RIP Beano Cook

According to Ivan Maisel on Twitter:

@Ivan_Maisel: I am very sorry to tell you that Beano Cook died in his sleep. He was 81. If you love college football, you will miss him.

https://twitter.com/Ivan_Maisel/status/256424165832290305

 

One of those people who I rarely agreed with, but loved watching...

RIP.

 

I guess heaven needed more material.

 

Heaven needed someone to talk about Ron Powlus' Heisman chances.

 

Confirmed. RIP.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/pitt-big-east/pitt-legend-beano-cook-dies-657150/

 

To the heavenly choir: "Tell 'em! Tell 'em I can hear them!"

 

I still think his quote about the Iran hostages getting a lifetime pass to baseball games is one of the best of all-time.

"Haven't they suffered enough?"

 

Agreed, but he was such a character it was part of the appeal, IMHO. Bad week for such characters: Mr. Cook, Bill Jauss, Alex Karras.

He was what he was. RIP, Beano, at the big Pitt Stadium in the sky.

 

Well, damn. RIP Beano.

 

Somewhere, Ron Powlus weeps.

 

I was in Western Pennsylvania for a U.S. Open at Oakmont many years ago. Early in the week, a group of us decided to get together for dinner one night in downtown Pittsburgh; someone knew Beano and invited him to join us. All the stories that were told for a couple of hours . . . priceless.

RIP.

 

He was College Gameday before anyone outside Kentuckiana heard of Lee Corso. Listening to his gravely voice (and Fowler introducing the College Football Quagmires to "Riders on the Storm" set the table for a great Saturday. Of course he would have never made it doing mascot heads, since he thought Pitt, Notre Dame, Army and Navy were the only four teams in the sport.