auburnphan23
bobby was the best- after the shane stuff, pawl will not forgive.
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