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Classic Frank Howard story
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn1PXjt-9Nc
this will help pass the time until kickoff. very entertaining. I wish packer would return to some of his roots, acc network is waisting his talents.
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Re: Classic Frank Howard story
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Aug 1, 2024, 6:00 PM
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That was awesome!! I loved hearing Coach Howard tell stories on the pre game show too. Pack is a great story teller in his own right.
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Re: Classic Frank Howard story
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Aug 1, 2024, 7:10 PM
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I met coach Howard one time when he was recruiting former
USUC QB Mike Fair at Parker High School.He was recruiting
him for Baseball.Mike is a former team-mate of mine from
pee wee ball to High School.We played baseball and football.
Mike was a heck of a QB and a Baseball player but Coach didn't
see him as a QB.This guy became a SC Senator and would have been
an asset to Clemson. Coach Howard was a big man and a giant to us.
I was impressed by him.
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Aug 1, 2024, 7:44 PM
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I loved hearing Frank Howard on those Sunday morning shows. I had a long conversation with him when I was a student at Clemson.
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Aug 1, 2024, 9:33 PM
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The man was terrifying and easy to talk to at the same time. I was lucky enough to talk with him a number of times back in 1982. I'll always cherish those short talks with Coach Howard.
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Clemson Conqueror [11789]
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When we were inducted into the Block C club we had
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Aug 1, 2024, 10:16 PM
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To get Coach Howards’s signature on our Paddles. I still have it.
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Clemson Icon [26754]
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I love stories like that.
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Aug 2, 2024, 6:55 AM
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Back when Bobby Bowden came to FSU he used the show to recruit. He didn't recruit players so much as he recruited their parents. Every time there was a highlight with a player he would say something like, "I was so glad to see his daddy there. We had a great conversation before the game." "I saw his momma yesterday. She's so proud of her boy and she should be. She raised him right."
One year he closed his last show of the season by saying, "And, I want to thank those mommas and daddys for raising such fine young men and sending them to FSU to play football."
You may not have learned much about football watching his show, but you learned a lot about their mommas and daddys.
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Re: I love stories like that.
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Aug 2, 2024, 10:49 AM
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Tommy did the same. Guess he followed in Daddy’s footsteps.
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Clemson Icon [27179]
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Aug 2, 2024, 6:50 PM
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Amen! I recall Danny Ford saying a lot of “very, very happy, very, very proud” and Tommy Bowden talking about the player’s mommas.
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Aug 2, 2024, 3:13 PM
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Thanks for sharing this. Coach Howard was every bit a character as Packer says---and then some.
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Nice find***
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Aug 2, 2024, 5:02 PM
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I spent a long weekend at Clemson with a good friend of mine in 1963. We ran into Coach and I said hello. He ask me do you play football boy? I said yes sir. I was 6'3" 185. He said well boy you need to gain a little weight and come back and talk to me. I ran into him a gain in 1967 and he remembered me. He was the most dedicated person Clemson has ever had. He put us on the map and loved Clemson until the day he died!!!
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Re: Classic Frank Howard story
Aug 2, 2024, 6:34 PM
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You would a very good wide receiver at that height and weight.
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