The former King of Spain vacuums the turf at Sky Dome and drives the Zamboni for the Maple Leafs.
On “Cheers!”, Carla the Waitress’s hockey-player husband Eddie LeBec was killed when he was run over by a Zamboni.
Carla’s first husband was Nick Tortelli (Dan Hedaya) whose character spawned a short lived spin-off - The Tortellis. Loretta, Nick’s wife on both shows, was played by Jean Kasem, wife of Casey Kasem of Ameicas Top 40 and Scooby-Doo fame.
The mighty Casey of the classic baseball poem Casey at the Bat played for the Mudville Nine.
Charles Dillon “Casey” Stengel was associated with all four New York major league baseball teams (Dodgers, Giants, Mets and Yankees.) His uniform number, 37, was retired by both the Yankees and the Mets.
Lave Cross played for four Philadelphia major league baseball teams: Philadelphia Athletics (American Association), Philadelphia Quakers (Players League), Philadelphia Phillies (NL), and Philadelphia Athletics (AL).
Chuck Bednarik, the last of the two way (offense/defense) regulars in the NFL, (unless you count Deon Sanders and other receiver/DB’s which Bednarik does not, played for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Lou Groza, Hall of Fame offensive tackle for the Cleveland Browns was also an exceptional placekicker. He led the NFL in field goals in 1950, the same year his brother Alex led the NBA in shooting percentage.
Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, named the central character in the book “Alex” because of the Latin word lex, or law. “A lex” = “lawless.”
Lucy Lawless’s father was the mayor of Mount Albert, New Zealand.
Albert Street is the main north-south street in Regina, Saskatchewan. Albert intersects Victoria Avenue, the main east-west avenue.
Marv Albert was convicted of misdemeanor assault and battery for biting his girlfriend.
During the Vietnam War, “Charlie” was the name for the Viet Cong (from the phonetic alphabet’s abbreviation “Victor Charlie” = “VC”); the South Vietnamese soldiers loyal to the Saigon regime were “Marvin, the ARVN,” the last being an acronym for “Army of the Republic of Vietnam.”
The logo for the Miss Saigon musical has a human face hidden in it.
The logo for the 2012 London Olympics is frequently described as “Lisa Simpson giving a blowjob”.
Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered on 6/12/1994. When you add the digits together they equal 32 O.J. Simpson’s player number in college and professional football.
Jim Brown’s #32 was retired by the Cleveland Browns and is the only #32 to be retired by an NFL team, though the Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers do not issue #32 in honor of O.J. Simpson and Franco Harris, respectively, they have not officially retired the number.
A .32 caliber pistol was used by Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, leading to World War I.
World War I was the last major war in which horses were used in significant numbers.
The Seven Years War is said to have been the first truly world war.