Sunday, July 31, 2022

What A Difference A Year Makes

One year ago tight end JJ Jones was looking forward to his final Dartmouth season as a fifth-year senior. Now a Name, Image and Likeness deal celebrates his journey from his Tracy, Calif., home to the Ivy League, to Las Cruces as a New Mexico football "legacy":

A little digging finds that the A-Mountain Sports NIL Collective, whose website says it is not affiliated with NM State, "exists to create unique opportunities to facilitate and support NM State student-athletes through their NIL and provide networking opportunities and business connections to ensure the success of our student-athlete Aggies. We seek to pool funds from contributors ranging from small to large, building a year-round resource to help individual sports and benefit student-athletes at NM State."

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From a release out of Canton, Ohio (LINK):

The Pro Football Hall of Fame has unveiled a new exhibit that recognizes women who have made a difference in professional football. 

Titled "Women’s Impact on Football," the exhibit is located in the Pro Football Today area of the Museum and features artifacts from women who have played, coached, officiated and broadcast the game at its highest level. 

Among those women is Callie Brownson, whose career took off after she came to Dartmouth as a quality control coach. Here's her part of the exhibit:


The explanation in the corner of her display reads:

Callie Brownson became the first woman to serve as a position coach during a regular season NFL game. Brownson, who is the team's Chief of Staff, handled gameday duties of tight ends coach Drew Petzing, who did not travel with the team after his wife gave birth to their first child. This is Brownson's sideline jacket and game ball from the Cleveland Browns victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars 27-25 on Nov. 29, 2020.

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This is kind of fun and may be of interest to newbies who never saw Memorial Field before the renovation ;-)

A couple of days ago I got an email announcing that my files on Amazon Drive were not going to be accessible after December of 2023. To be honest, I had no idea I had any files on Amazon Drive so I clicked through and found that as a trial I'd stuck a few pix on the site. This was one of them:


A quick history lesson. When Memorial Field was renovated the entire inside of the home grandstand was carefully pulled down while the outside wall was saved. Here the new construction has started.

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Dartmouth's Meet the Freshman series continues with an introduction to a pair of incoming running backs in Desmin Jackson, a 5-foot-10, 175-pounder from Orange Lutheran High School and Menifee, Calif., and Darius “DJ” Crowther, a 5-9, 185-pounder from Christian Brothers High School and Elk Grove, Calif..


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EXTRA POINT
Last night we crossed the Connecticut River and went to the 78th annual North Haverhill Fair on the wonderfully named Dartmouth College Highway.

Although we went to a bunch of summer fair-type events when the kids were growing up, this is one we somehow missed and so it was fun to share the experience with That Certain Nittany Lion '16. He was perhaps a little more interested than he might have otherwise been about the evening because the entrance fee included the chance to see country band LANCO, known best for their multi-platinum hit Greatest Love Story, which has been viewed more than 150 million times on YouTube.


While it's just a small-town deal, the North Haverhill Fair has brought some big names to the town of 843  about a half hour north of campus. Among others who have performed on the little stage next to the midway over the years are Keith Urban, Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton.
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