Guess who died in 2024

[Benjamin Grimm]

Polish journalist Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska, 82.

[Edgy MD]

Famous for putting accents on consonants.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Nascar legend Cale Yarlborough

[Frayed Knot]

He also died at the tail end of the 2023 thread but that's OK, it gives me a chance to show this.


The back story to all this is that it was the first time Daytona was being shown in its entirety having usually been
relegated to the back half of the race on Wide World of Sports only. It was also the Sunday of President's Day
weekend and a big snowstorm was walloping the northeast leaving all kinds of not normally NASCAR fans stuck
indoors with their TV sets. And Cale Yarborough had bumped Bobby Allison out of the race early on and is now
battling brother Donny Allison in the final lap.

So, as Baba Wawa would have said: Wets wisten in






It's the race that's credited to putting NASCAR on it's growth spurt during the '80s & '90s as a bunch of northerners
watched this thing and thought, 'Hey these crazy rednecks are fun to watch, man!' The race also led the NYT sports
section the next day. The Indy 500 regularly did in those days but I doubt Daytona did very often.

[Edgy MD]

Funny to see A.J. Foyt in the mix there. I associate him with open-wheel racing and had forgotten that he ever did NASCAR.

[Frayed Knot]

Yarborough took out two Allisons in that race.
I reckon that means his aim was true.

[MFS62]

Frank Ryan - 89 - the last quarterback to lead the Cleveland Browns to a championship.
Later

[G-Fafif]

David Soul, Hutch of Starsky & Hutch and crooner of the No. 1 hit “Don’t Give Up On Us,” 80.

[Fman99]

David Soul, Hutch of Starsky & Hutch and crooner of the No. 1 hit “Don’t Give Up On Us,” 80.

I have a pic somewhere of myself, my brother and my two cousins, all of us probably in the 5-7 year old age range, and me sporting a Starsky & Hutch shirt, circa 1977-1978

[Edgy MD]

Soul was the original Hasselhoff, in that he was a TV actor fading from public view in the US, but a singing sensation following hit after hit in Germany.

[Frayed Knot]

Soul was also tapped to play the Rick Blaine role in a remake of CASABLANCA
IIRC the guys behind 'New Coke' said; 'Holy Shit, what a stupid idea!!!!'

[Benjamin Grimm]

It was actually a TV movie (or series pilot) that aired.

[Edgy MD]

Five episodes.

Eubie Blake as Sam. Ray Liotta as Sacha the bartender.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Cindy Morgan of Cadddyshack fame passed away.

[Fman99]

Cindy Morgan of Cadddyshack fame passed away.

That movie came out when I was 7. It helped me, uh, notice things. RIP Lacey Underall

[metirish]

The great Franz Beckenbaur , age 78 , a giant in the game

[G-Fafif]

Joyce Randolph, Trixie Norton in The Honeymooners (and great aunt to 2009 Mets pitcher Tim Redding), 99.

https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/14/honeymoo ... e-gleason/

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I'd have assumed she'd been dead for 30 years

[Edgy MD]

I can't find any Internet reference to it, but I recall a "Honeymooner's Night" at Shea Stadium back in the 1980s, featuring Ms. Randolph appearing and possibly throwing out the first pitch.

[G-Fafif]

Giants 1972 Pro Bowl QB Norm Snead, 84.

https://nypost.com/2024/01/15/sports/no ... ead-at-84/

[G-Fafif]

Longtime Washington Post TV critic and tastemaker Tom Shales, 79.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/13/12246256 ... ngton-post

[MFS62]

Giants 1972 Pro Bowl QB Norm Snead, 84.

https://nypost.com/2024/01/15/sports/no ... ead-at-84/

I remember him at Washington and Philadelphia.
Later

[G-Fafif]

Giants 1972 Pro Bowl QB Norm Snead, 84.

https://nypost.com/2024/01/15/sports/no ... ead-at-84/

I remember him at Washington and Philadelphia.

Minnesota, too.

[G-Fafif]

Mary Weiss, lead singer of the Shanghai-Las, 75.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/12257717 ... -las-death

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

"They were rockin'"
J. Cougar Mellencamp