Lombardi is often quoted as saying “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing”, but that is in error. He actually said “Winning isn’t everything. Wanting to win is.”
His final coaching job was with the 1969 Washington Redskins, after a restless year as the Packers’ GM instead of head coach, leading the team to its first winning record in 14 years.
There are several similarities between the Green Bay Packers and the Saskatchewan Roughriders:
• both have the smallest market base in their respective leagues;
• both are community owned teams;
• both have some of the most loyal fan bases in their leagues:
• both play in … challenging weather conditions, with open fields.
And of course, both wear green, although the Riders’ Kelly green is unique in North American professional sports teams.
The Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States. In 1919, co-founder and original coach Curly Lambeau, after whom their frozen-tundra stadium is named, solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. He was given $500 for uniforms and equipment, on the condition that the team be named for its sponsor.
Only two NFL teams currently in the league, the Decatur Staleys (now the Chicago Bears) and the Chicago Cardinals (now the Arizona Cardinals), are founding members. The Green Bay Packers, founded 1919 and joined the NFL in 1921, is the oldest NFL franchise in continuous operation with the same name in the same location.
The CFL was officially founded on January 19, 1958, making it the second oldest professional gridiron football league in North America still in operation. Nine franchises remained stable from 1958 to 1981: the BC Lions, Calgary Stampeders, Edmonton Eskimos, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Alouettes.
However, most CFL teams long predate the 1958 formation of the league, and many of them have been playing each other since the 1920s.
The Rough Riders is the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish–American War and the only one of the three to see action. The regiment was also called “Wood’s Weary Walkers” in honor of its first commander, Colonel Leonard Wood. This nickname served to acknowledge that despite being a cavalry unit they ended up fighting on foot as infantry.
When Colonel Wood became commander of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, the Rough Riders then became “Roosevelt’s Rough Riders,” for their new commander, Theodore Roosevelt. The term was familiar in 1898, from Buffalo Bill who called his famous western show “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.” The Rough Riders were mostly made of college athletes, cowboys, ranchers, miners, and other outdoorsmen.
Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri is sometimes nicknamed “Fort Lost in the Woods”.
The Rough Riders’ flag was a official Army-issue yellow cavalry flag bearing the arms of the United States, and you may buy a replica today, if you wish: Rough Riders Flag. Members of the Rough Riders turned out for every subsequent political campaign by their former colonel, Theodore Roosevelt (who succeeded Leonard Wood).
A photo of a young Theodore Roosevelt surfaced in the 1950s. It showed young Teddy watching the funeral procession of Abraham Lincoln from the window of his grandfather’s house.
Victoria Thompson’s Gaslight Mysteries are set in New York City in the early 1900’s. Police Commission Theodore Roosevelt makes cameos in several of the books, trying to curry favor with the Republican party with hopes of being William McKinley’s Vice-Presidential running mate in the 1920 election.
We all know how that turned out.
Gaslight is the name of two movies (a UK film from 1940, and a US film from 1944) about a man deliberately trying to make his wife think she’s losing her mind. It has coined the word “Gaslighting,” which is to do the same thing in real life.
The 1944 film of Gaslight marked the film debut of 18 year old Angela Landsbury as Nancy Oliver, the family’s maid.
Cousin Oliver stayed with the Brady family during the last six episodes of the fifth and final season (1973-74) of “The Brady Bunch”, marking the official end of the show’s entertainment value. Similarly, in “The Partridge Family”, a precocious four-year-old neighbor named Ricky was added for its final season (the same year as the final season of “The Brady Bunch”). The addition of younger children to sitcoms that seem to have run their course, in an attempt to improve declining ratings, became a television trend popularly known as “Cousin Oliver Syndrome”.
Operating just north of Bloomington, Indiana, Oliver Winery is the largest and oldest winery in that state.
Alec Guinness’s makeup and performance in David Lean’s 1948 film version of Oliver Twist was considered so antisemitic by early audiences that even in the pre-Political Correctness crazed post-war era 7 minutes of the performance was cut for re-release. Since then, some performances- including Ron Moody’s very softened performance in the musical Oliver!- don’t mention Fagin’s Judaism at all, and those that do (such as Tim Spall’s performance) show him as publicly persecuted for it.
Alec Guinness starred in Star Wars (1977), but he would later dismiss his stint as Obi Wan as his most miserable movie experience. He claimed that he dumped all the resulting fan-mail into a bin.
The Obi, (from the Japanese, meaning literally “sash”) is a sash for traditional Japanese dress worn for Japanese martial arts, and part of kimono outfits.
The obi for men’s kimono is rather narrow, 10 centimetres (3.9 in) wide at most, but a woman’s formal obi can be 30 centimetres (12 in) wide and more than 4 metres (13 ft) long. Nowadays, a woman’s wide and decorative obi does not keep the kimono closed; this is done by different undersashes and ribbons worn underneath the obi. The obi itself often requires the use of stiffeners and ribbons for definition of shape and decoration.
The word “kimono” means a “thing to wear”.
There is another word for kimono: gofuku.
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McKinley ran in 1896 and won without T.R. on the ticket; they ran together in the 1900 election and also won. McKinley was assassinated the following year.
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The word “honcho” means “squad leader” in Japanese. It entered American parlance during World War II.
The Jeep Honcho was a trim package of the Jeep Pickup truck offered from 1976-1983. The Jeep pickup was a civilian version of the military CUCV (“kuck vee” - Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle).
52 Pickup was crime movie based upon an Elmore Leonard novel of the same name.
