Good morning UJD, 911, and all you truly good yet deplorable Dawgs (you know who you are and who you ain’t)……Monday morning, where coffee is King……I had a Great Weekend, I hope y’all did too……This virus thing keeps hanging around both in actual sickness AND the Media.......Let’s hope the media is beatin’ a dead horse and stirring the pot with fake news more than is actually happening in our hospitals ……Take care folks…….Go Dawgs!!.........
UGA SPORTS SPOTLIGHT:
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 Offensive Lineman John Jennings……..Following is a little true story about Jennings…..
John Jennings (who wore #68 jersey) had an admirable career as a Bulldog, standing out as the team’s starting offensive left guard in 1970 and 1971.
Still, likely no other moment for any other number 68 could beat when he executed the “Pie Face Pitch” against Ole Miss in 1971.
Facing the Rebels in Jackson, Georgia tailback Ricky Lake broke off a first-quarter, 5-yard run from the Ole Miss 44-yard line, but was suddenly blindsided by a defender as he attempted to break a tackle………The ball popped in the air and into the awaiting arms of Jennings, who had been nicknamed "Pie Face" by his teammates……
In the modern era of UGA football, five offensive linemen have "rushed" for touchdowns; however, four of them resulted by falling on a fumble in the end zone………Those four were Mike Wilson vs. Kentucky in 1975, Peter Anderson vs. Clemson in 1985, Jon Stinchcomb vs. Auburn in 2002, and Nick Jones vs. Georgia Tech in 2003……..
Standing alone is No. 68 Pie Face, who scored his touchdown by not falling on the ball, but by grabbing it in mid-air and rumbling for a 39-yard touchdown, and thus executing the “Pie Face Pitch.”……Watch this 1 minute 18 second video......
Jennings later claimed he had never signed so many autographs when the Bulldogs' plane later landed in Athens after the game, adding, "Funny, what a touchdown will do."
John Jennings is a DGD………..
SOME “DID YOU KNOW STUFF?” ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY:
268 years ago today, 1st US fire insurance policy issued (in Philadelphia)
228 years ago today, Columbia River discovered & named by US Captain Robert Gray
200 years ago today, launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that would later take a young Charles Darwin on his famous scientific voyage
187 years ago today, "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg & sinks in North Atlantic; kills 215
162 years ago today, Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state
156 years ago today, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern
145 years ago today, George "Charmer" Zettlein pitches the 1st 9 inning shutout
127 years ago today, Henri Desgrange establishes world's 1st bicycle world record, travelling 21.95 miles an hour
110 years ago today, Montana's Glacier National Park forms
99 years ago today, Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality
96 years ago today, Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft and Benz & Cie begin their first joint venture (later merge into Mercedes-Benz)
94 years ago today, Airship Norge leaves on 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean
93 years ago today, Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
92 years ago today, British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's GC: Walter Hagen wins 3rd of his 4 Open Championship titles, 2 strokes ahead of fellow American Gene Sarazen
Also 92 years ago today, General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY)
91 years ago today, 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
89 years ago today, Credit-Anstalt, Austria's largest bank, fails, beginning financial collapse of Central Europe
79 years ago today, 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England
77 years ago today, US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured)
73 years ago today, BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron Ohio)
71 years ago today, Israel becomes 59th member of United Nations
Also 71 years ago today, Siam renames itself Thailand
67 years ago today, a tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas ($39 million in damages
66 years ago today, Pinky Lee Show last airs on NBC-TV
61 years ago today, "Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" by Ed Byrnes & Connie Stevens is the #4 hit song in the US
57 years ago today, "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul & Mary is the #2 hit song in the US
55 years ago today, 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)
Also 55 years ago today, Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000
Also 55 years ago today, Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National Monument
53 years ago today, 100,000,000th US phone connected
52 years ago today, Richard Harris releases "MacArthur Park", which would go on to become the #1 hit song in the US
51 years ago today, British comedy troupe Monty Python forms, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin
46 years ago today, Steely Dan releases "Rikki Don't Lose that Number", which would move up the chart to become the #4 hit song in the US
44 years ago today, Last broadcast of "Marcus Welby, MD" on ABC-TV
42 years ago today, Margaret A Brewer becomes the 1st female General in the US Marine Corps
40 years ago today, Pete Rose, at age 39, steals second, third, & home in one inning
35 years ago today, Madonna's "Crazy For You" single becomes the #1 hit song in the US
33 years ago today, 1st heart-lung transplant take place in Baltimore
32 years ago today, Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)
31 years ago today, the 217th & final episode of TV soap "Dynasty" is aired
Also 31 years ago today, Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds
27 years ago today, 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, and Mary Chapin Carpenter were the big winners
26 years ago today, Musical "Grease" opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater NYC for 1,503 performances
24 years ago today, Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die
23 years ago today, IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in a six game chess match (2 for blue, 1 for Kasparov, and 3 ties)
22 years ago today, a French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency. The coin is known as the euro.
20 years ago today, India's population officially reaches 1 billion - Astha Arora named India's billionth baby
5 years ago today, a record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso's The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for US $179.3 million at Christies in New York
2 years ago today, the most popular names in the US for 2017 revealed as Emma for girls, Liam for boys (FWIW, redclayhound calls BS on Liam for the boys)
One year ago today, American actress and #MeToo activist Alyssa Milano urges women to go on a "sex strike" after Georgia state passes new abortion law
SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE
Franklin Buchanan, American first superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis
John D. Rockefeller Jr, American financier and philanthropist
Lester Raymond Flatt, musician (Flatt & Scruggs--Ballad of Jed Clampett)
Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae musician (One Love)
Chester Gould, American cartoonist (Dick Tracy)
Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita)
Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic & Span)
Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American mafioso and crime boss of the Bonanno crime family
Floyd Patterson, American boxer (world heavyweight champion 1956-59, 1960-62, Olympic gold 1952)
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:
Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese-Thai Siamese twins, born in Samutsongkram, Thailand
Charles Warren Fairbanks, (Republican) 26th Vice President of the United States (1905-09)
Irving Berlin [Israel Isidore Baline], American composer and lyricist considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history (God Bless America, White Xmas)
Charlie Gehringer, American Baseball Hall of Fame 2nd baseman (Detroit Tigers, 6-time MLB All Star)
Jacqueline Cochran, US pilot and 1st woman to break the sound barrier
Foster Brooks, American comedian and actor (Dean Martin’s Roasts)
Phil Silvers, American comedian (Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show)
Denver Pyle, American actor (Jesse Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard and Briscoe Darling on The Andy Griffith Show)
Tim Flock, American auto racer (Winston Cup Champion—1952 and 1955)
Louis Farrakhan [Louis Eugene Wolcott], American religious leader (Nation of Islam, Million Man March)
Doug McClure, actor (Checkmate, Virginian, Roots)
Milt Pappas, American baseball pitcher, (3-time MLB All Star)
Eric Burdon, rock vocalist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
Butch Trucks, drummer (The Allman Brothers)
Steve Bono, NFL quarterback (KC Chiefs, GB Packers-Super Bowl 31)
Chris Mohr, (College Punter—Alabama, NFL punter--Buffalo Bills) from Thomson, Georgia
Lloyd Pierce, American basketball head coach (Atlanta Hawks 2019)
Matt Leinart, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Heisman Trophy 2004, USC; NFL: Arizona Cardinals, Houston Texans) and broadcaster (Fox Sports)
Cam Newton, American football quarterback (Heisman Trophy 2010, Auburn; NFL MVP 2015; Pro Bowl 2011, 13, 15; Carolina Panthers), born in Atlanta, Georgia
TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY:
I probably should have picked Louis Farrakhan today, because he's a big @$$Hole too, but I'm crowning another @$$ today.......
Cam Newton was facing possible expulsion from the University of Florida for academic cheating when he transferred to junior college in the spring of 2009…….Newton was caught cheating three times, including putting his name on someone else's paper without that student's knowledge………
Newton decided to leave Florida following a November 2008 arrest after he was caught with a stolen computer…….He was to appear for a hearing in front of Florida's Student Conduct Committee during the spring semester of 2009 but instead transferred to Blinn College……… The charges were dropped when he completed a pretrial intervention program for first-time offenders………
Newton claimed he left Florida because Tim Teboww was returning for his senior season……..But the truth is his grades were in the crapper, he got caught in possession of a stolen laptop, and he was facing possible academic expulsion after getting caught cheating three times…….
Then a man claiming to represent Cam Newton during the quarterback's recruitment out of Blinn College allegedly sought payments in the range of $200,000 to secure Newton's signature on a national letter of intent………Newton's father and Auburn denied any wrongdoing in the quarterback's recruitment…….
After Cam’s college career and only then, Cam Newton and his Father Admit To “Pay-For-Play” Scandal……
Cam’s actions in the NFL continue to be controversial……..His actions is a uniform is a 10……his action in street clothes is a zero……..Screw Cam Newton, Cecil Newton, Auburn, and the NCAA…….Kick in Florida for good measure…….
You Cam Newton, are the anointed @$$hole of the Day, an honor that actually fits your egotistical head 24/7……..In addition to the AOTD Award, Cam Newton can KMA………
As always my good Dawg friends, I hope y’all have a Great Bulldawg Day…..Stay Safe…..help MAGA…….and God Bless…….
