Good morning to all you good yet deplorable Dawgs…..I trust all Dawg fans are happy and healthy this Thursday morning…..Today May 28th is National Hamburger Day; in fact, the month of May has been National Hamburger Month…..If I was in Roswell, GA visiting my grandkids, I’d take them out to Lucky’ Burgers or Moxie Burgers….Of course they’d want chicken nuggets…..Today is also National Brisket Day…..That’s a couple of pretty good choices for you to chow down on today….Take advantage of the day……
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
Contrary to an age old sports myth, you don’t have to be a dumb jock to be a football star in college…..Many professionals today were outstanding football players in the past…….UGA football players are certainly no exception; in fact, no Southern school has produced more National Football Foundation Post-Graduate Scholars than UGA; no Southern School has produced more NCAA Post-Graduate Scholars in football than UGA; no Southern school has produced more NCAA Post-Graduate Scholars in all sports than UGA (and this one isn’t even close)…….The truth is UGA has a proud tradition of graduating some of today’s finest professionals……..Not enough Dawg fans remember that UGA football players set a record of six consecutive coveted National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete recipient awards (also known as the Earl Blaik Fellowship)…….That record is probably safe forevermore, as it’s unlikely to ever be broken………Today, we’ll remember the academic and athletic accomplishments of one of those six scholar-athletes…….The “six in a row” Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete winners from UGA were: Tommy Lawhorne, Bob Etter, Tom Nash, Tommy Lyons, Tim Callaway, and Billy Payne……We’ve already spotlighted Bob Etter, Tom Nash and Tommy Lawhorne; today is Billy Payne…..
Billy Payne, defensive end: from Dykes high school in Atlanta, Georgia where he earned All-State first team honors as a T-QB on offense and LBer on defense…was an All-City catcher in baseball and also played basketball…his dad (Porter Payne) was the team captain and an All-SEC player at UGA in 1949…Billy set a UGA pass receiving record on the Freshman team in 1965 and was the varsity’s leading receiver in 1966…he earned All-SEC honors in 1965, 1966, and 1968…he earned All-American honors in 1968…he earned Academic All-SEC honors in 1967 and 1968…he was the President of UGA’s Class of 1968..he was presented the UGA Outstanding Athlete Award in 1969…he received his undergraduate pre-law degree from UGA, then was awarded an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship and secured his post graduate juris doctor degree from UGA’s Joseph Henry Lumpkin School of Law…he holds honorary doctorates from UGA, Emory, South Carolina, Mercer, Oglethorpe, and Presbyterian…he has held or currently holds dozens of positions including Officer, Director, Chairmanship, and/or Board Member to numerous Corporations, Companies, Committees, etc (far too many to list here)…he was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame…he is a member of UGA’s prestigious Circle of Honor…he is a recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Award, the highest honor bestowed by the NCAA (and the only former football player from the South to receive this award)…he was the President and CEO of the Atlanta Olympic Committee from 1991 to 1997, and received the Olympic Order of Gold Award for his service…he most recently served as Chairman of the Augusta National, host of the largest sports event annually in Georgia–the Masters Golf Tournament…William Porter “Billy” Payne, a DGD!!!!
SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DON”T KNOW” AND SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DO KNOW”……(by year/comments)
1664 1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston)
1742 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
1818 Walk-in-the-Water, 1st steam vessel to sail Lake Erie launched
1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in US Civil War
1889 Édouard and André Michelin incorporate the Michelin tire company
1892 Sierra Club formed by John Muir and others in San Francisco, for conservation of nature
1901 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)
1910 T-Bone Walker, American blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), born in Linden, Texas (died in 1975)
1923 US Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1928 Dodge Brothers Inc and Chrysler Corporation merge
1929 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
1934 Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy
1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to vehicular traffic
1941 Country singer Ernest Tubb releases his signature song, “I’m Walking The Floor Over You”, and launches the honky tonk genre
1937 Volkswagen is founded
1944 Billy Vera, musician (& Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night) was born
1944 Gladys Knight, American singer known as the Empress of Soul (The Pips, Midnight Train to Georgia), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1944 Gary Stewart, American country singer (She's Actin' Single), born in Jenkins, Kentucky (died in 2003)
1945 John Fogerty, American rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival), born in Berkeley, California
1946 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1)
1948 Israeli Air Force is officially founded shortly after the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1951 After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st major league home run
1952 Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park's Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America.
1953 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody”
1955 Indianapolis 500: Bob Sweikert wins
1955 "Billboard" reported that "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" was the most popular song in the U.S.
1956 Dale Long becomes 1st to hit HRs in 8 straight games
1956 Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
1957 NL approves baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers' & NY Giants' move to the US west coast
1957 The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) is established. They become known for their Grammy Awards, which kicks off in 1958.
1959 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, become 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
1961 - Amnesty International, a human rights organization, was founded.
1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on the Orient Express (after 78 years)
1962 US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day
1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio
1964 The Palestine Liberation Organization was founded
1964 Marianne Faithfull records "As Tears Go By."
1964 Phil Vassar, American country music singer was born
1966 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass have four of the top 10 albums: What Now My Love, Whipped Cream and Other Delights, South of the Border, and Going Places. It's a record for most albums in the Top 10 at the same time.
1966 Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman" hits #1 in the US.
1967 The Association make their television debut, performing "Along Comes Mary" on the CBS variety show the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
1968 AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions
1968 NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise
1971 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram"
1972 White House "plumbers" first break in at the Democratic National Headquarters at Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C.
1973 Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn release "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man," which becomes their third #1 country hit as a duo.
1973 Indianapolis 500: Gordon Johncock wins in 2:05:25.320 (255.944 km/h)
1974 26th Emmy Awards: M*A*S*H, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore are the big winners
1975 The Doobie Brothers fifth album, Stampede, is certified Gold.
1976 29th Cannes Film Festival: "Taxi Driver" starting Robert de Nero and Jodie Foster directed by Martin Scorsese wins the Palme d'Or
1977 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky kills 168
1978 Indianapolis 500: Al Unser became 5th to win the race 3 times
1980 2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning
1980 Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5"
1982 Rocky III hits theaters. This one features a new theme song written around a key line of dialogue in the film: "Eye of the Tiger." Sylvester Stallone asked the upstart Chicago band Survivor to write and record the song when he couldn't get permission to use the Queen song "Another One Bites The Dust."
1983 Irene Cara's"Flashdance... What a Feeling" goes to #1 in America.
1984 George Soros founds the Soros Foundation Budapest to help countries free themselves from communism
1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
1987 60th US National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci
1987 Mathias Rust, 18 year old West German pilot, makes unauthorized landing near Red Square, Moscow in USSR
1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
1987 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta, GA
1989 Indianapolis 500: Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil first foreign-born winner since 1966; completes final lap under caution after crashing with Al Unser Jr
1990 "Dave Thomas Comedy Show" debuts on CBS-TV
1990 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s) (Channel Islands)
1992 65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum
1994 "Cafe American" last airs on NBC-TV
1994 Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054)
1995 Indianapolis 500: Jacques Villeneuve wins in 3:15:17.561 (247.221 km/h)
1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1997 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight
2000 Indianapolis 500: Juan Pablo Montoya wins in 2:58:59.431 (269.737 km/h)
2002 NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2003 Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct
2006 Indianapolis 500: Sam Hornish Jr wins in 3:10:58.7590 (252.804 km/h)
2006 Barry Bonds hits his 715th career home run, passing Babe Ruth on the MLB all-time list
2006 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Oak Tree GC: Jay Haas wins his first of 3 Champions Tour major titles with a birdie on the third playoff hole against Brad Bryant
2010 "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" single released by Alicia Keys (Billboard Song of the Year 2010)
2016 Harambe, a gorilla form Cincinnati Zoo, is shot after dragging a 3 year old boy who had slipped into it's enclosure
2017 Indianapolis 500: Takuma Sato wins in 3:13:03.3584
2017 Senior PGA Championship Men's Golf, Trump National GC: A week after winning The Tradition, Bernhard Langer of Germany triumphs by 1 stroke from Vijay Singh
2018 Coco-Cola launches its first alcoholic drink - Lemon-Do on island of Kyushu, Japan
2019 Johnson & Johnson go on trial in Oklahoma accused of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying risks of addiction helping create "opioid epidemic", first of 2,000 cases against US pharmaceutical firms
SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:
Noah Webster, American lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary)
1971 Audie Murphy, American soldier who was among the most decorated in WW II with 33 medals and actor (To Hell and Back, Whispering Smiths)
Julius Boros, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1968, US Open 1952, 63)
Gary Coleman, American actor (Diff'rent Strokes)
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:
P. G. T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (Hero of Sumter)
Jim Thorpe, American all-round athlete (2 gold Olympics 1912, College, Pro Football Halls of Fame)
Warren Giles, American baseball National League president
Ian Fleming, English author (James Bond novels)
T-Bone Walker, American blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done)
Papa John Creach, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, American blues violinist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane)
Jerry West, American Basketball Hall of Fame guard, executive (LA Lakers, 14-time NBA All Star)
Billy Vera, musician (& Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night)
Gladys Knight, American singer known as the Empress of Soul (The Pips, Midnight Train to Georgia)
Rudy Giuliani, American Mayor of New York City (Republican: 1994-2001) at the time of the September 11 attacks
Gary Stewart, American country singer (She's Actin' Single)
John Fogerty, American rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Sondra Locke, American actress and director (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
Kirk Gibson, Mich, outfield (Tigers, Dodgers, 1988 NL MVP)
Phil Vassar, American country music singer
Glen Rice, American basketball guard and forward (3-time NBA All Star; NBA C'ship 2000; Charlotte Hornets, NY Knicks)
Marco Rubio, American politician (Senate-R-Florida, 2011-)
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View, Fox News)
TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY:
There’s a few candidates mentioned today to choose from, but I’m going with this one:
1976 29th Cannes Film Festival: "Taxi Driver" starting Robert de Nero and Jodie Foster directed by Martin Scorsese wins the Palme d'Or
Two hints: It ain’t Jodie Foster…..It ain’t Martin Scorese……..
Yep, it’s Robert de Niro, a World-Class Movie Actor, and a World Classless @$$ when being interviewed……Harsh words for PDJT are nothing new from the actor: he’s been one of the more outspoken anti-Trump critics since the 2016 campaign began. Here are some of his sharpest rebukes:
“What he’s been saying is really totally crazy, ridiculous … he is totally nuts.”
“I don’t know, it’s crazy that people like Donald Trump. He shouldn’t even be where he is, so God help us.”
“He’s so blatantly stupid. He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. A con. A bullshit artist. A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
“I’d like to punch him in the face.”
In a speech at the Brown University commencement, “When you started school, the country was an inspiring, uplifting drama,” he said. “You are graduating into a tragic, dumbass comedy. My advice is to lock the [university’s] Van Wickle gates and stay here.”
De Niro earned a standing ovation at the Tony awards for cursing out the president. “I’m gonna say one thing. **** Trump,” he said. “It’s no longer down with Trump. It’s **** Trump,” he said as the crowd rose to their feet.
In an interview, De Niro said he was wrong to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, and that it was clear that he was a “real racist” and a “white supremacist”. He also compared him to some of history’s worst fascists.
“If he had his way, we’d wind up in a very bad state in this country. I mean, the way I understand it, they laughed at Hitler. They all look funny. Hitler looked funny, Mussolini looked funny and other dictators and despots look funny.”
He also compared him, unfavorably, to mob bosses, after Trump had recently called his own longtime lawyer Michael Cohen a “rat”. “I mean, a mob boss calls people ‘a rat’. That means you lied and somebody snitched on you, so you did commit the crime. So that’s interesting, and he makes mobsters look bad because there are mobsters who will shake your hand and keep their word. He can’t even do that.” “Trump’s a “wannabe gangster” and “total loser.”
He reiterated that Trump had less honor than a common criminal. “Even gangsters have morals and they have ethics. They have a code, and you know when you give somebody your word, it’s your word, because it’s all you have is your word. This guy, he doesn’t even know what that means.”
De Niro was characteristically blunt in speaking about Trump, saying that he “should not be president, period”. “We are in a moment in our lives, in this country, where this guy is like a gangster,” he said. “We say over and over again: ‘This is terrible, we’re in a terrible situation, we’re in a terrible situation,’ and this guy just keeps going on and on and on without being stopped. “Trump is a “gangster president”.
“Oh, I can’t wait to see him in jail. I don’t want him to die, I want him to go to jail.”
I rest my case……Robert de Nero has gone off the deep end……He’s talking about Barack Obama and calling him Donald Trump……What a sick ending to a one time brilliant acting career…..I guess what makes Robert de Nero an expert on politics is the same juice that made Leonardo DiCaprio an expert environmentalist…..Both suck!!
Step up on the podium De Nero, put on that crown, for you are our @$$Hole of the Day, a total classless AOTD….and de Nero, you can KMA too……
As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless........
