I was getting cheese dogs in the '70s at Foster's Grill in Reidsville. They're still in business, but I haven't been there in decades.
The NC logo in the picture isn't backwards, it's upside down. The "C" still opens to the right. The varsity sweater was the Spalding "Turtle" and first appeared at UNC in the spring of 1893.
The little guy in the back is the coach, Thomas Gawthrop "Doggie" Trenchard. He was youngest UNC football coach ever hired and the first to have two stints at the University. His remains, and a great deal of his family's, are interred in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery. Here's what I wrote about him last year, https://jamesleegilbert.substack.com/p/carolina-football-2023-game-13-2d3.
The un-fun answer to the UNC logo is that it was in an era where uniforms often weren't made by the school itself, but by the players and/or athletic staff (which often was either a professor who took an interest in their spare time, or an itinerant semi-pro player who only stuck around a couple weeks pre-season to teach fundamentals and pointers).
I really want to know if Bojangles sponsored that or not. Kinda suspect not given the number of views on the video. But brands really need to do more things like that. Make a clean version, put some media dollars behind it and it would go a long way.
That picture of "Asheville" gets weirder knowing how very many bears live in he city proper. A former coworker of mine worked on a research project testing captured bears for parasites and showed me pictures of an ABSOLUTE UNIT that was living under a porch. It was only a year old, but was several times as big as it should be. It had been eating out of the dumpster of a bakery nearby! It wasn't just fat, either, but overall enormous. They're living literally under people's feet because they don't have enough wild places with enough food. I'm sure the storm damage only made it worse.
I was getting cheese dogs in the '70s at Foster's Grill in Reidsville. They're still in business, but I haven't been there in decades.
The NC logo in the picture isn't backwards, it's upside down. The "C" still opens to the right. The varsity sweater was the Spalding "Turtle" and first appeared at UNC in the spring of 1893.
The little guy in the back is the coach, Thomas Gawthrop "Doggie" Trenchard. He was youngest UNC football coach ever hired and the first to have two stints at the University. His remains, and a great deal of his family's, are interred in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery. Here's what I wrote about him last year, https://jamesleegilbert.substack.com/p/carolina-football-2023-game-13-2d3.
The un-fun answer to the UNC logo is that it was in an era where uniforms often weren't made by the school itself, but by the players and/or athletic staff (which often was either a professor who took an interest in their spare time, or an itinerant semi-pro player who only stuck around a couple weeks pre-season to teach fundamentals and pointers).
If you enjoy the backwards logo image, Timothy Brown at Football Archaeology put together a whole series of them: https://www.footballarchaeology.com/p/todays-tidbit-inconsistent-team-logos
I really want to know if Bojangles sponsored that or not. Kinda suspect not given the number of views on the video. But brands really need to do more things like that. Make a clean version, put some media dollars behind it and it would go a long way.
Lol! laughed all the way through this column! Happy Holidays!
The Meck Dec was buried with TJ at Monticello. Mystery solved. No charge.
Regarding the blub on Steely Dan Drive. Only a fool would say that.
That picture of "Asheville" gets weirder knowing how very many bears live in he city proper. A former coworker of mine worked on a research project testing captured bears for parasites and showed me pictures of an ABSOLUTE UNIT that was living under a porch. It was only a year old, but was several times as big as it should be. It had been eating out of the dumpster of a bakery nearby! It wasn't just fat, either, but overall enormous. They're living literally under people's feet because they don't have enough wild places with enough food. I'm sure the storm damage only made it worse.
Had a boyfriend in college who was from Elon. He insisted cheese dogs did not have a hot dog in them. Just one of the reasons he’s an ex.