It’s a big day here in the ‘Cuse, as we host the world premiere of The Express – a movie about the life and too soon death of Ernie Davis, the first black person to win the Heisman Trophy. So, in addition to the Hollywood types, we’ve got 40 members of the SU National Championship team that played with Ernie coming to town, as well as Jim Brown, Floyd Little, and Art Monk, among others (I realize most of you don’t know who those people are – except for Jim Brown, I guess). Oh, I know, not a big deal to you more cosmopolitan types, but it’s pretty big stuff in these parts, especially coming the night before Penn State comes into the Dome for the first time in 18 years.
Sadly, Syracuse has become so horrible, it’s likely Penn State will stomp on them. Too bad. It’ll screw up a perfectly good weekend.
I’m a big fan of Art Monk because he was one of the five “smurfs” (so named by John Madden) who were the diminuative receiving corps of the Washington politically- incorrect-skins
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/redskinslegends/2006/08/john_riggins_vs_art_monk.html
I’m a big fan of John Riggins since he sat in front of me in a class at KU and at a party I went to, was passing around a cup full of coffee with a tampon soaked in LSD floating at the top ah, college memories :bong: :peace:
Are you ready for some football? :joe: :bong: :40: :banana:
Sadly, not only am I old enough to remember Floyd Little and Art Monk, I’m old enough to remember watching them play.
Jim Brown was a little before my time, although I liked that thing he did with the cape. 😀
Hey, you’re not old. I mean, two out of three of them are still alive :reaper: 😯
Okay, I’ll bust myself before someone else does. Art Monk was a member of the “fun bunch”- too tall to be a smurf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fun_Bunch
and; Is Jim Brown still alive? :tinfoil:
In 1994, John McCain voted against legislation — pushed through Congress by Joe Biden — that helped put an end to the practice of charging rape victims for sexual assault exams.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/11/post_156_n_125711.html
I guess he and Palin are getting along fine on the Forked Tongue Express
:yuck: Whose idea was that? You couldn’t use cotton balls or q-tips?
Of course Jim Brown is still alive!
James Brown, however, not so much.
Wasn’t my party. :billcat:
Well, except for James Brown of CBS Sports. He’s still alive.
I guess a tampon would hold more acid- it was a big party.
I usually went to the maxi-pad acid parties.
Despite denials by the Palin campaign, new evidence proves that as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin had a direct hand in imposing fees to pay for post-sexual assault medical exams conducted by the city to gather evidence.
Palin’s role is now confirmed by Wasilla City budget documents available online.
Under Sarah Palin’s administration, Wasilla cut funds that had previously paid for the medical exams and began charging victims or their health insurers the $500 to $1200 fees. Although Palin spokeswoman Maria Comella wrote USA Today earlier this week that the GOP vice presidential nominee “does not believe, nor has she ever believed, that rape victims should have to pay for an evidence-gathering test…To suggest otherwise is a deliberate misrepresentation of her commitment to supporting victims and bringing violent criminals to justice,” Palin, as mayor, fired police chief Irl Stambaugh and replaced him with Charlie Fannon, who with Palin’s knowledge, slashed the budget for the exams and began charging the city’s victims of sexual assault. The city budget documents demonstrate Palin read and signed off on the new budget. A year later, alarmed Alaska lawmakers passed legislation outlawing the practice.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-alperinsheriff/sarah-palin-instituted-ra_b_125833.html
You guys are gross! :yuck:
I’m glad Art corrected himself, as I thought Monk was a taller player. Although not as tall as Harold Carmichael.
quiz time. Two running backs in the league with the exact same name, Adrian Peterson. What two receivers had the same name at the same time in the 60’s/70’s ? Hint, one was a Viking too.
My brother, Boyd, was named after a Green Bay Packer. We are Peterson’s
boyd dowler, good hands, but slow
answer:
Gene Washington #18 49’ers
Gene Washington #81 Vikings