Listen to the audio here, as linked on AJC Political Insider:
Here are a few facts about Jim Whitehead’s playing days:
- Was not a starter during any of his three seasons at UGA (1960, 1961, 1962) according the official UGA Athletics site
- Only earned a varsity letter one year of the three he played according to the official UGA athletics site
- The Bulldogs went 6-4 in 1960, and followed that with two of the worst seasons in Bulldog football history, winning only three games in 1961 and 1962. The Bulldogs didn’t go to a bowl for two seasons in a row, an embarrassing feat they wouldn’t repeat again until the 1993 and 1994 seasons under Ray
GoofGoff. The Bulldogs never beat the Gators during those three years. - The 1962 season was marred by allegations of athletic director/former coach Wally Butts telegraphing plays during the Alabama game. The article the allegations were based on was dismissed as libelous, but Butts was forced to explain in court why the Bulldogs were so bad that point-shaving couldn’t have been the reason the Bulldogs got whipped by the Crimson Tide. According to this account in Time Magazine, which ran Aug. 16, 1963:
When his turn came, Butts was a far more relaxed witnessâ€â€but no less emphatic. He had talked football with his friend Paul Bryant many times, he said. “In fact, I’ve talked football with every coach I’ve ever been around.” But Butts insisted that he had never given Bryant any dope on Georgia football strategy; he had never given any coach any information before a game, he said. Burnett’s notes, said Butts, were rife with error. To show why he would never have called the Georgia squad “well-disciplined,” Coach Butts treated the jury to a chalk-talk explaining how lack of discipline cost Georgia at least three touchdowns as it lost to Alabama.
I doubt Butts tipped the plays, though you never know, since he was known to associate with degenerate gamblers.
And Jim Whitehead wasn’t even good enough to start for those teams! “Big Dog” my ass. I wonder why Munson stuck out his neck for this guy considering he was a nobody as a player and considering his dizzying array of dumbass remarks, including one endorsing blowing up the University of Georgia?
Started humming Rocky Top yet?
If John Ward had endorsed a reprobate piece of shit like Jim Whitehead, I’d have considered defecting.
I can’t decide if I find it sad or hilarious that disputes about Whitehead’s football record are more likely to sway voters in the 10th than all of the crazy ass things he’s said.
Welcome to Georgia! If he gets an endorsement from Larry Campbell, I’m ready to call this race for Whitehead right now.
I guess the question to me though is what’s in it for Munson? What incentive does he have to give a Whitehead endorsement, considering all of Whitehead’s baggage?
It’s the old dude rule. Larry is an old dude who doesn’t give a damn what anybody thinks.
I would like to buy that, but you’d be surprised how much political and business acumen your typical old dude who doesn’t give a damn has, and how that will lead to un-old-dude-who-doesn’t-give-a-damn-like behavior to advance their own careers.
Example: did you know Bear Bryant had plastic surgery to look better on TV? This is a guy who supposedly wrestled a fucking bear and played Tennessee with a broken leg in the 1930s!
So, I think there has to be an end to it, even if it’s meager.
Fuck all this!!!!!
[...] May 23rd, 2007 at 11:08 am (Dawgs, Politics) I just don’t know what to make of this, but it’s the #1 reason why politics and college football should never insect (unless Dooley had wanted to run for the 10th as a Democrat). GOD. Now when I listen to Munson, I’m going to think Jim Whitehead’s impending jackass votes in Congress. Fortunately, I usually go the games / watch them on the TV so I won’t have to listen to his hobnailbootass voice. [...]
Munson is on the verge of senility. End of story. In other news, Whitehead’s campaign literature makes my blood boil.
That which you know as “Bear” Bryant (Department of the Navy Semi-Autonomous Anti-Ursine Weapon Model RTR-001) was created in the early 20th century by a joint effort of the first Roosevelt administration, the United States Navy, and Nikola Tesla to be a humanoid amphibious-assault weapon and the final solution in two key areas: killing bears and coaching football. The amphibious-assault capabilities were scrapped in pre-production, as the bulky waterproofing equipment available at the time made passing the unit off as a human in all but the most dimly-lit situations impossible, and the smell of the burning coal used to power the unit during underwater operations (when the Tesla engines would by necessity be shut down) tended to alert the test bears’ keen sense of smell.
Note that the Bryant unit’s public unveiling predates Karel ÄŒapek’s “Rossum’s Universal Robots” by nearly a decade, although the manner of creation differs between ÄŒapek’s artificial bioforms and the Tesla/Roosevelt consortium’s clearly non-biological (in the original schematics) automaton.
But I digress. What the public was told to be “plastic surgery” was in reality an upgrade to the Bryant unit’s facial servos and actuators to give his facial movements a higher degree of complexity and believability. This was made necessary by the improvements in live-broadcast television picture quality which were adopted en masse as an obscure method by which to unmask and discredit the Bryant unit during the ongoing Edison/Tesla Wars.
Pretty much takes the bomb remark off the table, and will probably swing about 500 votes for the old fool. That’s a lot in a small special election like this.
Also, Go EAGLES! U of Southern Mississippi!