What It Is Early Andy

Since the Super Bowl was just two days ago on Sunday, I figure that that makes this all the more timely.  Not that I need an excuse because it fits in directly to what I wrote about yesterday.

Yesterday, I wrote about Andy Griffith's early career doing monologues and posted his wonderful one about Romeo and Juliet -- which he later adapted for use on his TV series, explaining the play to his son, Opie.  I also mentioned that his most famous monologue at the time in 1953 was called "What It Was Was Football."

I knew that I could find an audio recording of that classic, but what happily surprised me is that I tracked down a video of him delivering the piece on The Ed Sullivan Show.  So, if you want to see very early Andy Griffith -- and this is early --  here he is at age 27 in January, 1954 doing "What It Was Was Football."