What Would Beano Think?

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Watching the post game interviews this morning from the Beano Cook Media Room I can’t help to think what our old friend Beano would think of this team. I bet he is smiling down!


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[thebadby2]

Watching the post game interviews this morning from the Beano Cook Media Room I can’t help to think what our old friend Beano would think of this team. I bet he is smiling down!


Football | Coach Narduzzi Postgame vs. Virginia - Duration: 9:47. by PittLiveWire 71 views

He wouldn't be sold-yet.

He would say the defense is obviously hugely improved. He'd say the offense has taken a step backward.

He's say we're winning, but that we haven't played anybody. Nonetheless, he'd say, winning is what matters.

He wouldn't be fond of Pitt being in the ACC, he was a cold weather football guy to the core. He'd say (and did say) it's a travesty that Pitt doesn't play PSU or WVU every year anymore.

He would say he's cautiously optimistic and that Duzzi has been a badly needed breath of fresh air for the Pitt program. He loved the blue collar, Rust Belt, cold weather football tough guy mentality that Duzzi beongs. He'd say the program "feels" different since Dooz took over.

And after he said all that, Lee Corso or Ivan Maisel would tell him he's full of $hit.

RIP Beano.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

I think it's pretty clear what Beano would say. He'd say this Pitt team is no where near as good as the 1946 Army team that went 9-0-1 under the great Earl Blaik.

 

[#99HUGHgreen]

Goodness, I sure miss Beano. Today so many sports talk show hosts and studio personalities are self-righteous know-it-all blowhards with no sense of humor - who love to hear themselves talk - yet have nothing substantial to say.

With Beano, you just couldn't wait to hear what he had to say about any college football topic. Always said something that made you laugh. Always interesting. Recalling such amazing stories and college football facts from the past.

 

[Panther Parrothead]

We all know that Beano was a story-teller like none other. Here are my two favorite Beano Cook stories, borrowed from "Cardiac Hill" and ESPN:

*Story #1:

When the hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Iran were released in 1981, Major League Baseball presented them with lifetime passes to big-league games.

Beano’s response: “Haven’t they suffered enough?”

*Story #2:

When Beano was the Pitt sports information director, he got a call one day from a woman asking for a copy of the Panthers' football roster.

"But lady," Beano replied, "there are 120 guys out for the team right now. You really oughtta wait three weeks, until we make the cuts and are down to 75 or 80 kids. Otherwise, it's really a waste of your time.”

The woman, however, was adamant. She needed the roster. Pronto.

"But why?" Beano asked, dreading the hours it would take to round up the name of every tackling dummy cluttering up the practice field.

"Because," she said, matter of factly, "I want to sleep with everybody on the Pitt football team.”

Beano gasped. "Well," he said, clearing his throat, "in alphabetical order, starting at guard...Cook, Beano.”

 

[Pittx9]

Beano gasped. "Well," he said, clearing his throat, "in alphabetical order, starting at guard...Cook, Beano.”

Lol just sounds like classic Beano. Great story! One of the best to talk about college football and a Pitt Guy!

 

[mehinpgh]

We all know that Beano was a story-teller like none other. Here are my two favorite Beano Cook stories, borrowed from "Cardiac Hill" and ESPN:

*Story #1:

When the hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Iran were released in 1981, Major League Baseball presented them with lifetime passes to big-league games.

Beano’s response: “Haven’t they suffered enough?”

*Story #2:

When Beano was the Pitt sports information director, he got a call one day from a woman asking for a copy of the Panthers' football roster.

"But lady," Beano replied, "there are 120 guys out for the team right now. You really oughtta wait three weeks, until we make the cuts and are down to 75 or 80 kids. Otherwise, it's really a waste of your time.”

The woman, however, was adamant. She needed the roster. Pronto.

"But why?" Beano asked, dreading the hours it would take to round up the name of every tackling dummy cluttering up the practice field.

"Because," she said, matter of factly, "I want to sleep with everybody on the Pitt football team.”

Beano gasped. "Well," he said, clearing his throat, "in alphabetical order, starting at guard...Cook, Beano.”

Beano was the best! Story #2 is classic! I remember as a kid he had a weekly feature on ESPN (I think on sportscenter) and I would never miss it. I am in my late 30s so that would put those ESPN features in the very early 90s.

 

[9nationalchampionships]

Beano’s knowledge of college football and the history of it were unparalleled. His ability to tell stories in the middle of his reporting was the best and yes he was humble. RIP Beano

 

[Delpanther]

Beano would emphatically assert that Penn St. Sucks!

 

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[Pittx9]

One of the best pics/memorials at the University. Great, great man Beano Cook was. College football will never, ever be the same.