Firefly

Read a good article on the College Football Hall of Fame (CFHOF) website, about football players who also played basketball.  

 

1. Otto Graham is the only CFHOF inductee to win both a professional basketball championship (with the Rochester Royals) and a pro football championship (Browns) in the same year (1946).

 

2. Syracuse’s Vic Hanson is the only player to be inducted into the college football HOF and the college basketball HOF.

 

3. As a student at Springfield College in 1892, CFHOF coach Amos Alonzo Stagg played in the first basketball game ever. Three years later Stagg coached the first ever 5 on 5 college basketball game, at the University of Chicago.

 

5. Fourteen inductees to the college football hall of fame also achieved All-America status in college basketball. The most recent was Michigan’s Ron Kramer (3rd team All-American in 1957).  

 

5. Charlie Ward won the Heisman Trophy, the Davy O’Brien Award, and a national championship at FSU before playing for the New York Knicks of the NBA.

 

Speaking of basketball, today is the anniversary of Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game in Hershey PA. Reading comments of Instagram, many millennials today don't believe the story is true, since there is no video footage. Meanwhile there are several things they do believe without actual proof, like climate change.   

 

Late last Friday night I watched the old movie Wargames, starring young Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy.

 

Monday night Ceil had cooked chili with ground turkey. Very good. Had black beans and chunks of tomato. Added rice, cheese, and yogurt as a sour cream substitute. Also a tossed salad. I had worked until 6:30 on end of the month stuff. More to do today. After supper we watched The Neighborhood and the new season of The Voice. Took Barney out and went to bed. Matthew was off studying with a classmate.  

 

Tuesday: was working on a list of the books I’ve read the past seven months, a total of 24. Plus a few work emergencies. Been getting a bunch of stuff cleared off my desk. Was even able to work a little on my 2019 scrapbook calendar. Way behind on that. Also paid some bills.

 

Worked past six Tuesday night. Stopped by to drop off a load at Goodwill. Ceil baked little potato and sweet potato pieces, tossed a salad, and baked chicken breasts covered in coconut. Ceil wanted to watch The Voice so we saved The Kids Are All Right for later. Forgot what we watched after that. I was working on my computer. Later I watched Family Feud. That Duke / Virginia Tech game I flipped past a couple of times. Guess the Hawks are playing too good to draft Zion Williamson. Saturday I had watched some of UNC/FSU and Duke/Syracuse, and I’m starting to get the bug again.

 

M and A were at a concert in Underground Atlanta.

 

Busy work week. Been working on a month end project for the SE GM. On of those things where you look and look and sometimes you find things, good or bad. Sometimes what you find is small and other times large. This time I found a large group of orders to close out, that appears is going to helps things out a bunch. Waiting until tomorrow because it will be too time-consuming to do all in one day.

Wednesday: worked until six and stopped by a month end sale on the way home. A cool Firefly shirt was on sale. Had to look up what Firefly was – an old TV show that only lasted two years, then achieved cult status after being cancelled. I knew none of this.

Sheldon Cooper is a big fan of the show, so that is appropriate. We’ll see if anyone recognizes the spaceship on the shirt. Must've shrunk, because it fits perfect.

Ceil cooked grilled chopped vegetables with rice noodles. Good. Watched Chicago Med. This time a lesbian had cheated on her spouse, then got drunk and passed out in the snow. After that The Kids Are All Right, Schooled, and an old Duck Dynasty rerun.    

 

Thursday: worked to six, drove straight home. Leftovers for supper. Watched the new show Whiskey Cavalier. Pretty good. Ceil liked it even though there was a lots of action – guns and stuff. Bed at ten.