Blueberry Hill was Richie Cunningham’s favorite song on the TV show Happy Days. Richie Cunningham was played by Ron Howard who today is 68 years old.
Ron Howard appeared in several television series before landing the part of “Opie” on The Andy Griffith Show. Among them were The Twilight Zone, Dennis the Menace, and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
Ron Howard has cast his younger brother Clint in most of his movies, including Grand Theft Auto, Cocoon, Gung Ho, Backdraft, Parenthood, Far and Away, EdTV, The Missing, Frost/Nixon and Apollo 13, among others.
Like his brother Ron, Clint Howard started out as a child actor in the 1960s. He starred in the family-oriented TV series Gentle Ben, and had guest appearances on other TV series, including Star Trek, The Fugitive, Night Gallery, and The Andy Griffith Show (which starred Ron).
Rance Howard was the father of Ron Howard. He has appeared in fifteen films directed by son Ron: Grand Theft Auto (1977), Splash (1984), Cocoon (1985), Gung Ho (1986), Parenthood (1989), Far and Away (1992), The Paper (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), A Beautiful Mind (2001), The Missing (2003), Cinderella Man (2005), Frost/Nixon (2008), Angels & Demons (2009) and The Dilemma (2011).
Bryce Dallas Howard is the eldest child of Ron Howard, and began her film career appearing in small roles in her father’s movies. Her big break came when M Night Shyamalan saw her performing Shakespeare and cast her in The Village as the blind daughter of the Chief Elder (William Hurt), along with Joaquin Phoenix and Adrian Brody.
Super Bowl LVII will be played on Sunday in State Farm Stadium, which is located in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. This will be the fourth Super Bowl played in the Phoenix metro area; the others were played in the years 1996, 2008, and 2015. Miami has hosted the Super Bowl 11 times, with New Orleans right behind at hosting 10 Super Bowl games. Los Angeles is next with 8 games, followed by Tampa Bay with 5, and then Phoenix with 4. 10 other cities have also played host to at least one Super Bowl game.
The most watched Super Bowl off all time was Super Bowl XLIX (2015), which brought in 114.4 million viewers, when the New England Patriots won against the Seattle Seahawks 28 to 24.
The Seattle Seahawks’ logo is the head of an osprey (a.k.a. seahawk), in the style of the art of the indigenous Kwakwakaʼwakw people of the Pacific Northwest.
The Philadelphia Eagles feature a unique team logo: it’s the only monochromatic logo in the league, as well as the only to face to the left.
Cool trivia. I just learned about the Kwakwakaʼwakw part of it. Once you said that I was like, Of course! I see it!
The Philadelphia Eagles Santa Claus incident, also referred to as The Santa Claus Game, was a game in the 1968 season between the visiting Minnesota Vikings and the Philadelphia Eagles at Franklin Field.
The incident occurred in week 14, on December 15, 1968, in the final week of the NFL season, with the struggling Eagles sitting at 2–11 on the season. It was a cold, windy winter day and when people arrived to their seats they found half a foot of snow on them.
Tied 7–7 at halftime, the team brought out Santa Claus as part of the halftime Christmas parade. Eagles fans, so upset by the poor season, booed Santa Claus and pelted him with snowballs.
On Dec 31, 1967, the Dallas Cowboys met the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay, WI, in what is currently the coldest game ever played. Known as “The Ice Bowl”, the temperature hit -13 degrees Fahrenheit, with a wind chill of -48. With 50,000 fans in the stands, and playing on a frozen surface, the Packers beat the Cowboys 21-17 for their third consecutive championship.
I count four colors, including white.
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Then-Sen. John F. Kennedy visited Dallas in September 1960 with his running mate, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson. They spoke to supporters and visited a defense plant. Just over three years later, as President, JFK visited the city for the last time.
Famous NFL games in history include those known by their nicknames. These are some of them. Although, granted, some of these nicknames apply to a key play in that given game, those nicknames are frequently applied to the entire game.
The Greatest Game Ever Played — the 1958 NFL Championship game, Baltimore Colts 23-17 New York Giants.
The Guarantee — Super Bowl III, Joe Namath guarantee the victory; in a massive upset his New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16-7.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_III#Namath’s_guarantee
The Catch — by Dwight Clark in the 1981 NFC Championship game, the San Francisco 49ers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 28-27 to advance to their first Super Bowl, XVI.
The Immaculate Reception — in a 1972 AFC divisional playoff game between the Oakland Raiders and the Pittsburgh Steelers, at Pittsburgh. The Steelers won it on the last play in the game, Steelers running back Franco Harris caught a deflected pass only a split second before the football fell onto the ground, and he then proceeded to run it into the end zone for the game-winning touchdown. The Steelers won it, 13-7.
The Epic in Miami — a 1982 divisional playoff game went to sudden death overtime. The San Diego Chargers defeated the Miami Dolphins, 41-38 (OT).
4th-and-26 — a 2003 NFC Divisional playoff game between the Green Bay Packers at Philadelphia Eagles, the play occurred during the fourth quarter of a divisional playoff game between these two teams. With 1:12 left in the game and the Eagles trailing, they converted on a 4th-and-26 to keep the drive alive where their kicker hit a game-tying field goal to send the game into overtime. The Eagles won it in OT, 20-17.
The Music City Miracle — in a 2000 Wild Card playoffs game between the Tennessee Titans and the visiting Buffalo Bills. With 16 seconds remaining in the game, the Buffalo Bills went ahead on a touchdown, 16-15. The ending kickoff return was dubbed The Music City Miracle.
Miracle at the Meadowlands — in a 1978 regular season game, with the New York Giants leading at the end of regulation, 17-12, the Giants, with possession of the ball, only needed to run out the clock. Giants quarterback Joe Pisarcik fumbled a handoff to Larry Csonka and the Eagles’ Herman Edwards picked up the ball and scored the winning touchdown. Subsequent NFL rule changes incorporated a new play, the quarterback kneel (or, “Victory Formation”) as a direct result of this game.
This may have been the best NFL game I have ever watched. I had no love for either team, but the level of play and competition throughout the game was great theater.
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Giants Stadium was the name of the first football stadium constructed in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. It was completed in time for week 5 of the 1976 season. The Giants hosted the Cowboys in the first game of the new stadium, with Dallas notching a 24-14 victory.
The Jets joined the Giants as tenants, hosting their first game on September 6, 1984. In that game, the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Jets 23-17.
The last NFL game in the stadium occurred on January 3, 2010, with the Jets defeating the Bengals 37-0.
The body of Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975, has never been found. Among the rumored locations in which his remains were buried or disposed include under Giants Stadium in New Jersey (which was under construction when he disappeared), under a residential driveway in suburban Detroit, in a landfill in New Jersey, and somewhere underwater.
The Teamsters’ logo features a wheel below two horse heads looking in opposite directions. It is based on the original concept of team drivers (or "teamsters’), which drove wagons pulled by horses, prior to the introduction of motorized carriages. The American Federation of Laborers (AFL) had been organizing local team drivers since 1887, and in 1889 the AFL established the Team Drivers International Union (TDIU). A Chicago local broke to form the Teamsters National Union in 1901, and in 1903 the TDUI merged with them to become the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Cool trivia. Here’s a picture of it.
The Simpsons got in a dig at the Teamsters in one episode where a TV show is being filmed in the family’s house. Under union rules, a nap room has to be set aside for the Teamsters taking part in the shoot. When Bart takes a peek inside, a gruff Brookynese voice from within declares, “We’re restin’!”