OT RIP Ol Burt

[AUBKV]

I was honestly kinda sad even though I thought he died a couple years ago. Maybe I should change the avatar? Who knows? I don’t know.

Anyways love you guys! Hope everything is going well. Doing work, hard work, on the boog board for you guys. Been scrapping it up with ricebot 2.0 from time to time.

@FormerlyKnownAsSOLLY - hope you’re doing well, friend.

 

[FormerlyKnownAsSOLLY]

I was honestly kinda sad even though I thought he died a couple years ago. Maybe I should change the avatar? Who knows? I don’t know.

Anyways love you guys! Hope everything is going well. Doing work, hard work, on the boog board for you guys. Been scrapping it up with ricebot 2.0 from time to time.

@FormerlyKnownAsSOLLY - hope you’re doing well, friend.

I’ve seen you going at them over there, and you are fighting the good fight indeed. I still check TBB occasionally to see folks like you & @CJ3131 but I’m still slowed down. My sub expires on October 2nd & then my stalking will be limited to Facebook & my only social media will be The GREG (all I care for).

 

[Boytano]

Broke my heart, saw that yesterday immediately wanted to watch GATOR.
RIP to a true icon of my childhood.

 

[Boytano]

I was honestly kinda sad even though I thought he died a couple years ago. Maybe I should change the avatar? Who knows? I don’t know.

Anyways love you guys! Hope everything is going well. Doing work, hard work, on the boog board for you guys. Been scrapping it up with ricebot 2.0 from time to time.

@FormerlyKnownAsSOLLY - hope you’re doing well, friend.

keep your AVI...a fitting tribute

 

[FormerlyKnownAsSOLLY]

WAR DAMN BOOGS to both!!

1. ALABAMA ENTERTAINMENT

Sally Field, Auburn fan?
Updated May 23, 2017; Posted May 23, 2017
Burt Reynolds, Jerry Reed, and Sally Field on the set of Smokey and the Bandit (1977)--War Eagle. (Universal Studios)




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By Jeremy Henderson

Sally Field recently seemed to take an out-of-the-blue swipe at the home of the Crimson Tide, telling an interviewer that were she not an actress she would be "a really, really unhappy overweight person somewhere deep in Tuscaloosa."

Maybe it's because of the shirt.

Field may have had a fictional son who played for the Bear, but she can be seen wearing an Auburn T-shirt in Smokey and the Bandit production stills Universal Studios released in 1977, two whole years before she won an Oscar for Norma Rae, which was filmed in Opelika, just a few miles from the Plains.

She also had a real-life lover with a surprising number of Auburn connections--Burt Reynolds.

In Reynolds' 1973 moonshine flick White Lightning, a hippie residing at Sister Linda Faye's Home For Unwed Mothers ironically hints to Reynolds character (Gator McKlusky) that famously conservative Auburn University was actually a staging ground for liberal radicals.

Eight years later, an Auburn T-shirt popped up in Reynolds' more well-known car flick Cannonball Run. So did actor Roy Tatum, a former Auburn football player who just happened to be the world's premiere Burt Reynolds look-alike according to the National Enquirer--and who also shares plenty of screen time with Field in Norma Rae.

Speaking of, Reynolds frequently visited Field during her days in Lee County. The words on the T-shirt he reportedly wore during a 1979 Tonight Show appearance?

"Where in the hell is Opelika?"

Answer: Right next to Auburn, where Burt Reynolds, Florida State halfback, spent a few miserable hours in 1954.

Tigers 33 -- Florida State 0.

Field and Reynolds broke up in 1982.

Maybe it was the shirt.

 

[DufnerFanBoy]

Truly a sad day. One of my all-time favorite movies is Smokey and the Bandit. Never seen anything make my dad laugh harder, and that's one of my best memories of him. So, thanks for the laughs and memories, Burt, although that movie is over 40 years old.

 

[MomentInTheSun]

Didn’t realize he was that old and in that bad of shape. Way before my time but he was good in Boogie Nights

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

Legend. RIP Bandit.

 

[CJ3131]

WAR DAMN BOOGS to both!!

1. ALABAMA ENTERTAINMENT

Sally Field, Auburn fan?
Updated May 23, 2017; Posted May 23, 2017
Burt Reynolds, Jerry Reed, and Sally Field on the set of Smokey and the Bandit (1977)--War Eagle. (Universal Studios)




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By Jeremy Henderson

Sally Field recently seemed to take an out-of-the-blue swipe at the home of the Crimson Tide, telling an interviewer that were she not an actress she would be "a really, really unhappy overweight person somewhere deep in Tuscaloosa."

Maybe it's because of the shirt.

Field may have had a fictional son who played for the Bear, but she can be seen wearing an Auburn T-shirt in Smokey and the Bandit production stills Universal Studios released in 1977, two whole years before she won an Oscar for Norma Rae, which was filmed in Opelika, just a few miles from the Plains.

She also had a real-life lover with a surprising number of Auburn connections--Burt Reynolds.

In Reynolds' 1973 moonshine flick White Lightning, a hippie residing at Sister Linda Faye's Home For Unwed Mothers ironically hints to Reynolds character (Gator McKlusky) that famously conservative Auburn University was actually a staging ground for liberal radicals.

Eight years later, an Auburn T-shirt popped up in Reynolds' more well-known car flick Cannonball Run. So did actor Roy Tatum, a former Auburn football player who just happened to be the world's premiere Burt Reynolds look-alike according to the National Enquirer--and who also shares plenty of screen time with Field in Norma Rae.

Speaking of, Reynolds frequently visited Field during her days in Lee County. The words on the T-shirt he reportedly wore during a 1979 Tonight Show appearance?

"Where in the hell is Opelika?"

Answer: Right next to Auburn, where Burt Reynolds, Florida State halfback, spent a few miserable hours in 1954.

Tigers 33 -- Florida State 0.

Field and Reynolds broke up in 1982.

Maybe it was the shirt.

I thought he may have played in the 57 game in Tally, but I was wrong.
My memory is not what it was, Solly.

He was injured that season (54) and quit football I think. I watched him with Coach Bowden on the FSU replay show a few times when I was living in Pensacola and he talked about running the ball a few times against AU but I could not find him in the rushing stats. If he said he did, that was enough for me-to heck with the stats--.

He almost went to bama but he liked the ratio of girls to guys at FSU and he was spot on. FSU was originally a female college and I think the school still has a very large number of coeds as compared to males and, they have a lot of pretty ones--always have had as long as I can recall.

I am getting old Brother. Many of the folks I watched and admired as a kid are gone now and it is sad.

Makes me a bit blue.

RIP, Buddy (as he was known back then).

WDE Solly!

 

[FormerlyKnownAsSOLLY]

I thought he may have played in the 57 game in Tally, but I was wrong.
My memory is not what it was, Solly.

He was injured that season (54) and quit football I think. I watched him with Coach Bowden on the FSU replay show a few times when I was living in Pensacola and he talked about running the ball a few times against AU but I could not find him in the rushing stats. If he said he did, that was enough for me-to heck with the stats--.

He almost went to bama but he liked the ratio of girls to guys at FSU and he was spot on. FSU was originally a female college and I think the school still has a very large number of coeds as compared to males and, they have a lot of pretty ones--always have had as long as I can recall.

I am getting old Brother. Many of the folks I watched and admired as a kid are gone now and it is sad.

Makes me a bit blue.

RIP, Buddy (as he was known back then).

WDE Solly!

Reminds me of so much. I’m pretty sure FSU didn’t even have a football squad until the late 40’s or early 50’s & this is why they sometimes aren’t considered as an all time football power. Dad used to talk about the Flying Circus that performed at halftime (not sure if they had a band or not). Seems like they had a program for people wanting to have a career in circus or something (as crazy as that sounds).
Now for something I’m sure of; when Norma Rae was being shot in Opelika, I went across the street from MAG Hall to fetch a bowl of veggie soup at a little diner. Beau Briddges was the only one in the entire joint & as bad as I wanted to meet him, I realized he had come to campus to get away from everyone so I restrained myself. I have a similar story about the Old Drunk of Tuscaloosa haha.
WDE CJ!!

 

[Slippin Jimmy]

I thought he may have played in the 57 game in Tally, but I was wrong.
My memory is not what it was, Solly.

He was injured that season (54) and quit football I think. I watched him with Coach Bowden on the FSU replay show a few times when I was living in Pensacola and he talked about running the ball a few times against AU but I could not find him in the rushing stats. If he said he did, that was enough for me-to heck with the stats--.

He almost went to bama but he liked the ratio of girls to guys at FSU and he was spot on. FSU was originally a female college and I think the school still has a very large number of coeds as compared to males and, they have a lot of pretty ones--always have had as long as I can recall.

I am getting old Brother. Many of the folks I watched and admired as a kid are gone now and it is sad.

Makes me a bit blue.

RIP, Buddy (as he was known back then).

WDE Solly!

Don’t be a stranger CJ!!

 

[CJ3131]

Don’t be a stranger CJ!!

Thanks SJ.
Been on the road for a while and about to head off to the Plains to just get Mama Bear out on a date and away from home.



WDE SJ!!

 

[CJ3131]

Reminds me of so much. I’m pretty sure FSU didn’t even have a football squad until the late 40’s or early 50’s & this is why they sometimes aren’t considered as an all time football power. Dad used to talk about the Flying Circus that performed at halftime (not sure if they had a band or not). Seems like they had a program for people wanting to have a career in circus or something (as crazy as that sounds).
Now for something I’m sure of; when Norma Rae was being shot in Opelika, I went across the street from MAG Hall to fetch a bowl of veggie soup at a little diner. Beau Briddges was the only one in the entire joint & as bad as I wanted to meet him, I realized he had come to campus to get away from everyone so I restrained myself. I have a similar story about the Old Drunk of Tuscaloosa haha.
WDE CJ!!

About to hit the road, Solly to the place where we have a lot ofd history-

I will check back in Brother re some old stories about the F/k/A Florida State College for Women.

WDE Solly!!

 

[FormerlyKnownAsSOLLY]

About to hit the road, Solly to the place where we have a lot ofd history-

I will check back in Brother re some old stories about the F/k/A Florida State College for Women.

WDE Solly!!

You do that my Brother!!

 

[Boytano]

Just sitting down to watch Smokey and the Bandit on the big screen!
RIP Burt
Happy b-day @GREG @sweet baby J, @ baby Bruce @slippinjimmy

 

[Boytano]

glad i saw it on the big screen...should hold me for a good 20 yrs. Fun performances/bad movie