DOG ASIDE: There are two major university systems of higher education in the State of Texas….the University of Texas System….and the University of Texas A & M System….as both systems are considered among the best in the country in regards to education, research, technology, medicine and athletics. The Texas A&M University System is a state university system…
DOG ASIDE: NFL Films has produced so many wonderful films regarding the history of the NFL….from the Men Who Played the Game series….to the Great Teams Great Years series….to the Greatest Games Ever Played series et al….and ImaSportsphile has more than its fair share of these awesome film productions within the pages of our football section. This NFL FIlms…
DOG ASIDE: This 4th quarter of the 1986 Rose Bowl Classic featuring the Pac 10 Champion UCLA Bruins coached by Terry Donahue verses the Big 10 Champion Iowa Hawkeyes coached by Hayden Fry was played on January 1, 1986 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA…..while being carried on NBC Sports with their legendary lead…
DOG ASIDE: Delbert McClinton is the unquestionable King of Roadhouse Blues in and around the State of Texas….especially the closer you get to Austin….which is known universally as the Live Music Capital of the World. On any given night of the week….and throughout the year….there are a minimum of over 300 music groups and band performing in Greater…
DOG ASIDE: It has been said that the best things in life come in small packages….and sometimes a video speaks for itself when words cannot sufficiently describe….and this Michelin Tire advertisement fits both those statements….for it is one of the best TV ad programs ever produced….as Michelin used babies in their television advertisements for some…
DOG ASIDE: Heinz Günthardt and Balázs Taróczy were the defending Wimbledon men’s doubles champions….but they lost in the first round to Sammy Giammalva and Greg Holmes….while Sweden’s Joakim Nyström and Mats Wilander faced USA’s Gary Donnelly and Peter Fleming in the finals of this 1986 Wimbledon Championship. Nystrom + Wilander reached these finals by defeating USA Ken Flack + Robert Seguso in the quarterfinals…..then dispatched South…
DOG ASIDE: The University of Texas Marching Band….known around the world as The Show Band of the Southwest was founded in 1900 by distinguished professor of chemistry, Dr. Eugene P. Schoch….who with Dr. H. E. Baxter becoming the first director of the Longhorn Band….as they purchased $150 worth of instruments from a local pawn shop….and recruited 16 students to make…
DOG ASIDE: This 1979 CBS Sports Special “Passport to Pasadena” provides an in depth look at the upcoming 1979 NFL season….which will climax at Super Bowl XXI at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA….as presented by the CBS NFL Today crew of Brent Musburger, Irv Cross and Jayne Kennedy….of which Musburger is a legendary sports broadcaster…
DOG ASIDE: There is no question about it….this video is “pure gold” here at ImaSportsphile….for it is classic ESPN coverage of the NFL from the 1986 season….featuring some of the originals NFL broadcasters at ESPN…. for there’s Chis “Swame” Berman, who has already been inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame….then there is Tom Jackson, in his…