JoePa vs. The Bear on BTN
by BSD on Sep 7, 2010 1:45 PM EDT
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I just got this press release from the Big Ten Network. Thought you all might be interseted.
Network to Air ‘JoePa vs. The Bear’ Tuesday Night
30-minute original special examines connections between legendary college football coaches
CHICAGO – In anticipation of Penn State’s football game at Alabama, the Big Ten Network will debut JoePa vs. The Bear at 9 PM ET on Tuesday. The 30-minute original special chronicles the uncommon connections and mutual respect held by Nittany Lions coach Joe Paterno and long-time Crimson Tide coach and six-time national champion Paul "Bear" Bryant.
JoePa vs. The Bear includes new interviews with Hall of Fame broadcaster Keith Jackson and Penn State assistant coaches Jay Paterno, Tom Bradley and Galen Hall, former Penn State radio announcer Fran Fisher and other former coaches such as Nebraska’s Tom Osborne and Minnesota’s Glen Mason. It also features historical footage of both iconic coaches earning recognition from sitting United States presidents.
During head coaching careers that spanned four decades together, Paterno’s and Bryant’s teams met four times, beginning with the 1975 Sugar Bowl and continuing with the 1978 Sugar Bowl and a home-and-home series in 1981 and 1982. The feature will chronicle those hard-fought battles when history seemed to repeat itself with improbable goal line stands.
History shows that Bryant’s Crimson Tide won all four meetings against Paterno’s Nittany Lions, but JoePa vs. The Bear also recounts Penn State’s 1959 Liberty Bowl win against Alabama, when Paterno was on the sidelines as an assistant coach and Hall was the Nittany Lions’ quarterback.
Finally, JoePa vs. The Bear tells the story of Jay Paterno, Joe’s son, who wrote Bryant a letter as a seventh grader for National Library Week. Bryant returned the correspondence, and that letter held such meaning to Jay Paterno that he kept it for decades. In 2001, when Joe Paterno needed one victory against Ohio State to break Bryant’s Division I coaching wins record, Jay Paterno, now the Nittany Lions’ quarterbacks coach, drew strength from the letter which he carried in his pocket while coaching from the press box.
In addition to JoePa vs. The Bear, the Big Ten Network will debut three new shows next week including Big Ten Film Vault (Tuesday, 8 PM ET), The Next Level (Thursday, 8 PM ET) and The Big Ten Pulse (Thursday, 9 PM ET).
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Fact: We're not "their" team.
In fact, during the production of this show when the highlights showed the Tide stopping Guman at the 1 a bunch of Michigan producers started pumping their fists and yelling, “Yeah! Yeah! Suck it!”
No word on whether it made the final cut. Probably.
by ReadingRambler on Sep 7, 2010 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Like I said, Dave Brandon
has a sleeper agent in the Big Ten scheduling office AND the Big Ten network.
Can Abbrederis shoot the long three and effectively distribute the ball to his big men?
"Because one of the great minds of the 21st century is raising glow-in-the-dark fish and weaving serapes..." -Leonard Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory
For all the crap we give Wil Wheaton, he can still tackle better than Asante Samuel...
by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Sep 8, 2010 12:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Here's what I don't like
The Big Ten is trying to adopt PSU’s pre-Big Ten days as their own tradition. JoePa and The Bear never met when PSU was part of the Big Ten, so please don’t make it out to be some kind of Big Ten epic matchup.
Cappy never played in the Big Ten, so don’t feel obligated to include him in your bobble-head competition.
Please don’t include the 1987 Fiesta Bowl in your “Big Ten’s Greatest Games” series. It was one of Penn State’s greatest games, not the Big Ten’s.
by BSD on Sep 8, 2010 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions
eh, I don't know if I agree
since otherwise we’d never get any airtime/promotion, and we’d feel even more like outsiders. I mean it isn’t like I’m cheering for any of the OSU or Michigan greatest games being like, “WOOO BIG TEN!!!!” They’re mostly for the fans of those teams to be able to watch some of the great games from the past.
by The JuggerNitt on Sep 8, 2010 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Mike, The Big Ten is not trying to adopt PSU’s tradition as their own. I honestly couldn’t disagree more. The Big Ten is celebrating PSU’s tradition and we don’t like that?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 8, 2010 6:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I just like being able to see lots more Penn State stuff.
I don’t care if it’s pre-Big Ten.
For the glory
I'm with you Paige, more PSU is better but Mike's got a point.
We’re better than that. The Big Ten was crap in the 70’s and 80’s until we lifted it up.
by Frank O'Brien on Sep 9, 2010 1:29 AM EDT up reply actions
I blame
Ohio State and Michigan, and the unbelievable futility at Wisconsin from Milt Bruhn to Barry Alvarez…
Can Abbrederis shoot the long three and effectively distribute the ball to his big men?
"Because one of the great minds of the 21st century is raising glow-in-the-dark fish and weaving serapes..." -Leonard Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory
For all the crap we give Wil Wheaton, he can still tackle better than Asante Samuel...
by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Sep 9, 2010 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions
So then they would have had three teams to send to the Rose Bowl and lose to a two-three loss Pac 10 team.
by ReadingRambler on Sep 9, 2010 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions
They had all of three teams to choose from most of the time
1) Woody Abusive Hayes
2) Bo Schembechler
3) Illinois
Indiana was a decent team for most of the 80s and actually ranked for segments of the season. But they never made a Rose Bowl in that decade.
Can Abbrederis shoot the long three and effectively distribute the ball to his big men?
"Because one of the great minds of the 21st century is raising glow-in-the-dark fish and weaving serapes..." -Leonard Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory
For all the crap we give Wil Wheaton, he can still tackle better than Asante Samuel...
by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Sep 9, 2010 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions
Big Ten champions from 1970 to 1994
1970 Ohio State
1971 Michigan
1972 Ohio State, shared with Michigan
1973 Ohio State, shared with Michigan
1974 Ohio State, shared with Michigan
1975 Ohio State
1976 Michigan
1977 Michigan, shared with Ohio State
1978 Michigan State, shared with Michigan
1979 Ohio State
1980 Michigan
1981 Iowa, shared with Ohio State
1982 Michigan
1983 Illinois
1984 Ohio State
1985 Iowa
1986 Michigan, shared with Ohio State
1987 Michigan State
1988 Michigan
1989 Michigan
1990 Michigan State, shared with Michigan
1991 Michigan
1992 Michigan (3 ties that season)
1993 Wisconsin and Ohio State
1994 Penn State
In retrospect, I hate the 70s.
Can Abbrederis shoot the long three and effectively distribute the ball to his big men?
"Because one of the great minds of the 21st century is raising glow-in-the-dark fish and weaving serapes..." -Leonard Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory
For all the crap we give Wil Wheaton, he can still tackle better than Asante Samuel...
by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Sep 9, 2010 11:21 AM EDT up reply actions
No word on if "B.J. and the Bear" will be aired on Nick at Nite.
but it should
Bloggin' at joepasdoghouse.com
that's funny
they would make a special for us of us getting our asses kicked four times in a row, once for a national title. Thanks Big Ten Network.
"It was an attrition football game and you know we like that."
It was an exellent program and it ended on a high note.
Two thoughts:
1) Less talky talk, more pictures of Rip Engle in celebration.
2) Matt Suhey was in on third down. I don’t care what Franny says. I don’t care what the Alabama people say. Matt Suhey scored a touchdown on third down.
by ReadingRambler on Sep 7, 2010 10:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Was this you?
one fan e-mailed The Dash last week to say Nittany Lions fullback Matt Suhey scored on third down but the officials marked the ball wrong. After 31 years it’s time to move on, sir.
PS – Pat Forde is turribull.
@EpicTripod
SBN - Pittsburgh
Success With Honor
by Jeff Junstrom on Sep 8, 2010 6:42 AM EDT up reply actions
No it wasn't me.
I’m not crazy enough to email Pat Forde.
I say after 31 years it’s time for Pat Forde to move on. To whale autopsy technician.
by ReadingRambler on Sep 8, 2010 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions
I love playing the Where's Rambler game, too
I thought it was him on the Division Alignment special who wrote in asking about whether cross-divisional games count towards Division Standings and signed his name: Guy, Reading, PA
Until our defense proves otherwise, it should be presumed they will be excellent.
you know I'll still watch it
it’s not like I have a life or anything
"It was an attrition football game and you know we like that."
I heard Tom Bradley on Rivals Radio yesterday
Scrap played in the 79 Sugar Bowl, so they asked him if Suhey got in. Scrap says every time the coaching staff sees Suhey they asks him, “Hey Suhey, did you get in?”
And every time Suhey replies, “Yeah, I got in coach.”
by BSD on Sep 8, 2010 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions
So can we assume that we’ll once again get stuck on the goal line and go to Joe Suhey in an attempt to exorcise several demons?
by AreWeGoodThisYear? on Sep 8, 2010 1:55 AM EDT reply actions
I sure hope so
Whenever I play NCAA online against people and I’m on the goalline I trash talk into the head set and say this one’s for you Joe Pa and Fullback Dive into the endzone
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