It was enough to stir bittersweet memories...

It was enough to stir bittersweet memories for Rams fans. There in the shadow of the Coliseum Tuesday afternoon was George Allen, former coach of the team that has long since fled to another county. He was putting a different squad through its paces.

Allen was at the rose garden outside the Museum of Science and Industry, instructing a couple of dozen senior citizens on how to walk in Sunday’s Secure Horizons Senior Walk. The 3.1-mile stroll will be held in conjunction with the Los Angeles Marathon. It will begin at 9:30 a.m. on the USC campus and end at the Rose Garden. Each walker will pay $10 for the privilege. The money will go to the USC School of Gerontology.

Tuesday’s “warm-up,” whose participants included comedian Jack Carter and actors Cesar Romero and Santos Morales, consisted of a few (sort of) knee-bends, twists and other exercises as well as a few minutes of walking around with tips from Allen.

He referred to the walkers as the “Over the Hill Gang” and said he was pleased to be with them because he was one of them.

Coach always had a reputation for wanting older people on his teams.

Gridiron’s Air Coryell, a Doberman pinscher known to the other dogs in his Sepulveda neighborhood simply as Jet, won the brass medal Tuesday.

Named in December as one of five finalists for Dog Hero of the Year, Jet now has been awarded the red, white and blue-ribboned medal and a one-year supply of dog food.

On hand for the presentation in Washington was Candy Sangster, who slipped into a diabetic coma last October. A quick-thinking Jet unlatched the front gate with his nose, then ran next door to bark until a neighbor appeared.

Paramedics were called, managed to overcome their misgivings about following a fierce-looking Doberman into the Sangster house and revived the woman.

Now about that gate latch . . .

The brouhaha over free brew was more like a tempest in a teapot at the Board of Supervisors.

It began when Supervisor Ed Edelman innocently sought the support of his colleagues to oppose a state bill that would legalize beer-tasting parties when sponsored by nonprofit organizations.

Acting on a recommendation by the county’s Commission on Alcoholism, Edelman said the legislation, authored by Assemblyman Stan Statham (R-Redding), would encourage excessive drinking.

That brought a quick protest from Supervisor Pete Schabarum.

“You’re against American youth exercising their right to have a beer bust where somebody who is a nonprofit entity wants to pay for it?” asked Schabarum incredulously.

Board Chairman Deane Dana, noting that wine-tasting parties are already legal, also chided Edelman for “discriminating against beer drinkers.”

With only Supervisor Mike Antonovich supporting his proposal, Edelman turned to Kenneth Hahn, the remaining supervisor and a noted teetotaler, for support. But Hahn had already left the board meeting.

“Kenny, where are you?” lamented Edelman.

“Kenny’s having a beer,” quipped Antonovich.

On another matter, there were “no calls yet,” a spokesman for Hahn was able to report Tuesday afternoon. For one thing, the rain had not resumed, contrary to the predictions.

On Monday, Hahn decided to follow up on his recent $1-per-pothole offer by promising to pay $5 to anyone who could find in the unincorporated areas of his district an intersection so flooded as to be impassable.

Hahn said he was proud of the county’s flood control system and maintenance programs. He did not seem worried that his new offer would cost him much. He only paid out $3 on potholes.

The flooded intersection deal will remain in effect through March.