Hey, the number "44" has several interesting applications, but today it's all about TECH FOOTBALL!!Originally Posted by 70TECHGRAD
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Hey, the number "44" has several interesting applications, but today it's all about TECH FOOTBALL!!
Hank Aaron and Ken Liberto come to mind right away.
HOUSTON, what an awesome inspiration for this thread: tieing the number of days left til football to numerical trivia!! If I may make a pun on #44 Hank Aaron, you just KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK!My 44 references were more redneck: guns and ladies.
43 days now til our first football game of the 2015 season in Ruston.
- #43 Richard Petty, Dennis Eckersley
- #43 President George W. Bush
- $43,xxx what a Patriots' deflategate football auctioned for this week. Wonder if that price was adjusted for INFLATION!!
GO BULLDOGS!!
Financial Planning
Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.
When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he
decided he needed to find a wife with whom to share his fortune.
One evening, at an investment meeting, he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away.
"I may look like just an ordinary guy," he said to her, "but in just a few years, my father will die
and I will inherit $200 million."
Impressed, the woman asked for his business card and three days later she became his stepmother.
Women are so much better at financial planning than men.
42 days now til our first football game of the 2015 season in Ruston. Just six weeks til kickoff. GO BULLDOGS!!
- #42 was the man to break the color barrier in major league baseball is considered the best athlete to ever wear the number 42. The number 42 is now retired for every major league baseball team (with grandfathering for those players wearing the number 42 when the decision was made to retire it across baseball, i.e. Mariano Rivera,). According to Henry Aaron on TIME.com's article about the most important people of the century, "He thrilled fans, shattered baseball's color barrier and changed the face of the nation." Other than breaking baseball's color barrier, here are Jackie Robinson's other creds:
- 1947 NL ROY
- 1949 NL MVP
- 1949 NL Batting Champ
- 1962 HOF inductee
- 6-time All-Star
- 1955 World Series Champion
- .311 career batting average
- 42nd president (ugh!) his nickname included the work "slick." His wife might be even slicker (or maybe slimey-er).
- In Chemistry, number 42 is the atomic number of molybdenum.
The angle of rainbow is 42 degrees.
In the bible, there are 42 generations in the Genealogy of Jesus according to the Gospel of Matthew.
In the Book of Revelations, it is mentioned that the Beast will hold dominion over the Earth for 42 days
41 days now til our first football game of the 2015 season in Ruston. Just six weeks til kickoff. WE ARE... BULLDOGS!!
- #41 is The only player ever to be commemorated with a New York Mets cap in the Baseball Hall of Fame, He made his mark with Amazin's in the 1960s and 1970s and was elected to the Hall in 1992 with highest percentage of votes ever at 98.84%.) "Tom Terific" Tom Seaver's creds:
- 3-time Cy Young award winner (1969, 1973 and 1975)
- 311 career wins
- Struck out a record 10 consecutive batters in 1970?
- 3,640 career strikeouts
- 5 time league leader in strikeouts ('70, '71, '73, '75 and '76)
- 1969 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year
- 1969 World Series Champion
- #41 President is George H. Bush, a great American
- # 41 worn by and retired for Brian Piccolo, running back for the Chicago Bears. Died June 16, 1970 of embryonal cell carcinoma
- # 41 race number worn by Sir Roger Bannister when he broke the mythical 4-minute mile barrier in 1954.
- # 41 has been a car number driven by various drivers in NASCAR over the years and is currently driven by the 2004 Sprint Cup Series Champion Kurt Busch
- # 41 a Texarkana native is regarded as one of the best third basemen ever to play the gameand was an All-Star for 9 seasons. He won the National League home run title in 1953 and 1959 and was the NL Most Valuable Player runner-up both of those seasons. He hit 512 home runs during his major league career and coached for the Atlanta Braves in 1971, and he was the team's manager from 1972 to 1974. Who is he?
Eddie Matthews
41 was the roster number for I K Enemkpali. Go Dawgs!!
Good job, Howard!!
Nice, 70TECHGRAD.
40 days now til our first football game of the 2015 season in Ruston. Just six weeks til kickoff. MOVE THE CHAINS!!
#40 Was a running back with the Chicago Bears who many include in the list of top 5 running backs ever to grace the gridiron in the NFL. Injuries limited him to a brief pro football career, from 1965 through 1971. Here are some of the "Kansas Rocket's" creds:
#40 President Ronald Reagan, who often wins polls as America's greatest president
- 9,435 Net Career Yards
- 4,956 Career Rushing Yards
- 336 Points Scored
- All-NFL Five Straight Years
- Set a rookie record in 1965 with 22 TDs, and 132 points
- His moving autobiography of his playing career is entitled "I Am Third," ?
- roommate of Brian Piccolo
- Three time Pro Bowl Offensive Player of the Game
- Gayle Sayers, a true gentleman
#40 Bill Laimbeer of the Detroit Pistons. Over 10,000 points and 10,000 rebounds, two NBA championships, 4 time all star; only he and a few of his Piston teammates have WINNING PLAYOFF records vs Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, and Magic Johnson.
#40 of the Arizona Cardinals in 2002 left a brief successful football career with the Arizona Cardinals to join the U.S. Army Rangers after the 9-11 attacks, leaving an offer of 3.6 million over three years to stay with the Cardinals. He was killed in Afghanistan in 2004. Who is he?
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Pat Tillman
Congratulations, Blue Dawg. Thanks for remembering this AMERICAN HERO!
I thought it was pat Tilley
St. Louis Cardinals
Louisiana Tech University
Flagship of the University of Louisiana System
A GREAT BULLDOG player and ambassador, who was very successful at St. Louis.
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