Segment 3, August 31st, 2024

The new college football season is upon us but there have been a lot of impactful changes.  The Carolina Outdoors always focuses on the hiking, biking, hunting, fishing aspects of outdoors but it is always nice to learn a bit about the season of anticipation regarding the upcoming season when everyone is unbeaten (unless you’re Florida State).

Ed Billick of WBT Sports, host of Carolina Focus, & producer of WBT’s David Chadwick Show puts on his sports hat & joins host Bill Bartee to talk about memories & flavors of the beginning of the college football season.

Show Highlights:

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• Billick remembers ABC announcer Keith Jackson announcing games.
  
• Bands, Cheerleaders, Tailgate, & the festivity of a game are all a part of it even before kickoff.
  
• Billick recalls the great Tony Dorsett (Pittsburgh) & the great teams from Pitt, Penn State, & West Virginia.
  
• The emotional impact on fans from the professionalism of college football
  
• Thoughts on the transfer portal, NIL, & conference consolidation.
  

Things You’ll Learn by Listening:

Bartee & Billick both fondly recall Bo Jackson, Herschel Walker, & Billy Sims.  These three great running backs imprinted the 1970s & 80s during their college careers.  All three also won the Heisman Trophy as the best college football player in America.  Walker was later drafted into the USFL (by the New Jersey Generals & team owner, Donald Trump).

The Carolina Outdoors is powered by the tailgate brands like Tundra 45 YETI, Turtlebox Speakers, & a pair of Duckhead pants from the  Charlotte fly shop, Jesse Brown’s.