86 Justin Belknap
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 5:41 am
Belknap is a 6-2, 247*, redshirt Sophomore defensive lineman from Henderson, NV. He played in every game last year making 16 tackles (2.5 for a loss) and 1 sack. Belknap, a walk-on, started most games last year (I'm not sure how many since it is no longer tracked on the official site). He was given a scholarship last month and now will battle to be a defensive starter as a scholarship player.
*The scale in the football office seems to stick on 247. All 3 players on the team who are between 240 and 254 weigh exactly 247.
86 is also a slang term meaning to dispose of or get rid of something. I always heard it came from the early mob days of Las Vegas when problems where driven 8 miles out of town and buried 6 feet under. Much to my surprise that is not what Wikipedia says. Here are 3 of their explanations:
Regardless of the actual origin of the term, I’m ready to 86 losing seasons for Arizona football!United States Navy decommissioning: One possible origin is from the U.S. Navy's Allowance Type (AT) coding system used for logistic purposes. The allowance type code is a single digit numeric that identifies the reason material is being carried in stock. Throughout the life-cycle of a warship, many pieces of equipment will be upgraded or replaced, requiring the allowance of onboard spare parts associated to the obsolete equipment to be disposed of. The AT code assigned to parts designated for disposal is AT-6.[2] Following World War II, there were a great number of warships being decommissioned, sold, scrapped, or deactivated and placed in reserve (commonly referred to as "mothballed"). During this process, labor workers would bring spare parts up from the storerooms and the lead supply clerk would inform them what the disposition of their parts were by part number. Anything referred to as AT-6 (or by similar phonetic, eighty-six) was to be disposed of.
Looking north at Chumley's, 86 Bedford St, West Village.
86 Bedford Street: Author Jef Klein points to the bar Chumley's at 86 Bedford Street in the West Village of Lower Manhattan, as a source. Klein's 2006 book The History and Stories of the Best Bars of New York tells the story that, when the police would very kindly call ahead before a prohibition-era raid, they would tell the bartender to '86' his customers, meaning they should scram out the 86 Bedford door, while the police would come to the Pamela Court entrance.
Empire State Building: The 86th floor is the floor most commonly used (after the first) to eject oneself from the Empire State Building, due to the observation deck there. Most notably, Evelyn McHale threw herself out on May 1, 1947.