RIP Notable Figures

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:54 pm

RIP Robert Hunter. https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/ro ... ar-AAHMDBi" target="_blank

The Dead are dying off.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 4:01 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 1:42 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:55 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Nov 22, 2019 9:34 am

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:43 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:46 pm

Merkin wrote:

How many of us actually saw straight-on kickers? Can't be more than a handful of us here.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:52 pm

How about Tom Dempsey with that unique shoe/boot

ByJoveByJingle · Post by **ByJoveByJingle** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:53 pm

I have a vague memory of a dude on the Redskins doing it.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 10:59 pm

Don’t remember any straight on kickers, but my guy Mike Lansford used to kick barefoot for the Rams.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sun Nov 24, 2019 6:31 am

I unfortunately do - Fred Cox, George Blanda, etc...

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sun Nov 24, 2019 7:39 am

Garo Yepremian I think was the first soccer style kicker in the league, if memory serves. At least the first most successful one.

azcat49 wrote:How about Tom Dempsey with that unique shoe/boot

I grew up in MI, and was a huge Lions fan. I remember when Dempsey, with only half a foot, and one hand, kicked a 63 yarder. Lions didn't even try to block it since they knew he couldn't make it. Outdoors too, on grass.

Dempsey was quite hung over too, which was common in those days by players.

Sadly, it looks like he suffers from football induced CTE https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/spor ... entia.html" target="_blank

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Nov 24, 2019 7:49 am

ByJoveByJingle wrote:I have a vague memory of a dude on the Redskins doing it.

Mark Moseley

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu Nov 28, 2019 10:34 am

Joseph Blair's mom

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Dec 09, 2019 7:48 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Dec 10, 2019 6:45 am

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:02 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Dec 15, 2019 8:16 am

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:34 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Dec 20, 2019 6:28 pm

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Mon Dec 23, 2019 5:29 am

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Dec 27, 2019 4:01 pm

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:57 am

RIP Syd Mead

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 2:07 pm

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 7:46 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 3:06 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:48 pm

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sun Jan 19, 2020 4:07 pm

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailym ... chest.html" target="_blank

David Olney who wrote some great songs died on stage last night sitting on his stool while performing. He never fell over but just dropped his head up his chest and said he was dirty yo his singing partner.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Wed Jan 22, 2020 12:48 pm

RIP Mr. Creosote: https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebr ... li=BBnb2gh" target="_blank

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:46 am

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:37 pm

That one hurts. RIP to a great journalist.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Feb 07, 2020 1:48 pm

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Fri Feb 07, 2020 8:25 pm

azgreg wrote:

T. Leslie Shear, professor emeritus of classical epigraphy at Princeton, still lives.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Feb 15, 2020 10:04 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Feb 24, 2020 8:49 am

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:18 pm

Clive Cussler passed away. My dad got such a kick out of his books and loved passing them along to me.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 11:25 am

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 8:38 am

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:28 pm

Chicat wrote:Clive Cussler passed away. My dad got such a kick out of his books and loved passing them along to me.

My wife's favorite movie these days is "Sahara". It bumped "Lawrence of Arabia" out of first place.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:29 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:08 am

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:53 pm

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Thu Mar 26, 2020 5:24 pm

UAEebs86 wrote:

OKay . . this one hurts.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:59 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 4:28 pm

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 6:13 am

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 4:37 am

Coronavirus took Tom Dempsey, former record-setting kicker for the New Orleans Saints. He was 73.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:18 am

Chicat wrote:Coronavirus took Tom Dempsey, former record-setting kicker for the New Orleans Saints. He was 73.

One of the last straight on kickers. That record breaking kick against the Lions was back when the goal posts were at the goal line meaning he kicked the ball from his own 37 yard line.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 7:27 am

EastCoastCat wrote:
Chicat wrote:Coronavirus took Tom Dempsey, former record-setting kicker for the New Orleans Saints. He was 73.
One of the last straight on kickers. That record breaking kick against the Lions was back when the goal posts were at the goal line meaning he kicked the ball from his own 37 yard line.

Had half a foot and a special shoe too, along with only one hand.

I was a huge Lions fan back then, and still living in Michigan and never missed a Lion's game. No one thought he was going to make it, and the Lions didn't even try to block it.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:14 am

Watched it as it happened.

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