We’d like to thank Joe for today’s story. My grandfather’s friend worked for the McCaskey family and the Bears in the 70’s and 80’s, so she threw our family a couple tickets to Super Bowl XX. My uncle and cousin, both in their early 20’s at the time, wound up going to the game. Since […]
Tag: football
Here are some Bill Murray stories that involve football.
Birthday Boy
We’d like to thank Jason for sharing this story. I met Bill at a Pee Dee Academy football game in the very small town of Mullins, SC. His sons were players on the visiting team. Rumors were Bill was in attendance so once the game ended I walked over to the visitor side of the […]
Go Tigers!
We’d like to thank Drew for today’s story. The date was October 19, 2013. It was a foggy morning in the small, but loud, town of Clemson, South Carolina. It was a typical Saturday morning for this time of year – full of tailgating in anticipation for the local football team, The Clemson Tigers. The […]
Bill Murray Orchestrates Cornell Marching Band
We’d like to thank Cashel for sharing this story October 2011: Ithacans have a surprising encounter with the legendary actor Bill Murray. Unbeknownst to the majority of the Cornell-Harvard football game spectators, Bill Murray was anonymously, secretively in attendance. Per usual, at the end of the game, the Cornell marching band stuck around to jam […]
Bill Murray Picks Clemson over FSU, Body Slams Lee Corso
If you saw the FSU/Clemson game yesterday, you might be thinking that Bill Murray is not that great at making sports predictions (the Seminoles killed Clemson 51-14); but he’s always my pick when it comes to beating up sports broadcasters. And, like all good things should, there’s an animated .gif (via SBNation):