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Andy Griffith: Football
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As a young man, Andy Griffith studied for the ministry, then got a degree in music and taught high school for several years. During this time he worked up a comedy routine including his famous bit "What It Was, Was Football", about a country boy's misunderstandings as he watched his first football game.
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From 1949-1951, Griffith worked as a teacher at Goldsboro High School. During this time, he began recording humorous monologues based on a "hillbilly" persona including "What It Was, Was Football," which he performed on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1954.
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Griffith started out as a stand-up comedian. His first success was a 1953 live recording of "What it was, was football", a story about a country boy at his first football game, delighting in the "big orange drinks" and the boys running up and down the "cow pasture" in "the awfulest fight I most ever saw" and "these purty girls a-wearin' these little-bitty short dresses, and a-dancin' around". Later that year, he recorded "Number One Street", telling the story of a rural family travelling to Florida on United States Highway 1.
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