Georgia Tech Movie/TV References

SoCal Jacket said:
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin'_Wreck_from_Georgia_Tech): Then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sang the song together when they met in Moscow in 1959 to reduce the tension between them during the Kitchen Debate. As the story goes, Nixon didn't know any Russian songs, but Khrushchev knew that one American song as it had been sung on the Ed Sullivan show.[
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I've heard that before. You can find some of the Kitchen Debate on Youtube, but not that part.
 
SoCal Jacket said:
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin'_Wreck_from_Georgia_Tech): Then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sang the song together when they met in Moscow in 1959 to reduce the tension between them during the Kitchen Debate. As the story goes, Nixon didn't know any Russian songs, but Khrushchev knew that one American song as it had been sung on the Ed Sullivan show.[
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Wow, never heard that one before. Interesting.
 
An episode of The TV show Scrubs showed the main characters (Cox, Turk, JD) sitting down, drinking beer, and watching a Tech football game while morning the loss of JD's father.
 
AllAmericanBuzz said:
Isn't there a new movie called "5th Quarter" about a Wake Forest player that has the ACCCG in it? I'm sure it ends like the Rudy movie with everyone holding up 5 fingers as the hero defeats a powerhouse GT team. It's hard to get excited about a 9-6 outcome, but I'm sure Hollywood will figure out a way. I wonder if it'll be rainy.

http://the5thquartermovie.com/
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You have got to be kidding me. No freaking way.

Another feel good inspirational movie about someone overcoming adversity....and beating GEORGIA TECH. Sonofabitch.

As if we really needed to re-live the 2006 ACCCG. Just damn.
 
SoCal Jacket said:
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin'_Wreck_from_Georgia_Tech): Then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sang the song together when they met in Moscow in 1959 to reduce the tension between them during the Kitchen Debate. As the story goes, Nixon didn't know any Russian songs, but Khrushchev knew that one American song as it had been sung on the Ed Sullivan show.[
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In Soviet Russia, opponent sings Ramblin' Wreck to you
 
AE 87 said:
Speaking of which, does anyone know what year Tech stopped requiring drownproofing?

I'm remembering the football players in my class weren't big fans -- something about muscle mass, BMI, and buoyancy.
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When I was there, whatever PT or PE we took, we were assigned to section R. We were given an automatic "A" and never had to go.
 
One other movie. I don't remember the name (maybe The Fury), but in the late 70s, Andrew Stevens, Amy Irving, and Kirk Douglas were in a movie that had a not so special sequel. In the sequel, there was a basketball game where the person with the special power made the ball explode on the game winning shot. Several of the players in that scene were Tech bb seniors from the previous year's team including Mickey Morrison (Duane's son) and I think Bill Allgood. The NCAA wouldn't allow people with eligibility to participate. I think it was filmed at the Omni.
 
goldeagle said:
'87,
I think drownproofing was dropped in 1985 as a graduation requirement.
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87 or 88 (The article conflicts as it says it was a graduation requirement until 88 but dropped from the curriculum in 87.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drownproofing


I never knew they totally dropped it when it was dropped as a graduation requirement. Of course, it might have been tough to fill the class with no requirement. :cool:
 
goldeagle said:
I think drownproofing was dropped in 1985 as a graduation requirement.
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Of course, I took it just before that. Good class tho. The thing about classes like that are that they raise the bar of what it takes before you panic and staying calm in a life-threatening situation is pretty much the difference between living and not.
 
GTJacket567 said:
Anyone know what the Heisman Gym looked like?
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Yep. It was one of the best buildings on campus when I took drownproofing. I was awed by the pool, shower and locker facilities. The gym had stuff that I had never seen before, much less used. I enjoyed working out there.

A number of years later -- after it had been decommissioned -- I revisited it. It was a dump. Sad.

Some of you may also recall that all those years when Bobby Dodd was kicking ass in the SEC, our locker and shower facilities under the east stands of Grant Field were pathetic. My old high school had comparable if not better facilities.

Classroom facilites? How many of you remember taking math in the Old Shop Building or buying books in the cellar of the Knowles Building? Who remembers the Robbery being beneath the Ad building, or the open air GT post office? Foggy remembers. Who else?

We've come a long way. A long way. And it wasn't cheap. Or easy.

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The gym is on the right and adjoing it to the south is the indoor pool. The building to the west center of the stadium is the Knowles.
 
golftango18yankeejuliet said:
When I was there, whatever PT or PE we took, we were assigned to section R. We were given an automatic "A" and never had to go.
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I took it with a big freshman DL who barely survived. NOBODY wanted to be his partner for fear of having to try to save him. I am not sure why he would have taken it if he knew there was a way out of the requirement.

He made it through he didn't get an A. He couldn't complete the full underwater swim.

I had taken the Red Cross course before high school. We had the same skill tests but they weren't as long or strenuous. Only the underwater swim worried me. After the course I realized it was mostly mental. Almost everyone could complete it if they could swim, but fighting the urge to surface was hard.
 
There was a Gary Sinese movie, "Mission to Mars" and there was a GT calendar on the space station.

GO JACKETS!!
byteback
 
essobee Classroom facilites? How many of you remember taking math in the Old Shop Building or buying books in the cellar of the Knowles Building? [B[B said:
]Who remembers the Robbery being beneath the Ad building[[/B]/B], or the open air GT post office? Foggy remembers. Who else?


The gym is on the right and adjoing it to the south is the indoor pool. The building to the west center of the stadium is the Knowles.
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Thanks for the great picture

Ate breakfast every day at the robbery at 7 AM after driving in from Doraville for my preferred 8 o'clock first class. Needed to start early; tried to be at work by one. Carried a full load AND worked around forty hours a week for 2 1/2 years. Made for bad grades, but I was late twenty's and no help from anyone, except my wife and the G.I. bill.

We registered by hand, in person, at the gym several times. Long lines around the track, big boards of cryptic class availability and surly student schedulers. Makes me appreciate personal computers.
 
Buzzfalcon said:
I'm pretty sure I remember one of the officers in Generation Kill yelling "Go Jackets!" in one scene.
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yeah, its "encino man" aka Craig Schwetje GT '94

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Recall this is the guy who called in the danger-close airstrike.

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fanatastic show
 
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bigbird4120 said:
Thanks for the great picture

Ate breakfast every day at the robbery at 7 AM after driving in from Doraville for my preferred 8 o'clock first class. Needed to start early; tried to be at work by one. Carried a full load AND worked around forty hours a week for 2 1/2 years. Made for bad grades, but I was late twenty's and no help from anyone, except my wife and the G.I. bill.

We registered by hand, in person, at the gym several times. Long lines around the track, big boards of cryptic class availability and surly student schedulers. Makes me appreciate personal computers.
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That brings back more fond memories, especially the punched card chase in the gym. My hat is off to you, sir, for the way you put yourself through school. You're the kind of guy that made Tech great in our day and thereafter.
 
byteback said:
There was a Gary Sinese movie, "Mission to Mars" and there was a GT calendar on the space station.

GO JACKETS!!
byteback
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That may have been the GT logo I saw. Thought it was one of the movies I mentioned, but pretty sure it was Mission to Mars now.
 
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