“You can fall many times in life, but you’re never a failure as long as you try to get up.”
~Evel Knievel
Friday, November 30, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
Jets superfan Fireman Ed retires
"J-E-T-S!"
New York Jets superfan Fireman Ed, who for decades has fueled home crowds with his famous "J-E-T-S!" cheer, has decided to "R-E-T-I-R-E!"
"For people to be harassing him at the game, I don't know. He's not in the locker room with us. He's not on the payroll. He's a regular fan like everybody else is. I don't know why they'd harass him. That's crazy," linebacker Bryan Thomas, the longest-tenured Jets player, said Monday.
http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/8675816/new-york-jets-superfan-fireman-ed-hangs-helmet
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Saturday, November 24, 2012
#1 Notre Dame will play for the national title game.
Friday, November 16, 2012
No more Twinkies!!!!!!!
Woody in Zombieland
Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters
Twinkie Weiner Sandwich in UHF
Die Hard
Family Guy
This is my house. I went out yesterday & bought ever Twinkie I could buy.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
The bodybuilder to beat Schwarzenegger died on Monday, Sergio Oliva was a Retired Chicago cop
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-retired-chicago-cop-former-champion-bodybuilder-dies-20121113,0,3844901.story
retired Chicago police officer who was the only bodybuilder to beat Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Mr. Olympia competition has died.
Sergio Oliva, 71, a longtime Rogers Park District officer, was found unresponsive by a family member Monday and pronounced dead at St. Francis Hospital Evanston, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Oliva defected to the United States from Cuba in 1963 at a Pan American Games qualifying competition in Jamaica, bringing the entire Cuban bodybuilding team with him. He came to Chicago in 1963 because “he heard this was where the jobs were,” longtime friend Jack Merjimekian said.
Oliva studied English at Wells High School to qualify for citizenship, and worked at the Duncan YMCA after stints as a foundry worker and meatpacker. He began competing as a bodybuilder soon after coming to Chicago, and began winning local bodybuilding titles.
While working as a civilian physical education instructor at the Chicago Police Academy, Oliva became interested in becoming an officer and got help from a police captain, Merjimekian said.
Because of his dimensions, including a 60-inch chest, Oliva’s police uniforms had to be specially made.
The titles he won included Mr. World at Montreal in 1966; Mr. Universe at Munich in 1967, 1968 and 1969; Mr. America in 1970; and Mr. Europe in 1981. He defeated Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1968 and 1969 in body-building competitions, including Mr. Olympia.
He won the World Cup seven times, three times in a row.
“He’s the only guy who defeated Arnold in Mr. Olympia,” Merjimekian said.
Schwarzenegger on Tuesday mentioned Oliva in a Twitter message: “Oliva was one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time & a true friend,” Schwarzenegger said. “A fierce competitor w/ a big personality - one of a kind.”
Oliva survived a 1986 incident in which he was accidentally shot during a fight with his wife. He went back to work in the Rogers Park District until retiring about 10 years ago.
lford@tribune.com
Twitter: @ltaford
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
RIP, We lost Sweetness 13 years ago today!!!!
