If you’re a longtime fan of college football then the name Beano Cook certainly means something to you.
Cook was a prominent college football media member and played a huge role in ESPN developing as a college football brand.
Notre Dame fans remember Cook for his prediction about Ron Powlus winning multiple Heisman Trophies, but Cook was so much more than just that.
The following comes from “Haven’t They Suffered Enough?”, Cook’s biography written by avid college football fan and Notre Dame graduate John D. Luckas. As you’d probably guess, the book has plenty of stories of Beano that involve Notre Dame.
Before his ESPN career that most of us knew him from, Cook served as a sports publicist at Pitt. It was in that role that he nearly ended the Pitt-Notre Dame rivalry in 1958.