Carrot Top's 'vulgar' show grates on Frank

Arkansas' team and members of the official party attended comedian Carrot Top's show at the MGM Grand on Sunday night, and the generation gap was obvious from their reactions.
The players loved it, but the older members of the group were appalled by much of Carrot Top's act, including the liberal use of four-letter words.
Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles was so upset after going to the show that he wouldn't let an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette photographer take his picture by the marquee because he didn't approve of it.
"Coach Broyles was sitting back there and not smiling too much," Razorbacks offensive lineman La'Zerius White said. "It was probably meant for a younger crowd, 18 to 25."
Broyles misses that age demographic by a ways, though he's "only 75" as he likes to tell people. He'll turn 76 on Dec. 26.
Quarterback Robby Hampton is the Razorbacks' elder statesman at 24 and said he enjoyed Carrot Top's show overall.
"I thought he was funny, myself. I really did," Hampton said. "Some of the things may have offended some people. I think when you go to something like that, you've got to be kind of open-minded and know some of that is going to happen."
Carrot Top has some football references in his act, such as pulling out a Rams helmet with real horns for an XFL team and having a Cowboys helmet for Troy Aikman -- their quarterback who has suffered multiple concussions -- with a stretcher attached to it.
"Carrot Top has a great imagination. I thought it was a really hilarious show," Razorbacks defensive lineman Sacha Lancaster said. "He had me rolling the whole time.
"I mean, he had a little bit of a vulgar mouth sometimes, but it's an adult show."
Arkansas Coach Houston Nutt didn't attend Carrot Top's show.
"I couldn't take my children there," Nutt said.
Nutt said he had hoped to take the team to a show featuring magicians or animal acts but that those shows were booked up and Arkansas couldn't secure enough tickets with such a large group.
"Carrot Top was what we could get," Nutt said. "I heard he used a lot of four-letter words, and I don't get excited about having our players hear that."
Maybe not, but the players enjoyed the show.
SNOW IN VEGAS
There isn't as much snow in Las Vegas as what fell in Arkansas last week, but if you look hard enough -- or get lost driving around -- you can see it.
Las Vegas is surrounded by the Sunrise Mountains, which have some snow-capped peaks. The highest peak, Mount Charleston, is about 7,500 feet.
TURNING NICKELS INTO DOLLARS
Arkansas sports information assistant Lauren Johnson, a Texas A&M graduate, is enjoying her first visit to Las Vegas.
She has won $167 playing nickel slots on about a $15 investment.
Not bad for an Aggie.
BEST BET
Playing $3 blackjack tables at the Golden Gate and ordering the 99-cent shrimp cocktail.

This article was published on Tuesday, December 19, 2000

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