Good morning UJD, 911, and all you truly good yet deplorable Dawgs (you know who you are and who you ain’t)………This weekend just flew by, and it’s Monday already……I think we’ll see more government restrictions lifted this week, but even with no quarantine, people are scared……You won’t see the big crowds back immediately like they were before Coronavirus surfaced…….I’m trying to stay safe, but I’m ready for our little Friday night Supper group to get back together…….Go Dawgs!!.......
UGA SPORTS:
I’m gonna mention a Dawg great in the UGA football spotlight section this morning, just to make sure at least something Dawg is mentioned today in this “DAWGChat” forum………Today’s DGD in the spotlight is former Dawg Punter Spike Jones, who not only was one of UGA better punters, but by coincidence also has one of the more memorable names in Georgia Football history……
Spike grew up in rural Georgia, in a small crossroads community named ‘Grange’ located a dozen or so miles northwest of Louisville, GA……Grange had a couple of Country General Stores, a population of 25 or so, and very little else…….It was a quiet community with very little traffic……..The traffic in Grange was so little that Spike, unlike all others growing up, went to play in the road……By playing, I mean punting footballs up and down the road, countless times……I’m talking about religiously punting footballs, to the point he would wear them out……..
Being a country boy, the term ‘around these parts’ translate into a one hour’s drive in any direction…….Spike Jones had the reputation of being one of the best punters to come from around these parts…..He joins Ray Guy (Southern Miss) from Thomson, Chip Andrews (UGA) from Sparta, and Chris Mohr (Alabama) from Warrenton as the best punter to come from around these parts………After high school, Spike attend Middle Georgia College (a small two year college that had dropped its football program) where he continued to practice punting because he had plans……..
Spike walked on at UGA and all that practice punting paid off…..John Amos “Spike” Jones made the roster…..He played at UGA for 3 years (1967-1969)……Spike was a two-time All-SEC punter and led the conference in 1969 with a 43.5-yard punting average…….. Spike was a member of the 1968 SEC Champion team under Dooley………For his three-year career, he averaged 41.5 yards per punt…….As a sophomore in 1967 against Auburn, Jones had an 87-yard punt, which still stands as the longest punt in school history, a school record he has held now for over 53 years (Spike broke Bill Hartman’s long standing school record)……… Spike also had many other punting school records at UGA, but those have been broken by Drew Butler and others over the years, but that 87 yard longest punt 50+ year old school record still stands…….
Spike was drafted by the Houston Oilers in 1970 in the fourth round as the 92nd pick…….He had a solid 8 year career in the NFL, playing in 103 games, punting the football 592 times for over 23,000 yards and a career average just under 50 yards per punt……His longest NFL punt was 73 yards his rookie season……
Spike also was featured in a Hollywood movie…….He was the punter for Buffalo that kicked the ball to Vince Papali in the movie “Invincible” which was about a walk-on NFL player for the Philadelphia Eagles……
Times have changed……Spike is no longer living in Grange, the two General Stores are closed, and the seldom traveled road in front of Spike’s old homeplace is now a four laned freeway connecting Augusta with Columbus…..No longer could anyone practice punting in Grange on a 4-lane freeway……One thing hasn’t changed though, Spike Jones is a DGD………
SOME “DID YOU KNOW STUFF?” ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY:
215 years ago today, US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
182 years ago today, fire destroys half of Charleston, South Carolina
159 years ago today, West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from Union
155 years ago today, Steamboat "SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. Most were paroled Union POWs on their way home
140 years ago today, Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid
94 years ago today, Mel Ott, MLB Hall of Famer, at age 17--1st appearance in a MLB game
83 years ago today, 1st US social security payment made
82 years ago today, a colored baseball was used for the first time in any baseball game………The ball was yellow and was used between Columbia and Fordham Universities in New York City
78 years ago today, a tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma, killing 100, injuring 300
75 years ago today, Italian partisans capture Benito Mussolini at Dongo (Lake Como)
74 years ago today, the SS African Star was placed in service. It was the first commercial ship to be equipped with radar
73 years ago today, Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through out US
67 years ago today, the U.S. offered $50,000 and political asylum to any Communist pilot that delivered a MIG jet
64 years ago today, undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano, retires from the ring
61 years ago today, Lloyd Price's "Personality" was released…..The song would go on to be the #1 U.S. R&B hit song on the US Billboard, maintaining the top spot for four weeks
60 years ago today, 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine was launched (Tullibee)
59 years ago today, NFL officially recognized Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio
55 years ago today, "Pampers" were patented by R.C. Duncan
48 years ago today, NYC Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported
47 years ago today, Opryland opened in Nashville, Tennessee
46 years ago today, Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
42 years ago today, Cooling tower collapses at a coal-fired power plant at Willow Island, West Virginia, kills 51
39 years ago today, Paul McCartney's rock band Wings disbands
Also 39 years ago today, 1st female soccer official is hired by NASL
And again 39 years ago today, Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse
And once again 39 years ago today, Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach were married in London
38 years ago today, the trial of John Hinckley begins for the attempted assassination of US President Ronald Reagan
Also 38 years ago today, NFL Draft: University of Texas defensive end Kenneth Sims first pick by New England Patriots
37 years ago today, Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson
36 years ago today, over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana
31 years ago today, a hurricane in Bangladesh--kills 500
30 years ago today, the 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention was held (Michigan)
26 years ago today, former US President Richard Nixon was buried @ Nixon Library in Yorba Linda California
15 years ago today, the superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France…….The double-deck airliner is the world's largest commercial jet….. The passenger capability was 840
Also 15 years ago today, U.S. President George Bush signed a law that allowed for up to three years in prison for anyone that pirated music or films on the Internet
14 years ago today, while in Fiji, Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) was admitted to a hospital after he reportedly suffered a head injury when he fell out of a palm tree
Also 14 years ago today, in New York, NY, construction began on the 1,776-foot One World Trade Center on the site of former World Trade Center
11 years ago today, the struggling American auto giant General Motors (GM) says it plans to discontinue production of its more than 80-year-old Pontiac brand
9 years ago today, the deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history
Also 9 years ago today, U.S. President Barack Obama, coerced by incessant false "birther" accusations, publicly releases a copy of his birth certificate
3 years ago today, NFL Draft: Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett first pick by Cleveland Browns
2 years ago today, Swedish band ABBA announce they have recorded new songs for the first time since 1982
One year ago today, Pope Francis donates $500,000 for migrants stranded in Mexico trying to reach the US
Also one year ago today, shooter opens fire in a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one and injuring three
SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:
Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer, killed by Filipino natives at 50 while on voyage to circumnavigate the world
Zebulon Pike, American brigadier general and explorer (Pike's Peak)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (Concord Hymn)
Julius Sterling Morton, American politician (3rd U.S. Secretary of Agriculture) and founder of Arbor Day
Gordon Armstrong, American inventor of the baby incubator
Edward R. Murrow, American newscaster (Person to Person)
Phil King, rock (Blue Oyster Cult), shot in head at 24 while gambling
Kōnosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (founded Panasonic)
Al Hirt, American trumpeter
Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (invented the Barbie doll)
Julia Thorne, ex-wife of John Kerry
Bill Skowron, American MLB player (popular NY Yankee 1st Baseman)
Gene Fullmer, American boxer (world middleweight champion)
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:
Samuel Morse, American inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and painter
Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President (1869-77) and Union general
Rogers Hornsby, American Baseball Hall of Fame 2nd baseman, manager (7-time NL batting champion)
Wallace Hume Carothers, American chemist and inventor (nylon)
Walter Lantz 1900 - Animator, creator of Woody Woodpecker
Enos Slaughter, MLB All-Star
Jack Klugman, American actor (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus)
Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
Sheila Scott, English aviator (completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman)
Casey Kasem, American radio personality (creator of American Top 40)
Chuck Knox, American NFL coach (Rams, Bills, Seahawks)
Maxine Brown, American country music singer (Browns)
Edward Whymper, English mountaineer, 1st to climb Matterhorn in the Alps (1865)
Sandy Dennis, American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?)
Earl Anthony, American professional bowler (PBA money champ 1974-1976, 1981-1983)
Judy Carne, English comedienne and actress (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop)
Lee Roy Jordan, American College Football All-American (Alabama)
James Lee "Jim" Keltner, American drummer, described as "the leading session drummer in America"
Cuba Gooding Sr., American singer (Everybody Plays the Fool)
Pete Ham, Welsh rock vocalist (Badfinger-Come & Get It)
Kate Pierson, American vocalist and guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster, Love Shack)
Frank William Abagnale, Jr., American con artist turned security consultant (inspired movie “Catch Me If You Can)
Paul "Ace" Frehley, American heavy metal guitarist (Kiss; Frehley's Comet)
Sheena Easton, Scottish singer (9 to 5-Morning Train)
Cory Booker, American Congressman (New Jersey)
Austin Dillon, American auto racer (Daytona 500 winner-2018)
TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY:
Much tougher decision to make today (too many AOTD candidates)…….
……I’ve already anointed Ulysses Grant as AOTD
……..Cory Booker would be decent pick because of his “follow Ms Pelosi’s lead” and his “everything’s racial views”
…….John Hinckley, the goofy nut-case who shot Ronald Regan, certainly qualifies
There are others, but I’m going with the former husband of Julia Thorne, none other than Washington’s biggest hypocrite for the past decade……..That would be John Kerry, the embarrassing former terrible Secretary of State……..
A recent survey rated John Kerry the worst Secretary of State in the past 50 years……The survey of 1,615 international relations scholars at 1,375 U.S. colleges and universities was conducted by Foreign Policy magazine and the College of William & Mary…….Not only did Kerry finish last, but he only received 0.3% of the votes…….Yet, the hypocrite that he is, Kerry has publicly stated POTUS Donald Trump is the worst President ever…….Give me a damn break, but that is the typical John Kerry, you know the one that threw away some of his military medals to protest the Vietnam War, a slap in the face to all our enlisted men and women, our veterans and their military families……..
John Kerry has an impeccable sense of (bad) timing…….When he was buffeted by Swift Boat ads during his 2004 run for the Presidency, he responded by going parasailing……..During the July 2013 coup in Egypt, he was on his boat off of the coast of Nantucket…….And he referred to Israel as an “apartheid” state – on Holocaust Remembrance Day……Then of course he was completely outmaneuvered by his Iranian counterpart in the terrible Iran Deal (gave away everything Iran wanted and got nothing in return)…….What a counter-productive idiot!!........Oh BTW, he made another bad deal, he chose a Lurch (of the Addams Family) face for his plastic surgeon to perform, and the surgeon did an excellent job too…..lol…….
John Kerry cam from a wealthy family……Even then he sponged off a wealthy aunt……He sponged off his first wife’s wealth to advance in the political arena……Then he really stepped it up several notches financially when he married Teresa Heinz, the filthy rich heiress of Heinz ketchup products……..John Kerry is a sponger, living off others his entire life……
I could go on and on about the cheap aristocrat John Kerry…….Let him sail off into the sunset on a one way ticket……..He’ a lying POS, arrogant, loser, that is living the wealthy life behind his political scene………So, on the 14th anniversary of his first wife’s death, I’m more than happy to anoint John Kerry as the @$$Hole of the Day for his past lies, incompetence, transgressions, and his lifetime sponging of monies from others…….This one is long overdue……Not going to let his Herman Munster ugly face KMA though……..
As always my good Dawg friends, I hope y’all have a Great Bulldawg Day…..Stay Safe…..help MAGA…….and God Bless…….
