Thursday, September 08, 2022

Worth A Watch

Dartmouth quarterback Nick Howard channeled his inner Yogi Berra when asked about how much of what he says can be used while he's mic'd up for a social media video posted by the football office:

"Probably 80 percent because the other half is gonna have to get cut."

Watch here:

Speaking of Howard, we learned a lot about how he was going to play last year in the opener against Valparaiso. Check out how he sends a 230-pound Valpo defensive lineman flying at the end of a run that begins at the 40-second mark:

 

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Big week for former Dartmouth linebacker Folarin Orimolade, now with the Calgary Stampeders:


Green Alert Take: I don't know exactly what it means, but it's good ;-)

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From a FastCompany story (LINK):

Cirkul, the $1 billion water bottle company, which took off on TikTok earlier this year and has since become Walmart’s home division’s fastest-selling product

Co-founders (CEO Garrett) Waggoner and company president Andy Gay came up with the idea for Cirkul while they were teammates on the Dartmouth College football team. These latest launches—which includes electrolyte-and BCAA-infused branded sports drinks—represent a full circle moment, harkening back to their student-athlete days, when powder drink mixes were the height of beverage technology. After years of research and development, Waggoner and Gay came up with a solution for creating and delivering completely customizable flavors and function for everyone—for use both on and off the field.

And . . .

Since expanding beyond direct-to-consumer and debuting on the shelves of domestic Walmart stores in April this year, the retailer has sold more than 1.5 million Cirkul bottles.

Included in the story is a quote from Cirkul COO Phil McKeating, another former Dartmouth football player.

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There will be coverage on BGA Premium tonight of the second and final Dartmouth intrasquad scrimmage of the preseason. The detailed BGA overview of the 2022 Big Green will conclude with the final two parts of the series looking at the quarterback room and the offensive line in coming days before ramping up with game week coverage.

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EXTRA POINT
With U.S. Open tennis winding down, something I never thought about until That Certain Dartmouth '14, who lives at about 8,000 feet in Colorado and has been playing a little tennis shared with us: She has to use high-altitude tennis balls. From a story I dug up HERE: "A regular-altitude ball at around 4,000 feet or higher would bounce in the neighborhood of three inches above normal rebound."

Makes sense, but who knew?

For the record, TCD14 said she's going to start playing Pickleball. High-altitude balls need not apply ;-)

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