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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (3 Viewers)
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Charlie Steiner
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Bracie Smathers
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Brooke Harrington@EBHarrington
As a tax researcher, I was skeptical of rumors Trump buried his ex-wife in that
on his Bedminster, NJ golf course just for tax breaks. So I checked the NJ tax code & folks...it's a trifecta of tax avoidance. Property, income & sales tax, all eliminated.
James Bond
Footballguy
Mister CIA
Footballguy
SFBayDuck
Footballguy
Zegras11
Footballguy
Pretty awesome 6 minute video of Bill.
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1553797816115412993?s=20&t=rK2IFfyG2qKjNT0nyC6Cqg
Hope wikkid was there to greet him
krista4
Footballguy
James Bond
Footballguy
Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura from the original Star Trek series, dies at 89. I guess the red uniform finally caught up with her.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
She rocked that red uniform. One of my first TV crushes, along with Susan Dey, Peggy Lipton, and Jan Brady.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Uhura and Kirk would have made a good couple. Settle down on a couple of Star Fleet pensions, raise some kids, invite Uncle Spock over to babysit once in a while. The kids could play ring toss on his ears.
massraider
Footballguy
As a kid, I was all about Uhuru and Velma from Good Times. My mom was like, wtf
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
She was in bad shape the last few years. She was the object of a three-way battle over her legal conservatorship.
On the positive side, my favorite story of hers involves Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. calling her to stay on Star Trek as she was seen as a pioneer on TV for minorities.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Pat Carroll - Ursula in The Little Mermaid - among many other things.
It's a day to remember others, apparently.
It's a day to remember others, apparently.
The General
Footballguy
RIP Bill Russell. A basketball legend and great man.
Skipdog77
Footballguy
My college buddy, lost his battle with a rare genetic kidney cancer this week (HRCC). They gave him about a year and a half to live over 5 years ago, and he basically told them #### you and battled his ### off for his wife and hos 3 fantastic daughters.
While they have lost a father, they have gained 10-12 other guys as father figures for the rest of their lives.
#### cancer right up the ####### #### hole.
Love you, brother.
While they have lost a father, they have gained 10-12 other guys as father figures for the rest of their lives.
#### cancer right up the ####### #### hole.
Love you, brother.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Zegras11
Footballguy
https://kareem.substack.com/p/the-bill-russell-i-knew-for-60-years?r=oo6y&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Kareem talking about his 60 years knowing Bill. Excellent read.
Kareem talking about his 60 years knowing Bill. Excellent read.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
RIP Olivia Newton-John
Ted Lange as your Bartender
Footballguy
Also have to mention Vin Scully who passed during the great FBG donut hole vortex of 2022
Doug B
Footballguy
A lot of Gen X guys in here ... early 50-somethings or thereabouts. Ton of guys for whom ONJ's Sandy in Grease was an early memorable kid-crush.
Olivia Newton-John was immensely talented but not always appreciated. Still, she managed to reinvent herself a few times and vault herself to new heights each time out. RIP to a legend.
Doug B
Footballguy
We were out in no-MLB New Orleans, so Vin Scully's national TV broadcasts for NBC's Game of the Week were a lifeline to the game for a lot of us. RIP to a class act.
- Memorable football call for Scully -- Joe Montana to Dwight Clark, "The Catch", Dallas at SF, 1981 NFC Championship
- Vin Scully calls the ninth inning of Nolan Ryan's fifth no-hitter, Dodgers at Astros, 9/26/1981
For many of us a certain age, she and Catherine Bach (Daisy Duke) were among our first (celebrity) crushes
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nirad3
Footballguy
Yes. Growing up in LA... and heck, probably doesn't even matter if you're an LA guy or not... Vin's voice IS baseball.
simsarge
Footballguy
Her and Karen Carpenter 1 and 1a the most magical voices in music ever.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
And Bill freaking Russell
ChiefD
Footballguy
The best thing about Vin Scully was he knew when to shut up. A lost art in today’s group of broadcasters who think they get paid by the word.
May he rest in peace.
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[scooter]
Footballguy
A few deaths that we missed during the hiatus...
David McCullough, historian and perennial PBS documentary voice (89)
Roger Mosley, T.C. from "Magnum P.I." (83)
Judith Durham, lead vocalist of The Seekers (79)
David McCullough, historian and perennial PBS documentary voice (89)
Roger Mosley, T.C. from "Magnum P.I." (83)
Judith Durham, lead vocalist of The Seekers (79)
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Oh no, only Magnum and Rick left! 
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Two Pulitzer Prizes, as narrative historians go, few could spin a better yarn.
- The Johnstown Flood: The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating Disasters America Has Ever Known
- The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914
- Mornings on Horseback (Theodore Roosevelt)
- Truman
- John Adams
- 1776
- The Wright Brothers
His wife of 68 years passed away in June.
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
The Original Smokeshow
RIP doll
Doug B
Footballguy
Didn't want to let this one get by without notice. Dozier was part of Motown's hitmaking writing/producing team of Holland-Dozier-Holland. Dozier co-wrote most of The Supremes and The Four Tops biggest hits, as well as hundreds of other songs.
A selection of Dozier's credits (song titles are links, notable cover artists in parentheses):
"Heatwave" - Martha and The Vandellas (Linda Ronstadt)
"Can I Get A Witness" - Marvin Gaye
"Where Did Our Love Go" - The Supremes (Soft Cell)
"Baby I Need Your Loving" - The Four Tops
"Come See About Me" - The Supremes
"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" Marvin Gaye (James Taylor)
"Stop! in the Name of Love" - The Supremes (The Hollies)
"Nowhere to Run" - Martha and the Vandellas
"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" - The Four Tops
"Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)" - Kim Weston (The Doobie Brothers)
"This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" - The Isley Brothers (Rod Stewart w/Ron Isley)
"You Can't Hurry Love" - The Supremes (Phil Collins)
"Reach Out I'll Be There" - The Four Tops
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" - The Supremes (Vanilla Fudge, Kim Wilde)
"Standing in the Shadows of Love" - The Four Tops
"Give Me Just a Little More Time" - Chairmen of the Board
"Band of Gold" - Freda Payne
PIK95
Footballguy
86 World Series was another
PIK95
Footballguy
OH Man! HDH were LEGENDS. Huge loss that most people won't even realize.
Doug B
Footballguy
Dozier was a lot younger than I would have guessed (81). That means he and his partners were launching songwriting moonshots by the dozen throughout their 20s. Heckuva decade.
Doug B
Footballguy
Something I forgot to point out about this call, regarding Scully's overall legend:
Ryan's fifth career no-hitter broke Sandy Koufax's MLB record of four career no-hitters. Vin Scully had called all four of Koufax's no-nos.
AND: All of those calls spotlighted above -- Koufax's no-hitters, Ryan's record-breaking no-hitter, "The Catch" plus Hank Aaron eclipsing Babe Ruth with career homer 715 ... all of that was in the first half of Scully's broadcasting career. He started with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950 and retired from the Los Angeles Dodgers after the 2016 season.
Brony
Footballguy
Really enjoyed 1776 and The Wright Brothers.
I tried Mornings on Horseback and The Pioneers - couldn't get past the first 60 pages. Just too slow.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Psychopav
Help us, Joebi-Wan Brynobi, you're our only ho
Don't forget Erin Grey!
Val Rannous
Footballguy
Doug B
Footballguy
Enemy Mine is a highly underrated, make-you-think sci-fi flick. The lessons of that film would probably resonate better today than they did in 1985.
Petersen also directed The Neverending Story, I learned while reading his bio in Variety.
FiredMartz
Footballguy
Steve Grimmett
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
On this date in history:
1899 Robert Bunsen, German chemist who invented the Bunsen Burner, dies at 88
1938 Robert Johnson, US Delta-blues singer/guitarist, poisoned at 27
1948 Babe Ruth, American Baseball Hall of Fame slugger (MLB All-Star 1933, 34; 7 x World Series champion; 12 × AL home run leader 1918–21, 23-24, 1926–31; Boston RS, NY Yankees), dies of Nasopharynx cancer at 53
1956 Bela Lugosi, actor (Dracula), dies of heart attack at 73
1899 Robert Bunsen, German chemist who invented the Bunsen Burner, dies at 88
1938 Robert Johnson, US Delta-blues singer/guitarist, poisoned at 27
1948 Babe Ruth, American Baseball Hall of Fame slugger (MLB All-Star 1933, 34; 7 x World Series champion; 12 × AL home run leader 1918–21, 23-24, 1926–31; Boston RS, NY Yankees), dies of Nasopharynx cancer at 53
1956 Bela Lugosi, actor (Dracula), dies of heart attack at 73
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Elvis Presley
1977 Elvis Presley, American musician, dies at Graceland at 42, with the official cause of death being cardiac arrhythmia
Chemical X
Footballguy
This is the most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the movie The Neverending Story.
The Man With No Name
Footballguy
Heard he is still alive1977 Elvis Presley, American musician, dies at Graceland at 42, with the official cause of death being cardiac arrhythmia
