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Frayed Knot Mar 08 2011 05:01 PM

Forty years in this case. There are a number of of sporting events where some over-hyped sportscaster tries to make the case that the event "transcends sports" and involves some aspect of politics, sociology, pop-culture, celebrity, hard news, etc. Occasionally they may even be correct. And then there was this one -- Ali-Frazier I - MSG, March 8, 1971 There aren't enough U's in HUUUUUUUUUGE to describe how big this thing was. LIFE Magazine hiring Frank Sinatra to be their photographer might begin to explain it but it only starts there.

cooby Mar 12 2011 10:09 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Great pic! Ali prolly felt he lost more than the fight, there was Frazier, handsome, cool, and as I recall, a pretty snappy dresser. I'm sure he stole away some of Muhamed's fans, at least for a while. Still handsome.

Edgy DC Mar 12 2011 11:46 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Frazier always claimed that, of the great heavyweights of the time --- him, Ali, Foreman, Norton, and Holmes --- he was the only true heavyweight. I don't know. Foreman looked pretty big even back then. So did Holmes.

Ashie62 Mar 12 2011 12:20 PM Re: __ Years Ago Today

This was at the time, and to the day, the "biggest" sporting event in my life. I listened to round by round recaps on the radio and will never forget the 15th...

Elster88 Mar 13 2011 11:21 PM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Speaking of classic boxing, does anyone know where I can get "Down Goes Fray-zhuh!!!" as a ringtone? Hi cooby!

Frayed Knot Mar 30 2011 02:52 PM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Thirty Years:

metirish Mar 30 2011 03:01 PM Re: __ Years Ago Today

I knew we had a thread for this, hard to believe it's thirty years.

Edgy DC Mar 30 2011 03:07 PM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Ronald Reagan: Also torn in two on the Hollywood-vs.-Tipperary question.

metirish Mar 30 2011 03:20 PM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Reagan was no Kennedy though, plus he had the stain of a relationship with Thatcher and not long after the Hunger Strikes, not fondly remembered.

themetfairy Mar 30 2011 03:23 PM Re: __ Years Ago Today

I remember being in Biology lab when I heard about the shootings. Every time I think about the event I associate it with the smell of formaldehyde....

sharpie Mar 30 2011 04:16 PM Re: __ Years Ago Today

My girlfriend at the time was at a doctor's appointment which I was to drive her back from. To kill time I went to a Chinese restaurant to have a lunch special. They had the local muzak station on. I hear, "we'll be back later for more on the shooting of the President, but first more beautiful music..."

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 30 2011 04:31 PM Re: __ Years Ago Today

I was in Mr. Armenio's english class when we heard the announcement over the school PA system. He immediately downshifted to this mode where he talked about sitting where we were when JFK was shot, and he got all choked up etc etc. It was like nothing we'd ever seen from a teacher before.

Frayed Knot Mar 30 2011 05:11 PM Re: __ Years Ago Today

metirish wrote: Reagan was no Kennedy though, plus he had the stain of a relationship with Thatcher and not long after the Hunger Strikes, not fondly remembered. Plus, even though Reagan's father's family was originally Irish-Catholic, he had been raised in his mother's Protestant religion.

Edgy DC Mar 30 2011 07:26 PM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Supposedly on his deathbed, Tip O'Neill was joking with his son that Reagan's ancestral hometown was Ballyporeen --- Village of Small Potatoes.

Frayed Knot Apr 12 2011 06:25 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

[u:pugrevvv]150[/u:pugrevvv] years ago today ... - having recently declared their secession from the U.S. of A., the South Carolina militia decides that the federal fort called Sumpter perched on an artificial island in Charleston harbor is an occupying force and opens fire in order to drive them out. No one is killed in the exchange although the government does abandon the fort. Absolutely no hilarity ensues.

Edgy DC Apr 12 2011 07:21 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

And the first shot fired by the Federals defending the fort?

Frayed Knot Apr 12 2011 07:49 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Edgy DC wrote: And the first shot fired by the Federals defending the fort? Is that a question directed at me? Is so I don't understand it. Also today, 50 years since cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in the ship Vostok 1 became the first man in space.

Edgy DC Apr 12 2011 08:00 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

It was reportedly fired by Abner Doubleday.

seawolf17 Apr 12 2011 08:21 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Edgy DC wrote: It was reportedly fired by Abner Doubleday. A fastball, just off the plate, to Julio Franco.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 12 2011 08:43 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy DC wrote: A Also today, 50 years since cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in the ship Vostok 1 became the first man in space. We saw a pretty cool space race exhibit at the Air & Space Museum last time we was in DC. Russians had much crazier looking rockets, some were painted a pistachio green, also cool spacesuits and boots.

Ceetar Apr 12 2011 09:01 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

And in the things that actually happened _after_ i was born, Euro Disney! 19 years ago

The Second Spitter Apr 12 2011 09:14 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Frayed Knot wrote: 150 years ago today ... - having recently declared their secession from the U.S. of A., the South Carolina militia decides that the federal fort called Sumpter perched on an artificial island in Charleston harbor is an occupying force and opens fire in order to drive them out. No one is killed in the exchange although the government does abandon the fort.. Anybody catch the doco on NG called "Civil Warriors"? Saw some of it while I was away -- it seemed very good. There's another 2 parts, apparently. As for Gagarin's flight, there's a new doco for that too, it's called "First Orbit" -- the whole thing's viewable on youtube; [youtube]vJuIO6kp5jY[/youtube]

Edgy DC Apr 12 2011 09:35 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Reason number 27 to move to Australia. They say, "doco."

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 12 2011 09:45 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Digging this video. Is it actual footage? Answers own question: By matching the orbit of the International Space Station to that of Vostok 1 as closely as possible, in terms of ground path and time of day, documentary filmmaker Christopher Riley and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli were able to film the view that Yuri Gagarin saw on his pioneering orbital space flight. This new footage was cut together with the original Vostok 1 mission audio recordings sourced from the Russian State Archive.

Willets Point Apr 15 2011 08:36 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

22 years ago today: 96 people crushed to death at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England due to poor police control of crowds at a Liverpool v. Nottingham Forest FA Cup semi-final match. Absolutely chilling to read about this disaster.

Edgy DC Apr 15 2011 08:39 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

96 --- Ugh.

metirish Apr 25 2011 07:20 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

In case I forget tomorrow This corner of Ukraine was ‘a wonderful place to live’ until April 26th, 1986, when a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl exploded. Twenty-five years later, the devastating effects are still felt, writes DANIEL McLAUGHLIN in Chernobyl http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/wee ... 04420.html I was thirteen at the time and I don't remember being scared or anything.....what I mean is if it happened today with all the access we have and all that I am sure there would be stories of it blowing all across Europe.

Edgy DC Jul 28 2011 10:13 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Sixty years ago today, a B-25 Bomber crashed into the Empire State, ripped a hole in the 79th floor and killed 14, including 11 workers in the Catholic Relief Services headquarters. [youtube]cUlWpqLsOVs[/youtube] One thing you take away from Unbroken is what a bunch of flying coffins World War II bombers could be, particuarly the B-20 series. It was growing up with the lore of this collission, that when my then-girlfriend called me 10 years ag, panicking about reports opf a plane hitting the World Trade Center, my first thought was, "How sad, but don't worry. The structure will hold. Those skyscrapers can take it." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=92987873

Willets Point Jul 28 2011 10:37 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

66 years actually. I remember thinking about the ESB crash on Sept. 11th as well although I slept in late that day so the WTC towers had already collapsed by the time I heard the news, so I had no false hopes. I'd like to learn more about how they evaluated that the ESB was safe to stand & be repaired and how long it took. Regarding the newsreel, wouldn't it be great if today's news coverage had orchestrated theme music playing behind the stories? Ok, maybe not. I also wonder what happened to that cadence of voice often heard by actors and narrators in films from the 30s & 40s.

Willets Point Jul 28 2011 10:48 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 28 2011 10:54 AM

I was poking around the internet and discovered that there was another airplane/skyscraper accident in Manhattan the following year when a C-45 hit 40 Wall Street on May 20, 1946. There would not be another such collision until September 11, 2001. Cory Lidle's crash in 2006 is the only other airplane to crash into a New York skyscraper.

Edgy DC Jul 28 2011 10:52 AM Re: __ Years Ago Today

Willets Point wrote: 66 years actually. Oops, yeah, what he said. How crazy to survive X missions in the European theater and crash on a ferrying mission on the homefront and smash your plane into a war relief office to boot.