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Tim Brown
10 year NFLer
In both MASH TV and movie
Prison guard

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/m ... ars-in-nfl
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:33 am Tim Brown
10 year NFLer
In both MASH TV and movie
Prison guard

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/m ... ars-in-nfl
His character's name on M*A*S*H definitely wouldn't fly these days.

And...oh my god...the comments on that Fox News story. Whooooboy...
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DaveInSeattle wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:30 am
wlu_lax6 wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:33 am Tim Brown
10 year NFLer
In both MASH TV and movie
Prison guard

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/m ... ars-in-nfl
His character's name on M*A*S*H definitely wouldn't fly these days.

And...oh my god...the comments on that Fox News story. Whooooboy...
4th comment...
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Tavaris Jackson, car accident (bad photos if you go to TMZ, but I won't post them here).

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Maybe worthy of his own thread, but I won't start one, but Hank Steinbrenner, co-owner of the Yanks, 63.

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This is one of those things where it makes total sense in hindsight. He really faded behind Hal for a while recently.
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Hall of Fame Green Bay Packer Willie Davis, 85

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I mean. If the reaper is gonna post this is the thread.
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WWE's "first employee" and 2009 Hall of Famer Howard Finkel
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he’s a fixbking cyborg or some shit. The

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Met him when I was a young bfj. Hard hitter.
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bfj wrote: Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:23 am

Met him when I was a young bfj. Hard hitter.
Was he the player who laid out the fan running on the field with a clothesline in the NFL Films footage?
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DSafetyGuy wrote: Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:07 pm
bfj wrote: Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:23 am

Met him when I was a young bfj. Hard hitter.
Was he the player who laid out the fan running on the field with a clothesline in the NFL Films footage?
I think so. His son Ryan was a star lacrosse player at UVA (8x all pro, National teamer, etc) 2 years younger than me. Smaller than his dad but still smashed people on the field. Ended up as head coach at Vermont before stepping down to take a job at a fancy post grad school in CT.
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DSafetyGuy wrote: Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:07 pm
bfj wrote: Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:23 am

Met him when I was a young bfj. Hard hitter.
Was he the player who laid out the fan running on the field with a clothesline in the NFL Films footage?
Yes. That was Curtis.

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Him laying out that fan was what I immediately thought of as soon as I saw his name in this thread.
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Referenced in the Tom Tom Club's song 'Genius Of Love'...."Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon"
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That's funky as all hell, but I'm laughing my head off at the drumming!
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Irrfan Khan...slumdog, jurrasic world, Bollywood star
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 7:16 am Irrfan Khan...slumdog, jurrasic world, Bollywood star
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43476602
Arguably the greatest India-born actor.
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One of the greats - his music is occasionally fantastic, but as Fela's drummer, he played on some of the greatest music ever made. (IMO)



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Sam Lloyd, most known from every Swamper's favorite sitcom, Scrubs. Or, as seen here, rabid TV Guide fan from Seinfeld

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Sam would go left when you forced him that way on defense. But he made all those 12- to 17-footers, too.

And Josh is not exaggerating when he says Sam called everything.
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DaveInSeattle wrote: Wed May 06, 2020 10:58 am
I still listen to these guys.

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Oh man, really underrated band. That sucks.
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No longer bad company

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To be sure, he’s not the guy who sang for Bad Company when they were churning out the hits they play on classic rock stations. That was Paul Rodgers. I was a Bad Company fan back in the day, and I’ve never heard of this guy.
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sancarlos wrote: Thu May 07, 2020 4:33 pm To be sure, he’s not the guy who sang for Bad Company when they were churning out the hits they play on classic rock stations. That was Paul Rodgers. I was a Bad Company fan back in the day, and I’ve never heard of this guy.
Ah. Yeah I didn’t really research it.
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'Double Rainbow Guy' Paul Vasquez has died
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Mike Storen...Sports Exec and Hannah Storm's dad
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 8:08 am Mike Storen...Sports Exec and Hannah Storm's dad
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/spor ... teams.html
Loved this part:
Mr. Storen never retired. His most recent job, in his 80s, was selling sports caps at Lids sportswear shops in Atlanta.
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Phil May, singer for seminal, riotous British rock band, The Pretty Things.
Phil May, the frontman of The Pretty Things, has died aged 75 after suffering complications from emergency hip surgery.
A representative of the rock 'n' roll band confirmed he died on Friday morning at a Kings Lynn hospital.

May had fallen off his bicycle earlier in the week.

"Very sad news, he was a very talented guy and he will be sorely missed. I'm shocked," tweeted Kinks guitarist Dave Davies.

The Pretty Things' 1968 album SF Sorrow is credited as one of the first real rock opera concept albums.

They were cited as an influence by a wide range of artists from David Bowie to Jimi Hendrix to Kasabian.
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Originally from Dartford, Kent, May formed the band in 1963 with guitarist Dick Taylor, a former bass player with an early incarnation of The Rolling Stones, and both bands were an integral part of the London blues-rock explosion.

As his music developed in a more progressive psych-rock direction in the late 60s, singer and lyricist May became a leading countercultural figure, known for his long hair, drug-taking and bisexuality.
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That song is great!

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Local Seattle Film-maker...



Used to see her at local music shows fairly often...
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What is going on today?

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DaveInSeattle wrote: Sat May 16, 2020 5:04 pm Local Seattle Film-maker...



Used to see her at local music shows fairly often...
Damn, been catching up on WTF podcasts, and she was living with/dating Marc Maron, so he was talking about her all the time. Weird that my thought is to want to reach out to him. I guess after 10 years of listening to him, I feel like I know him.
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