I guess I forgot what the thread theme was and got off on a tangent about the 69 UT backfield. I will try to pay more attention now.
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Jamey Rootes. Very sad.
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When the Texans decided to carve out part of the blue parking lot to make room for the reserved āplatinumā lot, I called to give them a piece of my mind. Rootes himself called me back to explain and offered me my choice of any spot in the platinum lot, plus a free extra parking pass. He knew fans by name, even coming to dinner with a group of us once on a road trip, and he bought me expensive scotch and cigars at a fancy hotel when Mrs Hawk and I won the Texans trip to the Pro Bowl in Miami. By all accounts he was a terrific guy. I donāt know what issues he was dealing with, but itās sad that he left a family and many people who thought a lot of him.
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Original Dallas Texan (and KC Chief) Len Dawson
RIP Lenny
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Sad to see that. I knew he was in bad shape and had entered hospice. He was my dadās favorite.
I remember thinking he was a pretty good broadcasting analysist on tv many years ago. Worked the AFC gamesā¦must have been in the 70/80s.
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Inside the NFL on HBO was a go-to program when I was a kid
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Mikhail Gorbachev
One of the most important historical figures of the entire 20th century.
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His cameo in The Naked Gun was legendary:
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That. Is. Epic.
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Frank Drake, astronomer, astrophysicist, and developer of the āDrake Equationā has died, aged 92 years.
The chances of intelligent life in the universe just dropped a little.
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Queen Elizabeth
I am so old I remember watching her coronation on TV.
Dead at 96, 70 years on the throne. RIP.
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First time in my lifetime sheās not the Queen. Iām not a royalist, but it feels a bit weird.
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She had a helluva run.
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A buddy of mine:
āStruck down in her youth.ā
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