The Monon Bell (pronounced MOE-non) is the trophy awarded to the victor of the annual college football matchup between the Wabash College Little Giants (in Crawfordsville, Indiana) and the DePauw University Tigers (in Greencastle, Indiana) in the United States. The Bell is a 300-pound locomotive bell from the Monon Railroad.
The winners of the annual game traditionally taunt the losers that they have won the “No Bell Prize”.
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The Minneapolis Miracle (also known as the Minnesota Miracle) was the final play of a National Football Conference (NFC) divisional playoff game between the Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints on January 14, 2018. The game was played as part of the National Football League (NFL)'s 2017–18 playoffs. The Vikings defeated the Saints 29–24 on a last-second 61-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Case Keenum to wide receiver Stefon Diggs. It was the first playoff game in NFL history to end on a game-winning touchdown as time expired at the end of regulation.
(Who watched this game? I did and it was WILD!!! Crazy back-and-forth scoring in the final 4 minutes, culminating in the Minneapolis Miracle!)
Missed the edit window to add the YouTube clip, and to elaborate on this fantastic NFL finish…
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The Minneapolis Miracle (also known as the Minnesota Miracle) was the final play of a National Football Conference (NFC) divisional playoff game between the Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints on January 14, 2018. The game was played as part of the National Football League (NFL)'s 2017–18 playoffs. The Vikings defeated the Saints 29–24 on a last-second 61-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Case Keenum to wide receiver Stefon Diggs. It was the first playoff game in NFL history to end on a game-winning touchdown as time expired at the end of regulation.
(Who watched this game? I did and it was WILD!!! Crazy back-and-forth scoring in the final 4 minutes, culminating in the Minneapolis Miracle!)
ETA: YouTube — Minneapolis Miracle: Vikings win on Diggs' incredible 61 yard walk off TD - YouTube
It really was a desperation situation for the Vikings. All hope was, essentially, lost. Saints fans were celebrating their victory after (Saints QB) Drew Brees drove them down the field for the go-ahead (and seemingly winning) field goal to take a 24-22 lead with only 25 seconds left in the game.
Then the “journeyman” Vikings QB Case Keenum was able to take the Vikings to their own 39 yard line in 15 seconds, and then with 10 seconds left in the game, this Minneapolis Miracle happened. WILD!!!
The Music City Miracle is a name given to an American football play that took place on January 8, 2000 during the National Football League (NFL)'s 1999–2000 playoffs. It occurred at the end of the Wild-Card playoff game between the Tennessee Titans and Buffalo Bills at Adelphia Coliseum, now known as Nissan Stadium, in Nashville, Tennessee. After the Bills had taken a 16–15 lead on a field goal with 16 seconds remaining in the game, Titans tight end Frank Wycheck threw a lateral pass across the field to Kevin Dyson on the ensuing kickoff return, and Dyson then ran 75 yards to score the winning touchdown and earn a 22–16 victory.
Miracle Max was a miracle worker, or a medicine man who was played by Billy Crystal in the movie “The Princess Bride.” His lifelong grudge against Prince Humperdink prompted Max to help Inigo Montoya and Fezzik revive the “Man in Black,” or Westley, for very little monetary gain.
The Immaculate Reception is one of the most famous plays in the history of American football. It occurred in the AFC divisional playoff game of the National Football League (NFL), between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 23, 1972. With the Steelers trailing in the last 30 seconds of the game, Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw threw a pass attempt to John Fuqua. The ball bounced off the hands of Raiders safety Jack Tatum and/or Fuqua and, as it fell (but before it touched the ground), Steelers fullback Franco Harris scooped it up and ran for a game-winning touchdown. The play has been a source of unresolved controversy and speculation ever since, as many people have contended that the ball touched only Fuqua or the ground before Harris caught it, either of which would have resulted in an incomplete pass by the rules at the time. Kevin Cook’s The Last Headbangers cites the play as the beginning of a bitter rivalry between Pittsburgh and Oakland that fueled a historically brutal Raiders team during the NFL’s most controversially physical era.
The Immaculate Reception could easily have been called the Miracle in Pittsburgh.
Comment: While I was just a little too young to have watched or known of The Immaculate Reception when it happened, I certainly did watch…
Another WILD!!! NFL finish!
The fingertip catch, an inch off the ground, by Julian Edelman that saved the New England Patriots’ record-setting Super Bowl comeback win just under a year ago never got a nickname of its own, perhaps partly because it was part of an entire 17-minute period of miraculousness, as the Pats came back from a 28-3 deficit to win it in overtime. No team had ever won a Super Bowl before after being down as many as 10 points.
Edelman himself has a nickname, one he hates that Tom Brady gave him: Minitron. The reference is to the now-retired Calvin Johnson, “Megatron”, of the Detroit Lions.
The Detroit Lions joined the NFL in 1930 as the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans. The team relocated to Detroit in 1934 and became the Lions. The Lions are the only NFC team to have never played in a Super Bowl.
The Lions now play at Ford Field in Detroit, their previous homes of the Pontiac Silverdome and Tiger Stadium having been demolished (in 2 tries, in the case of the Silverdome). But Spartan Stadium still stands, and is used by Portsmouth high school teams. It is also a staging area for the Tour of the Scioto River Valley (TOSRV), an annual mass bicycle excursion from Columbus to Portsmouth and back the next day.
Santonio Holmes’s game-winning catch in Super Bowl XLIII with 35 seconds left in the game helped the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals, 27-23. It ranks right up there among the greatest catches in Super Bowl history, right up there with David Tyreeks helmet catch the previous year, in Super Bowl XLII.
The USS Gerald R. Ford, commissioned last July, is the first of her class of ten new U.S. Navy supercarriers. The next two are to be the USS John F. Kennedy and Enterprise; the rest are as yet unnamed.
The previous USS John F. Kennedy, now mothballed, was the US Navy’s last oil-fueled aircraft carrier. Lieutenant Kennedy saved the crew of his PT-109 after it was rammed by a Japanese destroyer, famously getting their location out to rescuers by carving it on a floating coconut. He kept the coconut prominently displayed in the Oval Office.
think we missed Bullit’s at #37345; to restore order to the universe:
The US Naval Academy helmets for the Army football game in 2015 were hand-painted and featured a famous naval ship depending on position. The carriers were for the Quarterbacks.
story: Navy's badass helmets have hand-painted ships, custom for each position group - SBNation.com
The vessels whose names are commonly used in the US version of the graph-paper game Battleship are:
Carrier 5 squares
Battleship 4 squares
Cruiser 3 squares
Submarine 3 squares
Destroyer 2 squares
At least according to the Wiki article. Your childhood memories may vary.
No navy in the world still operates battleships. The U.S. Navy’s, the four of the Iowa class, were the last in service.
Battleships, the lame plastic board game in a box, is a thousand times better when played with pencil and graph paper. We found the best layout is a 15x15 grid, 20 shots per full round, ships of blocks of 5-4-4-3-3, can be diagonal.
The oldest board game in history is believed to be Senet, which originated in Egypt prior to 3500 BC. Backgammon is also believed to be about 5000 years old. By contrast, chess is considered to have originated in the 6th century AD.
Thank you Mr. Steel. (It is Mr. and not Ms., right?)
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Football games sometimes have crazy endings and crazy plays. Already mentioned have been the Minneapolis Miracle. the Music City Miracle, the Immaculate Reception, Super Bowl LI and its wild comeback that included Julian Edelman’s (Minitron’s(?)’ fingertip catch an inch off the ground, and Super Bowl XLIII, and Super Bowl XLII.
In Super Bowl XXXVI, New England kicker Adam Vinatieri became the first man to score the ultimate game’s winning points on the final play as his 48-yard field goal gave the Patriots an emotional 20-17 win over the Rams.
In the closing moments of Super Bowl V in January 1971, Colts (from Baltimore) kicked a 32-yard field goal with only five seconds remaining in the game to break a tie and give the Colts the victory over the Dallas Cowboys 16–13.
Dammit.
Will recalibrate.
The use of Roman numerals continued long after the decline of the Roman Empire. From the 14th century on, Roman numerals began to be replaced in most contexts by the more convenient Hindu-Arabic numerals; however, this process was gradual, and the use of Roman numerals persists in some minor applications to this day, such as with the Super Bowl.