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45 years ago tomorrow, college football went primetime.

Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:16 pm
Posted by BamaGradinTn
Murfreesboro
Member since Dec 2008
26956 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:16 pm
Alabama-Ole Miss, in the first televised prime-time game, and Scott Hunter and Archie Manning put on a helluva show.

Two questions, though.

1. If Mike Slive and the REC had been around, would Lawrence Welk have ended up falling up a flight of stairs?

2. If the internet (and especially the SEC Rant) had been around, would Archie's reputation have been irreparably harmed, a la Tim Tebow, when the national TV cameras caught him crying after the game?
Posted by CtotheVrzrbck
WeWaCo
Member since Dec 2007
37538 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:21 pm to
Posted by Henry Jones Jr
Member since Jun 2011
68478 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:22 pm to
quote:

would Archie's reputation have been irreparably harme

Uh what? He set records that night that stood for over 40 years. How would his reputation have been harmed?
Posted by BamaGradinTn
Murfreesboro
Member since Dec 2008
26956 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:27 pm to
quote:

How would his reputation have been harmed?


Not too hard to imagine...rival fanbases flooding the internet with awesome photos.

Posted by athens-ga
athens, ga
Member since Jun 2013
1298 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:33 pm to
quote:

quote: How would his reputation have been harmed? Not too hard to imagine...rival fanbases flooding the internet with awesome photos.


nobody outside of this forum gives a damn about posts in this forum. I highly doubt a manning, Archie or Peyton or otherwise has one concern about what a bunch of message boards 'think'...quoted purposefully.
Posted by Sancho Panza
La Habaña, Cuba
Member since Sep 2014
8161 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:41 pm to
Who here watched the game on Colour TV, or went to the game?
This post was edited on 10/3/14 at 7:54 pm
Posted by reggierayreb
Germantown
Member since Nov 2012
16953 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 8:01 pm to
My dad was there... He and my mom were dating then, she was sick and stayed home to watch it... She said watching it in color during primetime was kinda surreal.
This post was edited on 10/3/14 at 8:01 pm
Posted by Sancho Panza
La Habaña, Cuba
Member since Sep 2014
8161 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 8:04 pm to
Watched it on Colour TV with my dad & uncle.

The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame has 1 half of the game film; other is gone; don't remember which still exists.
Posted by OlGrandad
Member since Oct 2009
3488 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 8:54 pm to
I watched it felt it was something special,
quote:

To put Manning's performance in perspective, no player had ever thrown for as many as 300 yards and rushed for 100 in a major-college game. Manning did all of that, and yet the No. 20 Rebels lost to the No. 15 Crimson Tide, 33-32.The Alabama quarterback that night, Scott Hunter, may have had his greatest night as a collegian, too. Hunter was 22-of-29 for 300 yards. LINK




Watched at the in laws on a color tv.
Posted by Pavoloco83
Acworth Ga. too many damn dawgs
Member since Nov 2013
15347 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 9:01 pm to
Meh. Ole Miss lost that day. And Bro Wallace aint no Archie Manning.
Posted by Sancho Panza
La Habaña, Cuba
Member since Sep 2014
8161 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 9:02 pm to
Missed PaT
Posted by five_fivesix
Y’all
Member since Aug 2012
13834 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 9:27 pm to
Posted by tiderider
Member since Nov 2012
7703 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 9:31 pm to
to anyone who watched it ... that's a helluva memory ...
Posted by GumBro Jackson
Raleigh
Member since Mar 2011
3114 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 9:57 pm to
Pretty crazy how much things have changed in less than 50 years.
Posted by AlwysATgr
Member since Apr 2008
16395 posts
Posted on 10/3/14 at 10:05 pm to
quote:

Who here watched the game on Colour TV


In
Posted by OldSkool
Lake Henry Neely
Member since Aug 2012
12 posts
Posted on 10/4/14 at 6:57 am to
I watched in B&W. It was a biggie.
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