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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (7 Viewers)

Just checked the box score of the only game I’ve ever been to in the Swamp and Reche Caldwell was, in fact, playing. Rex Grossman was the qb and Earnest Graham the main rb. 

 
BobbyLayne said:
Tom Servo said:
Former Bengals player Ken Riley
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#13

Amazing he never went to a Pro Bowl (3 All Pros.) Had at least 3 interceptions in 12/15 seasons. Heck, he had 8 in his last year at 36.

I guess I understand why he never made the HoF but it’s still pretty insane - 65 interceptions is 5th all-time.
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Wow, how are you 5th all time in picks (4th when he retired) and not in the HOF?  His last year (at age 36) he was 1st team all pro, picked off 8 passes and returned 2 of them for scores.  Also scratching my head over how you can be 1st team all pro (and 2 other all pro teams) and not make the pro bowl any of those years.

 
Corporation said:
Wow, how are you 5th all time in picks (4th when he retired) and not in the HOF?  His last year (at age 36) he was 1st team all pro, picked off 8 passes and returned 2 of them for scores.  Also scratching my head over how you can be 1st team all pro (and 2 other all pro teams) and not make the pro bowl any of those years.
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ikr it’s weird, I looked up some old interviews with him and he was just a do your job kind of guy. never flashy or called attention to himself. said he thought his game spoke for itself & he wasn’t worried about being popular.

I think he gets In eventually - Ken Anderson, John Stallworth, Collingsworth, Dungy, all played with/against him & say he should be - but too bad they didn’t do it while he was still around.

Pretty amazing he was a 4-year starter at QB in college & didn’t switch to CB until his rookie year.

 
wikkidpissah said:
JamesonSkittles said:
Wes Unseld
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The human pick.

A 10-inch growth spurt in 9th grade grew me into being able to play the position which fit my skills - pick, roll, elbow, rebound, putback, outlet - and i played my way into a scholarship to the Sam Jones Basketball Camp. One week of drills with Celtic greats, one week of round-robin tournament. They tried to chooseup strengths for each squad, so the team w the best center got the worst PF. The latter was me, so i settled in for a week of low blocks and high p&r to the camp star. Thing is, boom, kid broke his ankle first half of first game and, all of a sudden, 6'2 me in his 1st year as a big is fighting the post w Boston's best centers of the pre-varsity class.

Fortunately, i found a friend of like kind. Hank Finkel, who had just completed the most unenviable season in basketball history - succeeding Bill Russell as the Celtic center. He and Boston College grad and #4 overall NBA pick Terry Driscoll double-teamed my schooling every morning of week 2. Both of em laughed on several occasions that they were pretty much just teaching me everything in the Wes Unseld playbook - most memorable of which was setting picks with your butt instead of your front so you could lurch forward if someone ran thru it and get a sure foul call. I wish i could say our work resulted in a dramatic final etc etc, but we held our own & i got Most Improved and finally learned that adults could be more than a force for evil (camp director John Killalea was a willing mentor call even after he rose to Rocket GM). And, at the urging of Hank - a gentle giant whose nose provided shade - i watched every Unseld game i could (not as easy in those pre-cable days) with a notebook til i left home. And i, not 5-ft tall two years before, started at the 4 as a sophomore. Thank you, Hank. Thank you, Terry. Thank you, Coach Killalea. And thank you from afar, Mr. Unseld. RIP -
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I was also a smallish guy forced to play in the paint, in my case due to lack of dribbling/shooting skills but having a fondness for physical confrontation.  I loved watching Wes play.  The outlet pass was his trademark, and I copied it, as well as his brutal pick technique.  He was also a great rebounder and defender.  I remember staying up late to watch the NBA finals against the Sonics.  Elvin Hayes, Dandrige, Kupchak and Wes against Sikma and DJ.  Sikma was also a player I tried to copy.  That was a great series.  I'll always love the crazy head-scratcher that a team from Baltimore and DC was allowed to call itself the "Bullets."  Wes went on to be a decent GM, proving that he was much more than just a big meat head.  RIP

 
Encyclopedia Brown said:
zamboni said:
RIP Bonnie Pointer
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The Pointer Sisters have an excellent musical legacy, with quality and longevity. 
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Bonnie left the group in 1977, before any of their monster hits. She had a moderate hit with "Heaven Must Have Sent You" in 1979.

Their biggest hit with Bonnie was 1974's "Fairytale", which won the Grammy for......Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. Elvis was a fan.

Their 1975 song "How Long (Betcha' Got A Chick On The Side)" has one of the funkiest grooves you'll ever hear.

 
Former UFO guitarist Paul Chapman dead at 66

Just listed this group in my list of songs from 1971.

1971 the NEXT 100 songs   

Tim did his greatest 100 songs of 1971.  I thought it was a great year for music and will attempt to go 100 songs further into 1971 so it is a challenge so to make it 'some-what' even I will include songs released from September of 1970 since they were charting strong in 71 or were just starting to chart at that time. 

I will post my list side-by-side to Tim's to compare.

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97. “Long Distance Runaround” Yes - UFO - The Coming of Prince Kajuku

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Posted May 30

I have to confess before I started digging into 71 I wasn't aware of this one but I've since seen it listed on the forum so others were way ahead of me on this one.

UFO - The Coming of Prince Kajuku

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LINK TO SONG >>>> LINK to SONG -  UFO - The Coming of Prince Kajuku

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Former UFO guitarist Paul Chapman dead at 66

Just listed this group in my list of songs from 1971.

1971 the NEXT 100 songs   

Tim did his greatest 100 songs of 1971.  I thought it was a great year for music and will attempt to go 100 songs further into 1971 so it is a challenge so to make it 'some-what' even I will include songs released from September of 1970 since they were charting strong in 71 or were just starting to chart at that time. 

I will post my list side-by-side to Tim's to compare.

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97. “Long Distance Runaround” Yes - UFO - The Coming of Prince Kajuku

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Posted May 30

I have to confess before I started digging into 71 I wasn't aware of this one but I've since seen it listed on the forum so others were way ahead of me on this one.

UFO - The Coming of Prince Kajuku

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LINK TO SONG >>>> LINK to SONG -  UFO - The Coming of Prince Kajuku
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Wow, that's the Rush blueprint right there.

 
Charlie Steiner said:
Also liked him in Chariots of Fire and Alien.
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Just watched Chariots for the first time a few days ago and thought it was cool seeing him so young (though he was one of those guys who never seemed to actually look young). He was also quite good in our movie club feature The Sweet Hereafter. 

 
foxco said:
Ash from Alien is one of my favorites. Terrific actor.
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I never paid attention to his statue-or lack thereof-until he was in the Lord of the Rings movies.  He seemed so large in Alien, especially when he went berserk. I'm sure part of it was camera trickery and close space, but still he seemed bigger than his actual size.

 
[scooter] said:
Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving child of Joseph P. Kennedy. Dead at 92.
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Mrs. Rannous said:
Dame Vera Lynn, at 103.
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now, both my peeps are all weeps. me 96yo Boston-Irish Ma (who STILL has a 2-foot print of JFK and Pope John XXIII planting a row in a field together prominently displayed in this ol' hut) is still all up in "last Kennedy" grief and 95yo Da is playing a Vera Lynn "hits" CD - who knew there was such a thing?! - and calling her "the mother of WW2". i havent the heart to disrupt either of their grief, even to remind them them that this is their favorite holiday - Juneteenth.

RIP, Miss Lynn

 
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