The Super Bowl was created as part of the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1966. It was played for the first time on January 15, 1967, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum; in that game, the NFL champion Green Bay Packers defeated the AFL champion Kansas City Chiefs.
It was originally named “The NFL-AFL World Championship Game,” but Lamar Hunt (owner of the Chiefs, and one of the founders of the AFL) began to refer to it as the “Super Bowl” during merger negotiations in 1966. Hunt noted that he thought of the name while watching his children play with a “Super Ball” toy; he somewhat jokingly suggested the Super Bowl name to Commissioner Pete Rozelle, and also mentioned the name to the press, which began to use it. The game was not officially called the Super Bowl until Super Bowl III, in 1969.
Only two teams in the NFL have opposite-side helmet logos that are not either identical or mirror-image reversals. They are the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Raven
The Baltimore Ravens came into existence when owner Art Modell moved the Cleveland Browns franchise to Baltimore. The name ‘Ravens’ was selected by the fans via various polls, over other suggestions such as ‘Americans’, ‘Marauders’, and ‘Mustangs’.
Once the colors and logo were chosen, the new uniforms were first modeled by wide receiver Michael Jackson, defensive end Rob Burnett, and quarterback Vinny Testaverde.
The Ferrari Testarossa was a 12-cylinder, mid-engined sports car, produced by Ferrari from 1984 until 1996.
Ferrari named the car in tribute to the 250 Testa Rossa (literally, “Red Head” in Italian) race car which the company had introduced in 1957; like the 1980s Testarossa, the cam covers on the orignal Testa Rossa were painted red, which was the source of its name.
(Vinny Testaverde’s surname, thus, translates from Italian as “green head.” )
Ronald Reagan was easily reelected President of the United States in 1984. Although he rose to political prominence in California, including serving as governor of the state, he was born and raised in Dixon, Ill.
Zippy the Pinhead (Ital. testa spillo) is a comic strip featuring a microcephalic clown. Most newapapers are afraid tu run it, fearing that something Zippy says will offend their readers’
The Ferrari Testarossa — a mid-engined, 12-cylinder car? Wow!
I’ve heard it said that every man should drive a 12 cylinder car at least once in his life. And with the engine being right behind your ear, I can imagine that engine sings sweetly!
My first car was a very humble Italian mid-engined inline-4 engine. Wide bore, short stroke, and I loved having it singing right behind me! The car was a humble 1979 Fiat X1/9. I loved that car!
Despite the near-disappearance of print newspapers and industry’s effort to go paperless, paper consumption has actually increased in the past 50 years. It is estimated that 90% of all photocopies printed are never looked at by anyone. Increasingly, photocopies and their originals are made only because they are mandated byy government regulations.
Chester Carlson was the inventor of photocopying. In 1936, he began to study law at night at New York Law School, receiving his LL.B. degree in 1939. He studied at the New York Public Library, copying longhand from law books there because he could not afford to buy them. He used his kitchen for his “electrophotography” experiments, and, in 1938, he applied for a patent for the process. He made the first photocopy using a zinc plate covered with sulfur. The words “10-22-38 Astoria” were written on a microscope slide, which was placed on top of more sulfur and under a bright light. After the slide was removed, a mirror image of the words remained.
Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st POTUS, succeeding James Garfield after Garfield was shot by an assassin. Arthur was responsible for the rebirth of the U.S. Navy, among other things. He made a half-hearted run for another term in 1884, but failed to get the nomination. He died a year later.
Actor Lorenzo Music was the original voice of the cartoon cat Garfield, in various animated TV specials and series from 1982 through 1994. Music also replaced Bill Murray as the voice of Dr. Peter Venkman when the movie Ghostbusters was adapted into a television cartoon series (The Real Ghostbusters).
Actor Bill Murray was the original Dr. Peter Venkman in the film version of Ghostbusters. Murray also provided the voice of Garfield the cat (a character originally voiced by Lorenzo Music) in theatrical films in 2004 and 2006.
Nebraska’s Big Rodeo will celebrate its 99th anniversary this year in Burwell, which is located in the least populous of the six counties named after President Garfield. The county has only 2,000 inhabitants.
The remains of President James A. Garfield and his wife Lucretia are entombed at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. The memorial is currently undergoing a multimillion-dollar cleaning and repair project.
Aside from being President, Garfield was a Major General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh, and Chickamauga.
U.S. Grant was the only person promoted from major general to lieutenant general during the Civil War, when, in March 1864, President Lincoln raised him to field command of all U.S. Army forces in the field. Grant was the first officer to hold the rank of lieutenant general since George Washington. Several other generals had failed, over the previous three years, to decisively defeat the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia led by Gen. Robert E. Lee; Grant needed just over a year to do it.
For his role as Lou Grant, Ed Asner is one of only two actors to win an Emmy Award for a sitcom and a drama for the same role, with the second being Uzo Aduba for her portrayal of Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren in Orange Is the New Black.
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