Franz Beckenbauer kicks no more:
That is 22 points for me.
I played sweeper on my Varsity High School team ('82 Eastern Maine State Champs) - as the article say, he’s credited with creating the position - so I was a big Beckenbauer fan.
nm - already posted
As a kid I saw him live play with the Cosmos. He was over the hill then like a lot of the other players on the team.
Two players get 22 points for Beckenbauer, Pardel-Lux and GIGObuster.
I’ve only heard of Beckenbauer because he’s referenced in this sketch (I’m assuming there weren’t two Beckenbauers.
Beckenbauer wasn’t just referenced in that sketch. He’s actually starring as himself in it.
That’s hilarious. I never knew that.
Niklaus Wirth, computing pioneer who created many programming languages–most famously Pascal–as well as coming up with a version of the mouse that would be used as the basis for the early mass-produced ones by Logitech, died on New Year’s at 89.
Also…
Close to my guesses, but not quite on the mark:
We are so used to lies from the Trump side of things, I actually doubted her mother was the reason she has been absent from recent photos and appearances with Trump. It looks like it was true and despite everything, I do feel sympathy for Melania and the rest of the family.
James Kottak, former Scorpions drummer from 1996 till 2016, dead at 61:
The Scorpions are known in the US too, right?
Yeah, they’ve had a few hits stateside.
Author Terry Bisson
Brian
Very well known. Maybe not to youngsters but to those of us who grew up in the 80s they were.
Kottak was also a founding member of Kingdom Come who had a couple of hits.
So 80s; look at the big hair.
For his heirs’ sake I hope thy will be done.
mmm
Not too familiar with the music, but the album cover with the boob and the bubblegum kind of made an impression on teenage me.