We are Marshall: 50 years ago today

[maumann]

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Did I miss a segment on this on College GameDay?

 

[User 149557]

Did I miss a segment on this on College GameDay?

Gene Woj did one.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Did I miss a segment on this on College GameDay?

They'll get around to it eventually, when they're trying to stretch to fill air time. Marshall's a C-USA team, it just matters less.

 

[Songbird]

They could have gotten eyeballs by letting Randy Moss narrate it.

 

[Bud_Bundy]

So it was one of my first Saturday nights at the newspaper. We got word of the crash and realized one of the players on the team was from one of our high schools. One one of our reporters (not known for tact) called his HS coach, a crusty old SOB. The phone conversation went like this:
Our guy: "Hey coach, what can you tell me about Joe Jock?"
His coach: "Why do you want to know about him?"
Our guy: "Aw, he got killed in a plane crash tonight."
Dead silence for several seconds ... maybe more than that.
Our guy: "Coach, are you there, are you there? I need a comment. We're on deadline. What do you remember about him? I'm on a deadline."

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

The Marshall air disaster happened a month and 12 days after the Wichita State air disaster. Must've missed that movie.

 

[maumann]

Cal Poly's crash was October of 1960. Given the millions of flying miles traveled by pro and college teams, it's a testament to how safe it's gotten.

I remember reading somewhere that baseball does have a contingency that would involve a dispersal draft from the remaining teams. Not sure about the other leagues.

 

[User 150927]

They could have gotten eyeballs by letting Randy Moss narrate it.

His history with the crash is not good

 

[User 149557]

His history with the crash is not good

"The plane crash was before my time. I don't try to go back in the past and say this football game is for the people in the plane crash. I've seen the burial ground. I went up there and looked at the names. It was a tragedy, but it really wasn't nothing big."

 

[lakefront]

I remember reading somewhere that baseball does have a contingency that would involve a dispersal draft from the remaining teams. Not sure about the other leagues.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Cal Poly's crash was October of 1960. Given the millions of flying miles traveled by pro and college teams, it's a testament to how safe it's gotten.

I remember reading somewhere that baseball does have a contingency that would involve a dispersal draft from the remaining teams. Not sure about the other leagues.

John Madden graduated from Cal Poly a couple of years before and was friends with some of the crash victims. He said that crash was one of the main reasons why he hated to fly, and stopped flying after he retired from coaching.

 

[ChrisLong]

John Madden graduated from Cal Poly a couple of years before and was friends with some of the crash victims. He said that crash was one of the main reasons why he hated to fly, and stopped flying after he retired from coaching.

Former USC coach Ted Tollner was on the SLO plane.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Has it ever been explained why the plane crashed? (too busy to look it up right now). I assume pilot error if it landed short of the runway.

 

[User 149557]

Has it ever been explained why the plane crashed? (too busy to look it up right now). I assume pilot error if it landed short of the runway.

I believe malfunctioning altimeter, if I remember right.