RIP Bill McCartney

[MileHigh]

Longtime Colorado coach who turned the downtrodden Buffs into a co-national champion.

Bill McCartney, Hall of Fame Coach, Passes Away - University of Colorado Athletics

 

[DanOregon]

Figured God would give him a fifth down at least. RIP, good fb coach.

 

[swingline]

Now he can join Sal.

 

[Songbird]

The rise of Colorado into a powerhouse was cool to watch.

It was always Boomer and Braska always always always ... then here came the Buffs. Those were a few good years of Big 8 football.

 

[dixiehack]

The most attention Colorado football got before the late 80s was Mork from Ork hanging out on a goalpost.

 

[nickp]

Gospel according to Mac still the best 30 for 30 ever

 

[micropolitan guy]

The number of Colorado players who were arrested during his tenure was staggering.

 

[User 149557]

Responsible for 16-year old me having to sit in the Pontiac Silverdome being weirded out by 80,000 men crying together. Promise Keepers was the creepiest thing I’ve ever been forced to attend until I covered an event at a full-fledged cult compound as a journalist.

 

[swingline]

Promise Keepers: We promise to keep women subjugated.

Stepford Wives creepy.

 

[HanSenSE]

Responsible for 16-year old me having to sit in the Pontiac Silverdome being weirded out by 80,000 men crying together. Promise Keepers was the creepiest thing I’ve ever been forced to attend until I covered an event at a full-fledged cult compound as a journalist.

And didn't it all start when the Buffs QB knocked up his daughter?

 

[swingline]

His white daughter ****ed a non-white and got pregnant.

 

[Starman]

Among the creepiest of the creepy are Catholics who convert to evangelical holy roller Protestantism, and vice versa (see JD Vance).

Because one of the primary characteristics of holy roller fundamentalist Protestantism has always been hardcore anti-Catholicism.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

His white daughter ****ed a non-white and got pregnant.

Wasn’t it more than once?

 

[swingline]

Don’t know of any but Saint Sal’s spawn.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Had no idea Grantland's stuff was still up. And the headline seems to track with the current state of affairs (and a recent post I saw here).

https://grantland.com/features/bill-mccartney-colorado-buffaloes-20-years-after-resigning/

 

[User 149557]

One thing I respect about ESPN is they’ve kept Grantland’s archive active.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

By "recent post" I meant one started upthread a little over 5 hours ago.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Don’t know of any but Saint Sal’s spawn.

Goddam, I was right. Why am I remembering such an obscure bull**** detail?

https://www.westword.com/news/is-nothing-sacred-5054746

 

[User 149557]

Between Dobson, Basic Life Principles and Promise Keepers, my dad has spent a lot of the last 15 years apologizing for how our household operated in the late 1990s being a church family. Absolutely horrid attitudes indoctrinated into an army of men that has metastasized into the militant evangelical movement.

 

[dixiehack]

But now he points at another old coach on his screen, a snowy-haired wizard named Bill Snyder, who happens to be virtually the same age

The best to seem forever young is to retire young.