After many years in front of the camera, Griffith returned to North Carolina, and settled in Manteo, where he remained until his death on July 3, 2012. Browse more videos ANDY GRIFFITH - 'WHAT IT WAS, WAS FOOTBALL' He went on to star in movies and television shows, and to become a Grammy Award-winning singer.
“What it Was, Was Football” helped launch Griffith’s career, which ultimately took him from North Carolina to Broadway. And I know, friends, that they couldn’t eat it because they kicked it the whole evening and it never busted.”
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His retelling of the game included a description of the football, “It was that both bunches full of them wanted this funny looking little pumpkin to play with. He describes the football game as something where you try to run across a cow pasture without getting hit or stepping in something. Andy Griffith Football Story from 1953 What it Was, Was Football helped launch Griffith’s career, which ultimately took him from North Carolina to Broadway. This is the comic monologue that helped to launched Andy’s career as it got him on the Ed Sullivan Show. The narrator of the story is a young man who happens upon a football game – something he had never experienced before. Griffiths first big break came when his 1953 funny monologue, What it Was, Was Football, became a best-selling record. Andy Griffith tells his Football Story from 1953 called What It Was Was Football. Campbell, who had heard Griffith perform the comedy bit at a luncheon earlier that year. On November 14, 1953, the Colonial label in Chapel Hill released Andy Griffith’s monologue “What It Was, Was Football.” Colonial was owned by Chapel Hill newspaper publisher Orville B.
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