The Swamp

Quintessential THAT guy from movies I loved in the 80s.

Wow, he lived a hell of an impressive life. I had no idea.

Charles Bradley

govmentchedda wrote:Charles Bradley

That's too bad.

At least he got to experience some small measure of fame towards the end of his life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBdTVmSVq14

It sucks. He was fantastic live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi49yirJiEA

I feel unhappy.
I feel so sad.

Red Miller.

It was so exciting to be a fan of the Broncos in Red Miller's first couple years as their head coach. The team had sucked fantastically through the 1960s and early 1970s. Then, John Ralston got them over the first hump to a winning record, but alienated the players to such a degree that they basically revolted against him. Enter Red Miller, who promptly led the Denver Broncos to the postseason for the first time in team history. Under him in 1977, the Broncos played in their first Super Bowl. RIP.

The Orange Crush defense. Craig Morton. Haven Moses and Rick Upchurch.I remember the 1977 season (12-2) and playoffs. Biletnikoff gets hurt in the first half of the AFC Championship, a big 'what if' for Raider fans.

Monty Hall

Game show maestro. For a while, probably the most famous Canadian in show business.

Joe Tiller, Purdue's winningest football coach.

sancarlos wrote:Red Miller.

It was so exciting to be a fan of the Broncos in Red Miller's first couple years as their head coach. The team had sucked fantastically through the 1960s and early 1970s. Then, John Ralston got them over the first hump to a winning record, but alienated the players to such a degree that they basically revolted against him. Enter Red Miller, who promptly led the Denver Broncos to the postseason for the first time in team history. Under him in 1977, the Broncos played in their first Super Bowl. RIP.

I remember people in Denver during that Super Bowl season saying he should change his name to "Orange"...

howard wrote:The Orange Crush defense. Craig Morton. Haven Moses and Rick Upchurch.I remember the 1977 season (12-2) and playoffs. Biletnikoff gets hurt in the first half of the AFC Championship, a big 'what if' for Raider fans.

The real big "what if" about that game was about getting the call wrong on the Ron Lytle "non-fumble" on the Raider's 1 yard line.

Here's a big write up on it: THE FUMBLE THAT WASN’T

“In the 1977 American Conference championship game, the Denver Broncos were leading the Oakland Raiders, 7-3, in the third quarter when the Bronco running back fumbled at the Raiders' 1-yard line. Jack Tatum recovered. Raider ball. Or so everybody watching television thought. They saw the fumble. They saw the Raiders recover it.

But the head linesman, Ed Marion, didn't see the fumble. So the fumble never happened. The Raiders argued. Nobody listened.

On the next play the Broncos scored to go ahead, 14-3. They would win, 21-17, and go to Super Bowl XII in New Orleans, while the Raiders would never forget it.”

What never gets mentioned is that on the play before the Lytle pla, Jack Dolbin of the Broncos caught a touchdown pass, but was ruled to be out of bounds. But he was in bounds.

Man, I had let that shit go (had to clear room in my brain for the tuck rule).

It is funny, recalling the old arguments, one side with the immaculate reception and that Lytle fumble, the other side (us good guys) with the holy roller and the sitckum (Fred and Lester Hayes), and the numerous spygate-style scandals and the Stabler knee down pass to Clarence Davis. They tell me the calls all even out, but it doesn't feel the way.

Fucking Fred. Cliff Branch. Phil Villapiano (intercepted Griese with a minute left to quash the Dolphins last chance, not included in this youtube clip, but there are plenty of other vids if you want more.) Of course Madden and Snake. Bill King; that is when turning down the TV sound and turning up the radio originated for me (my dad was a genius.). That was one hell of a game. Here's a flashback, feel free to ff to 4:30 for tl;dw version. "The promised land is eight yards away!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb5brja ... r_embedded

Fat comedians don't live long, do they?

Shirley wrote:Fat comedians don't live long, do they?

I was going to say I just heard a podcast [Rogan's] where a couple comedians were joking about Ralphie dying, but they were probably always joking about Ralphie dying for the past 20 years, so not odd.

Shirley wrote:Fat comedians don't live long, do they?

People who weigh 400+ pounds don’t live long, regardless of their professions.

bfj wrote:

Shirley wrote:Fat comedians don't live long, do they?

People who weigh 400+ pounds don’t live long, regardless of their professions.

First show I worked on was hosted by a great guy - Dan Gallagher. 6' 4" 380 pounds. He had a good career going up here for a while. Dead at 43.

I figure I’m playing with house money at this point.

bfj wrote:

Shirley wrote:Fat comedians don't live long, do they?

People who weigh 400+ pounds don’t live long, regardless of their professions.

Fair point. I think comedians compound that with a life on the road, constantly surrounded by drinking and drugs.

Shirley wrote:

bfj wrote:

Shirley wrote:Fat comedians don't live long, do they?

People who weigh 400+ pounds don’t live long, regardless of their professions.

Fair point. I think comedians compound that with a life on the road, constantly surrounded by drinking and drugs.

Even if they do that on a small scale (or not at all), just the irregular travel schedule often leading to poor eating/exercise/sleep doesn't help.

Johnny Carwash wrote:Robert Guillaume, aka Benson

Benson was a spin off of what show?
Bonus Swamp bucks if you can explain how the two shows were connected.

bfj wrote:

Johnny Carwash wrote:Robert Guillaume, aka Benson

Benson was a spin off of what show?
Bonus Swamp bucks if you can explain how the two shows were connected.

Soap.
Benson was the butler on Soap.

sancarlos wrote:

bfj wrote:

Johnny Carwash wrote:Robert Guillaume, aka Benson

Benson was a spin off of what show?
Bonus Swamp bucks if you can explain how the two shows were connected.

Soap.
Benson was the butler on Soap.

Yeah, but it's cheating for us old guys to answer.

Go even deeper, Benson was the debut acting performance of .......

sancarlos wrote:

bfj wrote:

Johnny Carwash wrote:Robert Guillaume, aka Benson

Benson was a spin off of what show?
Bonus Swamp bucks if you can explain how the two shows were connected.

Soap.
Benson was the butler on Soap.

Partial credit. How did Benson know the governor of CA?

bfj wrote:

sancarlos wrote:

bfj wrote:

Johnny Carwash wrote:Robert Guillaume, aka Benson

Benson was a spin off of what show?
Bonus Swamp bucks if you can explain how the two shows were connected.

Soap.
Benson was the butler on Soap.

Partial credit. How did Benson know the governor of CA?

Wasn't Jessica Tate his sister or cousin or something?

Steve of phpBB wrote:

bfj wrote:

sancarlos wrote:

bfj wrote:

Johnny Carwash wrote:Robert Guillaume, aka Benson

Benson was a spin off of what show?
Bonus Swamp bucks if you can explain how the two shows were connected.

Soap.
Benson was the butler on Soap.

Partial credit. How did Benson know the governor of CA?

Wasn't Jessica Tate his sister or cousin or something?

Very good! Governor Gatlin was her brother.

So (and it took me forty years to piece this together), the Governor must have been Mary's sister too.

Steve of phpBB wrote:So (and it took me forty years to piece this together), the Governor must have been Mary's sister too.

Her brother, but yes. Clearly he was more like Jessica.

wlu_lax6 wrote:Go even deeper, Benson was the debut acting performance of .......

Billy Crystal

Still the best series finale in history! I binge-watched that show in 1995 before binge-watching was cool.

Giff wrote:
Still the best series finale in history! I binge-watched that show in 1995 before binge-watching was cool.

I still laugh when I remember Chester Tate coming out of his bout of amnesia. The spur to his memory was a block of cheese.

"My name is Cheddar Plate!"

He'll always be Isaac to me.

Giff wrote:

wlu_lax6 wrote:Go even deeper, Benson was the debut acting performance of .......

Billy Crystal

Still the best series finale in history! I binge-watched that show in 1995 before binge-watching was cool.

Also the first gay character on a TV Show, IIRC.

Giff wrote:

wlu_lax6 wrote:Go even deeper, Benson was the debut acting performance of .......

Billy Crystal

Still the best series finale in history! I binge-watched that show in 1995 before binge-watching was cool.

I can't tell if you are joking b.t.w....you know that is not Billy Crystal right?

"I mean, what's the deal with Giff?" /nasal

wlu_lax6 wrote:

Giff wrote:

wlu_lax6 wrote:Go even deeper, Benson was the debut acting performance of .......

Billy Crystal

Still the best series finale in history! I binge-watched that show in 1995 before binge-watching was cool.

I can't tell if you are joking b.t.w....you know that is not Billy Crystal right?

I'm at work and images are blocked. I thought it was a trivia question.