The first state to have an area noted as a ‘panhandle’ was Virginia in its original boundaries. And when Virginia lost its panhandle, another state would end up with two panhandles! (But that’s another story.)
(Side note: I found references to a ‘Panhandle District’ in Crawford County, Georgia in the 1840s, but couldn’t make any sense of either the exact location or a reason for the name.)
Does that predate the Connecticut panhandle created in 1683? Or was the Virginia one just the first to be called a panhandle?
First one to use the name ‘panhandle.’
Rereading my link, I note that the Connecticut Panhandle was originally called the “Oblong”.
I wonder if his father’s career inspired the son’s interest in aviation. They were reportedly not close otherwise.
Henry Sr.'s brother, Dave, lives in the same town as me. He is a retired schoolteacher.
I may never get any closer to fame.
The Oblong is part of New York…a very long and very narrow piece of land stretching from what you’re calling the Connecticut panhandle up to the Massachusetts border. I believe both the oblong and the “panhandle” were part of a boundary dispute settlement back in the day. But they’re two different things.
Yesterday I learned that the crime of “burglary” need not involve stealing or intending to steal anything from a premises. It’s simply entering a building unlawfully with the intent to commit a felony.
It may not even require intent to commit a felony. It may just require an intent to commit any crime.
In Florida, you can commit burglary of a conveyance; that means a car. So if you reach into somebody’s car to slap them, you have “unlawfully entered” the car to commit a misdemeanor battery.
That’s what we call a “burg./batt.”
It’s a PBL felony.
PBL means “punishable by [up to] life [in prison]”
So today I learned that Cass “Mama Cass” Elliot and Keith Moon both died in the same bedroom. They died 4 years apart.
They both died at 32 years old.
The apartment was owned by Harry Nilsson.
I’m guessing that this made him leery of loaning it out again.
He sold the apartment to Pete Townshend after Moon’s death.
In his first NFL game, Walter Payton ran for zero yards on eight attempts.
In Dan Marino’s career, he passed for over 60K yards. . . and rushed for 87. But if you didn’t count the negative yardage from sacks, he actually had a much more respectable career 186 yards!
Rachel Robinson - Jackie’s widow - is still alive. She turned 104 in July.
(for those of you across the pond - Jackie Robinson was the first black major-league baseball player, starting to play in the late 1940’s)
You sure about this? Considering that a sack by definition results in negative yardage, I would think that he lost far more than 99 yards from his career sacks.
ETA- looks like he was sacked 270 times in his career, it has to be a mistake. Unless I’m missing something vital, which is definitely possible
Sacks do not count as negative rushing yards for a quarterback. The yards lost on a sack are subtracted from the team’s passing yards.
For instance, in the Eagles/Titans game on Sunday, Jalen Hurts was 26-37 for 264 yards. He was sacked 3 times for a total loss of 12 yards. Hurts had 264 yards passing, but the team total passing yards was 252. Hurts also had 5 rushes for 16 yards. Here is the box score from ESPN.
Google tells me that before 1947, sacks counted as negative rushing yards by a quarterback, but Marino obviously played after that scoring change.
A kneel down is counted as negative rushing yards, as is, for example, falling on the ball after a muffed or bad snap. Likewise, if a handoff is missed, and the QB is forced to keep the ball and loses yards, that would be negative rushing yards.
Statmuse agrees with you, showing 270 total sacks for Marin’s career.
OK. Somehow he has negative rushing yardage that counts against his total postitive yardage, however it’s computed.
Can you provide a link to this stat?
Each and every NFL running back has had a negative yard rushing attempt at some point in his career. Barry Sanders lost a total of 1,114 yards on rushing attempts throughout his career, which is the most negative yardage recorded in NFL history. (Link) Thus, his total rushing yards of 15,629 would be higher if the negative rushing attempts weren’t counted. But that’s now how stats are calculated.
I’ll also allow that my math and interpretation might be a little off, a handicap of having attended public schools in the Deep South.