Vangelis: https://variety.com/2022/music/news/vangelis-dead-chariots-of-fire-blade-runner-1235272061/
Everybody else got famous, and some of them got rich; Bobby Neuwirth did better than that-- he got to be free and himself, and be loved by many. Bobby Neuwirth, 82, thought to be heart failure. "Make me wise to learn the lessons Make me strong to understand What it takes to walk in beauty As I cross this sacred land" (Neuwirth/Romero) "And on that morning We will have an answer To the ancient question: What do we call each other After the war is over?" (Neuwirth)
..."As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." "He's gone, and there was nothing we could do about it." https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...y-liotta-death-cause-goodfellas-b2088215.html
Its a tough week for Jon Anderson. Just the other day his collaborator Vangelis died. Today, Longtime YES drummer Alan White died. 72.
Of course a coworker sent a pic from 30 years ago showing his now wife & her sister mugging with Liotta. He grew up in Union with his adoptive parents
Maybe it's just me, but I got tired of that Chariots Of Fire music really, really early in its run. Like five minutes or so... I felt the same way about Jan Hammer's Axel F. I'm thinking that was the period where guys who should have been playing piano or Hammond started experimenting with keyboard sounds* and it just tanked miserably. *that includes the horrid, horrid Fender Rhodes
Marlin the Magician: In 1972. Yes folks, he was on that Dolphins team, and a serious contributor, the #3 wideout behind Paul Warfield and Howard Twilley.
Yep, he got a ring. I'm thinking for aome reason he's being played out of position here... But that was the order of the day.. I see from Googling that the media is REALLY focusing on his Dolphins time. I shouldn't be surprised.
Two rings-- he was on the '73 team too. I saw most of his QB games-- he was really a small college roll-out guy, not comfortable in a drop back whole field offense, and not super accurate; and he was pretty slight for QB. Wideout was probably actually his best use. He was really athletic, not just "black guys run and jump good" athletic, but athletic enough to play qb ok in the pros even though it wasn't really his natural position. He was about 80/90% of Kordell Stewart and rather similar. But it was just so cool to see somebody get a chance at it, and to see them get a little bit of success. There would shortly be other guys that i felt got screwed, guys who really were qbs (James Harris, Warren Moon) but I was just happy to see Briscoe have success somewhere in the league. And of course there were a couple of generations of earlier guys who, given the chance, really were QBs but weren't allowed the chance, guys whose names we'll never hear.
Fritz Pollard, -1926 Joe Lillard 1933-4 George Taliaferro 1950-55 Willie Thrower 1953 Charlie Brackens 1955 One gets scrambled up in single wing and its variants of course, but my understanding is that each of these guys played tailback some and threw passes, as well as playing quarterback and throwing blocks, and that each was noticeably more melanin saturated than his teammates. Pollard, of course, was in the league before the league was in the league. I think the color line was always softer in football than baseball-- it lasted as long as it did because they needed Marshall's money and grew up in an apartheid nation, not because they really cared about or for it. Meat on the hoof is meat on the hoof, and nickel a pound is cheaper than two bits...
I didn't mention Pollard for that reason, wasn't sure about the other names. Full time QB is what we're talking about here, let's not pedant ourselves into a corner.. It lasted. That matters more enough than everything else that it deserves mention solo. Why is really not worth the discussion. Marshall DID have power, it was and is an apartheid nation of sorts, and the sentence can end there. I try in my daily posts to avoid the sort of tangents about things not being as bad as all that. Help me out here.
The pedantry is unavoidable-- "full time QB" in a single wing is a blocking back, an undersized H back. The tailback was the primary passer. San Francisco was still running the single wing half or a third of the time when I was first watching in 1964. The tailback when they did was Billy Kilmer, and the QB would have been somebody like Dave Kopay or Monty Stickles or Vern Burke. When they were in the T the quarterback was John Brodie. It was the last gasp of the single wing in the NFL, but still, a super bowl qb broke in and spent several years as a single wing tb. The last of which was only four years before Briscoe as a quarterback. We both know there was an issue there-- I was, after all, pleased and excited to see Briscoe, so I clearly had some sense that there was injustice that needed a damn good whacking. But it is a little hard to see exactly what it was-- was it calling the signals? Paul Brown and Tom Landry already weren't letting the white guys do that. Or was it throwing the ball? Hard to see that as a thing that an inferior thinker with a superior arm cannot do. Jeff George was already alive... It is almost the case that the evolution of the modern QB created the problem-- suddenly there was one position running the whole show, and we can't have POC doing that... (I think both Thrower and Brackens were primarily "full time qbs" in the modern sense, though their time on rosters was brief.)
The evolution didn't create the problem. A lack thereof in the league and nation created it. All I'm saying here is, the history you typed out wasn't necessary. We all know why Briscoe's career is notable. The media tried to gloss over that. You fell into their pattern.
Additionally... If Briscoe was the acceptable one, understand that there are probably several others who were better but we're unacceptable to the powers that be for some reason or another. So we hail Briscoe for what he did, we say a quiet prayer for those denied, and we dismiss the congregation. But we don't waste time talking about his stats.
God must have decided we weren't ready for a quarterback actually named Thrower. It'd be like if this guy was an offensive lineman.
Hardin-Simmons and Sul Ross State. It was still one platoon football, and he was 300 lbs, so I feel safe assuming he did a lot of blocking.
Since Dan Blocker has passed on, this is a good time to post Gurf Morlix's legendary tribute Bet a lot of you won't make it to the end.
I heard the end, but only because I ff'd. We're way past "doing a lot of work"... The word "legendary" is on a road crew under a 2PM Alabama June sun, and the rep is a plea for this video to not be posted again...