Note: I’m posting this early Wednesday afternoon, after Penn State football coach Joe Paterno announced he would resign at the end of the season. It is not known, though, as I write, whether the school’s trustees will even allow him to coach this Saturday. I just needed to note this for context as to the timing of my column. I also am keeping all the following commentary for the archives, even if much of it is now (or soon will be) after the fact.
College Football Quiz: As we bid adieu to Joe Paterno, a look at his best teams, and the respective quarterbacks. 1) Who quarterbacked both the 1968 and ’69 undefeated teams? 2) Who was the QB on the ’73 undefeated squad? 3) Who quarterbacked Penn State to its first national title in 1982? 4) Who was at the helm for the ’86 national championship team? 5) Who was the quarterback on the 1994 undefeated squad? [Hint: Most of these are hard.] Answers below.
Sad Valley
“When? When should Joe Paterno have gone above his athletic director? That’s the question the legal community and college football fans and media try to wrap their heads around in assessing the despicable allegations coming out of Happy Valley.
“But for eight young adults, their question would have been far more urgent and desperate as Jerry Sandusky allegedly robbed them of their innocence, one by one. When is somebody going to put an end to this?
“On Sunday, Paterno issued a 265-word statement that attempted to offer perspective in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal that is gutting Penn State. The most troubling part of the statement, crafted by Paterno and his son, Scott, an attorney, is this line: ‘I understand that people are upset and angry, but let’s be fair and let the legal process unfold.’
“Here’s the problem: The legal process doesn’t seem as if it ever had much chance to unfold almost 10 years ago. It could’ve. It should’ve. But it didn’t. And how many more children became victims in the years after that Saturday morning in 2002 when Paterno, the most powerful man in Happy Valley, first was informed that Sandusky, a former assistant, a man in his late 50s, was caught in a shower on a Friday night inside the Nittany Lions football offices with a young boy?
“Truth be told, Paterno’s statement did provide a perspective. Just as Penn State president Graham Spanier did some 24 hours earlier when he issued his statement saying that the university’s athletic director [Tim Curley] and a school VP [Gary Schultz], who had been charged with perjury as it related to the investigation, have his ‘unconditional support.’….
“What is alleged to have happened in Happy Valley is potentially much more damning and disgraceful than any story we’ve seen linked to college football in decades. Those other ‘scandals’ involving free tattoos and junkets to vacation spots are mild compared to what is alleged to have been done to these boys.
“Those charged are innocent until proven guilty, but the charges are extremely serious. Curley and Schultz stepped down late Sunday night amid the allegations of the scandal and cover-up. Both appeared in court Monday, and bail was set at $75,000.
“Anyone who has read even parts of the grand jury presentment will come away from it nauseous. You also have a proud, powerhouse program at the center of it, led by its iconic 84-year-old head man, a legendary figure whose reputation was built on doing things the right way….
“Right now, the things the leaders at Penn State have done and said only have raised many more questions. Such as this, also from Paterno’s statement: ‘In the meantime I would ask all Penn Staters to continue to trust in what that name represents, continue to pursue their lives every day with high ideals and not let these events shake their beliefs.’
“Trust, Coach? High ideals? What ideals are those?
“During a news conference Monday detailing the alleged crimes, Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan, previously the chief of investigations at the attorney general’s office, called it, ‘a case about children who have had their innocence stolen from them and a culture that did nothing to stop it or prevent it from happening to others.’
“ ‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen something like that before.’”
As the paper that first broke the story, the Harrisburg Patriot-News, put it in an editorial:
“Neither Joe Paterno nor Graham Spanier called the police. Neither Joe Paterno nor Graham Spanier seem to have demonstrated any concern for the victim. They never tried to find him. They never tried to get him the emotional help he might need.”
“Paterno claims to be a teacher. He always talks about his kids when referring to his players. Someone who truly cared about kids would have done more. He would have pestered Curley for an answer about what happened to the accusation. He would have called the police. He would have confronted Sandusky. Instead of that, Paterno let Sandusky keep coming back. On Monday, Yahoo! reported that Sandusky was spotted in the Penn State football complex as recently as last week. Even if the accusation was false, Paterno had a responsibility to make sure it was thoroughly investigated. He didn’t. He stuck by Sandusky instead of worrying about the child….
“Paterno released a statement Sunday night saying the graduate assistant was distraught and did not describe the specific act mentioned in the grand jury presentment. Maybe Paterno didn’t grasp the seriousness of the allegation. Maybe he didn’t understand.
“Or maybe Paterno has hidden behind a wall of lawyer-speak because he knows he failed in his duty as a human being. Maybe that’s why Penn State President Graham Spanier – who also needs to be fired for the same reason as Paterno – canceled Paterno’s regularly scheduled press conference Tuesday. Paterno can’t stand up to tough questions, because he has no moral leg on which to stand on in this case. If no one had made an accusation, it would be completely believable that Paterno didn’t know. His inaction would make sense.
“But someone did tell Paterno, and Paterno had admitted to that….
“Forget it. There is no defense. There is no rational explanation. I hope, if placed in the same situation, I would protect the child. If I didn’t, may God have mercy on my soul.
“The Penn State alma mater includes this line: ‘May no act of ours bring shame.’ Someone wrote those words on a poster Monday and hung them from a statue of Paterno on Penn State’s campus. If Sandusky pleads guilty or is convicted of these accusations, that statue of Paterno should be torn down.
“Paterno has won 409 games. He has helped usher thousands of young men into adulthood. But if Paterno’s inaction allowed a monster to continue preying on children, those victories don’t mean a thing.”
“Try to forgive Joe Paterno: When he looked at Jerry Sandusky, he didn’t see a dirty old man in a raincoat. He saw a friend, a close colleague, and a churchy do-gooder. He saw a nice guy. You’d have seen the same thing. Think not? You think you can see a clear-cut difference between an alleged child molester and a youth coach? How exactly? By the hunchback and the M-shaped scar on his forehead that says, ‘I’m a molester’?
“It’s sorely tempting to assign Paterno chief blame in the Penn State case, to say that he should have seen Sandusky for what he allegedly was. Unfortunately, the truth is, youth coaches from California to Rhode Island have molested children at every level, sandlot to USA Swimming, and we hardly ever recognize the pervert. We usually shake his hand.
“ ‘We would prefer he have some kind of trait,’ former FBI agent Ken Lanning says. ‘That he be ugly or pockmarked so we say, ‘Oooh, look out for him.’’
“Make no mistake, there is deep guilt to be assigned at Penn State…But first we have to realize that we all have trouble believing that mentors could be molesters.
“According to Lanning, who spent 35 years profiling pedophiles, a hallmark of ‘acquaintance molesters’ is that they tend to be deeply trusted and even beloved. They are not strangers, but ‘one of us.’ They are expert at seducing children and are almost as expert at seducing adults, including parents, into believing in them….
“With that in mind…If Sandusky is guilty of molesting, how do we parcel out the responsibility and decide what was preventable? Who should have recognized him, and how?
“ ‘Whether it’s the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, USA Swimming, or Little League, you look at these groups and say, why do they keep screwing this up?’ Lanning asks….
“Paterno was perhaps in the worst position to see or judge the alleged behavior, because Sandusky was his valued assistant from 1966-1999….
“Which is exactly why someone at Penn State’s institutional level should have done better. It was the responsibility of Paterno’s more dispassionate superiors Spanier, Schultz and Curley to take a much colder-eyed, distanced organizational view of Sandusky’s alleged behavior. Instead, they failed all along the line….
“What kind of leaderless fool organization allegedly let a 60-year-old man take showers with 10-year-old boys on its premises, no matter how innocently? What kind of leaderless fool organization let kids use Penn State’s weight room facilities at night without monitoring? What kind of leaderless fool organization let Sandusky’s Second Mile charity operate on campus without respecting the basic literature – which dates from 1939 Boy Scout handbooks – that shows molesters use youth-serving organizations to meet victims, and that deprived pre-adolescent boys are an extremely troubled, craving, and vulnerable group?
“Answer: a totally arrogant and incompetent one. Graham Spanier, your time is up.”
“It is almost impossible to overestimate the impact Joe Paterno has had on Penn State since he joined Rip Engle’s staff as a 23-year-old assistant in 1950.
“Sixty-two years in one place, with one love, with one purpose – to win and act the right way.
“It is impossible to overestimate how shocking the revelations of the weekend have been to the Penn State community and a community at large.
“Paterno turns 85 on Dec. 21 and there were a thousand ways to imagine how his career might end. This one was not on the list.
“An alleged child sex-abuse scandal involving longtime assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, a man once considered a possible successor to Paterno’s dynasty?
“In 1969, President Richard Nixon ignored Penn State’s undefeated team and anointed Texas the national champion after the Longhorns’ 15-14 win over Arkansas.
“Paterno would years later quip, ‘How could Nixon know so little about Watergate and so much about football?’
“The question is now being asked: ‘How could Joe have known so little? Or done so little?’
“It seems incomprehensible that a man who built a football empire on honesty, morals and ethics could hear news in 2002 about a possible sexual molestation in his locker room shower and not do more than what was legally required….
“A Happy Valley ending seemed possible only two weeks ago, when Paterno recorded career victory No. 409. It moved him past Grambling’s Eddie Robinson into first place on the major-college victory list….
“At ESPN’s studios, Matt Millen broke down on air as he tried to provide analysis. Millen was a star linebacker at ‘Linebacker U’ in the late 1970s. Millen was on the board of Sandusky’s ‘Second Mile’ Foundation….
“It makes you sick, to see that this could happen,’ Millen said on air. ‘This is more than just a program. This is more than just a football legacy. This is about people. And if we can’t protect our kids, we as a society are pathetic.’
“Joe Paterno doesn’t need those thick glasses any more. He had laser surgery to correct his vision problem.
“Yet, as it stands in State College, his legacy could not be more out of focus.”
“The problem would seem to be a gerontocracy of the soul, too many people who have been in the same place too long. Paterno has been at Penn State, as an assistant and the head coach, for 62 years, a record. Graham B. Spanier, the university president, was a faculty member and an administrator there from 1973 to 1982 and returned to lead the university in 1995; Curley graduated from Penn State in 1976 and has been the athletic director since 1993; and Schultz graduated from Penn State in 1971 and has worked there ever since. Ultimately, they all serve the monster that rises on 12 Saturdays a year….
“(As far as) alerting people to the possible predator tendencies of his former assistant, Paterno seems to have been silent. He had a game to coach. He had players to recruit.
“For an essentially good man, this is worse than the way Woody Hayes went out. Hayes was a bombastic legend at Ohio State, but in his dotage he leapt off the sideline and punched an opposing player in a 1978 bowl game. End of career.
“And Hayes went out better than Jim Tressel, the most recent coach at Ohio State, who resigned after people figured out he was lying to cover up for some players who were selling their rings and trophies for tattoos. It wasn’t the violation as much as the cover-up.
“This seems to be a common malady for big-time coaches. They get so puffed up with trying to go undefeated that they lose sight of reality. Just to run this kind of program demands moral blinkers.
“King Football is not about just academic scandals and recruiting scandals and now the growing shadow of concussion scandals. (What, you thought aging players now coming down with dementia arrived in the NFL with their brain pans totally intact?)
“Just the other day, Jere Longman wrote in the New York Times about his beloved home state, where LSU has downsized its foreign language program with minimal public reaction, but managed to maintain an undefeated football program.
“Lots of Happy Valleys out there. Occasionally a critic like Taylor Branch or a panel calls for reform. At Penn State, it was even worse than prostituting education for the sake of a football powerhouse. The entire old-boy system in that university managed to overlook the possibility that children’s lives were being ruined, within the dangerous cocoon of King Football. We need to look beyond the alleged abuses. We need to look at the system that encouraged people to look the other way.
“Really, we need to do something about big-time college sports.”
“ ‘Tragic’ is the single most over-used word in sports. Almost nothing that takes place within the context of sports is a tragedy. There is no such thing as a tragic loss or even a tragic injury.
“What is happening right now at Penn State is, if not tragic, well beyond sad.
“If the sexual abuse and assault charges brought by a Pennsylvania grand jury against former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky prove to be true on any level, then this will be the single worst thing that has happened to college sports in just about forever….
“The sexual abuse alleged in the Penn State case is tragic in its own right, but in a completely different way, this story is heartbreaking because it involves Joe Paterno. No football coach has meant more to his sport in the past 50 years than Paterno, and his 409 victories at Penn State are only a small part of why he is who he is. In an era when so much is wrong with college athletics, Paterno always has stood for all that is right.
“When USC, Ohio State, Miami and North Carolina are caught cheating in one way or another, most people roll their eyes and say, ‘Here we go again.’ When public records from a lawsuit allege that an agent was bankrolling a basketball player and his mother starting when the kid was 14, the reaction is more eye-rolling. The university presidents publicly wring their hands, declare they’re shocked cheating is going on and go back to counting their money.
“But Joe Paterno is Joe Paterno. The only other name in college athletics in the last 50 years who engenders the kind of universal respect Paterno has is retired North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith. If you can’t trust Paterno, whom can you trust?…
“In truth, Spanier, Curley and Schultz don’t matter, except perhaps within the Penn State community. They are, like most people, replaceable functionaries. They’re like streetcars – when one rounds the corner, there’s another one coming along soon.
“There won’t be another Paterno coming along anytime soon.
“The one thing that set Paterno apart from other coaches was that he so clearly understood that his responsibility to his players went well beyond making them better off the field. Paterno’s son, Jay, now Penn State’s quarterbacks coach, repeated a well-known quote to Sports Illustrated’s Joe Posnanski, a couple of years ago.
“ ‘Years ago, before I had kids, my dad told me that what I couldn’t understand yet was that when you’re a parent how happy you are depends on the happiness of your least happy child,’ Jay Paterno said. ‘He said, ‘Every kid we recruit is someone’s child or grandchild. They give us responsibility for something – someone – they treasure. It’s our responsibility to give them back a better person than when they came here.’’
“That, in a nutshell, is why Paterno matters so much….
“But it if turns out that, after telling Curley, Paterno didn’t try to protect these children with the same fervor with which he has protected the children sent to play football for him the past 46 years, then this will be a genuine football tragedy.
“There is nothing sadder than a fallen hero, especially one as worthy of hero status as Paterno has been. For years now, Penn State’s slogan has been, ‘Success with Honor.’
“For 46 years, Paterno and Penn State lived up to that lofty claim. Now, the honor may be gone. And if it is, the success will be indelibly tainted.”
On Tuesday, one of the mothers of the alleged victims told the Patriot-News:
“I’m infuriated that people would not report something like that. I still can’t believe it. I’m appalled. I’m shocked. I’m stunned. There’s so many words. I’m very mad. They could have prevented this from happening.”
Saturday is Senior Day, normally a day of celebration. There will be little of that now.
Smokin’ Joe Frazier, RIP
Just weeks after learning he had liver cancer, former world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier died. He was 67. Frazier was the first man to beat Muhammad Ali in 1971, but lost his next two bouts with Ali. His only two other losses were to George Foreman.
Frazier won an Olympic gold medal in 1964 after going to the Games as a replacement for Buster Mathis, who had beaten him in the trials but could not attend the Games due to an injury. Frazier would then go on to win the heavyweight title in 1970, after Ali had been stripped of his crown in 1967 for refusing to go to Vietnam. Frazier opted out of a stirring 8-man elimination tournament to replace Ali (it was during this time I became a huge fan of the sport as a kid) due to contractual reasons but then defeated the tournament winner, Jimmy Ellis, in New York, after first defeating Buster Mathis. Smokin’ Joe held the world title between 1970 and 73 until he lost to Foreman.
But forever Joe Frazier will be known for his three fights with Ali, including the last one, the epic “Thrilla in Manila” in 1975.
The two had a poor relationship owing to Ali’s cruel taunts of Frazier, but in recent years they were said to be on better terms, sort of, and Ali said of his rival’s death, “The world has lost a great champion. I will always remember Joe with respect and admiration.”
It was March 8, 1971, in Madison Square Garden that Frazier and Ali first hooked up, Frazier winning by unanimous decision. Both fighters were paid the then unheard of sum of $2.5 million. [Frank Sinatra was at ringside taking photos for Life magazine. Burt Lancaster provided commentary.] Both also came into the bout undefeated. In the pre-fight exchanges, Ali called Frazier all manner of names, including “Uncle Tom,” “ugly,” “chump,” “ignorant” and “dumb.” As noted by Bob Velin of USA TODAY:
“It was racial taunting at its worst, and it would affect Frazier for the rest of his life. Ali made it worse by continuing to taunt Frazier throughout their careers, calling Frazier a “gorilla” before their final fight in Manila.
“In an interview with USA TODAY’s Erik Brady two years ago, Frazier’s bitterness came out in the form of religious bashing. Frazier believed Ali’s Parkinson’s Disease was God’s judgment for Ali’s Muslim beliefs.
“ ‘Regardless of who you are, you have to think one way, and the right way, to be accepted by the man above,’ Frazier said. ‘He calls the shots.’
“Asked if he could ever forgive Ali for gorilla, Uncle Tom and the rest, Frazier said, ‘Sure…but the Man above, you’d better ask Him….(Ali) must not pray. If you prayed, you’d have a better life than you have now. I’m 65 and I’m as strong as two bulls. So he must not bend down to the good Man above.’”
Their rivalry in the ring ended with the “Thrilla in Manila,” Oct. 1, 1975, a brutal bout after which both could barely stand. Frazier couldn’t see, his eyes swelled shut. By the end of the 14th round, Frazier staggered to his corner and his legendary trainer Eddie Futch said, “Sit down son. It’s all over. Nobody will ever forget what you did here today.” Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum called the “Thrilla in Manila” the greatest fight of all time.
In Frazier’s two losses to George Foreman, the only two knockouts of Frazier’s career, it was in the first one that Howard Cosell famously called “Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!”
Billy Joe Frazier was born on Jan. 12, 1944, in Laurel Bay, S.C., the youngest of 12 children. His mother and father worked in the fields, and the kid known as “Billy Boy” dropped out of school at 13. He had dreams of becoming a heavyweight champ. By age 16, Frazier was working in a slaughterhouse in Philadelphia and trainer Yank Durham discovered him in a gym. Frazier captured a Golden Gloves championship before his ’64 performance at the Tokyo Olympics.
Frazier said in his autobiography, “Smokin’ Joe,” that Durham gave him the nickname because it was what Yank would say in the dressing room before sending him out to fight: “Go out there, goddammit, and make smoke come from those gloves.”
In March 2001, the 30th anniversary of the first Ali-Frazier bout, Ali told the New York Times: “I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn’t have said. Called him names I shouldn’t have called him. I apologize for that. I’m sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.”
Asked for a response, Frazier said: “We have to embrace each other. It’s time to talk and get together. Life’s too short.”
But Frazier nonetheless remained bitter, and as he told the Times on another occasion: “Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But who would he have been without me?”
–The NBA owners and players are meeting after I’ve posted this column, thus nothing to say on this matter.
—LSU-Alabama drew 20 million viewers, the highest for CBS since Notre Dame-Miami on Nov. 25, 1989, drew 22.4 million.
“The rest of the NFL has to hope the Green Bay Packers and quarterback Aaron Rodgers are peaking too early. Since the league went to eight divisions in 2002, being the last remaining unbeaten team has not led to postseason success. Only one team – the 9-0 2006 Colts – ended the season as Super Bowl champs.”
–The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay on Giants quarterback Eli Manning and his fourth quarter success.
“There’s no sense hoping for an exotic conversion now. Eli Manning is not going to sun on the deck of a Mediterranean mega yacht with arms dealers and ‘American Pie’ extras. He’s not going to spill out of a white limo in the Meatpacking District. He’s not going to start wearing an eye patch and a parrot named Lil’ Eli to press conferences.
“He lies low in plain sight. You know his iconic family, but you know very little about his personal life. You don’t even know if Eli is married. Is Eli married? No peeking. (Yes he is – it wasn’t a two-part E! special.)
“He is an efficient but off-off-off-Broadway Joe. He has the look of a guy who moves briskly through airport security and reads the entire in-flight magazine.
“On the Giants, he’s known as a prankster. But as a recent story showed, Eli’s pranks are straight out of the Jonas Brothers tour bus. He puts gum on the football. He soaks a teammate’s towel in water. He reprogrammed receiver Hakeem Nicks’ cellphone to Japanese….
“He is so placid it makes some people nuts. He will never be the kind of raggedy trainwreck that New York loves to enable, shoo away and re-embrace like a prodigal son.
“Eli is just Eli. Not too high, not too low. And when it doesn’t go right, there’s the usual torrent of armchair psychology.
“Who among us hasn’t sold Eli Manning a little short?
—Tiger Woods shook hands with Steve Williams and said he was prepared to move on. Ahead of the Australian Open, Woods addressed Williams’ comment, calling Tiger a “black arsehole” during an awards dinner in Shanghai.
“We talked this morning,” Woods said. “We met face-to-face, and we talked it through. Obviously it was the wrong thing to say. That’s something that we both acknowledge now. We’ll move forward. He did apologize. It was hurtful, but life moves forward.”
“I think it was a comment that shouldn’t have been made. It’s certainly one he’d wish he didn’t make.”
Woods is also convinced he is finally ready to play consistent, quality golf. We’ll begin to learn how far he has progressed this weekend.
–After a staggering five consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championships, with two races to go in the 10-race Chase for the Cup playoff, Jimmie Johnson’s streak is over. Carl Edwards leads Tony Stewart by only three points with races at Phoenix and Homestead-Miami remaining, but Johnson is in sixth, a seemingly insurmountable 55 points behind.
–22-year-old Pius Heinz of Cologne, Germany, won the World Series of Poker main event and will be taking home $8.72 million. He defeated Martin Staszko of the Czech Republic, who won $5.43 million. As Ronald Reagan would have said…not bad, not bad at all.
–The nonbinding sports betting referendum on the New Jersey ballot passed. But it is only the beginning. Legislation will be introduced in Trenton, which the governor will sign, but a federal ban must be overturned as well before yours truly will be going to Atlantic City on a regular basis.
It was in 1992 that former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley led the charge to ban all sports wagering, but he grandfathered in the four states that had some form of it; Nevada, Oregon, Montana and Delaware, though Bradley provided a loophole for New Jersey which it now must exploit.
–It seems a certainty the Mets are going to lose shortstop Jose Reyes to free agency, but I’m just shocked it could be the Miami Marlins who sign him, as that franchise prepares to move into its new digs. It makes a lot of sense, though, as the team goes after the Hispanic market in a big way, particularly with its hiring of new manager Ozzie Guillen.
–When my brother and I were in Charleston, S.C., we went to the terrific aquarium there and at the bottom of the main massive tank that contained the giant groupers and sharks, there was a loggerhead turtle, just sitting there. But then suddenly it shot up, at least as fast as a loggerhead turtle can, and it was incredibly cool to see.
Coincidentally, I was reading in BBC Nature on Tuesday that loggerhead turtles “take almost half a century to reach maturity,” according to scientists.
“A female turtle, the researchers report in the journal Functional Ecology, will not start to lay eggs until she is 45.”
Good lord! But think about the implications when it comes to conservation efforts. As in how long it takes for turtles hatched at a protected nesting site to return to that site to breed. And as Prof. Graeme Hays added, “The longer an animal takes to reach maturity, the more vulnerable the population is to [man-made] causes of mortality.” Ergo, if a turtle is caught in a fishing net, for example, the odds of that animal having had a chance to “replace itself” by breeding is pretty slim.
–Oh, I guess for the archives I should mention Conrad Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. Sentencing is Nov. 29 and it will be mildly interesting to see what kind of jail time he is given. I’ll say 12-18 months, max., meaning he serves but a few.
Top 3 songs for the week 11/15/75: #1 “Island Girl” (Elton John) #2 “Lyin’ Eyes” (The Eagles) #3 “Who Loves You” (Four Seasons…just got tickets to see Frankie in January…I almost hope he lip-syncs…as long as the band backing him is good it won’t matter…I’m there for the tunes, sports fans!)…and…#4 “Miracles” (Jefferson Starship) #5 “Heat Wave” (Linda Ronstadt…before she got, err, a little chunky) #6 “That’s The Way ( I Like It)” (KC & The Sunshine Band…KC with extensive facial work these days) #7 “This Will Be” (Natalie Cole…like this one more as the years go by) #8 “Feelings” (Morris Albert… black sheep of the Albert broadcasting family) #9 “The Way I Want To Touch You” (Captain & Tennille…terrific song, just don’t tell anyone I said so….I have my reputation to uphold) #10 “Low Rider” (War…top five car tune… these guys were very underrated)
College Football Quiz Answers: Penn State quarterbacks for best teams. 1) 1968-69: Chuck Burkhart 2) 1973: Tom Shuman 3) 1982: Todd Blackledge 4) 1986: John Shaffer 5) 1994: Kerry Collins.
