Celtics Contest! **WINNER IS JACK!!**

[Camsue]

77 please for today

 

[neemann]

99

Thanks.

 

[Jack]

86 today THANKS
Jack

 

[mm1sub]

#27

 

[KCLJ520]

I really miss the ABA. As a kid I thought it was just the coolest league ever with all the teams from obscure (at the time) cities and areas. Plus, the style of play was wide open and was the forerunner of today's "small ball". Throw in the three point shot, the incredible dunking and the fast aced action and it was tailor made for this small town kid! I just was obsessed with the league. But then again, as a grade schooler I much preferred watching the AFL over the NFL for many of the same reasons. The ABA did lack the number of quality big men (with a few exceptions like Malone and Gilmore) so Parish signing with the ABA would have been an interesting thing to see,

Kevin you mentioned Hondo Havlicek and I have a question about him that old school Celtics fans may be able to help me with. Wikipedia says he got his nickname from the 1953 John Wayne movie "Hondo". However, he does not resemble John Wayne at all. Havlicek does however look very much like the actor who played Hondo in the short lived 1967 TV series by the same name.........actually it was loosely based off the movie. I think Havlicek got his name because he looked like Ralph Taeger who played Hondo in that TV series. I wonder if that is the case because those two look whole lot alike.

Here is the Wikapedia page on the show. Tell me if you think that TVs Hondo looks like The NBA's Hondo. I sure think so and I am guessing that is where he go his nickname.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hondo_(TV_series)

I'll go with 67 today for the one year Hondo was on TV and where I think Havlicek got his nickname.

Jeff, you just cleared up a question I have been wondering about for decades! I was not aware of the TV show, and have seen the movie (John Wayne's only 3-D movie, I remember seeing it in the early 90s when it was re-broadcast, you had to go to the local convenience store to pick up the glasses!)

Seeing the actor portraying Hondo, the sideburns, hair, and height.....Havlicek for sure!

Well that clears that up!! THANKS!

 

[KCLJ520]

Numbers chosen: 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 19, 23, 27, 29, 33, 34, 35, 39, 42, 43, 44, 55, 56, 65, 67, 69, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 81, 84, 85, 86, 88, 93, 99.

 

[KCLJ520]

With the talk of Havlicek, I have an item I will list in the basketball forums too, but wanted to list here:

Dad obtained this IP in 1974, and I would like to sell, I see similar items are going in the $40-50 range, I will go $35 dlvd and insured:

 

[grapler135s]

82 today please thank you!

 

[who765]

#5

 

[katester44]

#51 today.

 

[SymphonicMetal]

Kevin, oddly enough I knew of the Hondo TV series before I knew of the more famous John Wayne movie. An little know TV channel called GetTV shows a lot of obscure, short lived Western TV series from the 1950s and 1960s and Hondo is one of those. When I saw the actor playing Hondo I immediately thought how he looked like Hondo Havlicek and the this guy had to be the source of his nickname. The circumstantial evidence is too great to think otherwise.

I'll go with #40 today, Thanks again for the contest and for agreeing with me on the source of Havlicek's nickname.

 

[anglinomics]

48 please

 

[neemann]

78

Thanks.

 

[David K.]

15 Best regards, David

 

[Jack]

#1 today THANKS
Jack

 

[katester44]

#52 today. Thanks.

 

[KCLJ520]

Kevin, oddly enough I knew of the Hondo TV series before I knew of the more famous John Wayne movie. An little know TV channel called GetTV shows a lot of obscure, short lived Western TV series from the 1950s and 1960s and Hondo is one of those. When I saw the actor playing Hondo I immediately thought how he looked like Hondo Havlicek and the this guy had to be the source of his nickname. The circumstantial evidence is too great to think otherwise.

I'll go with #40 today, Thanks again for the contest and for agreeing with me on the source of Havlicek's nickname.

Thank YOU for the cool piece of trivia! When Dad was alive, he and his two brothers loved the John Wayne movies, but I was not at all familiar with the show. Cool stuff, thanks so much for sharing!

Numbers chosen: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23, 27, 29, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 48, 51, 52, 55, 56, 65, 67, 69, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 88, 93, 99.

 

[who765]

#5

 

[SymphonicMetal]

Kevin, if you have any older relatives or friends that were Celtics fans back in the Havlicek era you should run the Hondo TV show theory by them and see what they think.

My brother is a big John Wayne fan and I get under his skin by telling him the TV show Hondo could whip the movie Hondo's butt. Man oh man, the TV show Hondo got in more fistfights then you can count and that was in only 17 episodes too! LOL

I'll go with 25 today.

 

[mm1sub]

#30