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Posted on 1/24/14 at 9:02 am to dimet
Wrestling, a great guy for LSU
Posted on 1/24/14 at 10:29 am to doze4
I went to the first recruiting bash when it was held in the field house on campus. They played highlight films and things to keep you from getting bored waiting for the signed papers to come in. The best deal they did was to have Crocker, Hill and Ferguson on the stage talking about the things that went on in the press box. That was great hearing what they had to say.
Posted on 1/24/14 at 10:54 am to steverehage
Probably showing my age, but what was the medical exchange?
Posted on 1/24/14 at 11:15 am to doze4
At forward the "Dubberly Dude", Floyd Baileeeeey
Greg "Cookieeee Man" Cook
The Astronaut, DeeeeeWayne Scales
Great times...He also had a thing about the pep band director?
From downtown Bunkie? Brusly?
Greg "Cookieeee Man" Cook
The Astronaut, DeeeeeWayne Scales
Great times...He also had a thing about the pep band director?
From downtown Bunkie? Brusly?
Posted on 1/24/14 at 11:28 am to TJG210
quote:It's how doctors attending games got paged, back in the day.
Probably showing my age, but what was the medical exchange?
This post was edited on 1/24/14 at 11:30 am
Posted on 1/24/14 at 11:47 am to doze4
Yes
Posted on 1/24/14 at 11:51 am to doze4
He used to be the wrestling announcer on the wrasslin' matches that followed the Charlie Mac show on Sunday nights. 
Posted on 1/24/14 at 11:59 am to doze4
I have several games taped on cassetts from the 70's and the thing you hear the most is "doctor #543..please call medical exchange"!
you always thought a drunk has fallen down or a fight.
you always thought a drunk has fallen down or a fight.
Posted on 1/24/14 at 12:25 pm to GarmischTiger
quote:
quote:
Probably showing my age, but what was the medical exchange?
It's how doctors attending games got paged, back in the day.
It's weird the memories that stick with people, but that shite really was constant throughout a football game. It's funny to think of today.
Posted on 1/24/14 at 12:30 pm to Gus Tinsley
quote:
I have several games taped on cassetts from the 70's and the thing you hear the most is "doctor #543..please call medical exchange"! you always thought a drunk has fallen down or a fight.
Back in the days before regular pagers and cell phones. Emergency rooms or hospitals would call the doctor's exchange who would call the stadium when a.doctor on call was at the game. The doctor corresponding to the number call would go to pay phone and call his exchange to get the message.
Posted on 1/24/14 at 12:33 pm to Emergent C Steve
I worked with "One Kidney Sidney" at track meets back I. The day. His voice was incredible along the lines of James Earl Jones.
Posted on 1/24/14 at 12:49 pm to Hoodatt
Speaking of wrestling, how about when Sid put on the wresting tights and the mask for the commercial where he wrestled a tire. May have been for Simple Simon Tire Company or one of those tire dealerships back then.
We'd always yell at his announcements and tell him "go wrestle a tire Sid".
We'd always yell at his announcements and tell him "go wrestle a tire Sid".
Posted on 1/24/14 at 1:21 pm to steverehage
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Doc-tor number 3 5 7,
Doc-tor number 3 5 7,
Please call...medical exchange.
It was an early version of play calling by the OC from the press box.
The doctor number was the formation and personnel package...and "please call medical exchange" was code for "short side option."
Posted on 1/24/14 at 1:24 pm to doze4
Definitely miss Sid Crocker. As someone had posted, he was also a member of WAFB and to go along with that , let me go ahead and Say that I miss the ole Beechcomber Bob Scarce who used to do the hunting and fishing show on Channel 9, Man those truly were the days.
Posted on 1/24/14 at 1:34 pm to windhammontanatigers
Sid was also the voice of the mexican puppet on The Buckskin Bill Show after schoo. "Senior Bill, Senior Bill "!
Posted on 1/24/14 at 4:16 pm to yattan
Yattan, you are so right, I had forgotten about that but definitely remember the Buckskin Bill show while growing up in Gonzales. 
Posted on 1/24/14 at 5:38 pm to doze4
In addition to being the stadium announcer in Tiger Stadium, Sid was the weatherman on WAFB. In the 1960s, there was no electronic weather board, so they drew the weather on a large easel with a black Marks-A-Lot (I'm not kidding). Sid had a contest in around 1965 where kids could send in a postcard to him, and if your postcard was picked, he announced your name and hometown on the air, and he mailed that night's easel with the weather map on it. I must have kept mine for 5 years!
And a previous poster was right--the fishing show was the Old Beachcomber, Bob Scearce- not Sid Crocker.
And a previous poster was right--the fishing show was the Old Beachcomber, Bob Scearce- not Sid Crocker.
Posted on 1/24/14 at 5:57 pm to AlwysATgr
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Used to sit in the SEZ and for us there was always a slight "echo" effect from the speakers in the other EZ I assume so that it sounded like this:
"doctor - octor, number 3, 5, 7-even, Please call-all, medical exchange-ange."
Man you just brought back memories. You are dead on with that. I forgot about that echo.
Crocker was the voice for me growing up as well. As Dan Borne gets older, he's starting to sound a little like Crocker - but not quite there. He had one of those deep rich tone voices.
Posted on 1/24/14 at 7:59 pm to HeadSlash
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Doctor ____ please call medical exchange
My dad was a dentist in br and we had season tickets. I asked what his dr # was. He made up some shite. Love you Pop
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