Am I crazy, or is this Joe?

[JeannieNeedsAShooter]

Anyone notice the Goodyear commercial about traditions in college football? At about the 5-6 second mark there is a 1970's looking piece of tailgate footage with what appears to me to be a 1970's Joe Paterno right in the middle of the screen. He's on screen for about a second and a half, but in that time he even makes a very JoePa like hand movement and his posture is very Joe. Later on in the same commercial there is a Penn State reference when they show and mention our white out. Is there some PSU alum who put that together and snuck Joe in thinking no one would notice? What do you all think?

 

[massimoManca II]

Sure looks like'm.... Image does appear that it may have been inserted next to that Int'l Scout... Kudos if it were slipped in there... If so I'd be running out an throwing a set of Goodyears on my car

 

[Sharkies]

Yep, its Joe just outside of Beaver Stadium. Great eye, jeannie.

 

[BobPSU92]

Why would Joe be at a tailgate? It looks like him, but why would he have been there?

 

[JeannieNeedsAShooter]

Yep, its Joe just outside of Beaver Stadium. Great eye, jeannie.

I've been a season ticket holder since 1987, so the 1970s was before my time. Having said that, that doesn't look like Beaver Stadium to me.
If I'm not mistaken, Joe walked home from games during that time and for most of his career. I'm sure he was stopped constantly. There was footage of that in the 1978 60 minutes profile on him, which i cant seem to find on youtube anymore. Still it doesn't look like Beaver Stadium to me, i thought we still had that iron/metal look rather than the concrete appearance seen here. I may be mistaken though. Thanks for checking it out.

 

[Sharkies]

Almost positive that the endzones looked just like that in the 1970s. Someone with more knowledge please correct. But as far as I was aware, it was the sidelines on both side built highish, endzones very cookie-cutterish... Looks like the Beav to me.

 

[JoeDidntKnow]

It is HIM! Awesome

 

[JeannieNeedsAShooter]

Almost positive that the endzones looked just like that in the 1970s. Someone with more knowledge please correct. But as far as I was aware, it was the sidelines on both side built highish, endzones very cookie-cutterish... Looks like the Beav to me.

I think you're right, good call

 

[psuro]

I doubt it. This looks like the mid 1970s and by that time Joe couldn't walk through a crowd like that and go unnoticed or relatively ignored

Of course it could have been slipped in by CGI to the scene.

 

[Ten Thousan Marbles]

The hair is too long for Joe....especially in the back. Does have a resemblance, though.

He'd have been looking at himself in the side mirror of a car and shouting: "Get a haircut!" (Right before stomping off.)

 

[psu ironman]

It's definitely Beaver Stadium. The structure of the south end lower bowl is concrete. That addition was added in the 1970's.

 

[HazletonLion]

I doubt it's Beaver Stadium , too many red flags close to stadium those spots were, and are for the high rollers.Joe didn't visit tail gates before games,in an instance like that he would have been mobbed.

 

[Tweedbear]

Joe walked home after the game.He worked the tailgate crowd,tossed footballs with the kids and was everybody's friend.They called it retail politics.

 

[PSUDave]

South endzone was just a high set of bleachers in the 70s and was was filled in for the 78 season expansion but the scoreboard doesn't look right.
Joe did walk back to the locker room after games but usually in a straight line & this view is way off that line.

 

[SPMartin]

I doubt it's Beaver Stadium , too many red flags close to stadium those spots were, and are for the high rollers.Joe didn't visit tail gates before games,in an instance like that he would have been mobbed.

Well I can tell you for sure you are wrong about that -- at least at one point in time. In the mid-70's Joe used to walk to the stadium before the game and (I think) would vary his route. My family used to tailgate regularly behind Eisenhower and one of my favorite memories was Joe walking by our tailgate. My brother and I were throwing a football back and forth and he stopped for a moment to say hi and told us "we might be able to use you guys today."

 

[HazletonLion]

Well I can tell you for sure you are wrong about that -- at least at one point in time. In the mid-70's Joe used to walk to the stadium before the game and (I think) would vary his route. My family used to tailgate regularly behind Eisenhower and one of my favorite memories was Joe walking by our tailgate. My brother and I were throwing a football back and forth and he stopped for a moment to say hi and told us "we might be able to use you guys today."

I stand corrected on that point,but with a cemented south end zone post 1978 you are not going to see that much red around beaver stadium that close anyway.
Joe was king at that point in time he would have been surrounded.

 

[hagberg]

The hair is too long for Joe....especially in the back. Does have a resemblance, though.

He'd have been looking at himself in the side mirror of a car and shouting: "Get a haircut!" (Right before stomping off.)

I thought the same thing. I don't recall Joe EVER having hair that long, especially considering his ban on long and facial hair.

I also agree with the comments about the stadium; it doesn't look like Beaver Stadium to me, even from the 70s. It is a nice thought, though, and shortly after that is the very obvious Beaver Stadium white out. Goodyear might have just earned more of my business next time I need tires!

 

[Ranger Dan]

You are crazy...

 

[PennStateNate]

not him. Joe would be inside the stadium by then.

 

[Victor E. Bell]

I don't think that's Paterno but that is Beaver Stadium. Furthermore we played Miami at home in 1977 and that looks like a hurricane flag to me right in front of the scoreboard. The guy in the tan coat is Columbo looking for kids holding weed.

 

[LemonEars]

Tough call. Dark glasses are there. Baggy pants. I kind of recognize the coat. It could have been after the game. There were times I saw Joe not long after the game walking home through the tailgate area. The snippet is short but his body gestures remind me of Joe. Hair does seem too long. Need to get Sue to render an opinion.

 

[Victor E. Bell]

Tough call. Dark glasses are there. Baggy pants. I kind of recognize the coat. It could have been after the game. There were times I saw Joe not long after the game walking home through the tailgate area. The snippet is short but his body gestures remind me of Joe. Hair does seem too long. Need to get Sue to render an opinion.

I say it's not him but empirically one might wonder why the videographer decided to shoot that otherwise mundane shot unless it were. Of course the caveat being that it may have been a person's first trip, etc. and they wanted to capture a shot of the whole environment.

 

[psuro]

Regardless - damn, I miss the old guy.

 

[psu1969a]

Anyone notice the Goodyear commercial about traditions in college football? At about the 5-6 second mark there is a 1970's looking piece of tailgate footage with what appears to me to be a 1970's Joe Paterno right in the middle of the screen. He's on screen for about a second and a half, but in that time he even makes a very JoePa like hand movement and his posture is very Joe. Later on in the same commercial there is a Penn State reference when they show and mention our white out. Is there some PSU alum who put that together and snuck Joe in thinking no one would notice? What do you all think?

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have not seen the Goodyear ad, but that is a picture of beaver stadium south end-zone before the BJC was built. If anything could be JVP but after a game; doubt he would not visit tailgate before a game unless it was family and even then i would doubt it.

 

[HazletonLion]

Regardless - damn, I miss the old guy.

I am disgusted at what the powers that be did to the man. He was the greatest college football coach of all time,and his name isn't even mentioned in discussion.

 

[RobBliz]

It is him... and the guy in the foreground with the red and white hat is Peter Sellers.

 

[PennStateNate]

have not seen the Goodyear ad, but that is a picture of beaver stadium south end-zone before the BJC was built. If anything could be JVP but after a game; doubt he would not visit tailgate before a game unless it was family and even then i would doubt it.

I find it hard to believe if it's him outside the stadium he isn't mobbed.

 

[psuro]

I find it hard to believe if it's him outside the stadium he isn't mobbed.

It was the 1970's real life version of "Where's Waldo?".

 

[DonP74]

It was the 1970's real life version of "Where's Waldo?".

I truly believe Joe's image was inserted into this scene by a loyal Penn Stater.

 

[PennStateNate]

Zoom in a bit on the image I posted. That guy has way too much hair.

 

[fairgambit]

Maybe?

 

[HazletonLion]

Not any other person in that pic has a clue.

 

[massimoManca II]

I've been a season ticket holder since 1987, so the 1970s was before my time. Having said that, that doesn't look like Beaver Stadium to me.
If I'm not mistaken, Joe walked home from games during that time and for most of his career. I'm sure he was stopped constantly. There was footage of that in the 1978 60 minutes profile on him, which i cant seem to find on youtube anymore. Still it doesn't look like Beaver Stadium to me, i thought we still had that iron/metal look rather than the concrete appearance seen here. I may be mistaken though. Thanks for checking it out.

Absolutely Beaver Stadium... For Christsakes that's pretty obvious... The International Scout / Chevy Concours "Joe" is standing between in the image tells me this was '75 or '76. For those of you questioning the lack-of-mob / hair too lond to be Joe... Would be willing to bet an image of JVP was cropped/inserted via CGI (ummm very much like the Goodyear blimp is CGI'd into every one of those images in the commercial...... Pretty certain it's CGI'd as the "Joe" is wayyyyyyyyy out of scale vs. the adjacent Chevy... That guy would be like 6'7" ... Sloppy crop job could also give a false-mullett ...

 

[ebervale]

That is The Beav.

Removal of track resulted in 40 concrete rows in the south end zone for the entire 1978 season.

For the 1980 season there were 60 concrete rows in the south end zone.

I believe that logos (Rose Bowl, Big Ten, etc,) were added to the back of the scoreboard for the 1995 season

Therefore, this movie takes place sometime between 1980 and 1994.

Expansion history from Wikipedia:
1980 Capacity 83,770
1978 Capacity 76,639

Thanks for noticing the Joe insert.

 

[The Spin Meister]

I don't see a single Penn State shirt/jacket and the flags are all the wrong color. Two flags are reddish and a yellow....USC? Very little blue being worn, fair amount of red. The vehicles seem to be of around the 1980 era from what I can see of them. Would that have been visitor's parking lot?

 

[Jakey_John]

Maybe?

If you look at the top picture, the only close tailgater (the gentleman in blue to the left) looking at the man in question has the same idea as you guys. His facial expression seems to convey the idea that he's wondering if it is Joe too. Interesting find.

 

[EPC FAN]

I've been a season ticket holder since 1987, so the 1970s was before my time. Having said that, that doesn't look like Beaver Stadium to me.
If I'm not mistaken, Joe walked home from games during that time and for most of his career. I'm sure he was stopped constantly. There was footage of that in the 1978 60 minutes profile on him, which i cant seem to find on youtube anymore. Still it doesn't look like Beaver Stadium to me, i thought we still had that iron/metal look rather than the concrete appearance seen here. I may be mistaken though. Thanks for checking it out.

Yep, I remember Joe actually walking home through the tailgates. It was a far different time. Today, he would have been accosted about some play call, but back then, people had more sense than to do something like that.
When Beaver Stadium was made into a bowl from a horseshoe, the South End was made of concrete. It has since been buried by that monstrosity of a triple deck with the Mt. Nittany Club.

 

[psuro]

If it is Joe, it has to be a CGI.

 

[PennStateNate]

If you look at the top picture, the only close tailgater (the gentleman in blue to the left) looking at the man in question has the same idea as you guys. His facial expression seems to convey the idea that he's wondering if it is Joe too. Interesting find.

People don't understand that.. There isn't one PSU shirt, nothing really blue and white shown.

There is no way that is Beaver Stadium. The way people are dressed it can't be USC. Got to be somewhere colder. I am thinking Mid-West?

 

[PennStateNate]

Is that possibly Camp Randell or Oklahoma? Look at the guy in question, the woman walking towards him has a red sweatshirt on, looks like a Oklahoma shirt?