50 Greatest North Carolina Sportspersons (From 1999)

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Zoo_View said:
Franklinton’s Henry Bibby and Columbus’s Tony Waldrop likely should have been on the 1999 list.
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I like Waldrop on that list -- I always hoped he would return to Carolina as an administrator -- he was a hero to me as a kid running distance in school.

Older African Americans that I knew in Chatham would talk about Henry Bibby's Franklinton High team coming to play at J.S. Waters High School in Goldston in the days before desegregation. He put on "a show" there evidently. I think he averaged over 35 ppg during high school. I've never read much about Bibby's recruitment. That he chose to travel across the country to play at UCLA probably says something about the atmosphere of the times.

His brother Jim Bibby was an inconsistent, sometimes star of a Major League pitcher who tossed a no-hitter for Texas while going 9-10 for the season. Sports Illustrated did a story on the two of them in 1981. HE'S NOT HOT STUFF, HE'S MY BROTHER
 
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LosPollosHermanos said:
. . .. I think at the time he was preaching about the horrors of rock music and did some completely staged bullshit where the power went out and he claimed Satan caused it. . . ..
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OK, I'm going to give Long the benefit of the doubt on this one and just assume he was making some sort of joke. Growing up, my father would say something like, "If the thunders in (close by small town), the lights go off in (our hometown.)" But I don't like Satan jokes. There is a LOT of malevolent, terrible evil in this world. And if some people choose to call this collective evil "Satan," then that's OK with me. But it stikes me as disengenious for "conservatives" who are among the proponants of collective evil when they think it can put a dollar in their pocket, trivialize collective evil by dismissing it as Satan.
 
donbosco said:
That he chose to travel across the country to play at UCLA probably says something about the atmosphere of the times.
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I always thought Bibby’s decision to attend UCLA said more about the “influence” of Sam Gilbert.
 
05C40 said:
OK, I'm going to give Long the benefit of the doubt on this one and just assume he was making some sort of joke. Growing up, my father would say something like, "If the thunders in (close by small town), the lights go off in (our hometown.)" But I don't like Satan jokes. There is a LOT of malevolent, terrible evil in this world. And if some people choose to call this collective evil "Satan," then that's OK with me. But it stikes me as disengenious for "conservatives" who are among the proponants of collective evil when they think it can put a dollar in their pocket, trivialize collective evil by dismissing it as Satan.
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Definitelly not a joke. Bunch of small town Christians sitting in an absolute pitch dark sanctuary after being shown a bunch of Ozzy album covers with upside down crosses and pentagrams and listening to heavy metal lyrics played backwards. Scared the living shit out of people. I can't say with certainty it was staged, although I'm inclined to believe it was. But if it was a coincidence and the power just randomly went out, he played it for all it was worth. The devil was in the room with us.
 
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