Pittsburgh Proud

by Since1950Fan on Nov 7, 2009 7:29 PM EST Comment 4 comments

Congratulations to the Pitt Panthers for a sold performance today against Syracuse. I keep trying to put a Pirate starting lineup together in my mind. Sure is a difficult job. Maybe we should go back to the Bob Prince "animal nicknames" for the players system. Maybe ownership would keep them around longer if the players seemed more warm and fuzzy. It's hard to do when the players aren't here very long. Playing here is like being on a continuous road-trip - never really unpack. But . . . time to end the negativity !!! This year we will get to know the names of all the players AND scare the league!

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Bob Prince was a sportscaster. He used his nicknames on players who were put there by a front office. The players were not there because of nicknames, the were there, because they could win. The reason some players are not kept is that the tean could not win with them on the team. You don’t create a winning team by just giving stupid nicknames to each of the players.

Did you ever see the movie “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh” ??

It was based on a basketball team that hired an astrologist who told them they could win if all the players had the same astrological sign. The reality is that this approach is nonsence, as is what you are proposing. Paul.

"I choose to gamble with my life

Twice the risk, four times the prize

Nothing knocks me over"

by lighthouse913 on Nov 8, 2009 1:22 AM EST via mobile reply actions 0 recs

"The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh"

is possibly the worst movie I have ever seen, and I’ve seen “Plan 9 From Outer Space.”

I went to college at Point Park and lived in the dorms downtown, at Wood and the Boulevard. One night about 3 a.m. my roommate and I were awakened by a tremendous noise outside our 18th floor window. It sounded like WWIII had broken out. We looked outseide and to our wonderment and annoyance someone was shooting fireworks over where Station Square is now. Turns out they were filming a scene for “Fish.”

I have hated those MFers ever since.

Oh yeah, Prince called Larry Demery “El Sapo,” which IIRC translates as “The Toad.” Not all of the players he gave animal nicknames were winners; not all of the nicknames were complimentary.

by bucdaddy on Nov 8, 2009 2:47 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I’ve never seen “The Fish,” but I remember going with my mother as part of a call for extras. I was about four years old. I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t for that fireworks scene.

by Traco Bucco on Nov 8, 2009 7:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

No offense, Traco

but that movie wasted far more comedic talents than yours. Wasn’t Jonathan Winters in that mess? And Kareem?

There’s a sequence near the end where the Pisces trail whatever team they’re playing in the big game by like 10 points with seconds to go, and suddenly they get hot and there’s a montage of what seems like 50 dunk shots — every basket in the movie is a dunk — from every conceivable angle that goes on far longer than there is time left in the game, and when it’s done … wait for it … the Pisces still trail by a point or two.

I think “Fish” is worse than that KISS at the amusement park movie, but then, I hold a grudge.

by bucdaddy on Nov 9, 2009 12:56 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs