Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Tuesday…….Every June 2nd is National Rotisserie Chicken Day……Then for dessert, every June 2nd is National Rocky Road Day……Sounds good to me…..With all the troubles surrounding us these days, say a pray or two and try to smile a time or two, even say d@mn if you have to……..See y’all here again tomorrow, same time, same place…..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 Guard Pat Dye……
Pat Dye was born and raised in Blythe, GA, a small community 15 miles south of Augusta just off US 1….He played high school football at Richmond Academy in Augusta, from 1954-1956 where he was selected All-American and All-State while leading the team to the 1956 3A state championship, serving as team captain…….He placed 2nd in the state tournament in shot-put and javelin, on the State Championship Track Team……Following this success, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution selected Dye as Georgia's 3A Lineman of the Year for 1956 while he was being recruited by the University of Georgia…..He chose to play his college football for the Bulldogs as he followed his older brothers, Wayne and Nat.
While playing for the Bulldogs from 1957-1960, under head coach Wally Butts, Dye was a first-team All-SEC lineman and two-time All-American (1959 and 1960)…….He was a two time Academic All-American (1959 & 1960)…..He was a two-way starter at offensive guard and linebacker, SEC Lineman of the Year in 1960, team Co-Captain in 1960, won the William K. Jenkins Award for the Most Valuable Lineman (1959,1960), and the JB Whitworth Award for the Outstanding Georgia Lineman 1960……He helped lead the team to the SEC Championship and an Orange Bowl victory in 1959…..He went undefeated as a player against Georgia Tech…..He played in 3 All-Star games: the Blue Gray Classic, Senior Bowl, and Coaches All-American Game in 1960…….The Atlanta Touchdown Club named him the SEC's Most Valuable Lineman in 1960 where he served as co-captain with friend and NFL Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton……
Upon graduation from Georgia, Dye played three years of professional football as a two-way starter at tight end and linebacker for the Edmonton Eskimos in the Canadian Football League……He then served from 1963-1964 in the US Army to fulfill an ROTC obligation where he played for the Ft. Benning 'Doughboys'……While playing there he received the Timmy Award for Armed Services Most Valuable Player in 1964…….
In 1987, Pat Dye was inducted into the State of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame…..In 2005, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame……In 2014, he was inducted into the Georgia-Florida Hall of Fame…….
No need to bore you with his coaching bio, as he was very successful, AND where he was a pain in the @$$ for our beloved UGA Bulldogs, the team he and his brothers played their college football…..This very fact is half the reason so many UGA fans have no love for Pat Dye….The other half is because he was a pain for us at Auburn of all places, a school always around the top of UGA’s most hated list……
Pat Dye was a hell-of-a football player, for that I’m thankful he played for UGA……He was also a hell-of-a coach, for that I’m not so thankful…..He was country born, and country raised, and he never forgot his roots…..In a decade where Georgia football wasn’t very good, Pat Dye and about 25 of his closest friends returned the Dawgs to their competitive and winning ways….I’m deeply saddened by his death….RIP Pat Dye, a Georgia Bulldog at heart……..
SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DON”T KNOW” AND SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DO KNOW”……(by year/comments)
1763 Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort
1774 Intolerable Acts: Amendment to original Quartering Act enacted, allows governors in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters not provided
1835 P. T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1855 The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine
1857 James Gibbs of Virginia, patents the chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1873 Construction begins on Clay St (San Francisco) for world's 1st cable railroad
1875 James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
1875 Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission
1883 The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1883 Chicago's "El" opens to traffic
1896 Guglielmo Marconi applies to patent the radio, accepted 2 July 1897
1899 Black Americans observed day of fasting in protest against lynchings
1901 Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY)
1910 1st round trip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
1913 1st strike settlement mediated by US Department of Labor - railroad clerks
1914 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
1917 Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircrafts as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross
1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
1922 Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances
1924 President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act, declaring all Native Americans to be American citizens
1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak
1928 Kraft rolls out Velveeta cheese
1932 Fisherman George W. Perry catches the world record largemouth bass, weighing in at 22 pounds, 4 ounces, at Lake Montgomery, Georgia
1933 FDR authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House
1935 Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player
1937 Jimmy Jones, known for the 1960 rock and roll hit "Handy Man," is born in Birmingham, Alabama.
1941 The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is born Charles Robert Watts in London, England
1942 Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a US Navy aviator
1951 Steve Brookins (drummer for .38 Special from 1974-1987) is born.
1951 Dave Flett, Scottish rock guitarist (Manfred Mann's Earth Band), born in Aberdeen, Scotland
1952 Pete Farndon (bassist for The Pretenders) is born in Hereford, England.
1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US
1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England2 Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
1955 Michael Steele (bass guitarist for The Bangles) is born Susan Nancy Thomas in Pasadena, California.
1958 Brooks Robinson hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays
1958 Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
1960 Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
1962 French Championships Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 9-7, 6-2; 2nd leg of Laver's 1st Grand Slam. French Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Margaret Smith beats doubles partner Lesley Turner 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.
1962 Ray Charles' "I Can't Stop Loving You" hits #1 for the first of five weeks.
1964 Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Massachusetts
1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges River, India)
1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
1967 Race riots in Roxbury suburb of Boston
1968 Canadians must get government permission to export silver
1972 Dion & The Belmonts reunited for one show at Madison Square Garden.
1973 The Wings album Red Rose Speedway hits the top of the albums chart in the US and "My Love" starts a four-week run as the #1 single on the Hot 100.
1973 French Open Women's Tennis: Margaret Court of Australia beats American teenager Chris Evert 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 for her 5th and last French singles crown
1975 James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
1975 VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA
1977 New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
1979 Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" goes to #1 in the US, where it stays for three weeks.
1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198
1979 Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley signs first homosexual rights bill
1983 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati
1985 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Nancy Lopez wins by 8 shots from fellow American Alice Miller
1985 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues and Big River win
1985 RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
1986 NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
1987 Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr #1
1987 Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney, is released. It contains four #1 hits, including the enduring "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
1988 61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal
1988 Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile
1989 "Dead Poets Society" film starring Robin Williams premieres
1989 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
1991 45th Tony Awards: "Lost in Yonkers" & "Will Rogers Follies" win
1991 Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1"
1991 Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
1994 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
1994 Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler
1996 50th Tony Awards: "Master Class" & "Rent" win
1996 US Open Women's Golf, Pine Needles GC: Annika Sörenstam retains her title by 6 shots from Kris Tschetter
1997 Albert Belle's Chicago White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends
1997 Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168
1998 Royal Caribbean Cruises agreed to pay $9 million to settle charges of dumping waste at sea.
1998 Voters in California passed Proposition 227. The act abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all children be taught in English.
2002 56th Tony Awards: "Thoroughly Modern Millie", "The Goat", or Who is Sylvia?" win
2004 Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
2008 Bo Diddley dies of heart failure at age 79.
2015 US Congress passes new legislation to reform National Security Agency procedures, restricting gathering of phone records
2015 100 volunters in Bhutan set a world record for tree planting - 49,672 in 1 hour
2017 "Wonder Woman" directed by Patty Jenkins released, earns over $100 million in North American in its opening weekend - domestic record for a female director
2019 US Open Women's Golf, CC of Charleston: Lee Jeong-eun of South Korea wins her first major title; beats runners-up Lexi Thompson, Agel Yin and Ryu So-yeon by 2 strokes
SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:
Lou Gehrig, American Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman (6 x World Series, 2 x AL MVP), dies of motor neurone disease at 37
R Norris Williams, American tennis player, survivor RMS Titanic sinking (US Nat Championship 1914 &1916), dies of emphysema at 77
Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of eponymous race team, dies in a car crash at 32
Rex Harrison, English actor (My Fair Lady), dies of cancer at 82
Johnny Mize, American Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman (10-time MLB All Star), dies of cardiac arrest at 80
Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (7 Grand Slam singles titles, US Open 1932-35), dies of heart failure at 88
Sylvester Ritter (Junkyard Dog), American professional wrestler, dies at 45
Imogene Coca, American comedienne (Your Show of Shows, Grindl), dies at 92\
Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler
Bo Diddley, American musician
Richard Dawson, British-American actor, comedian, and game show host (Hogan's Heroes, Family Feud), dies from esophageal cancer at 79
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:
Martha Washington, 1st US First Lady (1789-97), born in Kent County, Virginia
Johnny Weissmuller, American actor (Tarzan), swimmer (5 Olympic gold 1924, 28), born in Freidorf, Romania
Charlie Sifford, American golfer (first African-American to join PGA Tour, 2 titles), born in Charlotte North Carolina
Sally Kellerman, actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School), born in Long Beach, California
Jimmy Jones, American singer-songwriter (Handy Man), born in Birmingham, Alabama
Gene Michael, American baseball shortstop, and general manger (NY Yankees), born in Kent, Ohio
Jim Maloney, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1965; pitched 2 x no-hitters 1965, 1 in 1969; Cincinnati Reds), born in Fresno, California
1941 Charlie Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones), born in London, England
Stacy Keach, actor (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer), born in Savannah, Georgia
Garo Yepremian, American NFL place kicker (Miami Dolphins), born in Larnaca, Cyprus
Marvin Hamlisch, American composer/pianist (Sting, Chorus Line), born in NYC, New York
Jerry Mathers, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Beaver-Leave It To Beaver)
Steve Brookins, rocker (.38 Special)
Gilbert Baker, American gay activist, designed the rainbow flag, born in Canute, Kansas
Dave Flett, Scottish rock guitarist (Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Thin Lizzy), born in Aberdeen, Scotland
Craig Stadler, American golfer (US Masters 1982), born in San Diego, California
Michael Steele, rocker (Bangles-Eternal Flame, Walk Like an Egyptian)
Lex Lugar, [Larry Pfohl], wrestler (WWF/WCW/NWA), born in Atlanta, Georgia
....TO BE CONTINUED....see follow-up response......
