OMG! Hell Froze Over

For way too many years I told people that hell would freeze over before the Chicago Cubs will win a World Series. So, hell must be really cold right now. How long before the ice melts and everyone in hell gets back to the normal hotter than ever climate?

The Cubs also broke the Curse of the Billy Goat placed on them in the nineteen forties  by the owner of the Billy Goat Tavern when he was asked to remove his goat from Wrigley Field.

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It Is In the Air

FOOTBALL IS COMING SOON

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1. “Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football” – John Heisman

2. “I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.” – Bear Bryant / Alabama

3. “It isn’t necessary to see a good tackle, you can hear it!” – Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

4. “At Georgia Southern, we don’t cheat. That costs money, and we don’t have any.” – Erik Russell / Georgia Southern

5. “The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.” – Lou Holtz / Arkansas – Notre Dame

6. “When you win, nothing hurts.” – Joe Namath / Alabama

7. “A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.” – Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

8. “There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.” – Woody Hayes / Ohio State

9. “I don’t expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.” – Bob Devaney / Nebraska

10. “In Alabama , an atheist is someone who doesn’t believe in Bear Bryant.”

– Wally Butts / Georgia

11. “I never graduated from Iowa. But I was only there for two terms – Truman’s and Eisenhower’s.” – Alex Karras / Iowa

12. “My advice to defensive players is to take the shortest route to the ball, and arrive in a bad humor.” – Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee

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13. “I could have been a Rhodes Scholar except for my grades.” – Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

14. “Always remember Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.” – Shug Jordan / Auburn

15. “I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn’t recruit me .” He said,”Well, Walt, we took a look at you, and you weren’t any good.” – Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State

16. “Son, you’ve got a good engine, but your hands aren’t on the steering wheel.” – Bobby Bowden / Florida State

17. “Football is NOT a contact sport, it is a collision sport. Dancing IS a contact sport.” – Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

18. After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his post-game message to his team was, “All those who need showers, take them.” – John McKay / USC

19. “If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.” – Murray Warmath / Minnesota

20. “The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.” – Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

21. “We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.” – Darrell Royal / Texas

22. “We didn’t tackle well today, but we made up for it by not blocking.” – John McKay / USC

23. “I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players.” – Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

24. Ohio State ‘s Urban Meyer on one of his players:”He doesn’t know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn’t know the meaning of a lot of words.”

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25. Why do Tennessee fans wear orange? So they can dress that way for the game on Saturday, go hunting on Sunday, and pick up trash on Monday.

26. What does the average Alabama player get on his SATs? Drool.

27. How many Michigan State freshmen football players does it take to change a light bulb? None. That’s a sophomore course.

28. How did the Auburn football player die from drinking milk? The cow fell on him.

29. Two Texas A&M football players were walking in the woods. One of them said, “Look, a dead bird.”The other looked up in the sky and said,”Where?”

30. What do you say to a Florida State University football player dressed in a three-piece suit? “Will the defendant please rise.”

31. If three Rutgers football players are in the same car, who is driving? The police officer.

32. How can you tell if a Clemson football player has a girlfriend? There’s tobacco juice on both sides of the pickup truck.

33. What do you get when you put 32 Arkansas cheerleaders in one room? A full set of teeth.

34. University of Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh is only going to dress half of his players for the game this week; the other half will have to dress themselves.

35. How is the Kansas football team like an opossum? They play dead at home and get killed on the road.

36. Why did the Tennessee linebacker steal a police car? He saw “911” on the side and thought it was a Porsche.

37. How do you get a former Illinois football player off your porch? Pay him for the pizza.

Whopper of a Fish Story

When I close my tiny backyard pond I dread pulling the pump in near freezing water. The cold is so intense my hand hurts with a burning sensation for an hour. This video of a Lake Superior ice fisherman extending his arm into the ice hole to extract a fish mad me shiver. Obviously, his adrenaline rush was so intense he didn’t notice his arm burning up to the shoulder. The fish he caught is certainly a trophy, and he did the right thing.

Last Email of the Day

This evening I began to shut down my Mac and head to the TV when I decided to look at my Emails one more time. I found one from my good friend Jim. He and I went to high school together and roomed for a year in college too. Jim suggested I watch a video he sent. I clicked on the link and it took me to a Pickleball Website. Inside that site was the video which I later found on YouTube.

There are many amazing people in the USA and this vid highlights one of them; his name is Mike Ehredt an Endurance Athlete, Postal Worker, Veteran, and genuine great human being. My words will never do him justice to the project he undertook called Project America Run (Click link to see map). In 2010 he ran a mile for each vet who died (4424) in the Iraq war, then in 2012, Mike ran a marathon everyday for 81 days. At each mile he placed a flag in honor of a vet who died in Afghanistan (2140 US service men and women).

If you like feel good stories, watch the video, and click the links to learn about this amazing ordinary person like you and me.

 

 

Do You Think Life Is Hard?

Very often it seems that I get a little down and start feeling sorry for myself and complain about how hard my life is. Then, someone sends me an angel. Today, the angel is my old friend and colleague Rich. The video below is proof positive of the human spirit and the power of positive thinking. If this story doesn’t bring a tear to your eye nothing will.