Saturday, February 25, 2023

RMU X 3

Defensive lineman Bobby Jefferson, who served as a Dartmouth student-assistant coach last season after suffering an Achilles tear in the preseason, will be joining teammates Zack Bair and Seth Verilus on the football roster at Pennsylvania's Robert Morris University next fall. Jefferson was a fifth-year senior in 2022 and had exhausted his Ivy League eligibility. The 6-foot-2, 300-pound Jefferson Tweeted his intentions here:

Jefferson will be joined by Bair, who ran for 1,126 yards in 30 career games at Dartmouth, and Verilus, who had 59 tackles in 24 games as a defensive back as they bid to breathe new life into a program that went 0-11 last fall and has posted just one winning record since 2011, a 7-5 mark in 2019. 

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A tweet on the XFL Seattle Sea Dragons'account features former Dartmouth defensive lineman Niko Lalos '20 during Thursday night's game:

The fact that I choose not to own a cell phone is just one reason why I lament that so many sports venues are eliminating paper tickets. Here in the BGA World Headquarters I have a wooden cigar box I got somewhere filled with ticket stubs from New York Yankee games dating back to when I was in elementary school. There are assorted other tickets from Knicks and Rangers games as well as concerts I started to attend in college, and even one from the Lake Placid Olympics. Each ducat is a treasure of memories and somehow I don't think a screenshot with a barcode on it will have the same appeal to new generations of fans when they are older.

Oh, and real paper tickets can become collectors items of course. This assortment of 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1938 Dartmouth-Yale game tickets would look nice framed on a wall and it's for sale for $24.95 on eBay (LINK)


This ticket for Dartmouth's 1932 game at Cornell that is up for auction on eBay (LINK) is a piece of art:


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As a baseball guy, I'd love to do BGA for Bob Whalen's Big Green team but between the number of games, the number of miles and the number of potential subscribers, well, the numbers wouldn't work. But if they did, I would have been in Florida yesterday to see Dartmouth throw a scare at No. 22 Miami before falling, 9-7. Find the story of the Big Green opener HERE.

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EXTRA POINT
Given her retirement, Mrs. BGA had to return the work laptop she used at home. That being the case, we managed to find a refurbished MacBook Air online at a great price that will allow her to escape the PC "dark side."

Her like-new laptop arrived yesterday and while it's two-plus years newer than the beater I'm typing this on, the operating system had not been updated. I helped her update the Mac OS yesterday and it was a reminder (as if I needed one) of just how painfully slow the internet is at our Vermont hillside home.

The update size was 12 GB. That took a full six hours to download.
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