The New York Jets team colors are green and white, chosen because they were the corporate colors of the Hess Oil. Leon Hess was one of the consortium who bought the New York Titans from Harry Wismer and renamed them the Jets.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders wear
Green and White as the team colours. Although the Riders are the smallest market in the CFL, they sell 70% of all
CFL merchandise.
Green (vert) and white/silver (argent) are among the colors and metals used most often in heraldry. The others are black (sable), red (gules), blue (azure), wine-red purple (purpure), and yellow/gold (Or). There are two lesser known colors, orange (tenne) and blood red (sanguine), plus a variety of “furs” (e.g., squirrel and ermine). Charges depicted in their natural colors are referred to as “proper.”
A band on a coat of arms, especially a French one, that goes from upper right to lower left is called a bar sinister, and signifies bastardy.
Not to be pedantic, but that would be a bend sinister. A bar is a stripe that runs horizontally, not diagonally.
Such geometric charges are referred to as “ordinaries” and have widths of roughly one-third the vertical width of the shield (“escutcheon”).
Blame Sir Walter Scott for the misuse of “bar sinister” if you must. Or Underdog. 
US Navy ships being held in reserve are said to be “mothballed”, but the corresponding Royal Navy term (as well as the US term before the invention of mothballs) is “in ordinary”.
The sail frigate USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat today, and may be toured in Boston. The Royal Navy’s HMS Victory, Admiral Lord Nelson’s flagship at Trafalgar, is older, but is in a Portsmouth drydock.
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was a long running sitcom about the Nelson family, with the Nelsons – Ozzie, Harriet, David, and Rick – portraying themselves. Ozzie’s job was never shown, nor mentioned on the show (it was supposed to be in advertising in the original conception) and none of the stories centered on work. Rick was a manufactured teen idol, though as time went by his ability as a musician (both Ozzie and Harriet were originally in a band) was respect, and one of his later backing bands included member who later went on to form the Eagles.
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Twin brothers Jose and Ozzie Canseco combined for a total of 462 home runs in their major league careers, including 462 by Jose. Ozzie did set the season record for the independent Atlantic League, playing for the 2001 Newark Bears.
Along with his band, Rick Nelson was killed in the crash of his private DC-3 on New Year’s Eve, 1985, up to then the worst year in the history of commercial aviation. Initial reports speculated the crash was due to a fire started by members of the band free-basing, but the NTSB ruled that the fire was caused by a faulty heater on board the plane.
Gen. Eisenhower listed four “Tools of Victory” that won World War II for the Allies: The DC-3 (in its C-47 military version), the bazooka, the jeep, and the atom bomb.
Hanging in Bob Hope’s den at his Toluca Lake compound was a large photo of Gen. Patton pissing in the Rhine River during World War II.
Gen. George S. Patton, USA, died 21 December 1945 in Heidelberg, Germany, after having his neck broken in what was otherwise a minor traffic accident. He had been on his way to put one of his men in for a medal when the accident occurred. Under his leadership between June 1944 and May 1945, the US Third Army advanced farther, captured more enemy prisoners, and liberated more territory in less time than any other army in history.
The late U.S. District Judge John M. Manos of the Northern District of Ohio had a large portrait of General George S. Patton, whom he greatly admired, hanging over his desk in chambers.
Manos: The Hands of Fate was made by Harold P. Warren, who bet Hollywood screenwriter Stirling Silliphant that Warren could make an entire horror movie by himself. Although Warren won the bet, he himself claimed the movie was the worst ever made, and many critics have agreed with him.
Harold and the Purple Crayon is a classic children’s book by Crockett Johnson (David Johnson Liesk), where the title character uses his purple crayon to draw objects that come to life. Harold bears a strong resemblance to Barnaby, the title character in Johnson’s comic strip, often cited as being among the best of all time.
Minor point: While Patton was appointed commander of the US Third Army soon after the Normandy landings, the Third did not actually become operational until 1 August 1944, when Operation COBRA (the Normandy breakout) commenced.
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The comic strip “Dennis the Menace” was inspired by a remark cartoonist Hank Ketcham’s wife once made about their own son. Throughout the run of the strip, Ketcham caricatured himself and his wife as Dennis’s parents, Henry and Alice Mitchell.
The real Dennis Ketcham was nothing like the cartoon version. He was shuffled off to boarding school by his workaholic father after his mother died of a drug overdose, eventually joining the Marines and going to Vietnam. He returned with post-traumatic stress syndrome and has lived on the fringe ever since.
Child actor Jay North, who played Dennis Mitchell in the “Dennis the Menace” TV series, was once rumored to have been killed in Vietnam, as was Jerry Mathers, who played Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver on “Leave It to Beaver.”