[Posted Wed. a.m.]
Super Bowl Halftime Show Quiz: Name the only individual or group to appear in six halftime shows. Answer below.
NFL
[In light of what we learned Tuesday, the following, published Monday, may appear a little mean-spirited, but it’s factual.]
–Gary Myers / New York Daily News
“Tom Brady had a Super Bowl first Monday night: He was brought to tears.
“What got him so emotional?
“He was asked who his hero is.
“ ‘That’s a great question,’ Brady said. ‘Well, I think my Dad is my hero because he’s someone I look up to every day.’
“He then paused and got choked up.
“ ‘My Dad,’ he said again.
“When Brady shows his vulnerable side he becomes more real to those outside Patriots Nation, who detest Bill Belichick and everything associated with the Evil Empire in New England.
“But then Brady can also crawl back into Belichickian secrecy and stubbornness when he refuses to discuss anything of significance outside football. Once he displayed Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ hat in his locker in 2015, he received severe criticism for the friendship and has been asked about his politics.
“He refused to characterize their friendship at the opening event of Super Bowl LI at Minute Maid Park.
“ ‘I’m not talking politics at all,’ he said.
“Why?
“ ‘I just want to focus on the positive aspects of this game, my teammates and the reason why we are here,’ he said. ‘It has taken a lot of hard work to get to this point. I just want to focus on the positive nature of two great teams competing at this level.’
“Of course, that’s a cop out. At least Patriots owner Robert Kraft explained why he felt loyalty to Trump because of how caring he was after his wife died in 2011. All we know about Brady’s relationship with Trump is they like to play golf together.
“Brady then outdid himself in burying himself in Super Bowl rhetoric when he was asked his thoughts on what is going on in the world. As emotional, genuine and heartwarming as his answer about his father appeared, his reluctance to discuss Trump’s travel ban…went beyond just wanting to be like Belichick and not acknowledge anything is going on but the Super Bowl.
“ ‘What’s going on in the world?’ Brady said. ‘I haven’t paid much attention. I’m just a positive person.’
“Oh, come on Tom….
“He has a responsibility as a public figure who has the president on speed dial to do better than feign ignorance about the dominant issue going on in the country and the world. Protests have been going on at Logan Airport in Boston, but Brady made it seem like he had no idea what was happening.
“Okay, back to football….
“(Brady) is well aware that every one of his Super Bowls have been close, all decided by four points or less. He’s won his four Super Bowls by a total of 13 points. He lost his two to the Giants by seven points. He’s 4-2, and 5-2 with a victory Sunday against the Falcons sounds a lot better than 4-3.
“Brady would acknowledge that is a fact even if he won’t admit he knows what is going on in the world and his own backyard.”
–Regarding this last bit, the closeness of the games, the other day the Daily News’ Mike Lupica had this:
“Let’s face it, you have to give the Falcons a chance, just on the fact that they’re being quarterbacked by a Boston College man.
“And Matt Ryan isn’t just any Boston College man.
“He’s the quarterback who once had his team ranked No. 2 in the country.
“On the one hand when you look at the Super Bowl resume of Belichick and Brady, they’re probably two Eli pass completions – the helmet-sticker to Tyree at University of Phoenix Stadium, the deep ball to Mario Manningham in Indy – from being 6-0 in the big game already.
“But guess what?
“If the Seahawks don’t make that boneheaded call in University of Phoenix Stadium and Malcolm Butler doesn’t then make the greatest defensive play in history, they’re 3-3.
“And if Adam Vinatieri doesn’t make a couple of last-second field goals…
“But you know the deal.
“That is the beauty of sports.
“Moments like these that change big games, and big history.
“Twice Vinatieri made the kick that Scott Norwood didn’t make against the Giants in Tampa.
“The wisdom on this comes from my old friend Michael Eruzione, who always said this about the goal he scored to beat the Soviets in Lake Placid in 1980:
“ ‘If that puck is a foot the other way, I’m painting bridges for a living.’”
*Tuesday, Brady said his mother has been ill for 18 months, no details provided, but both parents are going to be at the game.
–Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has pulled out of a plan to invest $650 million in a total $1.9 billion Las Vegas stadium for the Oakland Raiders; a major setback in efforts to move the team in the coming years.
Last fall, Nevada lawmakers approved new Las Vegas hotel room taxes that were to contribute $750 million to the project, with the Raiders pitching in the rest.
Oakland has filed to move, but still needs the approval of 24 of 32 owners, who appeared to be ready to do so but it was of course contingent on a firm stadium plan. Now Adelson, in a statement, said he and his family would “no longer be involved in any facet of the stadium discussion.”
Local officials were upset last week when the Raiders listed restrictions on how the stadium was to be used for other events, including that the Raiders needed to be consulted for all scheduling of UNLV games, and that markings for the Raiders could not be removed for college football games. This upset Adelson.
“I was deeply disappointed for the disregard the Raiders showed our community partners, particularly UNLV, through the proposed agreement,” Adelson’s statement read. “It’s clear the Raiders have decided their path for moving to Las Vegas does not include the Adelson family.”
So now the Raiders have to come up with more money and that won’t be easy.
At the same time, though, it’s easier for the NFL because it doesn’t allow investors in the league to hold casino interests. [Chris Kirkham / Wall Street Journal]
–Kind of a surprise that the San Francisco 49ers hired John Lynch as general manager. I was driving around, listening to sports radio, when I heard this and my immediate reaction was, “That John Lynch?” Yes, I learned…John Lynch the former terrific player turned television analyst.
The 49ers, a once proud, immensely successful franchise, have become a laughingstock and they interviewed about a dozen candidates for the GM job before settling on Lynch.
What people in the sport don’t understand is how San Francisco chose the guy, who has zero track record other than being an All-Pro safety as well as an analyst.
Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan is going to become the new head coach after the Super Bowl, and then Lynch would hire an experienced personnel man, it is assumed.
–Sunday’s Pro Bowl on ESPN drew a 4.2 final rating and 7.4 million viewers, the lowest-rated Pro Bowl since 2006 and the least-watched since 2007.
But it was still the highest-rated cable-television program and only behind network shows “60 Minutes” (11.51 million viewers), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (11.29m) and “Madam Secretary” (8.71m…which is what you can still call Hillary Clinton, if you see her traipsing through the woods near her Chappaqua home).
College Basketball
AP Poll (Jan. 30)
1. Gonzaga 22-0 (46)
2. Baylor 20-1 (6)
3. Kansas 19-2 (9)
4. Villanova 20-2 (4)
5. Arizona 20-2
6. Louisville 18-4
7. West Virginia 17-4
8. Kentucky 17-4
9. Virginia 16-4
10. Wesconsin 18-3
11. UCLA 19-3
12. North Carolina 19-4
15. Florida State 18-4
17. Maryland 19-2
21. Duke 16-5
25. Northwestern 18-4…seemingly a lock to make their first NCAA tournament, ever.
Monday….
Duke defeated 20 Notre Dame 84-74 in South Bend as freshman Jayson Tatum, a probable one-and-doner, had his first double-double, 19 points and 14 rebounds, while Grayson Allen had 21. I must say, Duke is kind of fascinating to follow, given how so many of us had them winning it all, only to have early-season injuries and then the Allen debacle, let alone Coach K’s absence.
Tuesday….
No upsets, unless you consider 22 Creighton (20-3, 7-3) defeating 16 Butler (18-5, 7-4) one. Final score 76-67.
Of more import to Wake Forest fans, we won another on the road, 85-80 at Boston College (9-14, 2-8), as the Deacs improved to 13-9. 4-6, behind John Collins 26 points and 16 rebounds.
[There is growing talk the sophomore Collins is NBA bound after the season.]
I’m shocked that prior to the game, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi has the Deacs making the Big Dance. I don’t see it. But if we could finish 8-10 in conference, and then win a first-round ACC tournament game, maybe we do get in. We’re certainly improving.
NBA
—LeBron James is not happy. His Cleveland Cavaliers are 4-7 their last 11 contests and now 32-15 for the season. LeBron has been bitching about his teammates, he wants another ‘playmaker,’ and now he’s going after TNT’s Charles Barkley.
Barkley has been critical of LeBron, so after the Cavs’ 104-97 loss at Dallas on Monday, James said of Barkley: “He’s a hater. What makes what he says credible? Because he’s on TV??”
James continued:
“I’m not going to let him disrespect my legacy like that,” James said. “I’m not the one who threw somebody through a window. I never spit on a kid. I never had unpaid debt in Las Vegas. I never said, ‘I’m not a role model.’ I never showed up to All-Star Weekend on Sunday because I was in Vegas all weekend partying.
“All I’ve done for my entire career is represent the NBA the right way. Fourteen years, never got in trouble. Respected the game. Print that.”
Later, he summed up his feelings: “Screw Charles Barkley.”
Barkley said the following on “Inside The NBA” last week, after James had called for the Cavaliers to make some improvements to the roster:
“Inappropriate. Whiny. All of the above,” Barkley said. “The Cleveland Cavaliers, they have given him everything he wanted. They have the highest payroll in NBA history. He wanted J.R. Smith last summer, they paid him. He wanted [Iman] Shumpert last summer. They brought in Kyle Korver. He’s the best player in the world. Does he want all the good players? He don’t want to compete? He is an amazing player. They are the defending champs.” [Tim Bontempo / Washington Post]
James has a point in that he’s criticized for everything, including being buddies with Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony, and you had the likes of Phil Jackson talking about his “posse,” but LeBron has indeed been ‘whiny.’
That said, his behavior off the court has been exemplary and he’s one of the top five players in NBA history (Barkley doesn’t think he is).
At the same time, I like Barkley.
So will these two meet at a game? Barkley is next on TNT, Thursday, though he couldn’t help but weigh in on Tuesday.
“I was laughing, clearly he did some work…he Googled me and found some things,” Barkley said on ESPN Radio. “He was young when I was playing, so I appreciate that, but I’m not upset about it…my criticism was fair and I’m good with that.”
As for James’ daring Barkley to come find him the next game he’s in town, Barkley said:
“I’ve only met LeBron casually. He’s always been great to me,” Barkley said. “But this notion that we have to be friends, we’re never going to be friends….
“Some of the stuff he said about me is correct – doesn’t make the message I said about him incorrect,” he added. “Some of them are intimidated about LeBron (but) I’m not intimidated at all.”
Brian Windhorst of ESPN on James’ mindset:
“Over the summer, James began talking about the biggest dream, the one that was so outrageous that he’d put it away for years. He dared to start talking about chasing Michael Jordan.
“ ‘My motivation is this ghost I’m chasing. The ghost played in Chicago,’ James told a young high school star at his annual Nike camp in July in Los Angeles, fully aware journalist Lee Jenkins was sitting there watching and taking notes. That quote ended up on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
“A few weeks later, he made it crystal clear in an interview with Rachel Nichols, fully knowing his clip was going to be all over ESPN for days: ‘I’m chasing that greatness. That’s how great that ghost was. It’s the same as anybody setting out goals and trying to reach them. That’s just my personal goal.’
“Of course, James knew Durant had joined the Warriors. Of course, he knew chasing Jordan would mean more championships, not just ‘one for the Land.’ Of course, that had gotten so much tougher in the short run with the Warriors loading up in the wake of their Finals defeat….
“Jackson and Barkley happened to have come into James’ vision recently with negative comments about him. It was bad timing on their behalf because James is surly, and he’s itching for a fight. Anyone else who wants to step up right now ought to be aware. That includes owner Dan Gilbert, too, though to this point, James has been more indirect with those comments. To this point.
“ ‘It’s so hard to take the high road,’ James said in June after Klay Thompson took a shot at him during the Finals. ‘I’ve been doing it for 13 years. It’s so hard to continue to do it.’
“James is off the high road now. Call it an unintended consequence.”
—Coaches Steve Kerr and Gregg Popovich haven’t been afraid to speak out against Donald Trump’s immigration ban. Kerr comes to the issue with some experience. His father, Malcolm, was assassinated in 1984 by an Islamic jihadist while he was president of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, where Kerr was born.
Kerr was a college freshman at Arizona at the time of his father’s murder. So you can imagine with his upbringing he has a different mindset and a diverse group of friends.
“I would just say – as someone whose family member was a victim of terrorism – if we’re trying to combat terrorism by banishing people from coming to this country, by really going against the principles of what our country is about, and creating fear, it’s the wrong way to go about it. If anything, we could be breeding anger and terror, so I’m completely against what’s happening.
“I think it’s shocking. It’s a horrible idea….Families are being torn apart, and I worry in the big picture what this means to the security of the world.”
Popovich commented on the weekend’s confusion regarding the executive order: “As you already know, I have lots of thoughts about what we’ve done to ourselves as a country and what we’ve allowed to happen…
“Obviously the rollout today was Keystone Kops-like by any measure with objectivity. Whether you want to say it’s good or bad is irrelevant. But it was Keystone Kops, and that’s scary.”
I note Kerr’s and Popovich’s comments just because no one should be surprised if there are organized protests of some kind at NBA games, though a lot will depend on how the next 7-10 days go and the optics in Washington.
–The Spring 2017 edition of the Wake Forest Magazine has a nice cover story on one of the great Demon Deacons of all time, basketball player Rodney Rogers. Playing three seasons at Wake, from 1990-93, Rodney was ACC Rookie of the Year in 1991, and two-time first-team All-ACC 1992-93. 1993, he was ACC Player of the Year and second-team All-American. In college, Rogers, with one of the great physiques for a basketball player of all time, was a man among boys, averaging 19.3 points and 7.9 rebounds for the Deacs.
Rogers was then selected ninth overall by Denver and spent 12 seasons in the NBA, averaging 10.9 points, 4.5 rebounds. His best season in terms of output was 1997-98 when he averaged 15.1 points for the Clippers and for the 1999-2000 season, he won the NBA Sixth Man Award while with Phoenix, averaging 13.8 points and 5.5 rebounds off the bench.
But it was the Friday after Thanksgiving in 2008 that Rodney Rogers’ life changed forever. He was an experienced dirtbike rider and he decided to go out. His fiancée, Faye, begged him not to as it was wet and muddy, but he went anyway, hit a ditch, went flying over the handlebars, landing flat on his back. “He yelled to his friend that he’d hurt his neck and couldn’t feel anything.” [Cherin Poovey / WFU Magazine]
Us Wake Forest fans, who loved Rogers, were crushed, but while doctors gave him just a 50/50 chance of survival, and he remains paralyzed from the shoulders down, Rodney perseveres, thanks to Faye (who he married in 2010) and some great friends and the Wake family.
I used to write of Rogers’ love of NASCAR and one of the many things that is sad is that I really believed he could have made a difference in the sport (recruiting African-American fans) as he was becoming more involved on the team side after his retirement from basketball. The story by Cherin Poovey notes:
“Rodney tells us how much he misses going to NASCAR races, tinkering with cars and driving big trucks (if you didn’t know, he started a trucking company and was also a heavy equipment operator for the city of Durham after he retired in 2005). He is energized by the outdoors and prays that God will one day let him go riding and hunting again.”
Cherin Poovey concludes:
“Through many dangers, toils and snares, Rodney Rogers has persevered. Fortified by threads of grace, he takes life’s court each day to face his toughest opponent of all.
“ ‘The fortunes of his life have taken a turn that would have done most of us in by now,’ says (former Wake coach Dave) Odom. ‘He continues to not only fight it, but perhaps win, the battle.’
“He is the same, only still.”
–Speaking of former Demon Deacons, I have to mention that in Monday’s Nets-Heat contest, Miami’s eighth straight win, 104-96, James Johnson had 17 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks off the bench, plus a spectacular put-back dunk in crunch time that showed off this guy’s athleticism, when he’s motivated.
MLB
Two weeks to pitchers and catchers!!!
So time to rehash a piece I did two years ago, with a little more enhancement than was available then.
From the Baseball Hall of Fame, following is the correspondence between Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis and President Franklin Roosevelt just weeks after Pearl Harbor. Landis wrote FDR to ask for his advice.
Jan. 14, 1942
Dear Mr. President
The time is approaching when, in ordinary conditions, our teams would be heading for Spring training camps. However, inasmuch as these are not ordinary times, I venture to ask what you have in mind as to whether professional baseball should continue to operate. Of course my inquiry does not relate at all to individual members of this organization, whose status, in the emergency, is fixed by law operating upon all citizens.
Normally we have, in addition to the sixteen major teams, approximately three hundred and twenty minor teams – members of leagues playing in the United States and Canada.
Health and strength to you – and whatever else it takes to do this job.
With great respect
Very truly yours,
Kenesaw M. Landis
Just one day later, FDR replied, Jan. 15.
My Dear Judge:
Thank you for yours of January fourteenth. As you will, of course, realize the final decision about the baseball season must rest with you and the Baseball Club owners – so what I am going to say is solely a personal and not an official point of view.
I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going. There will be fewer people unemployed and everybody will work longer hours and harder than ever before.
And that means that they ought to have a chance for recreation and for taking their minds off their work even more than before.
Baseball provides a recreation which does not last over two hours or two hours and a half, and which can be got for very little cost. And, incidentally, I hope that night games can be extended because it gives an opportunity to the day shift to see a game occasionally.
As to the players themselves, I know you agree with me that individual players who are of active military or naval age should go, without question, into the services. Even if the actual quality of the teams is lowered by the greater use of older players, this will not dampen the popularity of the sport. Of course, if any individual has some particular aptitude in a trade or profession, he ought to serve the Government. That, however, is a matter which I know you can handle with complete justice.
Here is another way of looking at it – if 300 teams use 5,000 or 6,000 players, these players are a definite recreational asset to at least 20,000,000 of their fellow citizens – and that in my judgment is thoroughly worthwhile.
With every best wish,
Very sincerely yours,
Franklin D. Roosevelt
[This was called the “Green Light Letter” and is preserved in the Hall of Fame’s collection.]
–Major League Baseball and Commissioner Rob Manfred came down hard on the St. Louis Cardinals over the 2015 hacking scheme perpetrated by the organization’s former scouting director. Monday, Manfred fined the Cardinals $2 million and took away their top two picks in June’s amateur draft – giving the money and the draft picks to the Houston Astros, the team targeted by Chris Correa’s hack.
While baseball found Correa acted alone, Manfred ruled the Cardinals were “vicariously liable for his misconduct” and that the Astros suffered “material harm” as a result. Correa, who is serving a 46-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to five counts of unauthorized hacking, was also banned for life from baseball.
Harsh penalty all around…but deservedly so. The Cards are losing the 56th and 75th overall picks in the draft. Their first-round pick was forfeited in the free agent signing of outfielder Dexter Fowler.
Correa hacked into the Astros’ database 48 times over a 2 ½ year period and acquired information such as the list of players Houston was thinking of drafting.
–SCP Auctions out of Laguna Niguel, California, has been in the sports memorabilia business since 1979 and recently it completed an auction taking in $3.4 million in memorabilia, autographs and game-worn items.
A uniform worn by Babe Ruth to promote the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair fetched nearly $228,000. One guy paid $142,000 for Tony Gwynn’s 3,000th hit baseball.
Boy, I’d be so gun shy with any memorabilia (being a large owner of rock & roll stuff myself, some of which I’m sure is real, some others probably not).
It’s fun to go on the scpauctions.com web site, though.
A cap worn by Carl Hubbell sold for $25,000!
1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card sold for $18,000.
Now with championship rings, you should be able to easily tell if it’s real. A 2008 Philadelphia Phillies World Series ring went for $12,000.
A Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig dual-signed baseball for $25,000.
But I’m scrolling through the list and I see my card…the 1969 Lew Alcindor rookie card I’ve written of, hoping for some beer money. One of my friends who dabbles in selling memorabilia once figured I’d get like $200 for it. But one of them sold for over $4,300 at the SCP Auction! Good lord. [Now where did I put it….]
–Speaking of memorabilia, former Lakers guard Derek Fisher had more than $300,000 worth of jewelry stolen from his Los Angeles home on Monday. He left it at 7:30 a.m. and when he returned three hours later, he discovered someone had entered through the side door and taken the jewelry, which included five NBA championship rings he won with the Lakers.
Now how do you fence something like this? Good luck, dirtball(s).
[Matt Bonesteel of the Washington Post pointed out that the 2009 ring is highly personalized.]
Golf Balls
–Some of us are thrilled with the play of Jon Rahm because of, well, you see, Jon has a girlfriend, you know, and, err, Ms. Cahill is rather…well, you can look it up yourself.
So let the word go forth that Jon Rahm can win every week he tees it up!
–Speaking of Mr. Rahm, Phil Mickelson said, “(Rahm) is more than just a good young player. I think he’s one of the top players in the world.”
As I’ve noted before, Phil’s brother, Tim, was Rahm’s coach at Arizona State and now he’s his agent.
“There’s an intangible that some guys have where they want to have the pressure, they want to be in that tough position, they want to have everything fall on their shoulders and he has that,” said Phil.
Division I Men’s College Hockey Poll (Jan. 30)
1. Minnesota-Duluth
2. Denver
3. Boston University
4. Union
5. Harvard
6. Penn State
7. Minnesota
8. Boston College
9. Western Michigan
10. Massachusetts-Lowell
14. St. Lawrence!
Premier League
Liverpool and Chelsea tied 1-1 in their big match on Tuesday, which you’d think Tottenham would have taken advantage of in their contest at lowly Sunderland, but noooo. 0-0 draw. Arsenal suffered a horrible home loss against Watford, 2-1.
I’ll review the outlook for the rest of the year next time, including the fact defending champ Leicester City is just two points from the relegation line after a 1-0 loss at Burnley.
Stuff
—Mountain lion P-51 was killed on the 118 Freeway near Simi Valley, just as its mother, P-39, and sibling, P-52, were in separate incidents in December. Wildlife officials announced P-51’s death over the weekend. All three were killed in the same area, which I just looked up and it’s about four miles from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, folks. Mark R. and I were talking about this the other day, as he had just been there. I was there six years ago and it’s definitely a good place for mountain lions to hang out. [Beautiful piece of property.]
Necropsies have been performed and on P-52, officials were encouraged it had recently eaten a skunk. [Yuck.]
“Whether or not these kittens had the ability to feed was a subject of much discussion,” said an official of the Fish and Wildlife’s Mountain Lion Conservation Program. “Apparently, their mother had taught them predatory skills within their first six to seven months.”
Geezuz, girls. Teach your kids to go after something delicious, like a pig or lamb. Recipes for same can be found online.
On a more serious note, the mountain lions need crossings over the highways. A 2015 proposal for a span over Highway 101 would have cost $30 million.
–Just in time for “Web Sweeps Week,” Northeast Director of Shark Attacks for Bar Chat, senior vice president Bob S., passed along a piece by Doug Fraser of the Cape Cod Times that issues a stern warning. To wit:
“George Burgess has investigated over 6,000 reports of shark attacks in his job as director of the shark research program at the University of Florida and editor of the online International Shark Attack File. He’s traveled the world at the invitation of countries who suddenly found they had a shark problem: Recife, Brazil; Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Hong Kong. Mexico.
“He predicts that, within the next five years, he’ll get a call from Cape Cod.
“ ‘It’s the combination of a large predator, and the things they eat, both gaining in population size and both coming back to lay claim to areas that historically were theirs 150 years ago,’ said Burgess. ‘The inevitable conflict is that we have laid claim to those beaches for our recreation and sport.
“Scientists agree it’s not a matter of if – but when – there will be a fatal attack on Cape Cod. That’s when the feel-good shark story, the souvenir T-shirts, the specialty drinks at the bar, could all fade, and the public will realize exactly what’s in the water just beyond the umbrella and beach toys, Burgess said.”
Oh, come on. That’s when the excitement begins (assuming the first victim isn’t a cute little kid). It would dominate the national news coverage for a spell and ratings here at Bar Chat would soar.
Granted, some folks are worried about the impact on tourism if Great Whitey were to, say, take out four swimmers in 15 minutes, but that’s Cape Cod’s problem.
No doubt the Great White population off the Cape has been increasing, with researchers believing as many as 300 visit the waters each year. They haven’t taken an interest in humans because they’ve been gorging on seals. But once they eat all the seals, we’re next.
—Further details on the tiger attack in China I wrote of last time. As reported by the BBC, the male victim was with his wife and child and for some unknown reason scaled the zoo’s wall. “Witnesses described how the mauling took place during feeding time at the zoo in full view of park visitors, some of whom posted video clips and pictures of the attack.
“Photos from the incident show how the tiger had his jaws around the man’s head and neck, while the other two tigers circled him.”
It turns out zookeepers didn’t just use firecrackers, but also employed water cannons, before they shot one of the tigers dead.
Which means the other two tigers aren’t real happy; probably catching cold after being doused by water to boot.
Top 3 songs for the week 2/5/77: #1 “Torn Between Two Lovers” (Mary MacGregor) #2 “Car Wash” (Rose Royce…talk about a tune aging poorly…) #3 “Dazz” (Brick)…and…#4 “New Kid In Town” (Eagles) #5 “Hot Line” (The Sylvers) #6 “Blinded By The Light” (Manfred Mann’s Earth Band) #7 “Love Theme From ‘A Star Is Born’” (Barbra Streisand…ugh…) #8 “I Wish” (Stevie Wonder) #9 “Enjoy Yourself” (The Jacksons…mailed this one in…) #10 “Walk This Way” (Aerosmith…ditto…)
Super Bowl Halftime Show Quiz: The Grambling State Marching Band is the only group/individual to appear in six halftime shows….Super Bowls I, II, IX, XIV, XXI and XXXII. Up With People was in five, and looking back I get a kick out of this because here in my hometown of Summit, N.J., we once had them for Fourth of July.
Next Bar Chat, Monday. Enjoy the game…and the Waste Management Open.
