The Daily Dose/September 27, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for a while.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow is back at the veterans service office (VSO). Today’s Diary.
He advised he’d call me when I was back, but then he started rambling, noting how he hoped I had fun while I was away (while brilliantly, perhaps passive-aggresively, implying we weren’t there to serve him) and then he started rambling about the weather “some clouds, and there have been some sprinkles…Blue skies now tho…Still cool mornings…”…It was over a minute of blather.
The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 5 – The race for the ESPNCup rolls on, with Colorado State, Colorado, and Georgia State on the Bottom Ten medal stand this week.
Forget wins, Rams still looking for first lead of the season.
Legal weed must be training table staple in Colorado, as Division II teams lousy, too, combining for B-10esque 9-17 mark in 2022.
While non-conference mark not what they were expecting, conference insiders quietly confident teams can rebound for strong .500 mark in conference play.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1590 – Pope Urban VII dies of malaria in Rome, ending the shortest reign in papal history at 13 days. Urban had been elected on the 15th following the death of Sixtus V, who had served since 1572. Despite serving less than a fortnight, Urban had an eventful reign, enacting the first public smoking ban and subsidizing Roman bakers so they could sell bread at a lower cost. He was succeeded by Gregory XIV, who was elected after a two-month stalemate and who didn’t really want the job.
In 1942 – The New York Giants tie the NFL record for fewest first downs in a game in a 14-7 win over the Washington Redskins. The Giants had zero first downs to tie the mark they had established in 1933 and that had been tied by Pittsburgh Pirates later in 1933 and by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1935 and was tied by the Denver Broncos of the AFL in 1966. The Giants remain the only NFL team to win games twice when they got zero first downs and the 1933 Pirates also won their game with zero first downs.
In 1997 – Usher is at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart – then known as the Hot R&B Singles chart – for the fourth of eleven consecutive weeks with You Make Me Wanna….The song also went to #1 in Great Britain and peaked at #2 on the Hot 100, where it spent seven consecutive weeks at #2 and 21 non-consecutive weeks in the Top 10, and the song was Billboard’s 5th-biggest soul song of the year, their 15th-biggest pop hit of 1997 and the 14-biggest of 1998. It was the first of 13 soul #1s for Usher and his first of 18 Top 10 pop hits.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
What has gone wrong with the people that they can’t see what’s happening to them?Gore Vidal
The Golden Age
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Ed Reulbach, who pitched two shutouts on Sept 26, 1908, had seven shutouts with Chicago Cubs for the entire 1908 season.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What team holds the NFL record for most first downs in a game? – Answer next time!