On a completely tangential note, I highly recommend the recent documentary about Bill Wyman. Really interesting guy, and a lot of great history of the band from his perspective. It's on one of Netflix or Hulu, can't remember now.
Tom Dempsey. Straight-legged, 1 1/2 footed kicker who for a long time held the NFL record for longest field goal, at 63 yards -
I wasn't sure what was going on with that image, because I knew the Saints were wearing black that day. Just a different image, no prob.
That's an extra point. Look at the yard marker in the background. Remember that at the time, the goal posts were at the goal line, not at the back of the end zone. He kicked if from his own 37 yard line. Alex Karras was laughing so hard he couldn't even properly line up to try to block the kick.
No it's not. It's his failed 90 yard attempt against the "St. Louis Football Cardinals" as they were called when I was a kid. The kick was wide to the left.
They were playing the Lions the day he kicked the 63-yarder. And I think it was only the "New York Football Giants," and when St. Louis had 2 teams with the same name they just called the NFL team "Big Red."
A long time ago, my sister came home from college with one of his records and told me I'd like him. She was right. Tonight she's the one who told me he'd died.
Karl-Anthony Towns' (star player for NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves) mother passed away from coronavirus complications on 4/13/2020 https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...rl-anthony-towns-dies-coronavirus/2984903001/ Here was his announcement about his mother when this first started. At that time, she was in a medically induced coma. https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-JMTMeJhi6/?utm_source=ig_embed
Leader of the Black Hebrew Israelites. His anti-cracker rants will be sorely missed. https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020...-from-nj-dies-of-coronavirus-church-says.html
But religious. Al Capone should have gotten a Christian ministry degree, he would have been safe then from the feds.
Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52310439 Was he as popular in USA as he was in Europe?
Not really. In the US, after Isabelle Allende, there's maybe Neruda, who had some following in the sixties through the eighties, and a few other poets like Nicanor Parra who may have come into some circles on Pablo's coattails, but that's about it from Chile, alas. From my limited perspective, of course...
John Horton Conway died April 11. He was a mathematician most famous for making the cellular automation "Game of Life".
I played it to exhaustion on a little Windows program in about 1996-1997. I had become very good to predict outcomes or even to make particular outcomes happen (i.e. reverse-engineering particular pictures that were appearing by applying these rules).
On the subject of the Stones, I haven't heard any updates on Marianne Faithfull's condition for a while.