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USC Friday Column Supplement

Don Clark gets carried on the shoulders of his players after USC’s season-opening 21-0 victory over Oregon State.

  • USC running back Don Buford breaks free on run vs. UCLA in 1958.
  • The Sports Arena in January, 1959, just six months before its official opening.
  • There’s always something being filmed at USC and 1959 was no different. This is a TV movie called “You’re Only Young Once.” The woman who is sitting is actress Patricia Blair, who became well-known to audiences in the 1960’s as a regular on “The Rifleman” and “Daniel Boone.”
  • Imagine if someone in this picture turned to USC student Tom Selleck (far left) and said, “In 58 years, you’ll be doing reverse mortage commercials.”

40 thoughts on “USC Friday Column Supplement”

      1. Well, you know Scott, if he sees a pretty rainbow he will look for the one flaw– that red is not very crisp.
        Although I don’t believe he is that way in “real life,” but like an actor he has a schtick

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      1. As long as we are still alive George Tirebiter we will continue to ‘kick the tires’ of common illusory beliefs of religion and politics
        although in your case you can bite the tires

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    1. Professional basket and football players in 1959 needed a second job after the season to make ends meet. There is more integrity and human worth among men who have to work hard to make the rent each month,
      or as a friend once told me, “We all are born with class and no prejudice, but money destroys our innate class whereby we suddenly feel superior to the common potpurri

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    2. Well, Eddie, sometimes a man can predict the future or at least a part of it–
      for example, I will never ever win the lottery because I refuse to buy a sucker’s ticket

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      1. Instead LJ, you travel to LV and drop a bundle. The Vegas strip wasn’t built on the backs of winners.

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      2. “The Vegas strip wasn’t built on the backs of winners.” You would definitely know, JO.
        Bruins out in first round.

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  5. Darn if that ‘Tirebiter-fellow’ didn’t get me thinking about Que Sera Sera-
    Mind you, the melody of this song is so sweet you don’t even need words
    But the words, oh my, this was the thinking back in the 60s and 70s I guess:
    says “a little girl, will I be pretty, will I be rich?
    or the boy, “Will I be handsome, will I be rich?

    -And on love–
    “When I grow up and fall in love, I asked my sweetheart,
    “What lies ahead, will we have rainbows day after day”

    No wonder the American divorce rate is running 50%– who can live up to these ideals
    Pretty or handsome?- that eliminates about 90% of us no matter what your girl tells u
    And rainbows every day stuff has never been lived by any American couple since at least the Civil War

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  6. Memo to: Salami con Baloney

    UCLA moves on to the P-12 Championship game.

    As usual, Andyain’twinning and his team will watch on TV.

    #Tanks Enfield

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    1. Really, nobody had expectations around here. Just you. And we all know already what you think or are going to say. Zzzzzzz….. you need new stuff, you are getting really boring.

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      1. If it isn’t broke don’t fix it.

        Some things 49er, don’t change; you know like Andyain’twinning, the joke that chokes.

        #Tanks Enfield

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  7. To MG’s comment way up there, ‘If you can’t prove it one way or the other most anything is possible

    To the few Veto-Hecklers here it is strange how they get off by being irritating to strangers, similar to tailgaters pushing you to go faster

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    1. You may think there is no proof so therefore you straddle the fence, one foot in and one foot out. That might make you feel good, but it gets you absolutely nowhere. The quote is “I never knew you”.

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  8. Ucla in the finals? Who knew? Pauley Pavilion holds just under 13k fans and the Rose Bowl holds just over 89k fans yet Ucla continues to send a basketball crowds to football games.
    Let’s do the math; if Ucla earns $50 per ticket for a football game, and 13k people show up for 6 home games Ucla is still going to owe 6.1 million to its big brother up north. Thanks Newsum (see what I did there?) Go Bruins Basketball!!

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      2. George perfectly summarizes our feelings toward the bruins: It’s not that we wish them ill — it’s just that we’re indifferent……

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      3. VERY TRUE MICHAEL

        BUT

        I ALMOST WISH THEM ILL

        ESPECIALLY WHEN OUR FRIEND OWNS RAGS ON OUR TROJANS!!!!

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      4. TIREBUMMER, a hard elbow to the face really hurts in BB, ’cause BB players don’t wear helmets equipped with face guards.

        Factually, a BB player is better conditioned athletically than a comparable FB player.

        I’d like to see a any FB player run for 5 uninterrupted minutes up and down a court and play good enough offense and defense w/o the coach having to call time out so the FB players won’t collapse from useless exhaustion.

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    2. Damn Me, why worry about UCLA finances, when you should be worrying about the crummy men’s BB head coach Clown U currently has in the saddle.

      BTW, Pauley Pavilion holds 13k and change and is frequently sold out. Just saying for a friend.

      Hell, the SUCC Athletic dept. has a cosmic, immaculate, ejaculation if the Chicken Coop is ever 30% full; the UCLA game being the exception.

      Bottom line Ghost, UCLA 29 – 4; bozo BB 22 – 10. The bozo BB season is a success because the bozos defeated UCLA in their second meeting, @ the Chicken Coop.

      UCLA’s focus is always winning the P-12 title, the P-12 Championship and the NCAA Tournament.

      Winning or losing to SUCC men’s BB is nothing more to UCLA than stepping on the bottom rung of a tall ladder. SUCC BB in near cupcake competition.

      Cue and Loop: the Elite Eight game featuring bozo BB vs Gonzaga.

      #Tanks Enfield.

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  9. Owns, in a serendipitous way, I’m supporting you. In Vegas at PAC 12 tourney, making money on your Bruins!
    Seemed like a home game last night for AZ (those obnoxious fans travel), so good luck tonight.

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    1. NOTE TO OWNS

      GIRLS PLAY BASKETBALL
      BUT THEY DONT
      REPEAT DONT
      PLAY FOOTBALL

      FOOTBALL IS FOR REAL MEN OWNS

      PANSIES PLAY BASKETBALL!!

      CASE CLOSED MR OWNS
      YOU LOSE AGAIN MY FRIEND

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      1. TIREDBUMMER, please define “real men.” I’m pretty sure your definition and my definition are not congruent.

        In rebuttal re: your bombastic “real men,” BS.

        During last year’s P-12 Championship game, your H/T winning QB, CW, hurt himself. He was able to continue (In fact, refused to leave the game) at about 60% of his capability. Sooooooo SUCC winds up SUCC’ing hind titty in an ugly choka, choka, choka, come from ahead loss.

        Had CW suffer the same injury in a BB game, even in an Andyain’twinning cupcake game, he could not have continued. The game of BB is too fast; too relentless for a one-legged glory hog.

        Lastly sir, Clown U FB breeds tiresome, loud-mouthed bullies. Bullies are AH’s, not “real men” in my humble opinion.

        #Paging Ray Malalugi

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  11. OK OWNS HERE WE GO

    REAL MEN. ITS LIKE PORNOGRAPHY MY FRIEND
    YOU KNOW ITWHEN YOU SEE IT
    HAHA

    RE CW
    YEAH RILEY SHOULD HAVE PULLED HIM

    AND RE BULLIES

    IF SC BREEDS THEM THEN SO DOES YOOKLA YOOKLA HAS HAD MORE THAN ITS SHARE OF BULLIES AND WHINING CRYBABIES AND JUST PLAIN BAD GUYS

    HENRY R RED SANDERS DIED IN THE ARMS OF A PROSTITUTE FOR EXAMPLE

    AND YOU HAVE SAM GILBERT
    AND AD INFINITUM !!

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    1. Come on TIREDBUMMER, Clown U has made the “excuses, excuses, excuses excuse whine into an art form. Now days the bozos don’t lose because the their team SUCC’s or choka, choka, choka, choka chokes.

      No, now days its always a ref’s fault or some extraneous cause like injury, opponent luck, or some loser bozo coach’s mistake for bozo debacles.

      SUCC rah-rah’s like yourself always have a two-bit excuse for its “the joke that chokes” losing.

      UCLA doesn’t make excuses; never has, never will.

      Cue: “All Clown U has is a barrel of cheesy excuses”

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      1. OWNS MY FRIEND

        CUE THIS UP

        TROJANS
        ELEVEN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL TEAMS

        YOOKLA
        ONE HALF
        UPI VERSION 1954. UNDER HENRY SANDERS !!!!!!!!

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