The wild and wacky 1970’s with Ricky Cobb of Super 70’s Sports

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

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4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

From the big collar uniforms to Harry Caray to Disco Demolition, the White Sox were at the center of all that was fun and reckless about the 1970's. Chuck Garfien speaks Ricky Cobb, a Chicago sociology teacher who is also the creator of Super 70’s Sports, a Twitter account with over a half-million followers that pays tribute to this off the wall decade with photos and tweets that will have you laughing all the way back to 1975.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, it's Chuck Arfine.
0:09.5	Welcome to the White Sox Talk podcast, brought to you, as always, by our great friends at WinTrust.
0:16.1	All right, today on the podcast, we're going back in time.
0:20.3	To the 1970s and early 80s, a time when sports,
0:25.0	pop culture, and reckless parenting may have hit their peak.
0:29.9	It was also a time when the White Sox were at the epicenter of all that was wild and wacky in America,
0:37.1	and it was downright glorious.
0:40.0	Here to talk about it is Ricky Cobb, a Chicago sociology teacher who is also the creator of Super 70s sports,
0:48.1	a Twitter account with over a half a million followers that pays tribute to this off-the-wall decade with photos and tweets
0:57.9	that will have you laughing all the way back to 1975.
1:02.0	Sports Illustrated named him one of the top 100 follows on Twitter.
1:07.2	I put him in the top 10.
1:08.9	Maybe the top five.
1:10.7	We're talking about Harry, Kerry, Chetlam, and Tony Larusa,
1:14.2	Ribby and Rubarb, Evil Knievel, TechMobile, and so much more.
1:20.1	Ricky Cobb of Super 70 Sports.
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1:44.9	White Sox, White Sox, go, go, White Sox.
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