Washington Redskins Quiz: (1) Who holds the team record for
passing attempts, season? (2) Most passing yards, career?
(3) Most rushing yards, season? (4) Most touchdowns, career?
Answers below.
Just Another Jerk…Derrick Coleman
Many of you probably heard this story but may have missed the
quote. About a week ago, the NBA”s Coleman was involved in a
DWI accident where he nearly killed teammate Eldridge Recasner
(collapsed lung, fractured shoulder socket). Said Coleman,
“I”m just glad that everyone is okay, and at this point we can
laugh and joke about it.” Amazing. I figure that on every
12-man NBA roster, 3 are decent guys, 5 are dirtballs, and 4
should be in jail. Coleman is a dirtball who also should be serving
time.
Man Meets Grizzly
I just love these nature stories. This is from the Anchorage Daily
News. On November 1st, a man by the name of Gene Moe was
butchering a deer on a wilderness island in Alaska when a grizzly
bear jumped him, knocked him to the ground and began to
maul him.
Moe, 68, fought back by sinking his knife into the animal”s neck.
He stabbed it twice before the bear climbed off him. Badly
clawed, Moe grabbed his rifle and shot the bear three times. He
started walking for the beach of this island.
It is estimated that Moe traveled two miles to get to the beach
where he met other members of his hunting party. They quickly
loaded him into a skiff and made a run to the nearby lodge.
The lodge owner, Peter Guttchen, said he could barely believe
what he saw when the skiff pulled up. The bear had torn an 18-
inch long chunk of fat and muscle out of Moe”s leg. Ripped skin
hung loose from the hunter”s shoulder and arms. But Moe got
out of the boat and started walking up the beach to the lodge.
Amazingly, they were able to get a Coast Guard helicopter to
pick Moe up and rush him to a hospital where he spent seven
hours in surgery. The nurses said he had so many stitches they
couldn”t count them. At last report he was expected to survive.
And this wasn”t Moe”s first brush with death. While sheep
herding in the 1950s, he fell hundreds of feet down a Chugach
Range mountain.
The Astor Place Riot
150 years ago, May 10, 1849, Great Britain”s leading actor,
William C. Macready, was playing Macbeth at New York City”s
Astor Place Opera House. Meanwhile, Edwin Forrest, one of
America”s leading actors of the time, and a favorite of New
York”s predominately Irish poor and working class, was feuding
with Macready.
Forrest blamed Macready for orchestrating the failure of Forrest”s
recent tour of England. By the time Macready appeared at Astor
Place, their feud had degenerated into class and ethnic warfare,
Macready being favored by New York”s elite.
From the November issue of American Heritage magazine comes
the following account of the action. As Macready took the stage,
“thousands of ”Forresters” stoned the Opera House, stormed its
doors, and tried to seize the muskets of the state militiamen
prudently on call. After firing over their heads, which only
enraged the rioters more, the militia responded by shooting point-
blank into the crowd, killing 22 of them on the spot and
wounding many more (it was estimated that an additional 9 died
later of their wounds).”
For New York”s gentry, the event forced them to take a serious
look at the society they lived in – and to see what they could do to
improve it. “What was needed was a society with active
government and private intervention to push the many, disparate
social and economic classes of Americans together, a whole host
of public institutions – schools, theaters, parks, lecture halls,
journals, and newspapers – that would, in Frederick Olmstead”s
words, be ”so attractive as to force into contact the good & the
bad, the gentlemanly and the rowdy.””
And the crown jewel of all the changes that then took place was
the creation of Central Park.
Top 3 songs for the week of 11/9/63: #1 “Sugar Shack” (Jimmy
Gilmer & The Fireballs) #2 “Deep Purple” (Nion Tempo & April
Stevens) #3 “Washington Square” (The Village Stompers).
Quiz Answers: (1) Jay Schroeder, 541, 1986. (2) Joe Theisman,
25206. (3) Terry Allen, 1353, 1996. (4) Charley Taylor, 90.
Next Bar Chat, Wednesday.
Note: My female advisors have riddled me for my Anna Nicole
Smith story of last week. I learned my lesson.
