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(09-09-2016, 01:37 PM)Redrum link Wrote:When I watched the TX/ND game I heard them pronounce Buechele's name. I thought I remembered a Stanford athlete (football player) whose name was spelled the same but was pronounced "Buck ley" but spelled "funny". Or so I thought at the time. Now I find out that Texas' Buechele's might be the son of that guy. Am I mis-remembering how Stanford Buechele's name was pronounced back when he was, reportedly, John Elway's backup?
You might be thinking of Fred Buckley, who was a Stanford QB (along with John Paye) in the Jack Elway era. John Elway had already graduated by a couple of years.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)