Yep, it was the only reason we watched the Bob Hope Xmas special.

​@floridapmi same here. As soon as the segment was over, the channel was changed

I had no idea.... 😞

My mom went to HS with him at Notre Dame HS in Clarksburg WV.

My wife was a student at Marshall at that time.

I remember Loria. I thought he was a RB. RIP never knew

And without gimmicks like "THEEEE"

@@stephaniegormley9982 Exactly...

Yeah... Not there high-school...

Largely forgotten in Bengals history thanks to Anthony Muñoz. Johnson was a #2 pick Munoz a #3 pick.

And a Tennessee Volunteer

Some guys are just born with more testosterone than others.

They look like men though.

Lighten up, Orenthal

that is what happened to Nicole Simpson...

Even though he was the head coach, I believe Coach Frank Howard spent much of his time coaching the O line in that era.

Yary was undoubtedly the best offensive lineman in college football that year. He also played extremely well for the Minnesota Vikings. I remember watching him stop a pick six against the Rams during a Monday Night game. It turned out the Vikings made a goal line stand after that play that kept the Rams from scoring what should have been an easy touchdown. Yary was a true beast on the field.

Where is Butkus

@@Jjstier Playing for the Bears.

​@@Jjstier@Jjstier If you want to see Butkus, look at the Bob Hope All-american football team 1964.

@@courylanders4142 1963

You'd run funny too in those pencil legged slacks. There was an illustrated cartoon in Playboy back then about how the "Ivy League" styled suit wasn't practical, especially for athletically built men. I had a couple of pairs of those pants in '67-'68 made of hard wearing materials, rust colored corduroy and the other one in off white denim and I couldn't run very good in them. Can't imagine trying to run in them made out of 120's wool or cotton... RRRIIIPPP!!! They're probably trying not to split the seam out of the rear running down that incline.

Those three and OJ are the Pro Football Hall of Famers in thIs group.

@@matthewbrotman2907 OJ is a tough one for me. Best REGULAR season RB I ever saw. But I don't think OJ or the Bills even won just one playoff game. And OJ had the ability to take a game over all by himself If he wanted to. Plus that double murder thing kinda wants me to look elsewhere for one of my all-time favorites.

Hendricks, not Hendrix.

@@SamWesting Yeah. He's there too

​@@radar0412 plus nothing

Did you hear that?? I believe the young man said he had to go pee!!

*feel

My high school classmate,Kevin Gilmore,is one of the 6 players buried in the mass grave at Huntington.

He was actually very bright, and wanted to go on to study physics.

Killer Simpson won the Heisman in 1968, not 1967. Gary Beban won the Heisman in 1967.

That’s what he stated.

Not surprising Ted was the tallest in the group.

Read it! @@EBLLC

Not to mention, Alabama had an electric kick returner and 5-time All-American in Forrest Gump.

Hey I remember that name. I'm in Edmonton...

One of many good undersized US college players that came north to play in Canada. Jim Stillwagon (Toronto Argonauts), Tom Clements and Condredge Holloway were among others.

@@jamesanthony5681 Don't forget Mr. Sonny Wade of Emory and Henry College of Glade Spring, Virginia. He played QB for the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL from 1969-1977 and the Alouettes won three Great Cup championships while he played there. The Als' won in 1970, 1974, and 1977. A fine accomplishment for a "small no big name college" player.

@@brittonbanks646 Yes, there were a bunch of good players.

Jason Maas went to the same high school I did. Yuma Union, the Criminals. He went to Canada and won 3 Grey Cups with Edmonton, in 2003, 2005, and 2012. He coached them too. He is a head coach with the Montreal Alouettes. Jason's father was a police officer, that was killed in the line of duty when Jason was 10 years old.

That is so true 🍀🍀

Yes it did. His voice is deeper now.

6 foot 7.

Bird out of North Carolina State was huge.

Watch for O.J.'s eye roll as he was introduced.

@@orangehoof I guess he wouldn't get *that* mad--Bob's not his ex-wife.

@@orangehoof I know. I saw it.

Bob presaged the whole thing when he said "With a name like Orenthal you have to run fast"

Precisely.

Not true

Yeah, I did think about that. I didn't want to play the race card 1967. I think most schools were predominantly white still. It's crazy seeing OJ & now we know what happened in 94

@@erickthefantabulous1 yeah we know OJ didn’t do it. It’s a shame he got such a bad rep

When Bob pronounced O.J.’s first name Or-RENTH-al, I freaked.

Yuk! Yuk! Yuk!

​@@erickthefantabulous1there were few blacks named until the late 70s

This was the Look All American team. They had a bunch of different All American teams back them, like they have now.

Bob mispronounced his name, putting the accent on the second syllable instead of the first.

@@duketoofor3098 He seemed to me to have a good sense of humor about it.

Good thing he didn't have a knife-

Yeah, widely known for his double-murder now!

🤮

Today they would all be into hip-hop , rap music and have HUGE beards.

" ever the jokes " ???

It's true. Many athletes did not weight train. They were also much lighter than today's NFL players.

I don't believe colleges even had strength coaches in 67

Not into STERIODS back then.

The had none. Weight training was frowned upon in those days. The U. Of Nebraska was the first to institute weight training and to hire a weight training coach. Previously it was believed that weight training would leave the players too stout to move their arms and too stoved up to run as they should.@@mikeforney354

There were steroids back then. Most collage athletes would not use such a thing. Professional athletes Used them a lot.@@LannieLord

10th round draft pick, I believe, of the Detroit Lions the year he came out. Considered too small to play linebacker & didn't make the team.

Granville Liggins

@@lakemichigan6598 If I recall, he sustained a rather severe knee injury late in the Orange Bowl after his senior season (vs. Bob Johnson's U of Tennessee) and that put an end to any chances he had of a meaningful NFL career. He's the poster child for these players today who sit out their bowl game prior to entering the NFL Draft.

@@TheMrSuge Liggins did get hurt against Tennessee but he did play 14 years in the CFL and was All CFL at some level in most of those years.

@@marjorieanderson8626 Thx. Didn't know that. I only knew that he was drafted by Detroit and it didn't appear he even made the team. I assumed that was because he hadn't recovered from his injury by training camp.

Really? That’s the same Tom Shane? Didn’t know that. Being from Denver, I remember those commercials.

@@timcollins3794 He sure could slash up a defense.

Had the jury at his trial voted for the Heisman, he'd have four of them.

@@miltonsmith974 Y'all's comments 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Did you even watch this? He and LeRoy Keyes were pictured and mentioned as they were unable to attend. Wake up.

@@hermanator74301 They were pictured but they weren't there.

And Larry Csonka that played for the undefeated Miami Dolphins in 1972

Butkus was a Bears rookie in 1965

Yeah, it was a better time.

@@hermanator74301 what? To get a haircut?

And O.J. was found standing over Hope's body holding a blood-soaked knife - but the Jury found him innocent.

Gary Beban won the Heisman Trophy that year.

Stabler wasn't even the first quarterback drafted by the Raiders in 1968.

The Dennis Byrd whom was paralyzed playing for the Jets and later died in a car accident was from the U. Of Tulsa. Different guy from a different era.

@@hermanator74301 Yes two different players with the same name . The NC State Dennis Byrd in this 1967 Bob Hope presentation with OJ Simpson et al died in 2010 age 63 .

Just your opinion.

He was awesome in the movies--he was a dud who needed great writers as a stand up comic.

I knew a guy who was at one of his uso shows said he was very reliant on cue cards

Some of the jokes were used every year on the show.

Johnny Carson agrees with you. He hated Bob because he thought Hope had no ad-lib ability. Everything was written jokes. Johnny also resented Bob because he was the one guest who schedule himself to appear on The Tonight Show whenever he wanted and usually to promote his own specials. But give him credit. Who else but a dumpy-looking Brit could manage to convince babes like Racquel Welch to fly with him to Vietnam?

You can't compare players from different eras, these guys were slower and "weaker" than modern players but the game was much tougher back then and i'm not so sure modern players would last long playing in the 60's 70's without getting constantly injured.

Dude, this was literally a half century ago. The human body gets bigger, stronger, and faster over 50 years.

. . another myth & believed propaganda by today's overpaid, hyped up, no sense athletes.

@@lwmson . .make sure to include the steroids.

@@lwmson Total bull. Other than some very slight differences due to nutrition, there's not one bit of truth to what you said. I guess it is true that as a people we're fatter today and in far worse physical shape, so we are "bigger."

After USC's Sam Cunningham destroyed Alabama in a game it was said that he did more for integration in 45 minutes than did MLK and his father in 45 years.

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