That was how it was ruled on the field. Raiders fans – and Jack Tatum, the notorious defensive back who was ruled to have been the one who touched it – have always maintained that the ruling was incorrect. (And, honestly, IMO, it’s really hard to definitively tell, from the film of the play, which one of the two players touched it, and there was no “instant replay review” at that time.)
In play:
At the 2025 funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, Steven Ford – the youngest son of another former President, Gerald Ford – read a eulogy for Carter which had been written by his father prior to his death in 2006.
The word “funeral” is from the Latin word funus, meaning “dead body.” The word “coffin” is from the Old French word cofin, which means “little basket.”
The primary difference between a casket and a coffin is their shape and design: caskets are rectangular with four sides and hinged lids, while coffins are six-sided, tapering at the head and feet. Caskets generally feature higher-quality materials and lining.
The American flag for a casket is 9½’ x 5’ in size. It is folded into a triangular shape to resemble the tricorn (three-cornered) hat worn by Continental soldiers during the Revolutionary War. This ceremonial fold involves 13 precise folds, symbolizing the original 13 colonies. When completed, the union of the American flag (union, or canton, the blue background and white stars), should be the only fabric facing outward.
I claim mea culpa on mistaking the Steelers’ first Super Bowl win. How could I, a self-respecting fan of the gridiron, forget the only undefeated season in the entire history of the NFL? I will make amends by sequestering myself in a windowless room and read up on my pigskin history. (Okay, so its not as bad as it sounds for me.)
While you’re brushing up on your football history, you may run across the fact that the playoff game against the Raiders in 1972 was the first playoff game for the Steelers since 1947, when they lost the divisional championship to the Eagles. The 1972 game was just the second in franchise history. Hard to believe.
And to tie it together with the last post: Alfonso “Al ‘Dada’” Garza, a devoted Pittsburgh Steelers fan from Texas, was buried in a custom-designed black and gold casket featuring the team logo, according to a 2018 CBS Pittsburgh report. The avid memorabilia collector’s casket was specifically made to honor his love for the team.
This may have been posted earlier in this thread, but I’m going with it anyway:
In 1943, both of the NFL franchises from Pennsylvania, the Eagles and the Steelers, had lost many of their roster players to World War II. So for that season, the two teams combined their players to field a team. Officially known in NFL history as the ‘Phil-Pitt Combine’, the team was unofficially referred to as the ‘Steagles’. The team, co-coached by the two head coaches, Philadelphia’s Greasy Neale and Pittsburgh’s Walt Kiesling, finished 5-4-1 and did not make the playoffs.
Alfred “Greasy” Neale was a professional athlete, who transitioned into a successful coaching career.
Neale played 8 seasons (1916-1924) in Major League Baseball as an outfielder, primarily for the Cincinnati Reds, with whom he won a World Series in 1919 – the infamous “Black Sox” series. He also played on various professional football teams in the 1910s (prior to the founding of the NFL), at the same time that he was a starter for the Reds.
As his playing days wound down, Neale became a coach in football, baseball, and basketball for several different colleges, then coached the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles for ten seasons, including championships in 1948 and 1949. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame.
The Broadway musical “Grease”’started out as a much-raunchier show in Chicago before it got cleaned up a bit and shown on The Great White Way. Further, many of the famous songs from the film adaptation, including the opener “Grease,” Sandy’s lament “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” and the cheerful closer, “You’re the One that I Want,” were specific to the movie and not part of the stage show.
The two title characters have a no-holds-barred fight inside a Honda Odyssey minivan to the tune of “You’re the One that I Want” from Grease in the 2024 superhero comedy Deadpool & Wolverine.
“Cog” is a TV advertisement by Honda in 2003 to promote the seventh-generation line of cars. It follows the convention of a Rube Goldberg machine, utilizing a chain of colliding parts taken from a disassembled Accord.
The high cost of 120-second slots in televised commercial breaks meant that the full version of “Cog” was broadcast only a handful of times, and only in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Sweden. Despite its limited run, it is regarded as one of the most groundbreaking and influential commercials of the 2000s, and received more awards from the television and advertising industries than any commercial in history.
From Wiki: “In 2008, Doritos debuted a mystery flavor known as ‘Quest,’ featuring a campaign of online puzzles and prizes to identify the Quest flavor. The flavor was later identified as Mountain Dew.”
Amir Thompson (a.k.a. Questlove or ?uestlove) is an American musician, and co-leader of the hip-hop band The Roots. Questlove and The Roots have served as comedian/talk show host Jimmy Fallon’s house band since 2009, first on Late Night, then on The Tonight Show.
In the 1977 television miniseries Roots, OJ Simpson and Chuck Connors were part of the main cast and they also played professional sports. OJ Simpson played in the NFL and Chuck Connors played in both the NBA and in MLB.
seaQuest DSV, an underwater sf show, ran on NBC from 1993-1996. Roy Scheider appeared as captain of an advanced research submarine in the first two seasons, but chose not to return for the third, criticizing as “childish trash” the scripts he and the cast were being given by then.
Sealab 2020 is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on NBC from September 9 to December 2, 1972, on Saturday mornings. The series was created by Alex Toth, who also created such other Hanna-Barbera cartoons as Space Ghost and Birdman and the Galaxy Trio.
Cartoon Network would later produce spoofs of Alex Toth creations, namely Sealab 2021, Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law.
Hugh Downs was an American television presenter and host, whose career in television spanned the late 1940s through the late 1990s.
Among his most prominent roles were as Jack Paar’s announcer and sidekick on The Tonight Show, host of the game show Concentration, co-host of The Today Show, and longtime anchor of the news-magazine show 20/20.
John Langdon Down was the first physician to describe the condition now named for him, Down Syndrome. In 1846, as an 18 year old, he and his family met a young girl with the condition whose oddness and unhappiness struck him so strongly that he decided that he had to find a treatment.
Even though Down coined the unfortunate term “Mongoloid”, he was a strong advocate for humane treatment of the mentally disabled, transforming the 400-patient Earlswood “Asylum for Idiots” from a place of horror to a welcoming environment where patients were treated kindly and with dignity.
I am simultaneously repulsed and intrigued.