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Vegas Vic 02-19-2023 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by GrantDawg (Post 3393512)
He isn't dead yet, and he might warrant his own thread when he does. Former President Carter as entered hospice care. They don't say his condition, but I wouldn't be surprised if he goes soon.


Jimmy Carter is a good man who truly loved his country. Although many do not agree with his political philosophy, it's hard to find anyone who would disagree with that.

From time to time, I'll go back and watch the Carter/Reagan debate. It almost seems surreal watching these two guys debate the issues while remaining respectful toward each other. Unfortunately, those days are long gone.

CrimsonFox 02-19-2023 05:39 PM

my first encounter with Belzer was....wait for it...as a stand up comedian on various late night comic specials .

I then Saw him in the Henry Winkler michael keaton comedy Night shift as a murderous pimp and then as a gay stage manager in Al Pacino's author author.


People were amazed I knew his name. I would see him pop up in so many of these little roles in movies and tv.

CrimsonFox 02-19-2023 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by GrantDawg (Post 3393576)


That first pic looks like the X-Files with Langley. I don't remember him in that but he does fit that world seeing as he is a lizard person.

JonInMiddleGA 02-19-2023 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Vegas Vic (Post 3393586)
Jimmy Carter is a good man who truly loved his country. Although many do not agree with his political philosophy, it's hard to find anyone who would disagree with that.



Not if they've paid attention.

CrimsonFox 02-20-2023 12:18 AM

oh wow Richard Belzer was Henry Winkler's cousin

NobodyHere 02-28-2023 07:56 AM

Sounds like Tom Sizemore is going to be in this thread soon.

Edward64 03-03-2023 11:01 PM

Yup, gone. RIP

Honolulu_Blue 03-04-2023 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by NobodyHere (Post 3394334)
Sounds like Tom Sizemore is going to be in this thread soon.


While he played some great roles in some really iconic movies in the 90’s (at least for me), it sounds like he was a garbage human.

QuikSand 03-05-2023 11:49 AM

David Lindley, RIP

David Lindley Dead: Guitarist for Jackson Browne and Others Was 78 - Variety

The 20 seconds or so he gets in the middle of the "Stay" bit here are just pure musical bliss, IMO. A little flat steel guitar, a little prominent falsetto, and some gentures and grunts to please the audience to no end. I love it.


JonInMiddleGA 03-05-2023 07:29 PM

Damn :( Last surviving original member of the band

LYNYRD SKYNYRD Guitarist GARY ROSSINGTON Dead At 71 - BraveWords

Edward64 03-06-2023 05:13 AM

Free Bird, Sweet Home Alabama, Gimme Three Steps ... :(

Lathum 03-06-2023 08:12 AM

Tuesdays gone in the best.

cartman 03-06-2023 08:51 AM

He was the inspiration for the song "That Smell" after smashing his car into a tree, and he also survived the plane crash that killed the other members of the band.

GrantDawg 03-06-2023 01:40 PM

Skynryd's music just hits my soul. Just such a tragedy what happened.

CrimsonFox 03-09-2023 04:19 PM

Goodbye to my weet childhood neighbor Joyce SIlvester. Her and her husband was the epitome of the charming soft spoken British couple. She was like a second mom. We've known them since before I was born. I hadn't spoken to her in ages and heard she was pretty senile for some time. But I remember her so fondly.

stevew 03-09-2023 05:40 PM

Oh this isn’t bumped for Mitch McConnell?

CrimsonFox 03-09-2023 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by stevew (Post 3395216)
Oh this isn’t bumped for Mitch McConnell?


you got me excited.

GrantDawg 03-09-2023 06:59 PM

Robert Blake, acquitted murderer, dies at 89.

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NobodyHere 03-09-2023 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by CrimsonFox (Post 3395219)
you got me excited.



Edward64 03-09-2023 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by GrantDawg (Post 3395221)
Robert Blake, acquitted murderer, dies at 89.

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Baretta was not "acquitted murderer" but "acquitted of murder"

GrantDawg 03-09-2023 09:02 PM

No, I was right the first time.

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miami_fan 03-11-2023 05:07 PM

Bud Grant, NFL Hall of Fame coach who led Vikings to four Super Bowls, dies at 95 | CNN

Not a huge surprise because guys did play in multiple pro sports leagues, I learned all of this today.

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Prior to his coaching success, Grant was drafted into both the NBA and NFL. He played two seasons in the NBA for the Minneapolis Lakers, winning the inaugural NBA Championship in his rookie season in 1950.

Grant left the NBA to join the NFL as a player for the Philadelphia Eagles. After two seasons, Grant headed to Canada, where he spent 14 seasons as a player and later a coach for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He coached the Blue Bombers to four Grey Cup wins before returning to the NFL to coach the Vikings.

RIP Coach.

Critch 03-13-2023 04:24 PM

Dick Fosbury, inventor of the Fosbury flop high jump has flopped his last.

Fidatelo 03-14-2023 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Critch (Post 3395624)
Dick Fosbury, inventor of the Fosbury flop high jump has flopped his last.



He might get one more chance if Corncob TV airs a final season of Coffin Flop.

cartman 03-14-2023 11:24 AM

Dick Fosbury, the inventor of the Fosbury Flop high jump method, passed away at the age of 76.

Dick Fosbury, who won an Olympic gold medal with the ‘Fosbury Flop,’ dies at 76

QuikSand 03-14-2023 11:32 AM

I know this is kinda open-ended, but Dick Fosbury occupies a specific place in history and people's knowledge/recollection of it.

-Fosbury, and specifically the "Fosbury Flop," is generally regarded as part of trivia canon, the sort of thing you are supposed to know if you are worth a damn as a serious trivia guy

-Even more specifically, by contrast I think that nothing else in the entire world of high jumping qualifies as such... no other athlete, record-holder, etc is really considered fair game for trivia... just this one specific guy and his innovation (by name)

I'm sure there are plenty of other people out there who are noteworthy for one specific thing, and widely/well remembered for that and that alone. Fosbury just feels like a sports world shining example of this phenomenon.

We could call it the "Eli Whitney Award" perhaps.

albionmoonlight 03-14-2023 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by QuikSand (Post 3395718)

I'm sure there are plenty of other people out there who are noteworthy for one specific thing, and widely/well remembered for that and that alone. Fosbury just feels like a sports world shining example of this phenomenon.

We could call it the "Eli Whitney Award" perhaps.


Would Buster Douglas qualify?

cartman 03-14-2023 12:07 PM

To me, his being memorable was coming up with a new way of attempting something in a genre that had been pretty stable for millennia. Track and Field is seeing who can run the fastest, jump the farthest, jump the highest, or throw the farthest. The way to attempt all of those had been basically unchanged since ancient times. He not only tried a different way to jump, he fundamentally changed how everyone approached high jumping. Something similar was the introduction of spinning to throw a shotput in the 1970s, but that was an adaptation of the technique used for throwing a discus.

Atocep 03-14-2023 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by albionmoonlight (Post 3395720)
Would Buster Douglas qualify?


Buster Douglas beating Tyson was one of the first "where were you" memories that I have.

I was at a friend's house that weekend and I remember, since the fight was in Japan, waking up to sportscenter running the story and the still shots from the fight. To 10-11 year old kids at the time Tyson was unbeatable.

cuervo72 03-14-2023 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by QuikSand (Post 3395718)
I know this is kinda open-ended, but Dick Fosbury occupies a specific place in history and people's knowledge/recollection of it.

-Fosbury, and specifically the "Fosbury Flop," is generally regarded as part of trivia canon, the sort of thing you are supposed to know if you are worth a damn as a serious trivia guy

-Even more specifically, by contrast I think that nothing else in the entire world of high jumping qualifies as such... no other athlete, record-holder, etc is really considered fair game for trivia... just this one specific guy and his innovation (by name)


Generally agreed, though in studying old Online Quiz League questions, these have also popped up concerning high jumpers:

At the 1948 London games, Alice Coachman became the first black American woman to win an Olympic gold medal by prevailing in what athletics event? (HIGH JUMP)

What Asian country won its first two gold medals at this summer's Olympics, including a shared gold medal between high jumper Mutaz Essa Barshim and his Italian competitor Gianmarco Tamberi? This country will make its first men's soccer World Cup appearance next year as the host country.
Spoiler


Which Bulgarian, who won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, is the current women's world record holder in the high jump?
Spoiler


For our purposes, I don't think the last one would be asked (that might have even been an OQL UK question, they seem to put more emphasis on track/field sports). The second one was more a current events question. The first one...maybe worth filing away. (And yes, OQL has a good number of "WTF??" questions.)

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Other examples...the Biellmann spin maybe? Though I don't know if that's as famous (and she wasn't actually the first to perform the move). Bannister and the 4:00 mile?

GrantDawg 03-14-2023 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by QuikSand (Post 3395718)
I know this is kinda open-ended, but Dick Fosbury occupies a specific place in history and people's knowledge/recollection of it.

-Fosbury, and specifically the "Fosbury Flop," is generally regarded as part of trivia canon, the sort of thing you are supposed to know if you are worth a damn as a serious trivia guy

-Even more specifically, by contrast I think that nothing else in the entire world of high jumping qualifies as such... no other athlete, record-holder, etc is really considered fair game for trivia... just this one specific guy and his innovation (by name)

I'm sure there are plenty of other people out there who are noteworthy for one specific thing, and widely/well remembered for that and that alone. Fosbury just feels like a sports world shining example of this phenomenon.

We could call it the "Eli Whitney Award" perhaps.

How quickly people forget "The triple Lindy"

Critch 03-14-2023 04:45 PM



The film of the old ways of doing the high jump look like something out of Monty Python when you've grown up used to the Fosbury flop.

RainMaker 03-14-2023 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by cartman (Post 3395725)
To me, his being memorable was coming up with a new way of attempting something in a genre that had been pretty stable for millennia. Track and Field is seeing who can run the fastest, jump the farthest, jump the highest, or throw the farthest. The way to attempt all of those had been basically unchanged since ancient times. He not only tried a different way to jump, he fundamentally changed how everyone approached high jumping. Something similar was the introduction of spinning to throw a shotput in the 1970s, but that was an adaptation of the technique used for throwing a discus.


It is just insane to think that someone said to all the coaches, athletes, experts, etc, that you're doing this all wrong. I don't even know if I can find another sports equivalent.

Ksyrup 03-14-2023 06:44 PM

I'm shocked the old guard didn't attempt to outlaw what Fosbury did as against the rules to protect themselves from looking like fools and being one-upped by someone who dared to challenge the status quo. Or maybe they did and that isn't part of a 5 minute explanation of everything leading up to the Olympics or the aftermath.

flere-imsaho 03-14-2023 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by RainMaker (Post 3395775)
It is just insane to think that someone said to all the coaches, athletes, experts, etc, that you're doing this all wrong. I don't even know if I can find another sports equivalent.


Close, though not exactly: Skate Skiing.

The wiki article doesn't mention it, but it was definitely a source of contention in World Cup and Olympic competition in the 70s & 80s, until eventually everyone agreed that you'd have separate "classic" and "freestyle" events. My source is that I skiied competitively in the 80s.

CrimsonFox 03-15-2023 04:01 AM

RIP all those people that were left off the memorium of the oscars

Edward64 03-15-2023 07:01 AM

Every year there seems to be someone that is left out that should have been included.

I wonder if those were intentional because "not important enough" or if they truly were missed by the research dept. If it was research dept, you'd think it's easy enough to fix.

Ghost Econ 03-16-2023 05:40 AM

RIP to Bobby Caldwell. The smoothest white man to ever live.

Ksyrup 03-16-2023 06:26 AM

His biggest hit is the theme music for SXM's Yacht Rock channel. I watched a video of him performing it about 10 years ago and he still had his voice.

CrimsonFox 03-16-2023 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Edward64 (Post 3395848)
Every year there seems to be someone that is left out that should have been included.

I wonder if those were intentional because "not important enough" or if they truly were missed by the research dept. If it was research dept, you'd think it's easy enough to fix.


I can't think it's anything but a clique thing. People with the power to leave people off swing their **** around.

people left out: Anne Heche, Leslie Jordan, Paul Sorvino, Tom Sizemore, Gilbert Gottfried, Charlbi Dean, Tony Sirico, Barbara Walters, and Topol

Seriously no one cares if the oscars run long anymore. That's what DVRs with fast forward button is for. Contrarily what we want from the oscars is for them to be funny.

CrimsonFox 03-16-2023 01:23 PM

oh yeah, *starts another fire* also ROBERT BLAKE!

cuervo72 03-16-2023 01:37 PM

Should someone like Barbara Walters though? She wasn't in the film industry.

Ksyrup 03-16-2023 01:40 PM

I wouldn't consider Gilbert Gottfried either. Paul Sorvino seems inexcusable though.

GrantDawg 03-16-2023 03:31 PM

There is actually several on that list that wouldn't really qualify. It is not just a "dead celebrity" list. It is supposed to be a list of major contributors to the film industry. People famous for TV and barely worked in film don't fit.

CrimsonFox 03-16-2023 05:39 PM

Gilbert Gottfried is an icon!

NobodyHere 03-16-2023 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by CrimsonFox (Post 3396037)
Gilbert Gottfried is an icon!


I'll never forget his performance in Problem Child 2

Ksyrup 03-16-2023 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by CrimsonFox (Post 3396037)
Gilbert Gottfried is an icon!


A comedy icon, yes.

CrimsonFox 03-17-2023 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by NobodyHere (Post 3396046)
I'll never forget his performance in Problem Child 2


His performances in The Adventures of Ford Fairlane and Beverly Hills Cop 2 are legendary!

cartman 03-17-2023 02:52 PM

the prolific actor Lance Reddick passed away at the age of 60.

Actor Lance Reddick from The Wire, John Wick, and Destiny dead at 60 - Polygon

Ghost Econ 03-17-2023 03:28 PM

RIP Lt. Daniels.


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