GODDAMN: The Pistol breaks the NCAA scoring record
This photo was taken after Pete Maravich passed Oscar Robertson on the NCAA career scoring list. Maravich is still first on that list, with 3,667 points, and will likely never be passed. His closest competitor (Freeman Williams, ‘74-‘78) is over 400 points behind him.
But here’s the rub…
Pete Maravich was a freshman at Louisiana State University in 1966. At that time, freshman could not play varsity basketball. The Pistol scored 3,667 in just 3 seasons, averaging 44.2 points per game, for his career (also an NCAA record).
Oh, and just one more thing: when Pistol Pete played college basketball, there was no 3-point line. Sam King, who covered LSU for the Baton Rouge State-Times studied play-by-play charts of Maravich’s senior season and determined the Pistol averaged 7.2 baskets per game, behind what would have been the college 3-point line. That’s an extra 7+ points each game, which would have pushed his average above 50 per contest.
Chew on that.
(via The Sporting News)
MUST WATCH: The Greatest Pistol Pete Maravich Music Video Ever
If you don’t have this on your blog, you ain’t got it like that.
CHORUS:
Who is to say today, who will be legend tomorrow?
Tomorrow is so far away, if we score today.
He’s the heir to a dream. He’s the one and only Pistol.
(He’s a Pistol!)
How can I get what he’s got?
Can you imagine walking into a college dorm room in the late 60’s, as Pete Maravich, with this song playing as you enter? At that point, you just pick which lady you want to make babies with, am I right?
MUST WATCH: LSU Great, Shaquille O’Neal
With the Shaq statue comes the raddest highlight reel ever, featuring score from the great Hans Zimmer (of Inception/Batman fame). This is a Must Watch.
(via CBS Sports)
LSU unveiled a new statue to honor the baddest dude who’s ever step foot in Baton Rouge. The statue weighs 900 pounds, and O’Neal nicknamed it “The Big Bronze.”
“That is the best sculpture in the country.” - Shaq
(photos from LSUSports.net I info from CBS Sports)
“I’m the first graduate of LSU to graduate in crayon biology. I thought (finishing school) would be easy, but it was kind of hard. Thank God for the Internet. It took eight years. It should have taken six or seven. I had some other engagements.” - Shaquille O’Neal
“Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.” - Shaquille O’Neal
“Going from Army base to base as a kid taught me to be a man of all nations. I’d go to the Jewish people and say, ‘Shalom, brother.’ I go to the Muslim people and say, ‘Salaam aleikum.’ I go to the Chinese people and say, ‘Ni hao ma,’ which means, ‘How you doin’?’ I go to the Japanese people and say, ‘Konnichiwa.’ I go to San Antonio, Texas, and I get along with Mexicans. Then I go to Louisiana and hang with the Creoles. Moving around a lot made me a man of all people.” - Shaquille O’Neal
HAPPY 39TH BIRTHDAY SHAQUILLE O’NEAL!
Now watch the Daddy, as 17-year old put, put a triple-double on Hank Gathers, Bo Kimble and Loyola Maymount.
“Jimmer Fredette can kiss my ass.” - Pete Maravich’s Ghost
While the rest of America goes bananas over a guy who scored 40 on NCAA Powerhouse San Diego State (steeped in basketball tradition), I couldn’t help but reminisce on Got ‘Em Coach favorite, Pistol Pete Maravich. I’ll let Sports Illustrated’s Tim Layden do the talking:
I saw The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend as a middle schooler who dreamed of making the NBA. A horrible “I’m not that good” injury kept me from moving on, but from that point forward, Maravich has been my favorite old-school player.
He didn’t have Magic’s height, Oscar’s healthy career, or Jordan’s athleticism, but Pete Maravich was just as talented. He could put 60 on your head as quickly as he could cut up your defense with the best passes you’ve ever seen. For my money, they don’t get much better on offense than The Pistol.
Damn you, alchohol…
The video above has about 50 ESPN Top 10 Plays of the Day, and this footage is from the late ‘60’s.
Pete Maravich’s Ghost to Jimmer Fredette: “Call me when you don’t suck.”
