Freaky: Marshall plane evacuated due to engine smoke

[BYH]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2656671

 

[dixiehack]

Even more freaky: They were on their way to East Carolina.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Cancel the game.

 

[Football_Bat]

Geez, a lot of plane incidences lately. Twice in a row the Cowboys' charter was late flying home. Had to land in Nashville 2 weeks ago when Tony Ollison had chest pains, and last week the plane was on the tarmac for 4 hours.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Even more freaky: They were on their way to East Carolina.

Anyone ever been to Greenville, N.C? What a pit of a town.

 

[DisembodiedOwlHead]

McConaughy's on his way to film the sequel: "We Were Marshall: Delayed Takeoff"

 

[Songbird]

Movie about the Marshall tragedy coming out (or out already) ... then this ...

Give that publicity agent a raise.

 

[Claws for Concern]

THIS is creepy...

Marshall's sports information director at the time, Gene Morehouse, died in that crash.

On Friday, his son Keith Morehouse was aboard the plane headed for the game in Greenville, N.C.

 

[D-3 Fan]

This is too eerie and ironic all the way around.

[sarcastic a-hole speaking]Dear Marshall, please take the bus and play at Buffalo.[/sarcastic a-hole speaking]

 

[imjustagirl2]

THIS is creepy...

Marshall's sports information director at the time, Gene Morehouse, died in that crash.

On Friday, his son Keith Morehouse was aboard the plane headed for the game in Greenville, N.C.

And Keith Morehouse, who was 9 at the time of that plane crash, married a woman who lost both parents in the crash.
Or so the story I read said.

 

[Claws for Concern]

Why does he fly? Be like John Madden. Madden learned his lesson after the plane he was on October, 1960 with the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo football team crashed. He lived, as did Ted Tollner and a few others, but 16 players and two others did not. Madden's never been on a plane since that crash.

 

[markvid]

Claws, that is totally wrong - this from ESPN.com:

Another horrific team crash happened in 1960 at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is one reason that NFL broadcaster John Madden refuses to fly, instead bussing himself to each week's broadcast. Madden, who played at Cal Poly in 1957 and '58 and was a graduate assistant in 1960, stayed behind to coach a junior varsity game at Allan Hancock College when the plane carrying many of his former teammates went down near Toledo, Ohio, killing 22 of the 48 passengers. Sixteen of those who died were football players.


He still flew while he was in the NFL, but gave it up after his coaching days ended because he's also claustrophobic.

 

[Songbird]

Minor threadjack: Madden was the last head coach at Hancock College to lead the Bulldogs to an undefeated season ('60). I believe Bill Bertka (former Lakers assistant, head coach) coached there, too, and had like a 95-15 record or something close to it. John Osborne was a legendary baseball coach there. Uniforms look just like the Dodgers' threads. Good school to cover if you ever work in Santa Maria.

 

[farmerjerome]

Yikes, stuff like this is why I'm afraid to fly.

We are Marshall, I guess.

 

[DisembodiedOwlHead]

RUB THE FUSELAGE, BOYS !!

HEADLINE: Pieces of MU plane could become charm

BYLINE: The Associated Press

BODY:
HUNTINGTON - Two Marshall football fans and coach Bob Pruett want to use pieces of a crashed airplane that 32 years ago decimated the university's football program as a good-luck charm.

The two fans, Millard Robertson of Huntington and Kenova City Council President Ric Griffith, have saved four pieces of the plane that went down in Huntington on Nov. 14, 1970, killing 75 Marshall football players, coaches and supporters.

Now they want to encase the fuselage pieces in glass and have them used in a ritual ceremony at Marshall home games.

Griffith told WOWK-TV he wants to establish a tradition where Marshall players touch the plane pieces as they enter the field.

He cited similar stadium traditions where Notre Dame players touch a "Play Like a Champion Today" sign and Clemson players touch Howard's Rock.

"As they enter the field, the fans will know that they are touching and having a personal link to the people from that crash," Griffith said.

Coach Pruett said he likes the idea.

"I don't think there would be another event in all of college sports that would have the emotion or meaning that this tradition could have," Pruett said.

"I think it's another step toward closure and another step toward honoring those great players."

Robertson found the plane pieces three days after the accident on a hillside near the crash site.

He saved them for 12 years, then gave them to his friend Griffith, who has kept them safe since.

"I remember it like it was last night," Robertson said. "I never thought it would go this far, but I'm glad it did."

LOAD-DATE: April 01, 2002

 

[linotype]

Well, we can only assume that Marshall's plane landed safely tonight. Thus depriving former coach Bob Pruett of another motivational tactic.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Well, we can only assume that Marshall's plane landed safely tonight. Thus depriving former coach Bob Pruett of another motivational tactic.

Ummm... Look at the load date at the end of the story.

 

[linotype]

Ummm ... Sure, I know the story ran on the wire in 2002. Pruett in '02 wanted to rub the charred fuselage for inspiration. I know he's no longer there, Mark Snyder is, while Pruett's now only a gladhander and fundraiser for Marshall.

I'm seriously not trying to be a wiseass dickhead, but I don't see what you're getting at?

EDIT: A-ha. April Fool's Day. No, I was actually around Marshall's program when that idea was first floated.

Seriously. It's no April Fool's hoax. Pruett really wanted to do that.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Ummm ... Sure, I know the story ran on the wire in 2002. Pruett in '02 wanted to rub the charred fuselage for inspiration. I know he's no longer there, Mark Snyder is, while Pruett's now only a gladhander and fundraiser for Marshall.

I'm seriously not trying to be a wiseass dickhead, but I don't see what you're getting at?

April 1, 2002

 

[linotype]

Ummm ... Sure, I know the story ran on the wire in 2002. Pruett in '02 wanted to rub the charred fuselage for inspiration. I know he's no longer there, Mark Snyder is, while Pruett's now only a gladhander and fundraiser for Marshall.

I'm seriously not trying to be a wiseass dickhead, but I don't see what you're getting at?

April 1, 2002

I was working in that region in 2002. That's actually no April Fool's hoax. It seriously was proposed. Pruett really wanted to encase the fuselage.