Good morning to all you truly good yet deplorable Dawgs…….. Tis Sunday, Praise the Good Lord for allowing us to enjoy life this past week, and as a bonus, to look forward to this coming week……Make it a positive one…… Go Dawgs…..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 fullback Jimmy Womack……
I refer to Jimmy Womack as “the man who led Herschel”……… Herschel Walker carried the football 274 times good for 1,616 yards his freshman campaign at UGA, and James Womack led him the first five yards on just about every one of those 274 carries…….
There were offenses where the fullbacks are designed to carry the ball more often, even called on to be the feature back (can you say Ronnie Jenkins?)…….James Womack came to Georgia to get an occasional carry, but primarily to be used as a blocking fullback, just llke he was used at Warner Robins High School for future Auburn star James Brooks (although Womack did rush for 1000 yards + in high school)……..Womack was lucky enough as a senior to get to block for the this young freshman hoss they call Herschel……If you ever want to know ho good Womack was at his job, ask Herschel……..
Womack’s stats aren’t that impressive because there is no stat for successful blocks, which is what Womack’s role was……He did finish with 884 yards and 2 TDs on a side note……
In May 2015, Womack checked in the hospital for hip surgery, and complications led to organ failure……One of the very best blocking backs in UGA history did not survive the surgery…...The hard nosed hellacious Womack didn’t live to see his 60th birthday…….
Former UGA quarterback Buck Belue called Womack a “tremendous competitor” and “tough as nails”……….
“He was a dynamic football player,” said Jeff Harper, a Macon native and teammate who started on Georgia’s offensive line in 1980. “There was no scare in him. He always brought his ‘A’ game. I think about Jimmy a lot.”
George Collins, who played with Womack at Warner Robins and at Georgia, , “he was what you were looking for as a fullback, that joker was going to block everything that moved. Hard-nosed player. Good teammate.”
Jimmy Womack was a DGD……….RIP Jimmy……
SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DON”T KNOW” AND SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DO KNOW”……(by year/comments)
1607 Captain Christopher Newport and 105 followers found the colony of Jamestown at the mouth of the James River on the coast of Virginia.
1738 The Methodist Church is established.
1775 John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress
1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is first published by Boston firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon
1830 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland)
1844 Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" in the world's first telegraph message
1854 Lincoln University, Pennsylvania is 1st Black college in US, founded by John Miller Dickey and Sarah Emlen Cresson
1862 Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time
1878 CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race at Beacon Park in Boston
1881 Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die
1883 After 14 years of construction, the Brooklyn Bridge was opened by President Arthur and NY Governor Cleveland
1890 Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
1895 Henry Irving becomes the first actor to receive a knighthood
1899 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
1902 Cleveland's Bill Bradley is 1st American Leaguer to hit a HR run in 4 consecutive games, not duplicated until Babe Ruth does it June 25, 1918
1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
1916 US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker
1918 Cleveland Indians Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19) as the Indians beat the Yankees 3-2
1928 Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yanks beat A's 9-7
1928 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again
1930 Amy Johnson becomes the 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia
1930 Babe Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
1931 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
1936 Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yanks beat A's 25-2
1935 Major League Baseball’s first night game was played under the lights at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field as the hometown Reds defeated Philadelphia, 2-1
1941 Robert Allen Zimmermanl, aka Bob Dylan, was born in Duluth, Minn
1941 German battleship Bismarck sinks the British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, 3 survive
1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
1944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
1951 Racial segregation in Washington, D.C. restaurants ruled illegal
1951 Willie Mays begins his MLB career with the NY Giants
1952 Doris Day's "A Guy Is A Guy" is the #1 hit song in the US
1954 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico
1954 - The first moving sidewalk in a railroad station was opened in Jersey City, NJ.
1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
1957 Anti-American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
1958 UP & International News Service merge into United Press International
1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania)
1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi 1961 NASA Explorer Ionosphere research mission fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 - The officials of the National Football League ruled that halftime of regular season games would be cut to 15 minutes.
1963 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely
1964 18th Tony Awards: Hello Dolly wins
1964 Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minnesota)
1964 Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1967 American Football League grants a franchise to Cincinnati Bengals
1968 FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City
1969 "Sugar, Sugar" single released by The Archies (Billboard Song of the Year 1969
1969 Beatles' "Get Back" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1969 The Guess Who make their debut on American television, singing "These Eyes" and "Laughing" on American Bandstand
1974 On "Midnight Special," Richard Pryor was host to Olivia Newton-John and Boz Scaggs.
1974 Dean Martin Show last airs on NBC-TV
1976 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington, D.C.) (The British and French Concordes made their first commercial flights.)
1976 In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines
1978 American management consultant Marilyn Loden first coins the term "glass ceiling" to describe invisible career barriers for women
1979 32nd Cannes Film Festival: "Apocalypse Now" directed by Francis Ford Coppola and "Die Biechtrommel" directed by Volker Schlondorff jointly awarded the Palme d'Or
1980 Stanley Cup Final, Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY: In first Finals appearance, NY Islanders beat Philadelphia Flyers, 5-4 in OT for a 4 games to 2 series win
1981 Bobby Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indy 500
1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students
1983 Men at Work had the #1 hit song in America, “Down Under”
1986 Reginald Huffstetler trod water for 985 hrs
1986 Stanley Cup Final, Saddledome, Calgary, AL: Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4-3 for 4-1 series victory
1987 Indianapolis 500: Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indy 500
1988 John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute
1989 "Indiana Jones & Last Crusade", directed by Stephen Spielberg and produced by George Lucas premieres
1989 NY Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3 innings before giving up his 1st run of season
1992 Indianapolis 500: Al Unser Jr.wins
1993 Star Trek episode "Second Chances" airs guest starring Mae Jemison, the 1st real life astronaut to appear on the show
1993 Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement
1994 The four men convicted of bombing the New York's World Trade Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1998 Indianapolis 500: Eddie Cheever Jr wins in 3:26:40.524 (233.604 km/h)
1998 Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell proclaimed May 24th "Van Halen Day" in Philadelphia.
2000 Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved permanent normal trade relations with China. China was not happy about some of the human rights conditions that had been attached by the U.S. lawmakers.
2000 - A Democratic Party event for Al Gore in Washington brought in $26.5 million. The amount set a new record, which had just been set the previous month by Republicans for Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
2000 - Five people were killed and two others wounded when two gunmen entered a Wendy's restaurant in Flushing, Queens, New York. The gunmen tied up the victims in the basement and then shot them.
2001 Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
2001 The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 in Israel's worst-ever civil disaster.
2001 The Democrats gain control of the US Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an independent
2004 North Korea bans mobile phones.
2006 Taylor Hicks wins Season 5 of American Idol, defeating Katharine McPhee.
2009 Indianapolis 500: Hélio Castroneves wins in 3:19:34.6427 (241.913 km/h)
2014 Rapper and record producer Kanye West (36) weds model Kim Kardashian (33) at Fort di Belvedere in Florence, Italy
2015 Indianapolis 500: Juan Pablo Montoya wins in 3:05:56.5286 (259.653 km/h)
2015 Senior PGA Championship Men's Golf, French Lick Resort: Defending champion Colin Montgomerie of Scotland wins by 4 strokes
2016 Bill Cosby is ordered to stand trial in a sexual assault case in Norristown
2018 Record US fentanyl seizure of 120lbs (54kg) confirmed by police in Nebraska in April, enough to kill 26 million people, one of largest drug busts in US history
2018 Actor Morgan Freeman accused of sexual harassment by several women in CNN report
2018 US President Donald Trump posthumously pardons boxer Jack Johnson for racially orientated criminal conviction - transporting a white woman across state lines
2018 World's largest cat-proof fence (44km) completed at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, central Australia to protest endangered species
2018 Bangladeshi police reported to have shot 52 suspected drug traffickers in anti-narcotics crackdown in 10 days
2018 US President Donald Trump signs into law the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act easing financial regulations and reducing oversight for banks
2019 Brazil's Supreme Court votes to make homophobia and transphobia crimes
SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:
John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59)
Duke Ellington, American musician
Vincent J. McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter
Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter (The Byrds)
Dick Martin, American actor and comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-IN)
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, who invented the thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale
Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland (1837-1901)
H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese'
Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (US Masters 1940, 47, 50),
Florence Knoll Bassett, American furniture designer
Thomas "Tommy" Chong, Canadian-American comedian, actor, and cannabis rights activist (Cheech & Chong)
Bob Dylan [Robert Zimmerman], American singer-songwriter (Blowin' in Wind, The Times They Are a-Changin') and cultural icon
Gary Burghoff, American actor (Radar - M*A*S*H)
Patti LaBelle, American singer (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade
Priscilla Presley, Elvis’s ex, American actress (Jenna-Dallas, Naked Gun)
Cynthia Plaster Caster [Cynthia Albritton], American artist who made plaster casts of celebrity penises and breasts
Rosanne Cash, American country singer, Johnny’s daughter (Seven Year Ache, I Wonder)
Joe Dumars, American Basketball Hall of Fame guard (Detroit Pistons; 6-time NBA All-Star
Rich Rodriguez, American football coach,
Ken Flach, American professional tennis player (4 Grand Slam titles, 2 mixed doubles)
Ricky Craven, American NASCAR driver
TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY:
Four years ago today, Bill Cosby was ordered to stand trial in a sexual assault case…….How shocking!! Here’s a supposed role model to hundreds of thousands of our youth, and we find out every women in South Philadelphia has accused him of sexual rape, assault, harassment, or up-skirting…..You gotta believe some of those women are telling the truth…..Some of their numerous accusations surely would stick…..Truth is, underneath that role model front was a friggin’ rapist, a pervert, a low-life POS….
The @%$#& dodged prison time long enough, so long that America thought that this was an OJ 2.0 legal processing…..But he finally got nailed, not good enough, but he is behind bars for now anyway……
Folks, I’m as pissed at his sorry @$$ as much as anyone for molesting those women, but what really pisses me off is his fake role model to our kids…….Screw him, the $@#^&% has no conscious nor morals……
Step out of your jail cell Mr Cosby, place the sacred crown on your head, and accept the prestigious honor of being anointed @$$Hole of the Day……How is that sexual advancement problem you have working out for you now?….KMA Bill Cosby, you low-life scum of the earth bottom dwelling guilty piece of crap……..AND AOTD too…….
As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless........
