Good morning to all you truly good yet deplorable Dawgs…….. Saturday…..The good Lord has blessed us with some sun shiny days this Spring….Beautiful weather……Gardens should be well on their way by now……I wish every one good health….Take care…….
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 the Georgia Bulldog in the spotlight is former Dawg Running Back Carnie Norris……………
I must be honest here, Carnie has been in and out of jail/prison since his football career was over at UGA after the football season of 1982….As one person described him, “Carnie was known for his success on the football field, but that was a long time ago……Now he’s known for his failures in life. Almost immediately after he took off a football uniform for the last time, he began putting on the uniform of a criminal - jail overalls.’…….I’m not proud of Carnie’s chosen life style since his college days, and I hope he isn’t either……This is about Carnie Norris before his playing days were over……
My wife’s name is Connie Norris…..Our football group was always kidding her about that……We sort of adopted Carnie as one of our favorite players because of the similar names……
Carnie had a record-setting career at Spartanburg High School…….He rushed for more than 4,000 yards and scored 70 touchdowns in high school……He was a high school All-America selection, South Carolina 4A Back of the Year in his senior year and Most Valuable Player in the North Carolina-South Carolina Shrine Game……..Norris was seriously injured in a car accident during his senior year in high school which left his right side paralyzed because of bruised nerves………He later regained use of his right side…….As a player, the 5-foot-9-inch, 190-pound Norris was known for his speed and elusive moves……
“You don’t find as many people as gifted as Carnie Norris was……He could have been a millionaire,” said Spartanburg County jail Capt. Lawrence Webb, who played football with Norris at Spartanburg High. “This guy had it all,” he said……
At UGA, he played behind Herschel…….He ended his UGA career with 1350 total yards and 9 TDs…….But he did shine when he had the opportunity……His 77 yards rushing vs Auburn (while spelling Walker) were critical in the Dawgs win vs Auburn, securing an SEC Championship……But Carnie’s finest hours were vs Ole Miss , two games UGA would have likely lost without Carnie Norris……In 1979, after the Bulldogs had gotten off to a dreadful 0-3 start to his true freshman campaign, Norris was thrust into the starting lineup in Oxford against a favored Ole Miss team…….Rushing for 91 yards, including a touchdown, on 22 carries, he was one of Georgia’s stars in a 24-21 upset over the Rebels…….A year later filling in for the injured freshman phenom, Herschel Walker, Norris gained 150 yards on 15 carries in a win over Ole Miss……..
I really feel bad about Carnie Norris’ life ater UGA, because he was one of our favorites…….He was one of the team’s favorites too……They nicknamed him “Poochie”, a name that stuck……One last thing, and one of the reasons I chose Carnie Norris today…..
As y’all know, Scott Woerner was recently selected for membership into the prestigious College Football Hall of Fame…….Woerner said in an interview,” I recently heard from Carnie after I received the HOF plaque on TV at the Tennessee game. ……The letter came from Perry Correctional Institute in Pelzer, S.C…..It’s the first letter I’ve received from Carnie in a couple of years since his incarceration in a 2008 robbery case. (An appeal in the case was dismissed in 2012.)……He wrote the letter to congratulate his old teammate on the College Hall of Fame induction.”
“I saw you on TV. You look like you could give Chubb a spell,” Carnie wrote.
“Teammates always have a way to point out our imperfections; I weigh 240 while Chubb is, unquestionably, in great shape…….In the letter, Carnie also said he has been waiting to be released for over two years now from the state of South Carolina.”
“Patience,” he says in the letter, “I will see you in Athens soon.”
“That sounds great…….Though our lives after college have taken different paths, my teammates will always hold a special place in my life…….The many experiences we shared in that Championship year have bonded us all for life, our own band of brothers, so to speak.”
“So, one day soon, I hope to be sitting in the sunshine and tailgating with my old teammate, Poochie, and reliving memories of that amazing year.”
Carnie Norris, a DGD back in the day……..
SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DON”T KNOW” AND SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DO KNOW”……(by year/comments)
785 - Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that he had invented bifocals.
1788 - South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify U.S. Constitution.
1827 - The first nursery school in the U.S. was established in New York City.
1846 - Arabella Mansfield (Belle Aurelia Babb) was born. She was the first woman in the U.S. to pass the bar exam, though she never used her law degree.
1861 Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession from the Union
1873 - Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established. The organization's name was changed to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920.
1876 - Boston’s Joe Borden pitched the very first no-hitter in the history of the National League.
1879 - The first U.S. veterinary school was established by Iowa State University.
1867 Jesse James gang robs bank in Richmond, Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)
1873 1st Preakness Stakes: G. Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43 at Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland
1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms (it didn't get the "Royal" until 1904)
1873 Postal cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time
1876 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
1883 Baseball game between one-armed and one-legged players at Recreation Park, Philadelphia, Snorkeys defeat the Hoppers 33-17
1900 - Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
1900 Associated Press News Service forms in NY
1903 1st automobile trip across US leaves San Francisco for New York, (arrives July 26)
1903 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
1908 Dirigible explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none killed
1922 - "Daylight Saving Time" was debated in the first debate ever to be heard on radio in Washington, DC.
1922 Harry Greb gives Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
1922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1934 - In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.
1937 - Industrialist John D. Rockefeller died.
1938 - "LIFE" magazine’s cover pictured Errol Flynn as a glamour boy.
1945 - In Luneburg Germany, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, committed suicide while imprisoned by the Allied forces.
1948 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs
1949 - The Republic of West Germany was established.
1958 US schools 1st use Cliff's Notes
1960 - Israel announced the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1960 WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - The Everly Brothers recorded "Cathy's Clown."
1962 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) agreed to transfer the Philadelphia Warriors to San Francisco, CA. The team became the San Francisco Warriors (and later the Golden State Warriors).
1962 - Joe Pepitone of the New York Yankees set a major league baseball record by hitting two home runs in one inning.
1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
1963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
1969 The Who release rock opera "Tommy"
1971 – the rock band Iron Butterfly broke up.(In A Gadda Da Vida)
1979 - Tom Petty filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
1980 Horror film "The Shining" released directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, based on book by Stephen King
1981 - In Barcelona, Spain, gunmen seized control of the Central Bank and took 200 hostages.
1981 Puerto Rican boxer Wilfred Benítez (22) becomes the youngest 3-division world champion in history by knocking out WBC World Super Welterweight champion Maurice Hope in 12 rounds in Las Vegas
1982 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
1984 "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", 2nd in the film series, directed by Stephen Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford, opens in the US
1985 - Thomas Patrick Cavanagh was sentenced to life in prison for trying to sell Stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
1985 President Ronald Reagan awards Jimmy Stewart the Presidential Medal of Freedom and promotes him to Major General on the Retired List
1988 Maryland to stop sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
1989 Cleveland loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East)
1990 Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,856.26
1992 US President George H. W. Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
1994 - "Pulp Fiction" won the "Golden Palm" for best film at the 47th Cannes Film Festival
1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was demolished.
1997 Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV
1999 - In Kansas City, MO, Owen Hart (Blue Blazer) died when he fell 90 feet while being lowered into a WWF wrestling ring. He was 33 years old.
1999 - Gerry Bloch, at age 81, became the oldest climber to scale El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He broke his own record that he set in 1986 when he was 68 years old.
2000 Eminem releases 3rd studio album "The Marshall Mathers LP", is fastest ever selling studio album (Grammy - Best Rap Album 2001)
2001 Marco Siffredi becomes the first person to snowboard down Mount Everest via the Norton Couloir
2016 - U.S. President Obama announced that the United States would end its ban of lethal military equipment sales to Vietnam. The restrictions had been in place since the end of the Vietnam War.
2006 41st Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Chesney, Sara Evans and Keith Urban win
2018 NFL owners approve new NFL national anthem policy ldwhereby players required to stand if they choose to be on the field for pre-game presentations
2019 Brazilian cosmetics group Natura buys UK's Avon for $2 billion, creating the world's fourth-largest cosmetics company
2019 The last slave ship to smuggle slaves to America from Africa, the Clotilda (sunk 1860), is found in Mobile river, Alabama
2019 Prototype of new high-speed train that will float above the track, capable of travelling 600km an hour (370 mph), unveiled by Chinese Railway Rolling Stock Corporation in Qingdao
SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:
1701 William Kidd, Scottish pirate legend, hanged at London's execution Dock
1868 Kit Carson, American frontiersman, Indian fighter and army officer
1934 Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush in Louisiana
1934 Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush in Louisiana
1937 John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist
1941 Herbert Austin, English automobile designer and builder (founder of Austin Motor Company)
1945 Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader (head of the SS), commits suicide while in Allied custody
1960 Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor (neon light)
1999 Owen Hart, Canadian-American professional wrestler
2002 Sam Snead, American golfer ((7 PGA Tour major titles; US Masters 1949, 52, 54)
2015 Anne Meara, American comedian and actress (Stiller & Meara, Archie's Place, The Other Woman), mother of Ben Stiller
2017 Roger Moore, British actor (The Saint, James Bond)
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:
1928 Rosemary Clooney, American singer (Come On-a My House) and actress (White Christmas), actor George Clooney’s mom
1934 Mason Rudolph, American golfer (Ryder Cup 1971; PGA C'ship 1973 3rd)
1941 General George Norman Johnson, American singer, Beach Music King
1944 John Newcombe, Australian tennis player (7 singles, 17 Grand Slam doubles
1950 Linda Thompson, actress (Hee Haw)
1946 David Graham, Australian golfer (PGA C'ship 1979, US Open 1981
1952 "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, NJ, middleweight boxing champ (1982-83)
1958 Shelly West, country singer (You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma)
1958 Drew Carey, American actor & comedian (Price is Right)
1974 Jewel Kilcher, American singer-songwriter (Pieces of You)
1974 Ken Jennings, American game show contestant,
TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY:
Hidden AOTD today…….
Born in 1950, Linda Thompson is an American songwriter/lyricist, former actress and beauty pageant winner; but she is perhaps best known as a cast member of Hee Haw as one of the "Hee Haw Honeys." ……She was a longtime girlfriend of Elvis Presley before marrying Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner, and legendary music producer David Foster……….
Now Mr and/or Mrs Bruce Jenner, step forward, for you are our designated AOTD…….a
What man wins a gold medal, becomes an American hero only to have a sex change and become a zero……This guy has a warped brain…..I’m not going to waste time here on a sick SOB who traded in his male faucet for a female faucet…..One more time, Jenner is a damn sick SOB……a disgrace to the male population of America who decided “male” was good enough for the long haul…….
Step up on the podium Ms Jenner, watch your heels, smile for the camera, for you are our anointed @$$Hole of the Day, and a disgrace to mankind…..Wear the crown proudly, but try not to mess up your beautician’s latest hairdo on you……You can KMA too…….
As always my good Dawg friends, I hope y’all have a Great Bulldawg Day…..Stay Safe…..help MAGA…….and God Bless…….
