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Fun football fact: JFK has only missed one Detroit Lions playoff victory.
Trivia #1: Who is Masanori Murakami?
Trivia #2: The record for the largest attendance at a women’s sporting event (92,003) was recently broken. What was the sport? – Volleyball, Soccer, Basketball, Track & Field, Field Hockey, Mud Wrestling
Trivia #3: Who is Louis Lappe?
Trivia $4: Dan Marino led the NFL in passing yards in 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1988. Who was the passing yards leader in 1987? – Boomer Esiason, John Elway, Bernie Kosar, Joe Montana, Jim Kelly, Warren Moon, Neil Lomax
September already, damn!
College football is well under way and, by this time next week, the NFL will have kicked off its season… baby!
In every relationship there is one person who stacks the dishwasher like a Scandinavian architect and one who stacks it like a racoon on crystal meth.
Go away: Mookie Betts and Bailey Zappe. Look, Mookie Betts is a great player, OK, but I’m glad he’s left town. He’s no longer a Red Sox, go away. As for Bailey Zappe, get over it, Pats’ fans. Not that I’m a huge Mac Jones fan but Zappe is a/the backup, he’s nothing more.
On this day: September 1, 1931, the Yankees’ Lou Gehrig hit his 3rd grand slam in 4 days and 6th homerun in consecutive days. Impressive!
September 1, 1995, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened in Cleveland, Ohio. DYK: Warren Zevon is still not a member
WTF! As cases of COVID-19 start to spike again, hospitals across the country are reinstating their mask mandates.
It’s coming… football season is coming!
Stop complaining: Unless you live in southeastern U.S. and were affected by Idalia, stop complaining.
The Red Sox are 4 games over .500 (69-65), 14.5 games back in the AL East and 6.5 games back in the Wild Card race but hey… they’re 4 games ahead of the Yankees!
They said it: “If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and Indians. I wanted to be a pirate. Thank God nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and peg leg surgery.” – Comedian Bill Maher
Joe Montana says that Dan Marino is the “best” quarterback of all time. OK, Joe.
I love it! Eunice Davidson, co-founder and president of the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA), headquartered in North Dakota, is leading a viral petition demanding the Washington Commanders reclaim their historic Redskins name.
This week’s sign of the apocalypse: The Pentagon announced the launch of a new website with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which will provide the public with declassified information about UFOs, or what the government calls unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs). Great, something else the government is coming out with to scare the piss out of the public.
Headline of the week: Woman stabbed grandfather in face after grandparents ‘asked her to shower’: Police
Useless information supposed to fire my imagination: The Red Sox have the hardest remaining schedule. Really, does it matter?
Good News: The WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon raised $4,070,760 last week! The Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon has raised over $70 million since 2002 to help strike out cancer.
Article I’ll skip: Survey finds not everybody is wild about the current AI craze
Trivia #1 answer: Who is Masanori Murakami? – He was the first Japanese-born player to appear in MLB (San Francisco Giants). The Osuki native threw a scoreless inning in his September 1, 1964 debut.
Trivia #2 answer: The record for the largest attendance at a women’s sporting event (92,003) was recently broken. What was the sport? – Volleyball, Soccer, Basketball, Track & Field, Field Hockey, Mud Wrestling – The Nebraska Cornhuskers’ women’s volleyball team set the record playing outdoors at Memorial Stadium
Trivia #3 answer: Who is Louis Lappe? – Louis hit a walk-off homerun for El Segundo (CA) to win the Little League World Series over Curacao, 6-5, last weekend. Curacao had tied the game at 5-5 with the grand slam in the 5th inning. Quite a game!
Trivia $4 answer: Dan Marino led the NFL in passing yards in 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1988. Who was the passing yards leader in 1987? – Boomer Esiason, John Elway, Bernie Kosar, Joe Montana, Jim Kelly, Warren Moon, Neil Lomax – Neil Lomax (STL)
What’s the difference between an illegal immigrant and E.T.? E.T. learned English and wanted to go home.
Be careful out there. (It’s a jungle!)
Happy National Acne Positivity Day!
“She likes wearing lipstick
She likes French cuisine
But she won’t let me use my passion
Unless it’s in a limousine
She got me under pressure
She got me under pressure”
– ZZ Top
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