Sad day

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When he had his magical rookie year, I was seven and thought he was fantastic. I read the odd interview with him when he was a farmer in Massachusetts and thought he was even more fantastic.

I can't find it now, but when the producers of There's Something About Mary were making their movie, one of the Farrelly brothers wanted to get Mark to appear in the movie, and he wouldn't do it. He said (in his thick Boston accent) htat he had a delivery route to run and people were depending on him. He's made that same run for 18 years and wasn't about to stop it to appear in a movie. Farrelly said, "Now that was one cool dude".

RIP Bird, and God Bless you and your family.

 

Fidrych, Harry Kalas... who's next in the Rule of Three?

 

I think we already got it when Nick Adenhart of the Angels died.

 

D'oh!

You're right, of course.

 

Sorry for the delay in the reply to this.

Just a kid when "The Bird" had his amazing season. Back then you would see 2 games a week and they showed the Tigers whenever possible. Detroit destroyed his arm (he completed the vast majority of games that year) and they didn't have the medical advances as they do today. In a "where are they now piece" I read a couple of years ago he didn't have one once of resentment.

Harry Kalas, what a signature voice, it will be hard to watch an NFL film production without it.

Nick Adenhart; We live less than 15 minutes where he lost his life, and that story was amazingly tragic. Felt totally compelled and went to the first game after vs. Boston. Very hard to describe what it felt like in the stadium when they had a video tribute (great pictures of him from high school to team USA to that night before he died). Moments of silence are always taken seriousily, but I've never been to a stadium w/40, 000 people and that eerily silent (hats off to the many Red Sox fans who were feeling our pain).

 

Well that was a crappy way to enter the late afternoon. What a bummer. I remember him so well as a kid. You couldn't help but like they guy.