The ButteCast with Bill Foley

The Butte Missile, Colt Anderson, went from walk on to All-American on the University of Montana football team. He played nine seasons in the NFL for the Vikings, Eagles, Colts and Bills, and he is currently a special teams assistant for the Cincinnati Bengals. He will be inducted into the Montana Football Hall of Fame this weekend in Billings. That, however, all takes a back seat to Colt's Dr...

This special edition of the ButteCast includes the four West Side captains for Saturday’s Montana East-West Shrine Game along with their coaches and some local Shriners. The show was recorded inside the Coaches Corner at the Metals Sports Bar & Grill. All four captains are future Montana State Bobcats. They are J.J. Dolan and Adam Jones of Missoula Sentinel, Patrick Duchien of Florence and Tal...

By jumping in bed with the gambling industry, our sports leagues are giving us a not-so-gentle nudge down the slippery slope to a gambling problem. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to  timmontana.com . For more from Bill Foley, go to  ButteCast.com .

John Thatcher is a true Butte legend. He earned all-conference honors in football, basketball and baseball at Western Montana College, which is now called Montana Western. He scored the first touchdown at Alumni Coliseum, and he played against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Of course, Thatcher is known more as a coach because that is what he was put on this planet to do. He coached Butte Central's boys...

Wayne Paffhausen was an outstanding athlete and coach at Butte High School. He was a key member of Butte High's undefeated state championship football teams in 1960 and 1961. He then coached the Bulldogs on the gridiron from 1970 through 1972. Paffhausen went to the University of Washington to play football, but his career as a Husky was cut short when he suffered a broken neck. Of course, Way...

Don Peoples Jr. will lead Butte Central's football team for the 35th season this fall. No high school football coach in the Mining City has coached more, and only Butte High legend Swede Dahlberg has more wins than Peoples. The BC mentor picked up his 200th win during the 2021 season, putting him in some pretty exclusive company. Football coach though, is only one of many hats that Coach Peopl...

It isn't the fault of football coaches that our country is on the verge of a civil war. The days of the meathead football coaches are in the past, for the most part. Stereotyping them to point fingers is lazy and just plain wrong. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go...

Eddi Walker is simply one of the most amazing people on the plant. She seems to be everywhere, doing everthing. Whether it is coaching the Special Olympics, volunteering at track meets, marking and timing road races, giving blood or working as a full-time substitute teacher, Eddi seems to have more time in a day than the rest of us. Eddi also doesn't like talking about herself. It took a near-...

Elizabeth Gardner has a story to tell. The 1999 Butte High graduate has been through hell and back the last several years. She lost her daughter, Bridget Mallo, to cystic fibrosis on May 5, 2019. She was 15. After battling through a bout with depression following her daughter's death, Elizabeth nearly died from COVID. Now on oxygen and looking forward to a lung transplant, Elizabeth is working...

Scott Mansanit was, pound-for-pound, the hardest hitter I have ever seen play football. He was an All-State running back and linebacker before taking his talents and hard hits to Montana Tech. Oh, and Chunky Thatcher once sent him into a high school basketball game to guard the referee. You read that correctly. Listen in as Scott talks about his playing days and the time he guarded the ref. Today&...

Sean Ryan is the head coach of the Montana Tech golf program and the director of the Southwest Montana Junior Golf Tour. He also has one of the greatest marriage proposal stories of all time. He proposed to his wife Happy Gilmore style. Sign up for the Southwest Montana Junior Golf Tour at SWMJGT.com . Today's podcast is brought to you by  Casagranda's Steakhouse . Eat where the locals eat...

We teach high school students world, national and local history. We should start teaching sports history, too. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to  timmontana.com . For more from Bill Foley, go to  ButteCast.com .

Jack Hogart was my junior high football coach. He is also one of the funnies people I have ever met. He certainly comes from the funnies family I have ever known. Listen in as Jack talks about that family, his coaching days and his years as a football official in high school and the Frontier Conference. Today's podcast is brought to. you by  Leskovar Honda , home of the 20-year, 200,000-mile w...

Keith Miller has devoted his entire life to children. He has spent the last 40 plus years as a Little League volunteer. He taught in Cascade, at East Middle School and Butte High School. He is currently the principal at East Middle School. Listen in as Keith talks about his days as an umpire, president and administrator in Little League. Listen as he talks about his days in education. Listen as I...

Basically playing with one arm, Butte High freshman Clyde Stajcar gave everything he had to help Butte High try to win a state title on the baseball field. Bulldog coach Jim LeProwse called Stajcar’s effort the “most gutsy performance” by any player he has ever coached. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. Fo...

Dr. Pete Knudsen has been instrumental in putting on the Butte Mineral and Gem Show for decades. He was also instrumental in turning Montana Tech into the great university it is today. Listen to Dr. Knudsen talk about both. Also, check out the show Saturday and Sunday at the Butte Civic Center. The show runs 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Cost is just $3, and student...

Ed Kelly was a star running back at Butte Central. He played at Montana State and Eastern Montana College, which is now MSU-Billings. He also served in the Army during the Vietnam War, returning home with a Purple Heart. Listen in as Ed talks about those playing days, Vietnam and how he got into NBA and NFL games without paying. Today's podcast is brought to you by  Casagranda's Steakhouse...

My uncle Al Hansen passed away last week at the age of 69. One fall Saturday morning in 1988, he made my day and so much more. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to  timmontana.com . For more from Bill Foley, go to  ButteCast.com .

Paul and Al Cutler are a pair of Butte brothers who helped lead Butte High to State titles on the football field. Then, they ventured out in careers in education, coaching and officiating. Paul taught and coached in Butte, while Al taught and coached in Deer Lodge. They are also both very good story tellers. Today's podcast is brought to. you by  Leskovar Honda , home of the 20-year, 200,000-m...

Mick Dennehy rejuvenated the Montana Western football program. He was the offensive coordinator for the 1995 NCAA Division I-AA national champion Montana Grizzlies. He was the head coach of the Grizzlies and Utah State. Before that, he grew up in the best part of Butte, Centerville. He was a two-year starter in football and basketball at Butte High School. He helped lead the Bulldog football team...

The people who make YouTube instruction videos almost always skip through the hard parts. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to  timmontana.com . For more from Bill Foley, go to  ButteCast.com .

Amy (Ostermiller) Schulte grew up in Shepard, just out side of Billings, where she became a three-time Class B State champion in track. She won the discus as a junior in 2009 before winning the shot put and discus as a senior in 2010. After marrying Luke Schulte and joining one of Butte's best families, Amy started coaching track at Butte High. She also started a couple of business and founded...

Mark Beckman retired last year after an 18-year run as executive director of the Montana High School Association. In all, he served 25 years at the MHSA and 40 years in education. He was a fair-and-steady hand leading the MHSA, and he oversaw the addition of high school baseball and girls' high school wrestling. He also guided Montana high school sports through the pandemic and the tornado tha...

Pam Parvinen might not be a household name, but she sure has a story to tell. Pam has undergone kidney dialysis three days per week every week for more than 20 years. In between, she found time to raise a family. That might not get your name in the newspaper as much as her husband, two-time Butte High state wrestling champion Kevin Parvinen, but Pam is impressive in her own right. For Pam, though,...

The 19 recipients of the 2023 Mariah's Challenge Scholarship prove that Mariah's message is still going strong. Today's bonus podcast is brought to. you by  ⁠Thriftway Super Stops⁠ . Join the Thriftway Loyalty Club today and save big. Intro music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to  ⁠timmontana.com⁠ . For more from Bill Foley, go to  ⁠ButteCast.com⁠ .