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Post by TTX on May 11, 2022 3:07:08 GMT -5
RIP Bob.
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Post by neilybob on May 11, 2022 16:35:41 GMT -5
I remember bob lanier.
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Post by jimsteel on May 12, 2022 16:18:35 GMT -5
Gino Cappelletti, a former wide receiver, defensive back and kicker in the NFL and AFL, passed away on May 12th, at the age of 89. He played college football at the University of Minnesota and was an All-Star in the American Football League (AFL) for the Boston Patriots, winning the 1964 American Football League Most Valuable Player award. Cappelletti is a member of the Patriots Hall of Fame, the Patriots' All-1960s Team and the American Football League Hall of Fame. He served as the Patriots' radio color commentator until July 2012. His nicknames included "The Duke" and "Mr. Patriot". Cappelletti came out of pro football in 1959, back in Minnesota. With the launch of the American Football League in 1960, he joined the Boston Patriots and was initially a kicker and defensive back. He switched to offense later that season and teamed up with quarterback Babe Parilli to form a tandem nicknamed "Grand Opera Twins", due to their Italian surnames. Cappelletti won AFL MVP honors in 1964, led the league in scoring five times and was a five-time AFL All-Star. He holds the professional football record for points over a six-year period (9.5), points over an 11-year period (7.5) and percentage of his team's total points over an eight-year period (34%). One of 20 AFL players active during the entirety of the league's ten-year existence, Cappelletti was also among just three players who played in every one of his team's AFL games. He played with the Patriots all 11 years in Boston, from 1960 through the 1970 NFL merger season, and retired in late August 1971 at age 37;[1][14] he was the AFL's all-time leading scorer with 1,130 points (42 TDs, 176 FGs and 342 PATs) and among the AFL's top receivers in yards and in receptions. Cappelletti had two of the top five scoring seasons in pro football history, with 155 points in 1964 and 147 points in 1961 (14-game seasons). His Patriots team scoring record lasted until it was broken by Adam Vinatieri on December 5, 2005. To date, as of the end of the 2017 season, Cappelletti is the Patriots' 11th all-time leading receiver in receptions with 292 catches and 9th in receiving yards with 4,589 yards. He is 5th in Patriots history in receiving touchdowns with 42 and has the most field goal attempts (334) in team history. During Cappelletti's pro career, he also returned punts and kickoffs, played defensive back and even had one pass completed for a touchdown. Cappelletti was just the second AFL player to record three interceptions (of Tom Flores) in a regular-season game, holds the professional football record for most touchdowns in Saturday games (10), scored 18 points or more in a game ten times and scored 20 or more points in a game eight times. He set the AFL single-game record by scoring 28 points in the Patriots' 42–14 rout of Houston on December 18, 1965. Cappelletti is the only player in professional football history to run for a two-point conversion, throw for a two-point conversion, catch a pass, intercept a pass, return a punt and return a kickoff in the same season. He kicked six field goals (without a miss) in a 39–10 win at Denver on October 4, 1964 and became one of only two AFL kickers with at least four field goals per game for three consecutive games. Cappelletti kicked the longest field goal in the AFL in consecutive seasons and led the AFL in field-goal percentage in 1965. In 1984, Cappelletti was inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. However, he has not been selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 2003, he was named to the Professional Football Researchers Association Hall of Very Good in the association's inaugural HOVG class. Cappelletti worked alongside Gil Santos as a color commentator for the Patriots' radio broadcasts on the New England Patriots Radio Network (in the 1988–90 period he worked alongside Dale Arnold). The Santos-Cappelletti duo lasted 28 seasons, the longest radio tandem in modern NFL history. They called 585 regular-season and postseason games together, including a league-record six Super Bowls.
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Post by jimsteel on May 12, 2022 16:21:04 GMT -5
Trevor Strnad, The Black Dahlia Murder vocalist, dies at 41
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Post by jimsteel on May 13, 2022 11:10:07 GMT -5
‘Tremors’ Star Fred Ward Has Passed Away at 79: - Actor Fred Ward has passed away at the age of 79, the actor of course beloved by horror fans for his role in Tremors. NPR reports that Ward died on Sunday, May 8th. “No cause of death was given.” Fred Ward played the lovable character Earl Bassett in the original Tremors back in 1990, who along with Kevin Bacon’s Valentine McKee saved Perfection from the deadly Graboids. While Bacon didn’t return for Tremors II: Aftershocks, Fred Ward took center stage in a solo outing, reprising the role of Earl Bassett for the 1996 sequel to the original classic.
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Post by TTX on May 13, 2022 11:25:15 GMT -5
RIP Fred.
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Post by jimsteel on May 14, 2022 11:58:49 GMT -5
David West, a former pitcher in major league baseball, passed away at 57 due to complications from cancer. The following is a tweet from Ruben Amaro Jr. "Was just informed from LA that our dear friend and teammate, David West, has lost his battle with cancer. May God bless him and his family as he moves on to a better place...we will miss you dearly Westay- may your sweet soul Rest in Peace." After graduating from Memphis' Craigmont High School in 1983, West was drafted by the New York Mets in the fourth round of the 1983 amateur draft and signed with the team on June 8, 1983. On July 31, 1989, West was traded by the New York Mets with a player to be named later, along with Rick Aguilera, Tim Drummond and Kevin Tapani to the Minnesota Twins for Frank Viola. The Mets sent Jack Savage (October 16, 1989) to the Twins to complete the trade. On December 5, 1992, he again was traded by the Minnesota Twins to the Philadelphia Phillies for Mike Hartley. During the 1991 postseason, he had varied success. In the 1991 American League Championship Series, he appeared in two games against the Toronto Blue Jays, pitching 5.2 innings while allowing just one hit and no runs. In the 1991 World Series, he appeared in two games but recorded no outs, allowing two hits, four runs and four walks in six total batters with an ERA of infinity. He also pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1993 World Series. During his pro baseball career, he pitched for the following teams: New York Mets (1988–1989) Minnesota Twins (1989–1992) Philadelphia Phillies (1993–1996) Fukuoka Daiei Hawks (1997) Boston Red Sox (1998) During his 10-year career he had 31 wins and 38 losses with a 4.66 ERA.
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Post by neilybob on May 14, 2022 15:31:16 GMT -5
RIP MR. West.
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Post by legend on May 14, 2022 19:52:41 GMT -5
I read somewhere that West is the sixth former Phillie to die of brain cancer.
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Post by jimsteel on May 16, 2022 10:54:46 GMT -5
Maggie Peterson Mancuso passed away at 81 She is best known for playing Charlene Darling on The Andy Griffith Show
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