Dartmouth football has lost a generous and devoted friend with the passing a week ago of Doug Floren, whose gift made Floren Varsity House possible. From the Greenwich Free Press:
Doug was devoted to Dartmouth football. He was instrumental in bringing revered football coach Buddy Teevens back to Dartmouth and worked side by side with him to build the Floren Varsity House, designed to support all Dartmouth student-athletes.
Read about Doug Floren's life in the Greenwich Free Press HERE.
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Former Dartmouth captain Mike Bobo's '92 son Jake is a Super Bowl champion with the Seattle Seahawks. The website Go Long tells the full story behind the phrase "More Bobo," coined by Seattle running backs coach Chad Morton, who like Bobo, has a Dartmouth connection. From the story (LINK):
“It started as less a compliment to me and more of a dig at the defense,” Bobo says. “Like, ‘You’re going to let the skinny white boy run around on you guys, dude?’ Chad is a very loud individual. I love him to death. Thankful for even coming up with that. But it was more of a shot at the defense than it was a compliment.”
Seattle’s veterans on defense got sick of being embarrassed. Bobo started to dread those calls for “More Bobo!” because they put a target on his back. (“I’m like, ‘Chad, you’re killing me! These guys are coming from my head now!' ”)
Green Alert Take: Here's what the story fails to mention. Chad Morton is the younger the brother of former Big Green wide receiver Eric Morton '97, who caught 55 passes with four touchdowns in his Dartmouth career.
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EXTRA POINTWith the installation of fiber internet last month we switched our phone service from a traditional "landline" to VoIP. I asked AI if we would still be considered to have a landline and got this response:
"Technically: No. Once your phone service is VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), it’s not a traditional landline anymore. Classic landlines are POTS lines (Plain Old Telephone Service) that run over copper wires from the phone company and carry their own power."In everyday language: Most people would still call it a landline. It’s a phone that stays in the house, rings on a base, and isn’t a cellphone—so socially and conversationally, 'landline' still fits."
Either way, for the first time we have "caller ID," and I've learned that all those calls about our fictional "extended car warranty" running out, the problems with our Windows PC (we are a Mac family) and the delay in satisfying a personal injury claim for an accident we never had, are routed through numbers here in Vermont. Somehow that makes those calls feel even more sleazy.
