My father & I used to love listening to this all the time. We couldn't stop laughing! Actually what's even funnier is that I have never gone to a professional football game.
OH how I miss you Mr. Griffith. I SO long for the days of Andy, Barney, Opie, Aunt Bee, Floyd, Gomer, Otis & Mayberry... your love, warmth & kindness, your friendship, your strong sense of family, faith & community. And of course... the endless smiles that YOU & ALL of Mayberry NEVER FAILED to put on my face. Each of you have my eternal, heartfelt gratitude. You will never be forgotten. Rest peacefully dear friends.🙏💕
Mama Ames Agree. Such a nice, sweet show. I watch it all the time. I’m watching it now😉. No angst, social commentary, no “very special” episodes. Pure escapism.
THE NFL SEASON COMMENCES. ANDY GRIFFITH AND HIS CLASSIC MONOLOGUE: WHAT IT WAS… WAS FOOTBALL GOD BLESS YOU, SHERIFF ANDY TAYLOR. KENNETH HUANG 8/09/24.
... Dad and Mother had "Just For Laughs" album of Andy. I learned the entire football story word for word.What a GREAT man he was. Thanks so very much Edmund for sharing!
My uncle had this album, way back in the day (I think it is as old as I am, if not older). I just adored it. Parts of this album actually made it into The Andy Griffith Show
@@lancer525 - You mean you can't do research?????? Griffith's routine was almost verbatim from an old vaudeville routine performed years earlier and there are tons of articles about it. It is said that Griffith "heard it and was inspired by it."
@@justafanintexas7913 Pretty much sums up my REAL view of football....what a Neandertal game. Have NEVER watched a game in my entire life....and I'm 81.
Brilliant performer. The little asides and phrases are pure gold. There are so many connections to the past, don't think that youth of today would find this funny.
Just came across this for the first time, but I remember most of it verbatim from 50-plus years ago. Thank for making my day. It’s still as funny to me now as it was then. Could you please find and post Andy’s “Little Bo Peep”.
I play in a bluegrass band. When we do the song Dooley, we always begin it with “just jump in sheriff and hang on”. Only the old timers, like me, understand where that comes from.
Oh, Lord! That takes me back a lifetime ago, to simpler times and innocent laughter. We didn’t have all the automation we have now, no cell phones or tablets for people to be entranced with. We paid attention to each other.
I have reason to believe that this story originated with Samuel McCullough Whitesell (my grandfather) in the 1940s. I heard several of his stories in this same style, and one of them was about football. I heard that some of his stories appeared in the Radford College student newspaper in Radford Virginia, but I only saw the original copies in his attic.
I used to have a 78 recording of this, the record said the following: "What it Was, it was a football game" by "The Duke of Paducah" This was 70 years ago, when I lived in Baltimore, MD.
My dad used to talk about this routine and one day we found it on a 45 and bought it. It is so wonderfully funny and reminds me of my dad whenever I listen to it. I really love Andy adding the I did, they did, it was, etc.. Makes it sounds like a conversation with a group of friends sitting on a porch.
I was born in '81, so way after this. However, I luckily got to grow up on this, and others, on my mother's '45s. This one made her cry laughing every time. Me too basically.
Comedy doesn't necessarily have to be raunchy to be good. It's like Will Smith's rapping. You don't have to cuss to make a hit rap track. Same thing applies here.
My father & I used to love listening to this all the time. We couldn't stop laughing! Actually what's even funnier is that I have never gone to a professional football game.
Mr. Griffith was a silver lining in television's Golden Age.
Brilliant! Andy Griffith was pure comedy gold.
😅my 90 year old mother absolutely loves this!!! Thanks for sharing and allow me to watch her laugh like she used to!!!!
one of the greatest comedy sketches of all time this put Andy on the map this is so hilarious love it ,🤗🤗🤗🤗
OH how I miss you Mr. Griffith. I SO long for the days of Andy, Barney, Opie, Aunt Bee, Floyd, Gomer, Otis & Mayberry... your love, warmth & kindness, your friendship, your strong sense of family, faith & community. And of course... the endless smiles that YOU & ALL of Mayberry NEVER FAILED to put on my face. Each of you have my eternal, heartfelt gratitude. You will never be forgotten. Rest peacefully dear friends.🙏💕
Mama Ames Agree. Such a nice, sweet show. I watch it all the time. I’m watching it now😉. No angst, social commentary, no “very special” episodes. Pure escapism.
Thelma Lou & Helen
Grew up watching my friends
In Mayberry. Loved them all 💗
Andy Griffith is still an American treasure.
THE NFL SEASON COMMENCES.
ANDY GRIFFITH AND HIS CLASSIC MONOLOGUE:
WHAT IT WAS… WAS FOOTBALL
GOD BLESS YOU, SHERIFF ANDY TAYLOR. KENNETH HUANG 8/09/24.
Great recording.... the passing of an era... an age!
... Dad and Mother had "Just For Laughs" album of Andy. I learned the entire football story word for word.What a GREAT man he was. Thanks so very much Edmund for sharing!
My uncle had this album, way back in the day (I think it is as old as I am, if not older). I just adored it. Parts of this album actually made it into The Andy Griffith Show
I remember i had this 45 record as a young child. ❤️
Best description of football ever!
Oh, I don't know.... Carlin did a pretty good comparison of Football with Baseball...
Too bad he didn't write it.
@@justafanintexas7913 Source? Proof? Independently-verifiable evidence?
I'll wait...
@@lancer525 - You mean you can't do research?????? Griffith's routine was almost verbatim from an old vaudeville routine performed years earlier and there are tons of articles about it. It is said that Griffith "heard it and was inspired by it."
@@justafanintexas7913 Pretty much sums up my REAL view of football....what a Neandertal game. Have NEVER watched a game in my entire life....and I'm 81.
Brilliant performer. The little asides and phrases are pure gold.
There are so many connections to the past, don't think that youth of today would find this funny.
He was brilliant.
Just a wonderful story teller & a wonderful human being.... The best shows ever on tv STILL!! No 1 will top The Andy Griffith Show....
It’s my favorite show of all time
I had that record back in the 50's when I was a kid.
There's a clip on you tube where Andy tells that he made up this great piece while driving his car to work! That's making good use of your time!
love it !!
a classic!!! love Andy. :)
Just came across this for the first time, but I remember most of it verbatim from 50-plus years ago. Thank for making my day. It’s still as funny to me now as it was then. Could you please find and post Andy’s “Little Bo Peep”.
For me it’s been 70 years since I heard it on our 45 record.
Thank you very much; yes, he was amazing!
Much loved, much missed.
This feels so weird hearing a young Andy Griffith or any young celebrity BEFORE they became famous
this and who is on first are great sketches
I play in a bluegrass band. When we do the song Dooley, we always begin it with “just jump in sheriff and hang on”. Only the old timers, like me, understand where that comes from.
Yes, in his long career, he had a chance to experience a sea-change in American culture; Mayberry to Woodstock and beyond.
Yeah that's my understanding of football.
I have this on a 45 record Im rolling in the aisles so funny and no cussing imagine that
Oh, Lord! That takes me back a lifetime ago, to simpler times and innocent laughter. We didn’t have all the automation we have now, no cell phones or tablets for people to be entranced with. We paid attention to each other.
Andy Griffith Graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill
I have reason to believe that this story originated with Samuel McCullough Whitesell (my grandfather) in the 1940s. I heard several of his stories in this same style, and one of them was about football. I heard that some of his stories appeared in the Radford College student newspaper in Radford Virginia, but I only saw the original copies in his attic.
Yes, indeed, exactly. A real American institution.
Funniest comedy routines of all time;
No. 1 -Who's On First (Abbott and Costello)
No. 2 - this one. Andy Griffith was a true entertainment giant.
Big part of my childhood. Had it on a 45.
Me too!!!
Try telling kids now you got a 45 of it and they're look at you like you're crazy, mention Andy Griffith and you'll get a real confused look!
What's a 45?
Me too, still do
He’s still the man!
I used to have a 78 recording of this, the record said the following: "What it Was, it was a football game" by "The Duke of Paducah" This was 70 years ago, when I lived in Baltimore, MD.
Wow, I'm only 45 and amazed at finding things from my childhood. I'm so glad you can go mine the tube and find some gems.
Andy Griffith, I Love Lucy, George Burns and Gracie Allen Show ...they were comedy and the number one comedians!
My dad used to talk about this routine and one day we found it on a 45 and bought it. It is so wonderfully funny and reminds me of my dad whenever I listen to it. I really love Andy adding the I did, they did, it was, etc.. Makes it sounds like a conversation with a group of friends sitting on a porch.
I was born in '81, so way after this. However, I luckily got to grow up on this, and others, on my mother's '45s. This one made her cry laughing every time. Me too basically.
He is missed. My brother had him for his English teacher.
This is awesome! Can't believe I've never herd it!
Ahhh...memories! Lol.
classic comedy
❤❤
O…M…G…😂😂😂
Not one word of profanity. Just great comedy.
Comedy doesn't necessarily have to be raunchy to be good. It's like Will Smith's rapping. You don't have to cuss to make a hit rap track. Same thing applies here.
Who cares? Either way, they are just words.
Not a curse word one. Huh. Who thought comedy didn’t need cussing. At least people with class and talent don’t.
Funny
Big orange...
If you don't like good comedy, you need help.
Andy Griffith wasn’t a nice guy. Most people from NC that ever had any dealings with him despised him.
You could have just kept that comment to yourself