RIP -- Consequential Person Has Passed Away

He was also traded at some point for Norm Snead, who played at Wake Forest.

That was the one and only Golden Age of Big Four quarterbacks; Roman Gabriel was a few years younger and he went to State.

 

My Dude. Nobody paying for business class wants to listen to a bunch of kids. Think of it like a bar: 21 and over only.

 

Quite an accomplishment to live to be 91 despite all those hits to the head. “Roughing the passer” wasn’t really called very much back then.

 

I enjoyed listening to him calling WFT games on the radio. I just assumed he was drunk all the time.

 

Them was the days! I even get to use a pronoun.

 

Y A Tittle!

 

He looks like he was out there playing at 91!

 

I was in DC (Silver Spring, really) from '72-'75, and I remember George Allen kinda platooning Jurgensen and Billy Kilmer. Sonny was older and couldn't stay healthy, it seemed.

 

Thank you for giving me an excuse to post that Raleigh’s own John Baker delivered that hit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Baker_Jr.

Very interesting life. Back when I was more of an activist I knew one of the Oval Table Gang.

 

I've gone back to the Northeast every year for the last 10. I can tolerate the cheap seats for 51/2 hrs and use my coin for a rental car and numerous surf and turf dining!

 

I get it -- but paying for international business class is a different situation. I'm a UA Million Miler of which most has been spent in C (coach) class. If I was paying full freight for Biz I would be pissed if I had to endure a bunch of screaming kids.

A First World Problem, admittedly.

 

I hear yuh...I always book a direct redeye so the kids are usually sedated by their parents and I get to Logan Apt @6AM fresh and ready to go. In June I plan to attend one granddaughter getting her Master's and another's HS graduation. Then drive down to Binghamton NY to visit Sis-in-Law and later Nephew in Nutley NJ.

 

Fred Smith, 77, "protracted illness."



Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd's bassist of choice, early member of Blondie. Was hoping to tour some of Television's music next summer. Not much you can say about him except "man he was good!"

"Talkin bout alchemy-- and things that explode."

 

Going back to Home Alone, my issue was not that the kids should have been up in business class with the adults, it was that the adults should have been back in coach with the kids. Someone responsible should have been there to make sure they didn't screw things up for the other passengers. Maybe they could have drawn straws and the loser has to wrangle the kids in coach for the duration of the flight. Putting all the kids back there while the grownups are relaxing in business class is just rude.

 

Surely Kevin Macallister unsupervised in coach wouldn't have caused any problems.

 

Ironic that Y.A. could have danced on Baker’s grave. He outlived him by 10 years.

 

Temu Kid Rock has died.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-doors-founder-brad-arnold-dies-47-rcna257945

 

Bud Cort. The "Harold" in "Harold and Maude." Bummer.

 

James van der Beek has lost his battle with cancer.

Harold and Maude is fantastic. Very much of its time. Would make a good double bill with the Peter O’Toole film called (I think) The Ruling Class.

 

https://nypost.com/2026/02/12/sports/elroy-face-mlb-bullpen-pioneer-dead-at-97/
Elroy Face, one of the late-inning reliever pioneers in baseball, died Thursday, the Pirates announced. He was 97.

 

The director made a bunch of very good (and quirky ) movies. Without checking - i think "Shampoo". I know "Being There". And i wanna say that the great Jack Nicholson movie "The Last Detail" was also him.....

 

You'd have to be very bloody good to hold down a rhythm with those two....

 

18-1 in 1959. 57 appearances, finished off 47 games. 93 innings pitched.

Some damned efficient pitching. And probably a few blown saves, though they weren’t tracking that then.

 

https://www.mlb.com/news/elroy-face-dies-at-97

Perhaps fittingly, 1969 was the year Face’s Major League career ended -- and the year the save became an official statistic.

After retiring as a pitcher, Face turned his offseason job as a carpenter into full-time work and eventually moved to North Versailles, a township in Allegheny County southeast of Pittsburgh. He spent 15 years on the Hall of Fame ballot but never received much support, peaking at 18.9% of the vote in 1987. In 2023, though, he was inducted into the Pirates Hall of Fame alongside Friend, Dick Groat and Kent Tekulve.

 

I stole this from the Chicago forum. He died a few days ago, but it wasn't posted here.