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[KentuckyHemp]

the land of Dan Issel and the Kentucky Colonels.

Changing from Ahoooooooo to OOOOOOOOOH!!! I was there from the first game and on. I got to know the owner and his wife. They were wealthy and knew little about basketball. She would bring her little white poodle with her to the games and sit on the bench beside her husband and coaches. She looked like Eva Gabor with all her refinery and dripping diamonds. I got to know the coaches and players (in fact, Darrel Carrier who was a guard on that team is my friend and lives about a mile away from me) and the game announcers.

I LOVE this Kentucky basketball era. One winter night, the Colonels played an away game with the Minnesota Muskies. I couldn't wait to watch the game on TV. That night, it started snowing all over the region from Kentucky on up to Minnesota. The snow as horribly deep, 20" even here in Kentucky at some places. The team barely got there by airplane and for some reason they only had 7 players to make it. The game came on and the announcer said that they could only get one TV camera there and were not sure if they could get on the air. They started out with a black screen and audio only. We eventually got to watch the entire game in black and white by them using only one camera! All were long shots from the top of the arena. And what made it so bad was, Kentucky got the worst whippin' maybe in pro basketball history. The score was something like 125 to 50.

Darrel and I have talked about it many times. He as an All-American from Western Kentucky University, right here where I live. Trying to cut this short, I used to announce the Western basketball games from Diddle Arena in the 1970's. Lot's of stories we could swap!

I was at Rupp Arena the night Adolp Rupp retired. I was on the floor with him and did a TV interview. A few years later, Coach Joe B. Hall invited me to sit on the bench with him for a game at Rupp against Vanderbilt. I went to UK, but graduated from Western.

I really, really enjoyed your narrative concerning you and the Wolfman. I hope you write more. If you can remember Dan and the Colonels, you are alright by me!!!!!!!!!
Mike