NFL Draft Quiz: OK, folks. Blame it on the holidays, but this is
going to be hard unless you followed the NFL in the 1970s. All
of the following were first-round draft picks in that decade and
the key is that all played at least five years in the league
afterwards with, at worst, decent success or longevity.
1) Name the Houston Oilers’ 1st-round pick in 1971, a QB from
Santa Clara. 2) Name the San Diego Chargers’ 1976 pick, a
running back from Oklahoma. 3) Name the four Oakland
Raiders who were selected with the 1st pick in each of 1970-73;
a tight end, a wide receiver, a punter and a safety. 4) Name the
Packers’ top pick in 1971, a running back from Ohio State. 5)
Name the Broncos’ first selection in 1972, a tight end from
Houston. Answers below.
Olympic Quiz: What are the five Alpine disciplines in the
Olympics? [Downhill, etc.] Answer below.
Catching Up On Stuff
–There were a number of obituaries of note.
Michael Vale, 83, who was best known as the baker who got up
at the crack of dawn and said “Time to make the doughnuts” in
ads for Dunkin’ Donuts.
Argentina Brunetti, Mrs. Martini from “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
She was 98.
Character actor Vincent Schiavelli passed away at the age of 57.
He was the droopy-eyed fellow who played science teacher Mr.
Vargas in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” as well as patient
Frederickson in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Norman Vaughan, 100. I wrote of him this past May 19 after
reading a piece on his life in the Los Angeles Times. Vaughan,
who turned 100 on December 19, was the last surviving member
of Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s 1928 expedition to Antarctica.
To celebrate his birthday, he had hoped to scale Mt. Vaughan, a
10,302-foot mountain in Antarctica that Byrd named after him,
but alas he didn’t make it. Right before his 89th birthday, he
accomplished the feat for the first time.
Vaughan had a business card with his philosophy of life on the
front: “Dream Big and Dare to Fail.” On the back he listed a few
of his endeavors, including taking 209 sled dogs and 17 drivers
to the Battle of the Bulge. He also gave Pope John Paul II a
dogsled ride in 1981.
Joseph L. Owades, the developer of light beer, died at 86. From
a piece by Wolfgang Saxon of the New York Times:
“His discovery resulted in a beer without residual carbohydrates
and with fewer calories, or what became known as light beer.
Such a brew using his enzyme was first mass-produced by
Rheingold Brewing, his employer at the time, which marketed
the low-calorie brew under the Gablinger’s label. Years later,
after the Miller Brewing Company bought Gablinger’s, it became
Miller Lite.”
Owades then became a founder and director of the Center for
Brewing Studies. Geezuz, why didn’t I pursue this career path
after college?
Owades, incidentally, was technical director at Rheingold from
1951 to 1969, which means he played a role in the development
of the Rheingold Chug-a-mug…a can with a very wide opening
that for whatever reason never caught on.
And former Baltimore Orioles catcher and coach Elrod
Hendricks passed away at 65. Hendricks, a native of the Virgin
Islands, was one of the more popular men in his sport and, just a
few days before a fatal heart attack, played Santa at the Orioles’
holiday party for underprivileged youth.
From Richard Goldstein’s obituary in the New York Times:
“Hendricks’s best-remembered moment as a catcher came when
the Orioles played the Cincinnati Reds in the 1970 World Series.
In the sixth inning of Game 1, the Reds’ Bernie Carbo headed for
home on a ball chopped high in front of the plate. The umpire,
Ken Burkhart, took a spill in a collision at home and called
Carbo out, though the Reds insisted that Burkhart had not seen
the play. Replays showed that Hendricks swiped at Carbo with
his glove but had the baseball in his other hand. The Orioles
went on to win the game, 4-3, and took the World Series in five
games, with Hendricks, who had a game-winning double in
Game 2, batting .364.”
For his career, 1968-79, Hendricks hit just .220 with 62 home
runs.
–And the animal kingdom has not been on holiday!
From various reports in just the past week……………….
“A 12-foot shark attacked the boat of a New Zealand team
competing in a trans-Atlantic race on Tuesday, rocking the vessel
and leaving the rowers ‘shell shocked.’…
“The shark battered the boat for 15 minutes, (forcing the two
rowers into the well of the 24-foot craft).
“ ‘It just kept hitting the boat…We weren’t sure it wasn’t biting
holes in the underside.’”
A support ship arrived hours later and examined the vessel. All
was OK. Geezuz, these guys were 600 miles from the Canary
Islands…it’s not like they could go anywhere. [SI.com…and
Jeff B.]
And then there was the Maui surfer who lost part of his left hand
when he was bitten by a shark while swimming off Keawakapu
Beach. A helicopter in the area spotted a 10-foot tiger shark in
the area. [AP / South China Morning Post]
But wait…..there’s more. A man was attacked by a great white
while swimming off the northern Oregon coast last Saturday.
His ankle and calf were ripped up, but otherwise was doing
alright. Brian Anderson hit the shark on the nose repeatedly, per
a story he saw on the Discovery channel.
So the sharks have been active, sports fans.
But then you have the situation in England, where a herd of 100
wild boar is on the loose after apparently being released by
animal rights activists. These monsters can weigh up to 400
pounds and grow to a length of 9 feet, plus the male’s tusks can
be 8 inches long. Yikes.
“Police warned residents and motorists in North Devon to be
careful after reports that the animals were trying to get into
gardens and terrorizing pets.” [London Times]
Farmer Alan Dedames said “It’s no doubt activists cut my fence
and let my animals out.”
“Jo Howard, the village (of West Anstey) postmistress (ed. note:
sounds obscene to me), was surrounded by the boar when she
drove into a car park yesterday. ‘There were loads of them. I
waited until I had a clear path and made a dash for it. I was
terrified.’”
Hell, I would have been too! In fact this is a good lesson for all
of you, boys and girls. Never, ever, pick up a wild boar that is
attempting to hitch a ride.
And then there was the zoo tiger that killed a criminal suspect in
South Africa the other day.
According to the BBC, “The man took refuge in the Bengal
tiger’s cage at the Bloemfontein Zoo. A visitor to the zoo on
Sunday noticed a body covered in bite marks in the cage.”
Doh! The poor sap must have misread the sign. Maybe he
thought it was the tapir enclosure, the tapir being a “harmless
hoofed mammal” per my copy of Webster’s.
Continuing, a police spokeswoman said “The man was involved
in a robbery and was chased by security guards. He had nowhere
else to go, so he jumped over the zoo fence.”
Now in case you’re wondering why the tiger didn’t eat the
fellow, he had just been fed.
But here’s something else from the same zoo.
“A gorilla known as Max became a national hero in 1997 (pre-
Bar Chat), when he confronted a thief who jumped into his
enclosure while being pursued by police.
“Max, who died in his sleep last year, bit the hapless intruder on
the buttocks and kept him pinned to a wall, despite being hit by
two bullets.”
Now how great is that?! And because of this tale, we
posthumously place Max in the Bar Chat Hall of Fame….to be
built at a site yet to be determined.
But the animal tales aren’t finished.
Patricia Anne Van Tighem died a few days ago. Ms. Van
Tighem was almost mauled to death by a grizzly 22 years ago
and her account of the attack in a 2000 book was chilling. Van
Tighem never recovered psychologically and committed suicide
in British Columbia.
According to Valerie J. Nelson of the Los Angeles Times:
“In 1983, Van Tighem was hiking with her husband, Trevor
Janz, in the Canadian Rockies near Montana when a grizzly
protecting her cubs and an autumn meal pounced on Janz.
“With staccato sentence fragments, Van Tighem recounted in her
book…the horror of watching the bear savage her husband: ‘Two
more steps forward. I stop. A bear? From the side. Light
brown. A hump. A dish-shaped face. A grizzly. Charging.
And Trevor. Fast. He half turns away. The bear’s on him, its
jaws closing around his thigh, bringing him down.’
“When she climbed a tree to try to get away, the grizzly
clambered after her. The bear swatted her down and began
inflicting the damage from which Van Tighem would never
recover.
“ ‘Crunch of my bones,’ she wrote. ‘Slurps. Heavy animal
breathing. Thick animal smell. No pain. So fast. Jaws around
my head. Not aggressive. Just chewing, like a dog with a
bone.’”
Two other hikers stumbled upon them and got them to the
hospital. Janz just had a broken jaw and nose and recovered
fully. But Van Tighem had extensive facial injuries. “The left
side of her face was nearly destroyed, her cheekbone absent, her
left eye blind, the eyelids gone. The back of her scalp was
missing.”
Van Tighem would say later that surviving the bear attack was
“the easy part. The hard part is what came afterward.”
Lastly, on the animal front, Mimi Hall of USA Today wrote of
the ongoing effort by researchers to train wasps to detect
explosives. Now this is incredible, but Univ. of Georgia
biological engineer Glen Rains says the wasps could one day
replace dogs in checking for explosives in cargo containers.
The Defense Department has actually been working with a type
of wasp since the 1990s, but efforts to have the wasps sniff out
land mines failed because the area was too big.
But in other cases, such as detecting fungal diseases on crops
below ground, the wasps are highly effective. They can also
detect cancer or ulcers by smelling someone’s breath. As for the
schooling required for chemicals:
“The wasps are trained with sugar water by using the classical
conditioning techniques made famous by Pavlov’s dogs….
“To do their work, five wasps – each a half-inch long – are
placed in a plastic cylinder that is 15 inches tall. This ‘Wasp
Hound,’ which costs roughly $100 per unit, has a vent in one end
and a camera that connects to a laptop computer.
“When the wasps pick up an odor they’ve been trained to detect,
they gather by the vent – a response that can be measured by the
computer or seen by observers.” [Mimi Hall]
Rains says, “The sensitivity of animals (and insects) to chemicals
in general is probably beyond what we can comprehend. We
don’t really know what the limits are.”
–It’s time for the real college basketball season to begin.
AP Men’s Top Ten a/o 12/26…records, 12/27
1. Duke…11-0
2. UConn…9-0
3. Villanova…8-0
4. Memphis…10-1
5. Florida…11-0
6. Illinois…12-0
7. Washington…10-0
8. Gonzaga…9-3…murderous early schedule…lost to Memphis
on Tuesday
9. Michigan State…10-2…ditto on schedule
10. Louisville…9-1
22. Wake Forest…9-2…shaky…I’d take this ranking at year end.
–Memphis running back DeAngelo Williams set an NCAA
rushing record with his 34th, 100-yard game in Memphis’ win
over Akron in the Motor City Bowl. Williams, who had 233
yards in the game, finished his career with 6,021 yards, meaning
he is only behind Ron Dayne, Ricky Williams and Tony Dorsett
in Division I-A history. DeAngelo does have the NCAA record
for all-purpose yards with 7,568. [Dorsett and Archie Griffin
shared the previous mark of 33, 100-yard efforts.]
DeAngelo hasn’t received nearly the press Reggie Bush has this
year, but he should be a top five draft pick and if I’m the Jets, I’d
take him.
–Boy, one team to watch in college football next season is
Arizona State. Quarterback Rudy Carpenter, a redshirt freshman
this season, is exciting. He threw for 467 yards against Rutgers
in their bowl game on Tuesday. Actually, our lone Division I
team in my home state at least acquitted itself well in losing to
the Sun Devils, 45-40.
–The one baseball move that caught my eye the past week was
the Cardinals’ signing of outfielder Juan Encarnacion. Am I the
only guy who keeps waiting for him to have a breakout year?
Thus far he’s only a .268 career hitter with 128 home runs in 8
seasons. If he gets motivated, though, the Cardinals have a
ballplayer who also just turns 30 in the spring.
But then the Royals signed former Card Reggie Sanders, 38, to a
two-year, $10 million contract. Why? He’s a decent guy and all,
if you can keep him healthy, but I can think of 50 other guys I’d
rather spend that kind of money on.
–Rafael Palmeiro told the New York Times’ Murray Chass that
he doesn’t know if he wants to return next year. Hell, who
would want him?
Raffy still claims he’s innocent of the steroids charges. “I wish I
could pinpoint exactly what happened,” he said. “I would think
it was the B-12. I’m not certain of that; I can’t prove it.”
But the B-12 Palmeiro claims was the source of the positive test
turned up negative when Major League Baseball did its own
testing. Instead, he tested positive for stanozolol, which experts
describe as a serious steroid.
Chass defends Palmeiro by citing doctors and trainers for the
Orioles and Rangers (where he also played a number of years)
who claim Raffy never had the body of a steroid user.
Sorry, I’ll never believe him.
–And then there’s former star relief pitcher Jeff Reardon, now
50, who wracked up 367 saves over a long career. On Tuesday
Reardon walked into a Palm Beach Gardens, FL, jewelry store
and attempted to rob the place of both cash and gems. The store
clerk, frightened, handed over $170 but no jewelry. Minutes
later, Reardon turned himself into authorities near the scene,
admitting his crime.
“I completely lost my mind and tried to rob the jewelry store. I
flipped on my medications and didn’t realize what I was doing.”
This is really sad. Reardon’s son, 20, died two years ago of drug
and alcohol abuse and Reardon’s been taking antidepressants
ever since. It’s hoped here he gets off lightly.
–We bid adieu to Jets receiver Wayne Chrebet who retired after
11 seasons, 580 receptions, and nine concussions. What a clutch
player he was….the little man out of Hofstra, undrafted, who
goes down in team history as one of the all-time greats.
Hopefully he leads a relatively normal life from here on, but his
brain has taken a pounding.
–Back to animals, according to Robert Strauss of the
Washington Post, there is a movement afoot to get rid of
elephants at zoos. The animal rights activists have targeted this
subject, and on this one I can’t disagree. I’ve seen a lot of stories
recently of older elephants being moved to sanctuaries such as a
large one in Tennessee. Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago and San
Francisco have either discontinued or are in the process of
shutting down their pachyderm exhibits.
But I liked the comments of Mark C. Reed, executive director of
a zoo in Wichita, Kansas, and a director of the American Zoo
and Aquarium Association, who says the whole controversy is
overblown.
“What people forget is that sooner or later, every animal in every
zoo is going to die, no matter how well we treat them. Just
because elephants can walk 50 miles a day, it doesn’t mean they
do – or even want to.”
As Robert Strauss reports, “(Reed) said that just like humans,
elephants would rather stay put, and they do if they can find
water, shelter and food.”
“ ‘Some of this is our own fault. We put up signs at the fence
that say an elephant can walk 50 miles in a day and people then
say they have to walk that far,’ said Reed. ‘We make sure our
elephants get exercise, but three, four, five miles is plenty, we
feel.’”
Kind of makes you want to re-examine all of your own opinions,
doesn’t it? Imagine if the elephants could watch television?
–The fellow who rides Traveler, USC’s mascot, is 40-year-old
Chuck O’Donnell. I always thought this was a student! But Mr.
O’Donnell is tired of the job and is calling it quits.
But now….for your exclusive Bar Chat National Championship
Pick to Click….and for all the marbles………………
USC 38…Texas 17
Kids, again, please ask your parents permission before raiding
your college account. I’d also limit the bet to $5,000 if you’re
under age 12.
–Brett Favre has thrown 9 interceptions and zero touchdowns in
his last four games. Time for him to hang it up.
–I still miss Johnny Carson.
–Larry Stewart of the Los Angeles Times wrote of his first
meeting with Howard Cosell. Stewart and a colleague, Barbra
Zuanich, were at a luncheon and decided to talk to Cosell. About
a month earlier, Stewart had done a phone interview with him
but this was the first face-to-face encounter.
“When we approached, he was semi-civil – probably because of
the presence of an attractive young woman. He told us he was
very sick and had visited UCLA Medical Center the day before.
“ ‘Are you going to be able to go on the air tonight?’ Zuanich
asked.
“ ‘No, I’ll just let those other two guys handle it,’ Cosell said.
“ ‘I said, ‘Are you serious?’
“Cosell’s response went something like this: ‘What, are you an
immature little baby? Don’t you understand, young man, I am
‘Monday Night Football.’ Who would do the intro? Who would
do the halftime highlights? Without me, there is no show.’
“Cosell then pulled a tattered letter from his coat pocket. It was
from a college professor who supported him in his attack on what
he liked to call ‘the bought-and-paid-for print media.’ He then
told me what a terrible business I was in.”
Cosell went on to demean Stewart further. And so we
posthumously award Howard Cosell a “Bar Chat Lifetime Jerk
Award.”
So now……..what you’ve all been waiting for………………..
THE 2005 BAR CHAT AWARDS!!!!!!!!
With your hosts….Pamela Anderson, Ben Affleck, Maya
Angelou and Arthur Ashe.
[Ooops…I was just informed Arthur Ashe is no longer with us.
But we were limited to the “A’s” and I need to move on.]
Now in the past I’ve limited the awards to ‘animal of the year,’
‘good guy,’ ‘idiot,’ and ‘dirtball.’ But this year we’re adding
‘jerk of the year.’
So you might be thinking, what’s the difference between an
idiot and a jerk?
Well, according to Webster’s, an idiot is “an ignorant person;
foolish or stupid.” A jerk, on the other hand, is “annoyingly
stupid or foolish.”
Perhaps the best way to distinguish the two is to give real life
examples. Golfer Billy Casper was a “jerk of the year” candidate
for shooting a 105 at the Masters, but then failing to turn in his
scorecard. Marcus Williams of the UConn Huskies was an “idiot
of the year” candidate for stealing a bunch of computers, thus
putting a very promising career in jeopardy.
See, a jerk is fully aware of what they are doing, while an idiot
lacks some of the basics.
As for a ‘dirtball,’ there has to be something malicious in your
behavior; say like past winner and former NFL linebacker Bill
Romanowski. Or last year’s winner, Barry Bonds. [A dirtball
can also cross over to ‘a-hole,’ but for purposes of my
International Web Site Association license, I stick with the
former title.]
And now…..your winners.
Animal of the Year: Past winners have included rescue dogs and
dolphins, but this year I’m going with the lions of Ethiopia.
From an Associated Press story by Anthony Mitchell:
“A 12-year-old girl who was abducted and beaten by men trying
to force her into a marriage was found being guarded by three
lions who apparently had chased off her captors, a policemen
said yesterday.
“The girl, missing for a week, had been taken by seven men who
wanted to force her to marry one of them…
“She was beaten repeatedly before she was found June 9 by
police and relatives on the outskirts of Bita Genet (350 miles
from Addis Ababa). She had been guarded by the lions for about
half a day.
“ ‘They stood guard until we found her and then they just left her
like a gift and went back into the forest,’ said the policeman.
“ ‘If the lions had not come to her rescue, then it could have been
much worse.’ …..
“ ‘Everyone thinks this is some kind of miracle, because
normally the lions would attack people,’ Sgt. Wondimu Wedajo
said.”
Experts say perhaps the lions didn’t attack because the girl was
crying. Regardless, they’re your new “Animal(s) of the Year.”
“Idiot of the Year”
The aforementioned Marcus Williams is certainly one candidate.
Or how about Alex Rodriguez? A-Rod certainly was an idiot for
playing at poker clubs where organized crime members and
others of similarly shady character hung out. ESPN
commentator Michael Irvin is an idiot. They don’t come any
dumber than that guy. Even Michelle Wie gets an honorable
mention for turning down an exemption to play in the men’s 84
Lumber Classic because she thought the course was too long;
this coming from a girl who wants to be known for her play
against the big guys.
But the winner is….San Francisco Giants talk show host Larry
Krueger. Back in August, after the Giants lost 3-2 to the
Colorado Rockies, Krueger of KNBR talked about the struggling
Giants and its “brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop
nightly.” Then he added “You have a manager in Felipe (Alou)
whose mind has turned to Cream of Wheat.” Krueger was
suspended for a week.
“Jerk of the Year”
Aside from Billy Casper, we have countless others such as Texas
Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers, Brad Pitt, Tiger Woods for his
treatment of CBS’ announcing crew, Kevin Federline (who
crosses over to the ‘idiot’ category effortlessly), Russian
President Vladimir Putin for pocketing New England Patriots
owner Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl ring after he asked to try it on,
Kanye West for his ridiculous commentary on the political scene,
particularly during the concert for hurricane relief, and New
Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who has long claimed he was
drafted by the Kansas City Athletics in 1966…but wasn’t….
And the winner is….Terrell Owens!!!! for his entire body of
work. In fact the “Jerk of the Year” award will forever be known
for T.O. Congratulations.
[Special honorable mention to Formula One boss Bernie
Ecclestone, who in calling Danica Patrick to congratulate her on
her performance at the Indy 500, said “Women should be all
dressed in white like all other domestic appliances.” Patrick said
later, “I just didn’t make sense of it.” We don’t either, but
Bernie deserves a medallion or something.]
As for the “Dirtball of the Year”…it’s a two-time winner of the
Dave Bliss trophy, ladies and gentlemen. For continuing to
desecrate the sport of baseball and the record book that so many
of us cherish…Barry Bonds.
Now, granted, Bonds played sparingly in 2005 but with all the
controversy swirling around the sport due to the steroids debate,
Bonds had the opportunity to just quit the game and leave both
Babe Ruth and Henry Aaron at the top of the home run list.
Instead, he tortured us all year, even when on the sidelines due to
injury. Barry should pass Ruth’s 714 this coming April and
could reach Aaron’s 755 late in the year, if not the first half of
2007. We desperately need a migrating wood duck from China
to land on his humongous head and dump a big glob of bird flu
on it.
Ah, but we do have one award that’s positive…the “Good Guy
Award”…and this year’s winner is a unanimous selection, Notre
Dame football coach Charlie Weis.
It was Weis who ran a terminally ill 10-year-old child’s play; a
pass to the right even though the Fighting Irish’s first play from
scrimmage was from their own 1-yard-line. The play worked
and gained 13 yards. The kid had died the day before. Weis
kept his promise.
Charlie Weis also showed true class in going into the USC locker
room to congratulate them after Notre Dame’s stunning loss to
the Trojans, 34-31, in a true classic.
So we hereby also name the “Good Guy Award” after Coach
Weis.
[Just a note for 2006, if he has any kind of success golfer Jason
Gore could be a perennial candidate for the “Good Guy” honor.
Watch his popularity soar next year.]
And a special “Bar Chat: Lifetime Achievement Award” to the
Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore, the greatest storm chaser in the
history of his profession.
Alas, it’s already time to begin work on next year’s jerk and idiot
candidacies. If you have any suggestions, certainly feel free to
pass them along.
Like late entrant for “Jerk of the Year,” rapper Foxy Brown.
Brown, 25, was in court to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and get
community service stemming from a fight over a manicure in a
Manhattan nail salon. But Manhattan Criminal Court Judge
Melissa Brown was none too happy over Brown’s statement and
then all hell broke loose. From Samuel Maull of the Associated
Press:
“Jackson told Brown that she was showing disrespect to the court
and had previously been ‘making faces’ at the judge. ‘I don’t
like her attitude,’ Jackson (told Brown’s attorney).
“Brown denied she was chewing gum, but the judge said she
believed she was. At that, Brown opened her mouth and wagged
her tongue as if to show her mouth was empty. Jackson ordered
the rapper handcuffed to the defendants’ bench along a
courtroom wall.
“While Brown was being handcuffed, a ruckus erupted in which
she and a female court officer yelled at each other. Brown
shouted that the numerous bracelets and bangles on her left wrist
‘are in the way,’ and, Jackson said, Brown struck the officer.”
Foxy apologized to the judge, but is scheduled for a return date
slated for Jan. 23. We’ll be watching.
–And I thought we’d wrap up the year with an oldie but goodie.
The Buffalo Theory [Courtesy of Jeff B.]
In one episode of “Cheers,” Cliff is seated at the bar describing
the Buffalo Theory to his buddy, Norm.
“Well you see, Norm, it’s like this. A herd of buffalo can only
move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is
hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are
killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a
whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group
keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
“In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast
as the slowest brain cells. Now, as we know, excessive intake of
alcohol kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and
weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of
beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster
and more efficient machine. And that, Norm, is why you always
feel smarter after a few beers.”
Top 3 songs for the week of 12/30/72: #1 “Me And Mrs. Jones”
(Billy Paul…we got a thiinnnnnnnnnnnnnng…goin’ oonnnnnnn)
#2 “Clair” (Gilbert O’Sullivan) #3 “You Ought To Be With Me”
(Al Green)…and…#4 “You’re So Vain” (Carly Simon) #7 “I
Am Woman” (Helen Reddy…some would question that) #9
“Superfly” (Curtis Mayfield…get his greatest hits, including
with The Impressions)
NFL Draft Quiz Answers:
1) Houston, 1971, Dan Pastorini, QB, Santa Clara. Dante played
from 1971-83 with 103 TD passes, but 161 interceptions. Yikes.
2) San Diego, 1976, Joe Washington, RB, Oklahoma. Rushed
for 4,839 yards in his career (1977-85) with 395 receptions.
3) Oakland, 1970-73: 1970, Raymond Chester, TE, Morgan
State. 364 receptions, 13.8 avg. (1970-81). 1971, Jack Tatum
(“The Assassin”), S, Ohio State. 37 interceptions (1971-80).
Unfortunately, he’s also best known for his hit on New
England’s Darryl Stingley that paralyzed the receiver. 1972,
Mike Siani, WR, Villanova. 158 receptions (1972-80). 1973,
Ray Guy, P, Southern Mississippi. 42.4 career average
(1973-86…didn’t you think he was better than this?)
4) Green Bay, 1971, John Brockington, RB, Ohio State. Burst
on the scene with three, 1,000-yard seasons, but then fizzled out.
Ended up career with 5,185 yards rushing, 1971-77.
5) Denver, 1972, Riley Odoms, TE, Houston. The 6’4”, 230 lb.
tight end had 396 receptions for a 14.5 avg, 1972-83.
Olympic Quiz: The five Alpine events are downhill, Super G,
giant slalom, slalom and combined. Just gearing you up for
Turin and hopefully a great effort by the Americans there.
[Since the Olympics went to five events in 1988, only two have
won three medals…Austria’s Stephan Eberharter in 2002, and
Norway’s Kjetil Andre Aamodt, 1994.]
Next Bar Chat, Wed., Jan. 4. We’ll resume our regular Tues. /
Thurs. schedule on Jan. 10.
Happy New Year!
