Remember This?

I think this kinescope of an ABC Network telecast of the Dick Clark-hosted Where The Action Is dates back to late 1965 or early 1966.

Enjoy!

AFL Playoffs: Rattlers Top Chicago To Reach----And Host----Arenabowl XXIV

At Phoenix, Arizona:


Quarterback Nick Davila threw for 283 yards and seven touchdowns Saturday night as the Arizona Rattlers defeated the visiting Chicago Rush 54-48 to win the National Conference championship and advance to the Arena Football League championship game (ArenaBowl XXIV) where they will host the winner of Monday's Georgia-Jacksonville American Conference final.

Time For Chapter Two, Ladies and Gentlemen!

Time now for Chapter Two of our 1945 Republic Pictures Serial, Manhunt of Mystery Island.

BC Picks Up First Win At Riders' Expense

At Vancouver, British Columbia:


Slotback Geroy Simon caught seven passes Friday night for 137 yards, including a 63-yarder for a touchdown as the previously winless British Columbia Lions defeated the visiting and sagging Saskatchewan Roughriders 24-11 in Canadian Football League action, with both teams now sporting 1-5 records.

End Of An Era

Who's gonna look after his kids, now?

Football Great Turned Actor Bubba Smith, R. I. P.

Charles "Bubba" Smith, an outstanding defensive tackle who played his college football at Michigan State before embarking on a great NFL career with the Baltimore Colts, Oakland Raiders, and Houston Oilers, before becoming a commercial spokesman for Miller Lite Beer, then playing the role of officer Moses Hightower in six Police Academy movies, was found on Wednesday having assumed room temperature at his Baldwin Hills, California home at age 66. 

Bubba played five years with the Baltimore Colts, playing in two Super Bowls (the upset loss to the New York Jets in SB III and their victory over the Dallas Cowboys two years later).  He played two years each with the Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers before a knee injury ended his career in 1976.

His brother Toby, who played at Southern California and in the NFL, later became Bubba's agent.  He passed away at age 50 in 1999.

Here's Bubba, appearing in a 1977 commercial for Miller Lite, extolling the virtues of the product, as well as the easy-opening can.



Ironically, he did not drink, and a number of years later, walked away from his lucrative contract, out of concern that the commercials may have encouraged alcohol overconsumption.

Good Grief! Three Bread Commercials?

Here's a trio of commercials from roughly 40 years ago, for Weber's, Millbrook, and Butternut Bread, all staring various Peanuts comic strip characters.

I'm amazed that Sally didn't run off with her "Sweet Babboo."