Woody Paige Unveils His Tennessee Vols Mount Rushmore l Peyton Manning, Todd Helton

Woody Paiges Tennessee Vols Mount Rushmore the chase Thomas podcast for people who have nothing but time to kill this front here um you're we're in the Tennessee hat and I'm curious as seeing as someone who's seen a lot of Tennessee athletics over uh over the years who would be on your Tennessee volunteer Sports Mount Rushmore who all time fits the bill for you who who are those four well Todd heldon in every memory right now and there's a street name along with P Manning so those two I would say that uh I'm G to put somebody in there you never heard of but I'm GNA leave everybody with the opportunity to Google in high school one of my best friends was a guy named Charlie Pon he went he went to Tennessee when there was a single wing our high school in Memphis played single wing when it was no longer being played Tennessee was one of the last major schools to play single wing he was the last single wing tailback and the first quarterback in a real system for Tennessee and he went on to become the most valuable player in the Canadian Football League he was my high school teammate he was his name was Charlie fton I put him on my Mount Rushmore uh I love that basketball I became very close friends with a guy named Tom borwin now he's not he don't blow Tom borwin had played at a military school in in in Kentucky he was seven feet tall when there weren't many seven Footers and he uh couldn't walk and chew gum and that's a famous old cliche but he couldn't he went on to play with the bulls with Michael Jordan and won three or four championships as the starting center and then got a seat on the Chicago uh Stock Exchange and it's had a brilliant life for a guy that couldn't walk in ch gum and and was just seven feet tall and I would walk around campus at Tennessee with him and girls would say how tall you and he'd say 68 he never wanted anybody embarrassed him to be seven feet tall he's I think that uh [Music] uh help me out here uh the there was the two players that were basketball players oh Bernard King and Ernie grunfeld yes I would I'm trying to think of who I mean latter day would be better but the Arnie and Bernie show yeah I I would have to put them side by side on that yeah so maybe Charlie fton won't ever be on anybody else's but he was he was all sec but he played two different he he was there for the end of the single wing and the beginning of but I I I also think you you have would have to put a longtime coach on there who was maybe the greatest football player I been pton Manning that was there that finished second in the Iceman Trophy and then came back to coach the team three uh and Johnny Majors we're talking Peyton Manning about left the national champion to coach Tennessee pardon me left that I mean he won a national title at pit and then still proceeded to leave that team to go to Tennessee yeah uh yeah and I I guess that that would be it for me in terms of uh I know when I was in high school I mean in college at Tennessee I saw the most until I saw Dr J I watched uh Pete marovich and wrote about covered Pete marovich for four years and then cover in pro basketball when he was with the Atlanta and New Orleans the New Orleans Jazz there's the question of the day for people Utah Jazz I've been to Utah 100 times you can't find a place that plays Jazz and it's do you know how Pete Maravich dumb I am Woody like I always thought growing up because I love the logo and you have the mountain range behind it I just grew up thinking the Jazz was the mountain range in Utah like I just always thought that what that was and I never put two and two together it took me years that so embarrassing that I just thought there was a jazz mountain range and that's why they were called The Jazz they called the ice Jazz over there and like that's why it was I I never put two and two together growing up never thought about it any other way were Jazz and they played it in the super doome that was the first basketball has played in a football stadium yeah for Houston whatever and I was amazed that the players could shoot because there was no background I mean it's been people have adopted to playing in football stadiums but I I would talk to players and they'd say you've got no rain you don't yeah you don't get the perspective of of what you're doing here with Pete marovich uh watching him in college if there had been a three-point line he'd average 70 points a game because everything he shot was from 30 feet yeah I mean he rarely drove to the basket so I would put him on my alltime College because he I never saw a performer as I did with P Mar would been Steph Curry a modern Steph Curry if he had played it later in life yeah except a much taller that's why I said there was elg how tall was Pete 6'4 okay in St is what 510 so he was a much bigger there wasn't a ball Handler like P marage I mean he did videos for years where people adopted to that so I guess that's the answer your question I thought you were gonna ask me about you know I'm wearing this Tennessee hat they send yeah merch from Tennessee all the time because I think they put me in the media that's a payment of you know famous people the legendary things you talking about but I must I'll end on this story about why I became a tenness footb P I was born 1946 right at the end of the war so I'm a baby boomer in 19448 om Miss and and and Tennessee would always play in Memphis go back and look it up my dad took me to an Old Miss Tennessee game in 1948 I was a year not two years old and it was snowing which was a rarity and I didn't know that of course I was two years old I didn't know it until I was 12 or 13 I asked my dad about it he said he was a Tennessee I said you were from Mississippi he said I was a Tennessee fan I like the colors I liked uh Tennessee under a famous General who was coach of the and he said maybe you grow up to uh be a Tennessee fan nicely done nephew the chase Thomas podcast hell [Music] yeah