Compare those teams to the Manning miracle team or the two teams that Hinrich and Collison took to the Final Four. On those teams the stars dominated.

Brandon Rush and Darrell Arthur – the two most highly projected NBA guys on the KU roster – disappeared against K-State just like LaFrenz and Pierce did any time it was time to really play. Paul Pierce was an incredibly disappointing college player. He’d be utterly unstoppable for 10 minutes and then glide through the rest of the game and the next two without much impression.

I love the Jayhawks, but to claim Paul Pierce was one of the top 50 college players over the last 20 years much less the top 5 is way over the top.

If Nick Collison had made free throws in the championship game, he’d be a contestant for the list. Also, Carmelo, who ran and hid from the ball the whole second half of the championship game, and then went to the NBA shouldn’t be mentioned as a runner-up either.

If you want the greatest college players of the last twenty years, you’ve got to look at guys like Sean Elliot, Danny Ferry, and the UNLV players. But Danny Manning is clearly the best college basketball player in that time frame.

Best example I remember was during a Detroit Lions game that went to overtime, Marty Morningwhig decided to defer after winning the coin flip.

My friend immediately said: “Are you kidding me? If I was the owner, I would literally walk down to the sideline and fire him on the spot.”

“Marty, go ahead and head home, will work out the contract buyout later, but just give me the headset, and leave the building. You can come clean your stuff out tomorrow.”

“The Munsters” …. Himself (1 episode, 1965)
– Herman the Rookie (1965) TV episode …. Himself
“Mr. Novak” …. Himself (1 episode, 1964)
– Boy Under Glass (1964) TV episode …. Himself
“The Donna Reed Show” …. Himself (1 episode, 1964)
– Play Ball (1964) TV episode …. Himself
“The Judy Garland Show” …. Himself (1 episode, 1963)
– Episode #1.4 (1963) TV episode …. Himself
“Mister Ed” …. Himself (1 episode, 1963)
– Leo Durocher Meets Mister Ed (1963) TV episode …. Himself
“The Beverly Hillbillies” …. Himself (1 episode, 1963)
– The Clampetts and the Dodgers (1963) TV episode …. Himself

What I say to folks with young children is that I have only one, she’s 27 and she’s all paid for.

While the Flying Nun is certainly a worthy candidate, my vote goes to My Mother the Car starring Jerry van Dyke and the voice of Ann Southern wherein Jerry’s Mom dies and is reincarnated as an old car.

Tell your kids about how a nice man would come and pump the gas for you.

Finally, you are at the Super Bowl, you are living in Kansas City, so can we have a few words about Hank Stram!

Example A: “let’s make a TV show based on that recently popular anti-establishment comedy motion picture” resulted in both the all-time great series “M*A*S*H” and the all-time disaster “Animal House”.

Example B: “Let’s make a series about a family of monsters and freaks living in a scary house in suburbia” resulted in both the excellent “The Addams Family” and the pedestrian “The Munsters”*

Example C: “Let’s make a series about a therapist who moves to the pacific northwest following a divorce to host a radio show and lets get that supporting character from that incredibly popular series to star” resulted in both the hugely popular “Frasier” and the legendary career killer “Hello Larry”.

*You may, for some reason, think that The Munsters are as good as or better than The Addams Family. Possible reasons for such a response include: total lack of a sense of humor; extreme stupidity; growing up under power lines; a childhood spent ingesting lead paint. Whatever the reason, you are wrong. The Addams Family was awesome, The Munsters was hackwork. In the extremely sad case that you don’t agree, why not save us all a lot of embarassment and discomfort and just keep it to yourself.