Gator Tim Tebow graduated in 2010 and won the Heisman Trophy in the 2007 season
The Heisman Trophy resides in the Downtown Athletic Club in New York, who gives out the award. Winner get a trophy to keep, but the club has a trophy in its lobby with the nameplates of all the winners.
About 150mi north of NYC, Union College in Schenectady is regarded as the Mother of Fraternities because Delta Phi is the oldest continually operating fraternity and Kappa Alpha and Sigma Phi Societies were started on the campus.
(trivial addition: that’s close to my hometown)
(I went to Union echo7Tango, and live in Schenectady now).
Frank Zappa’s group, The Mothers, had their name changed by their record company to “The Mothers of Invention” because it was too risque. Generally, fans of the group use the original name.
(RealityChuck, cool, I grew up in Latham when my dad taught at RPI)
Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia who started Mother’s Day celebrations also filed a lawsuit in an effort to stop the over- commercialisation of Mother’s Day. She lost her fight. Anna had hoped for a day of reflection and quiet prayer by families, thanking God for all that mothers had done.
Anna Jarvis had no children, but the holiday she campaigned for honors her mother, Ann. Ann Jarvis had organized Mothers’ Day Work Clubs in several West Virginia towns. The clubs’ goals included inspecting milk and hiring women to help families in which the mothers were too ill from tuberculosis to care for children. During the Civil War, club members fed, clothed, and nursed soldiers from both the Union and Confederate armies.
John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome.
Rome is the capital of the Republic of Italy, and also contains Vatican City, a microstate enclave led by His Holiness the Pope as head of state.
Marquez Pope is a former American football player who was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the 2nd round of the 1992 NFL Draft. Pope played for 5 teams in 10 NFL seasons from 1992 to 2001. His best year as a pro came during the 1996 season for the San Francisco 49ers, intercepting 6 passes with 1 touchdown.
Pope is the only NFL player in history to play on all California teams (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland).
Three different NFL teams have played their home games at the Los Angeles Coliseum, which was built for the 1932 Olympics: The Rams (previously in Cleveland, now in St. Louis), the Raiders (who have returned to their original Oakland home), and the Chargers (who played there their first year in the AFL but then moved to San Diego). None play there, or anywhere else in the LA metro area, today.
Million Dollar Legs was a 30s comedy starring W.C. Fields as the president of Klopstokia, who is convinced to field a team for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. All the citizens of the country are world-class athletes, even though they never trained or entered any events before the Olympics. Field’s talent is weightlifting.
Neil Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio.
(loosely linked by the 1930s)
Some of these links are tenuous at best. Just sayin’.
Stretch Armstrong was a large, gel-filled action figure first introduced in 1976 by Kenner.
Stretched links can be removed from old watchbands, and replaced, to restore the old watch’s custom fit. Here’s how.
Bratwurst, chorizo, and linguica are three common types of link sausage.
In 2003, Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Randall Simon was suspended for whacking one of the contestants in the Milwaukee Brewer’s Sausage Race. At every game at Miller Park, stuntpersons dressed as the main products of Klement’s Sausage Company have a running race along the infield, upon which the patrons can place friendly wagers if they so choose. The contestants are:
There are five Klement’s Racing Sausages (mascots). Their official names are given by the race’s sponsor:
#1, Bratwurst (nickname: Brett Wurst) is a bratwurst and wears green Austro-Bavarian lederhosen.
#2, Polish Sausage (nickname: Stosh) is a Polish sausage and wears dark sunglasses and a blue and red rugby shirt.
#3, Italian Sausage (nickname: Guido) is an Italian sausage and wears a chef’s outfit.
#4, Hot Dog (nickname: Frankie Furter) is a hot dog and wears a baseball uniform.
#5, Chorizo (nickname: Cinco) is a chorizo and wears a sombrero.
Most fans refer to the sausages as Brat, Polish, Italian, Hot Dog and Chorizo.
The Pittsburgh Pirates last won the World Series in 1979, as “We Are Family”. The Pirates have struggled more recently, with 19 consecutive losing seasons to date, the longest in North American professional sports history.
The Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, currently a tetralogy, is the fifth-highest-grossing film franchise in history, behind only Harry Potter, James Bond, Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
After discovering a seemingly endless number of islands in the northeast Caribbean in 1493, Christopher Columbus named them after St. Ursula and the 11,000 virgins–the Virgin Islands.
The largest wooden building in the world is the Hall of the Great Buddha in the Todai-ji Temple on the main Japanese island of Honshu, although the present structure, rebuilt in 1709, is a mere two-thirds the size of the original.