Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:22 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:19 pm Maple Leafs 2020 1st rounder Rodion Amirov from a brain tumor today too. Bad sports day.

Amirov was 21. Collins was 28. Jeebus! Hug your kids!

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:26 pm

My kids aren’t nearly that athletic.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:33 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:26 pm My kids aren’t nearly that athletic.

And they won’t get a hug until they are!

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:48 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:33 pm Alex Collins...Ravens and Seahawks Running Back
Also a high school laxer (D1 football players are just better athletes than others).

Motorcycle accident. Damn.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:14 pm

Like, I’m not glad it’s a motorcycle accident, but given his age I kinda am?

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:51 am

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:26 pm My kids aren’t nearly that athletic.

Well, you shouldn't have any problem catching them for the hug.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:28 pm

Reaper wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 8:00 pm Oscar winning director for French Connection, as well as other films such as The Exorcist and Blue Chips, William Friedkin, 87.

A fun piece on the director and the latter film:

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Wed Aug 16, 2023 4:05 pm

Got a firmwide email from a managing partner about a former attorney at our firm passing away. We are a large firm, over 50 years old, so not too surprising and I've gotten several of these emails. Then I read it, the guy left the firm to volunteer in the Ukranian Army and he was killed in combat. Wife and two young kids. West Point grad who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, went to law school after 10+ years in the Army. Found an article that says he was killed serving in a mechanized unit conducting humanitarian missions. Just horrible. Takes a special kind of person to give up their career and family to volunteer in a war like that, and sucks that he paid the ultimate price for standing up and trying to help.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:13 pm

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 4:05 pm Got a firmwide email from a managing partner about a former attorney at our firm passing away. We are a large firm, over 50 years old, so not too surprising and I've gotten several of these emails. Then I read it, the guy left the firm to volunteer in the Ukranian Army and he was killed in combat. Wife and two young kids. West Point grad who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, went to law school after 10+ years in the Army. Found an article that says he was killed serving in a mechanized unit conducting humanitarian missions. Just horrible. Takes a special kind of person to give up their career and family to volunteer in a war like that, and sucks that he paid the ultimate price for standing up and trying to help.

Ugh.

Post by **Shirley** » Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:17 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:33 pm Alex Collins...Ravens and Seahawks Running Back
Also a high school laxer (D1 football players are just better athletes than others).

Pretty funny highlights. He has almost no stick skills at all.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:26 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:17 pm

Pretty funny highlights. He has almost no stick skills at all.

I was thinking he looks like a football player picking up a lacrosse stick for the first time.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Aug 23, 2023 11:06 pm

Square Rob wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 5:16 pm Tom Verlaine from Television. Stupid good nyc band from the seventies.

Apparently, Tom Verlaine owned 50 thousand books! And, they are selling them off, now.
LINK

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 10:13 am

The guy who virtually became McCain's running mate in 2008...

Of course, he's also the guy who after the Isla Vista shootings said "your dead kids don't trump my constitutional rights".

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 10:48 am

He looked 49 in 2008. Legitimately thought he was older.

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 11:17 am

When the definitive history of America's slide into idiot populism is written, that guy's 15 minutes should get a chapter.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 1:07 pm

Trey Anastasio Band saxophonist, James Casey

He could play. 40 years old. Fuck cancer.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:58 am

Gary Wright

(I saw him as part of a Yacht Rock multi-act show 10(!) years ago and could still command a stage back then, Love Is Alive rocked)

Post by **brian** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 11:45 am

I have a good friend named Gary Wright and freaked out for a split second (and before you accusing me of being crazy, he played LB at Louisville in the 80s) but he’s still too way obscure even for the Swamp.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Fri Sep 08, 2023 11:42 am

For a nerd like me, this sucks. Cancer is awful. He was able to fight it off for 7 years, but he couldn't handle it anymore. Dude was also retired Air Force, so it's a double gut punch.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Mon Sep 11, 2023 10:30 am

Texas Singer-Songwriter Charlie Robison

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Sep 11, 2023 10:38 am

His brother Bruce's "My Brother and Me" is a song I seek out occasionally.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Mon Sep 11, 2023 10:55 am

I'm a shitty Bobcat apparently because I just learned he played football at SWT.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Sep 15, 2023 7:34 am

The original Country Bears Jamboree....1971->2023. Good run for the hee haw animatronic bears at Disney.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Fri Sep 15, 2023 7:35 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2023 7:34 am The original Country Bears Jamboree....1971->2023. Good run for the hee haw animatronic bears at Disney.

Aw man, my dad is going to be devastated.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Sep 22, 2023 10:27 pm

DJ Casper (Willie Perry Jr)....won't be Cha cha'ing real smooth any more
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/ic ... f88&ei=190

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sat Sep 23, 2023 4:53 pm

An absolute legend here in Seattle. I remember going to the Zig-Zag for the first time...taken there by a woman I met online, and sitting at the bar and watching this guy work.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:10 pm

"The Human Vacuum Cleaner," Brooks Robinson, 86.

RIP.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:26 pm

Too obscure????

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:31 pm

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:26 pm Too obscure????

Please start a thread. There are people in this thread that totally deserved their own thread. I just don't feel comfortable starting one.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Sep 27, 2023 7:57 am

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:31 pm
Gunpowder wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:26 pm Too obscure????
Please start a thread. There are people in this thread that totally deserved their own thread. I just don't feel comfortable starting one.

You mean like this one?
viewtopic.php?t=4287

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Thu Sep 28, 2023 7:01 am

Michael Gambon, the second Dumbledore from the HP movies

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Sep 28, 2023 7:05 am

Dumbledore curse? Someone protect Jude Law!

(he was pretty great in that role, IMO)

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Thu Sep 28, 2023 7:09 am

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 2:54 pm

Former Pro Bowl TE Russ Francis dies in plane crash

Former Pro Bowl tight Russ Francis was killed in a plane crash in Lake Placid, New York, on Sunday, according to family members. Francis was 70.

Francis and Richard McSpadden, a former commander of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, rolled hard to the left after takeoff from Lake Placid Airport before crashing, according to an NTSB spokesperson. It was not immediately clear whether Francis or McSpadden, 63, was flying the plane.

Post by **brian** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 2:56 pm

I’m guessing it wasn’t the former commander of the Thunderbirds who crashed the plane. My money is on the former NFL TE.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 3:08 pm

This is one of the funnier death-that-just-happened quotes I can imagine:

"My older brother Russ Francis was just killed in an airplane crash in Lake Placid, New York," Francis' brother Ed Francis wrote on Facebook on Sunday. "Flying was my brother's lifelong passion, and perhaps a fitting way for him to go. God speed to you my big brother!!"

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 3:22 pm

Dammit another Wrestlemania 2 battle royal participant death pool miss

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 3:26 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 3:08 pm This is one of the funnier death-that-just-happened quotes I can imagine:

"My older brother Russ Francis was just killed in an airplane crash in Lake Placid, New York," Francis' brother Ed Francis wrote on Facebook on Sunday. "Flying was my brother's lifelong passion, and perhaps a fitting way for him to go. God speed to you my big brother!!"

Pretend I make comments on facebook and replied “Do you believe in miracles? No!”

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 3:29 pm

Jim Caple

Some fun hits for him in OG Swamp

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Mon Oct 02, 2023 3:40 pm

In January 2006, BrianDTW wrote:(A 60-year-old Detroiter can probably remember the last time the Lions won a title -- he would have been 11 years old. That would be like me having to wait until 2034 for the Tigers to win another World Series. In fact, let's not go there.)