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Favorite Trivia – SPORTS
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Garrison Finish: Winner comes from behind at the last minute. Origin: Edward “Snapper” Garrison was a 19th-century American jockey known for his spectacular come-from-behind wins. During his 16-year riding career, he won nearly 700 races. By the time he rode Montana to a smash finish in the Suburban handicap in 1892 and rode Tammany to a breathtaking finish at New Jersey’s Guttenberg track in 1893, his riding style had so captured the attention of the public that people had begun using the term “Garrison finish” for any victory in which the winner comes from behind. Garrison, who died in 1930 at age 62, was inducted into the National Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame in 1955, the first year of inductions. |
| “Fishing: Some men don’t fish; they just drown worms.”
Esar’s Comic Dictionary – Evan Esar |
| Fishing
“When the wind is in the East, Anonymous |
| “FISHING: I love it—the calm kind of fishing in a small, lazy river lined with trees and meadows. For bait I used a sandwich of worms and tomato. I can swear to it that fish love red.”
Marlene Dietrich’s ABC |
| “… no sport was completely safe. The first month I lived in Green Bay, a bowler returning from the local lanes was killed when a drunk woman rear-ended his car, causing his custom-made ball to launch itself from the backseat and hit him in the head. After that, I was careful to put anything heavy—for instance, my Smith-Corona typewriter—on the floor underneath my passenger seat, not next to me. My car was a two-seater, so no baggage could possible clobber me from behind.”
Kyoki Mori – “Between The Forest And The Well: Notes On Death” (The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death, ed. by David Shields and Bradford Morrow) |
| “It’s Saturday—the day before the game [Green Bay Packers vs. San Francisco Broncos]—and I’m going to swing my golf clubs, just to relax. I’ll go to the range and chill. The meetings have started and now we’re going to be inundated with football for the next several hours. We’ve been watching film on the Broncos, how they run inside and outside, and their play-action passes. They get in the brown-I formation and run the naked bootleg. They get in the I-backs formation and run the outside flood, and in the blue-I so they can run the fullback into the route and the 9-route by the outside receiver, the Z receiver. When they get into the red zone, they’ve got a rattler route, or a snake route, where the receivers come up the field and they cross, one goes to the 7 and one goes to the post. It’s intended to pick the defenders in a man-to-man coverage, one of the defenders will be screened. It’s a very difficult route to cover, so we plan to have the safeties communicate with the outside corner, and we’ll switch on the fly. I’ll take the corner’s man and he’ll take my man. As we look at film, we try to gather something that will give us some insights into what they want to do, maybe catch some of the nuances of each play they run. The more film you consume, the more comfortable you feel heading into the game. We’re anxious and comfortable. Hopefully, we won’t be taken by surprise.” [January 10, 1988]
Diary of a SuperBowl Season – Eugene Robinson |
| Ask Marilyn:
“As soon as the Super Bowl is over, members of the winning team are wearing shirts proclaiming them the champions, and you can buy similar shirts on your way out of the stadium. What happens to the shirts imprinted with the name of the team that lost?” Madeline Otts “They are sent to an international aid group that distributes them to impoverished countries and places that have experienced a disaster. Which means that, yes, somewhere in the world people are wearing shirts that read “New England Patriots: Super Bowl LII Champions,” even though they lost last year’s game.” Parade, January 27, 2019 |
| “Harry Greb was completely a fighter, the way one might wish to be completely a writer. He always did the things that were necessary to him as a fighter. Now, some of these things were extremely irrational from a prize-fight manager’s point of view. That is, before he had a fight he would go to a brothel and he would have two prostitutes, not one, taking the two of them into the same bed. And this apparently left him feeling like a wild animal. Don’t ask me why. Perhaps he picked the two meanest whores in the joint and so absorbed into his system all the small, nasty, concentrated evils that had accumulated from carloads of men. Greb was known as the dirtiest fighter of his time.”
Norman Mailer – The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing |