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Taking The Gloves Off

Of course, we can’t … Take the gloves off that is. Like so much of modern life, to do so, to put the genie back in the bottle, is impossible because we can never give back a piece of human comfort or knowledge or technology once we’ve seen it and had it and gotten used to it. So when someone gave us the smartphone that was the end of the in-person conversation, when someone perfects the driverless car we will have even more people asleep at the wheel and now that every football player (except kickers and quarterbacks) wears gloves, we shall never see the naked hand in the NFL again.

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Gale Sayers, Vince Lombardi And The Glory Days

Fun Facts: Tossing Around The Football

Life is mostly about the pursuit of knowledge and, therefore, the collection of fun facts. All my fun facts were harvested personally … They started as a physical book purchase from Amazon, then moved to a Kindle download where I bookmarked them by hand; at the conclusion of a book they were transcribed into a Snoopy Moleskine, and finally, they appear here for your personal wonderment.
  • These invisible guys got drafted before Tom Brady in the 2000 NFL draft: Chad Pennington, Giovanni Carmazzi, Chris Redmon, Marc Bulger, Tee Martin, Spurgeon Wynn.
  • Green Bay, Wisconsin is one of the most Catholic regions in the nation. In Lombardi’s day, there were two Catholic high schools, ten Catholic elementary schools, sixteen churches, forty-two-weekday masses and ninety-four masses on Sunday with the first being at 4:30AM.

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