Charley Pell Flashback

NOLAGATOR · Jul 22, 2019

Pell made UF what it is today...He almost single-handedly made the facilities Top Tier.

He enabled SOS to shine.

It is sad that many on here only credit him with the suspension. He gave his heart and soul to UF and almost his life (Attempted Suicide)

Though Spurrier was/is my favorite All time Florida Coach…It was Pell that made it happen.

It may have been wrong….But we all know OK, Neb, OSU, Bama, TX, USC, Mich…were all doing as much or worse.

You can’t compare then to now. If you think times were the same…Go watch “Mad Men” and get back with us.

THANK YOU Charlie Pell!!!

ThreatMatrix · Jul 22, 2019

Everything Pell did was common place at the time. Heck he learned it at Alabama. At that time if you weren’t cheatin’ you weren’t competin’.

PastyStoole · Jul 22, 2019

Pablos Tunnel said:
Love the hair helmet. Fu(k Foley!

I basically had the same hair as Foley at about the time. That's me, third from left, on Grad Night:

Swamp Donkey · Jul 22, 2019

Is that Napoleon Dynamite to your left?

B52G8rAC · Jul 22, 2019

secgator said:
Seeing the stadium in blue brings back some old memories for sure. Heck, most fans who think SOS started football at UF almost certainly has no idea the stadium was ever blue.

On a side note regarding Pell, I remember back in the mid-80's I was at a Woodham HS QB Club meeting(typically 40-50 people every week attended), when one early season meeting Pell and his wife walked in and sat down in the back. Turns out Charley had moved to the area and his son had enrolled at Woodham and was on the FB team. Charley became a regular at the meetings and everyone became friends with Charley and the Pell family. He was really a nice guy when you got know him--sure, he had 'fallen from grace' somewhat, but not being a HC at a major university and just a football parent freed him up to relax and be just a regular guy....and THAT is the Charley I remember more than just as HC at UF.

Shortly afterwards they moved across the bay to Gulf Breeze, FL and eventually Jax area (if I recall correctly) up until his death. Good guy--good family.

RIP Charley.

Go Titans. Class of 68 - the First Class.

B52G8rAC · Jul 22, 2019

Swamp Donkey said:
We went to Cedar Key. Perhaps it was an east east/west side thing. By the 90s, Crescent had become an old people beach.

We used to fly over to Cedar Key for cross country credit (AFROTC FIP program). If you flew low over the restaurants they would send a car over to bring you to the shop. My roommate ran off the runway and bogged down in the sand doing a 180. No taxiways.

78 · Jul 22, 2019

PastyStoole said:
I basically had the same hair as Foley at about the time. That's me, third from left, on Grad Night:
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I'd have probably kept that private.

Pablos Tunnel · Jul 22, 2019

PastyStoole said:
I basically had the same hair as Foley at about the time. That's me, third from left, on Grad Night:

Looks like my grad night photo. We were the first to do Disney. A night of debauchery at the happiest place on earth. But. Were are the girls? Did you go to an all boys school?

Swamp Donkey · Jul 22, 2019

78 said:
I'd have probably kept that private.

gren hacked into and is running facial recognition databases as we speak. file started.

Okeechobee Joe · Jul 22, 2019

Charley Pell built it. Ben Hill Griffin paid for it. Steve Spurrier moved in it and lived there. At least that's the story of the house of Florida according to Ward Pell.

78 · Jul 22, 2019

Spurrier did a major remodeling.

Okeechobee Joe · Jul 22, 2019

78 said:
Spurrier did a major remodeling.

And Muschamp punched a couple of holes in the drywall.

Gatordiddy · Jul 22, 2019

Okeechobee Joe said:
And Muschamp punched a couple of holes in the drywall.

Sharkbutters flooded the basement and crapped on the neighbor’s lawn.

Swamp Donkey · Jul 22, 2019

78 said:
Spurrier did a major remodeling.

The grass?

gatordad3 · Jul 23, 2019

PastyStoole said:
I basically had the same hair as Foley at about the time. That's me, third from left, on Grad Night:

Looks like a young Scott Baio and Bill Paxton on the left side.

NOLAGATOR · Jul 23, 2019

Okeechobee Joe said:
And Muschamp punched a couple of holes in the drywall.

And Mac made PPJ's and sold BBQ...All with NO Special Teams and 3* talent...But wasn't the Swamp great?

Where else could a Fraud Shark Molester with Yellow Teeth make Million$$$$ and then get rehired?

Ain’t America Grand? What the %#@& is Kapernik squawking about?

BMF · Jul 23, 2019

Gator Fever said:
Not as old as some here obviously. All I remember about 79 (10 years old) is my dad cussing up a storm while listening to the games mostly on the radio while watching whatever game they were showing on TV that week. My mom usually made sure she was gone during the games. I remember 1980 good however and how happy my dad was with that big turnaround.

I was 9 years old in 1979 and went to my first UF game for the UF/Kentucky game. Kentucky won 33-3, but only after Larry Ochab led UF to a 3-0 lead! I remember running around on the field after the game on the artificial turf (from what I remember, they let kids/families out on the field after the game). Where did all those years go?

PastyStoole · Jul 23, 2019

Pablos Tunnel said:
Looks like my grad night photo. We were the first to do Disney. A night of debauchery at the happiest place on earth. But. Were are the girls? Did you go to an all boys school?

The guy on the left literally went through every rite of passage imaginable with me as teenagers. I believe we got separated from the girls because he was so shockingly obnoxious to all of them. I've never seen a guy pull out so many obscene an offensive comments to girls in my life. They were always sure they misheard it until he unapologetically repeated the comment back to them. A group of baptist school chicks who were attending grad night at the same time that night were waiting in line for a ride next to us. We all struck up a friendly conversation with them, asked them where they were from and so forth. In the middle of this cheerful exchange, he comments flatly and with an awful smirk on his face to one of them, "Wow, I wanna rip that dress right off you." They were absolutely horrified. The last time I saw him, he came to a semi-formal party at my parents house, passed out drunk, then proceeded to throw up on my mother's Hermes scarf. I kinda felt like I'd outgrown him at that point. He's an attorney now. His younger brother, who was not there at grad night but ran with us at the time, had super long hair and looked 11 years old when he was 16. He would literally reach out an grab a girl's boob as an ice-breaker. He's an undercover cop now. Their parents were horrible Scottish drunks, his father fought in Africa against Rommel's Panzer Division and was drinking through his PTSD. To say their house was dysfunctional would be a darkly comical understatement.

The guy next to him ended up becoming a very successful architectural engineer. We cruelly called him "the virgin." None of us thought he'd ever get laid. When he finally bedded a chick at Texas A&M during his senior year, we took him out to celebrate when he got back on break and wouldn't let him buy a drink.

The guy on the far right was the most cynical individual I've ever met. I loved the guy. He sells sno-cones out of a truck now and weighs about 240.

And I, as the song goes, became this drunken old whore. Swallowed by the cracks.

Gatordiddy · Jul 24, 2019

PastyStoole said:
And I, as the song goes, became this drunken old whore. Swallowed by the cracks.

But Pasty, you are OUR drunken old whore, and we love you.

(p.s. - which one was David and which one was David? :) )

stephenPE · Jul 24, 2019

NOLAGATOR said:
Pell made UF what it is today...He almost single-handed made the facilities Top Tier.

He enabled SOS to shine.

It is sad that many on here only credit him with the suspension. He gave his heart and soul to UF and almost his life (Attempted Suicide)

Though Spurrier was/is my favorite All time Florida Coach…It was Pell that made it happen.

It may have been wrong….But we all know OK, Neb, OSU, Bama, TX, USC, Mich…were all doing as much or worse.

You can’t compare then to now. If you think times were the same…Go watch “Mad Men” and get back with us.

THANK YOU Charlie Pell!!!

Damn Nola, I could have written that. In fact I probably did a few times..........

PastyStoole said:
Their parents were horrible Scottish drunks, his father fought in Africa against Rommel's Panzer Division and was drinking through his PTSD. To say their house was dysfunctional would be a darkly comical understatement.

You are wasting your talent in here.............

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