Friday, June 24, 2022

Worth Watching

Check out this highlight video from Dartmouth's 24-14 win over Cornell in 1971that was posted by the Big Green football office. Wayne Young, longtime voice of Dartmouth football and baseball, gets an early mention for a tackle and is in on a few more. Brendan O'Neil, whose son Brian is today a standout offensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings, is shown getting a few carries and Heisman Trophy finalist Ed Marinaro is seen largely bottled up except for one long touchdown run. The video also shows the towering stands that used to line the east sideline of Memorial Field. (Be sure to expand the video to full screen.)

EDITOR'S NOTE: If the video didn't come up, access it directly HERE. 

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Dartmouth getting a mention in a story spun out of Arch Manning choosing Texas? Yup.

The UGA wire has a piece headlined, Georgia’s Top Remaining 2023 QB targets after Arch Manning news that has capsule looks at several potential quarterback targets for the Bulldogs, including a three-star who apparently has pretty good grades. From the story and as usual, the italics are mine (LINK):

Paul Kessler has not garnered the same level of attention from other Power Five schools as the other prospects mentioned, but he could still be an option for Georgia’s 2023 class.

Kessler was offered by Georgia last September and has recently visited Cal, Yale and Dartmouth.

From Los Angeles, he ranks as the nation’s No. 129 ranked quarterback.

Green Alert Take: Mentions of major college prospects getting offers from Dartmouth are a dime a dozen. Mentions of them taking visits to Hanover are rarer. Check Kessler out HERE.

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He admits to being uncertain how to pronounce his subject's last name and judging how he says it clearly isn't familiar with where that subject went to college, but a fellow posting on the Big Blue in the Bronx channel still has a video titled, 2022 New York Giants Roster Bubble EP #5: Niko Lalos:

 

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EXTRA POINT
It happens often while watching Jeopardy. A clue will come up, I'll rack my brain to no avail, and when the contestant responds correctly I'll say (aloud or to myself), "I knew that."

There are some clues I have absolutely no idea about, of course. I'm hopeless when it comes to mythology and while I was an English major as an undergrad and took several Shakespeare courses I think I've forgotten more about the Bard than I ever knew, if that's possible. (It's not, of course ;-)

Why do I bring that up? Thanks for asking.

Each morning my email delivers The Writer's Almanac, a newsletter from Garrison Keillor that is a successor to his five-minute program on public radio. Here's one of the today's entries that also is available on a podcast:

It was on this day in 1374 in Aachen, Germany that an outbreak of dancing plague or dancing mania, also known as St. Vitus’ Dance, first began. From Aachen it spread across central Europe and as far away as England and Madagascar. Dancing mania affected groups of people — as many as thousands at a time — and caused them to dance uncontrollably for days, weeks, and even months until they collapsed from exhaustion. Some danced themselves to death, suffering heart attacks or broken hips and ribs. At the time, people believed the plague was the result of a curse from St. Vitus. Scientists now tend to believe it was due to ergot poisoning or mass hysteria.

If St. Vitus' Dance came up on Jeopardy before today it would have gotten nothing but a blank stare from me. I might have forgotten a lot of Ol' Will's stuff, but if I ever heard of something that bizarre I've got to believe it would have rung a bell. I doesn't ring even the echo of a bell for me.

For what it's worth, The Writer's Almanac takes no time to read and almost always has something of interest. You can poke around and check out the full week's entries and/or subscribe HERE.

If nothing else, it will help you on Jeopardy ;-)

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