Gene Moe

Gene Moe

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.