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[Photo: Bisher's man crush on Bobby Jones is one for the ages.]
I promise you that I've never read any article written by Bisher that didn't reference at least 3 of the following:
Bobby Dodd
Homer Rice
Bobby Jones
Horse Racing (this one has "pasture" in the lead)
Some long since dead horse, baseball player or golfer
I think Bisher's dream article involves a reference to Bobby Dodd having football practices at Georgia Tech open to the media while tying that into the Alydar vs. Affirmed races. If he could weave all of that into an article somehow trashing Bear Byrant's legacy at Alabama, he'd probably just stand up from his typewriter -- no computer for that old codger -- and retire.
If you want a more articluate view into the AD search, try GoldenTornado. And these guys will be all over it.
[Photo: Furman Bisher is best known for his work with Walter Matthau.]
5 comments:
I'm still working on a piece where I gripe about the AJC Sports section. Not because they don't cover Tech enough or fairly, but because it's just really really shitty.
I wonder how often Furman's editor has to change the name Pepper to Chan for him.
I laughed out loud at the Pepper line.
That's good stuff.
I bet there aren't a dozen people in Atlanta who have ever completed a Furman Bisher column. They start out mildly uninteresting, but rapidly devolve into an incomprehensible web of arcane references and old fogey-isms. Half way through you realize you aren't getting paid to read it, so you spare yourself the misery.
I almost pity the AJC sportwriters. How'd you like to share office space with Furman, who is sitting in his chair, a quilt over his legs, juice box on his tray, noisily drooling on himself and muttering things like "Shoeless Joe" and "Seabiscuit" to himself all day.
I'm simply mesmerized by the "48% off" sticker on the Grumpier Old Men poster.
Bless you sir. I was beginning to think I was the only one in Atlanta who felt that Bisher hasn't written an original piece in the last 30 years. I mean seriously, you can count on him like clockwork to grind out the same old junk about cheap concessions at the Masters, womens hats at Churchill Downs, Spring Training at West Palm Beach, LPGA players with hyphenated names, and God knows what else, plus the usual Tech love fest when football season rolls around. He must simply wake up, pull an article out of his file, change the date on it, & hand it in to the editor, before falling back to sleep.
Can't imagine what he's going to do if Curry comes back as the Tech AD. Probably proclaim him as the second coming of His Royal Highness Dodd....
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