Charlie Ward won the 1993 Heisman Trophy, but refused to play football unless he was selected in the first round. Ward wasn't drafted at all, instead playing in the NBA after the New York Knicks picked him in the first round. He remains the only Heisman winner to play in the NBA.
Sep. 1, 1985: Titanic is discovered 13,000 ft. under the Atlantic ocean by Robert Ballard. The military wanted him to find two sunken submarines, USS Thresher and Scorpion - and Ballard successfully located them. He then found the Titanic in between them, studying ocean currents.
He's got my vote ...
In 1758, George Washington allegedly spent his entire campaign budget (50 pounds) on 160 gallons of liquor served to woo 391 voters.
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#ElectionDay
#America
On yesterday’s episode we talked about Playboy centerfolds.
Fun Fact about Hugh Hefner: He saved his virginity for marriage but his wife cheated on him before they got married while he was in the Army.
Hugh slept with more than 1000 women before passing.
The note:
“Dear Joe, if you're holding this letter you already know. The house has been boarded up. The doors. The windows. Everything. We're at the Comfort Inn. Room 112. I love you. Trump.”
Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world, and the world's deepest lake.
In southern Siberia, Russia, It holds 20 percent of the world's fresh water, and is considered one of the clearest lakes in the world. Sometimes, it is possible to see more than 130 ft. down.
June 13, 1920 the US Post Office stops mailing children by parcel post.
Parents would mail their children because it was cheaper than other ways to travel.
The weight limit was 50 pounds.
1990: The window of British Airways Flight 5390 falls off mid-flight and the pilot gets sucked out, so they just hold onto his legs for 20 minutes while the plane lands. He survives with frostbite, bruising, shock, and several fractures.
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December 25, 1776: George Washington and the Patriots turn their season around when they cross the Delaware river and surprise the fuck out of those German contract killers.
#MerryChristmas
🎄ya filthy animals🚬
Oct. 20th, 1977: Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane crash in Mississippi, but drummer Artimus Pyle survives and rushes to get help from a farm house. He is confronted by a farmer with a gun, and covered in blood, Pyle is shot.
"He was just protecting his family ..."
19 years ago today:
@AnneMcCarthy
lost her father, and several of her closest loved ones in the 9/11 attacks. She then eulogized ALL OF THEM at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, in front of thousands of people.
@LargeBarstool
#NeverForget
#NeverForget911
By the next century, there won’t be a living member of the Hitler bloodline left. The remaining members have made a pact to never have children so that the family dies out forever.
July 18, 1969: After leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts drove his Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a pond. Kennedy escaped, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not. Ted did not report the car accident for 10 hours.
1941: Dorie Miller, a steward on the USS West Virginia, distinguishes himself during the
#PearlHarbor
attack when he operates a deck machine gun (despite no training on it) and destroys two Japanese aircraft. He was the first African American awarded the Navy Cross.
#Legend
1999: Payne Stewart is killed when the aircraft he is traveling in fails to pressurize. All on board died of hypoxia. The aircraft continued flying on autopilot until it ran out of fuel, and crashed in South Dakota.
#OTD
1/2 Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! After the 99' season, the Mets released Bonilla, but still owed him $5.9 million. Bonilla and his agent offered the Mets a deal: Bonilla would defer payment for a decade, and the Mets would pay him an annual paycheck of $1.19 million starting in 2011.
Leonid Rogozov was a Soviet general practitioner who took part in the Soviet Antarctic Expedition from 1960–1961. He was the only medical staffer stationed there, and when he developed appendicitis, he had to perform an appendectomy on himself with no general anesthetic.
#Legend
The Twisted History of Roger Goodell
- Inconsistent conduct code
- Deflection of concussion issues
- Spygate/Deflategate miscarriage of justice
- Crackdowns on tailgating and celebrating
- Referee/rules issues
- Poor track record of minority hires
- Hates charity and kids
Pat Tillman turned down $3.6 million over three years from the Cardinals to enlist in the U.S. Army.
The hero finished his football career with 340 tackles, 2.5 sacks, 3 interceptions, 3 forced fumbles, and 3 recoveries.
He was killed by friendly fire April 22, 2004.
June 6, 1944: D-Day 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦
Operation Overlord- 156,000 American, British, & Canadian
forces landed on 5 beaches along a 50-mile stretch of France’s Normandy region. Lasted from June 1944 to August 1944 & resulted in Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.
The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is this Friday. Take a moment to remember those we lost.
#NeverForget911
For
@AnneMcCarthy
, this is EXTREMELY personal ...
On this day in 1933, pedophile/rapist Roman Polanski was born.
This teaspoon of cum would later go on to drug & sodomize a 13-year-old girl before fleeing the country, but still got a round of applause from the Hollywood “elite” when, as a fugitive, he won an Oscar in 2002.
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1/2 - 1959: 9 Russian hikers die in the Ural Mountains, in what becomes known as 'The Dyatlov Pass Incident.'
Something causes them to leave their tents in the middle of the night and flee the campsite. One victim was found with a fractured skull, while two others had major ...
2/2 Ending in 2035, for a total of $29.8 million. Mets owner Fred Wilpon accepted the deal as he was invested with Ponzi scheme operator Bernie Madoff, and the 10% returns he was getting outweighed the 8% interest. Oh, Mets ...how'd that turn out?
Andrew Carnegie spent the last 20 yrs of his life giving away nearly 90% of his steel fortune ($350 million or $5.2 billion today). He built 3000 libraries, and 7000 church organs across the world, and of course, Carnegie Hall. He is still the biggest philanthropist of all time.
2007 Jon Hamm won many hearts when Mad Men aired. 1 1/2 years later, Ellie Kemper became America's sweetheart on The Office when she became Dunder Mifflin’s newest receptionist, Erin Hannon.
Before they were famous, Hamm was Kemper's high school drama teacher.
4/19/1995 Timothy McVeigh parked a van loaded with a bomb made out of agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel, & other chemicals, in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Walking to his getaway car, he ignited one timed fuse, then another.
Coward.
On this day in 1305 William Wallace was stripped naked & dragged to the Tower of London where was hanged, but released while still alive, emasculated, eviscerated & his bowels burned before him, beheaded, then cut into 4 parts. His head was placed on a pike atop London Bridge.
R.I.P. Sir Ian Holm
- Alien
- Chariots of Fire (Nominated for Academy Award)
- The 5th Element
- Lord of The Rings (Bilbo Baggins)
- Ratatouille (Chef Skinner)
- Garden State
- The Day After Tomorrow
- 1967 Tony for Best Actor in The Homecoming
A 28-year-old woman died after competing in a radio station's on-air water-drinking contest. After downing some six liters of water in three hours in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii contest," Jennifer Strange vomited, went home with a headache, and died from water intoxication.
Kiki Camarena was a DEA agent who was injected with drugs to ensure that he remained conscious while being tortured over a 30-hour period, and his head was impaled by a power drill. Was he killed by CIA after uncovering drug trafficking operations? DOJ reopened the case in 2019
RIP Carl Reiner, age 98. Known for creating The Dick Van Dyke Show. Reiner also had a large role in the career of Steve Martin, directing four of his films:
The Jerk in 1979
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid in 1982
The Man with Two Brains in 1983
All of Me in 1984
The use of the word “hooker” as a term for a prostitute originated with Civil War General Joseph Hooker, who brought prostitutes along on campaigns for his men.
Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant.
The “S.” didn’t stand for anything.
A clerical error at West Point had listed him as Ulysses S. Grant. Not wanting to be rejected by the school, he changed his name on the spot.
🇺🇸 U.S. Grant 🇺🇸
Andrew Jackson challenged more than 100 men to duels, but most fired their weapon in the air.
On May 30, 1806, Jackson killed Charles Dickinson, a rival horse breeder he hated, who had accused Jackson of reneging on a $2,000 horse bet. Dickinson had killed 26 men in duels ...
The 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan was the most powerful ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful in the world since record-keeping began in 1900. The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves, and some residents had only eight minutes of warning.
June 19, 2013: James Gandolfini, dies of a heart attack. He was 51. Won 3 Emmy's for his legendary role as Tony Soprano.
Films
- True Romance
- Terminal Velocity
- Get Shorty
- Crimson Tide
- The Last Castle
- The Drop
- Zero Dark Thirty
What's your favorite Soprano's Ep?
Presbyterian preacher Sylvester Graham hated masturbation which he blamed for headaches, epilepsy, insanity, and corrupting the youth. In 1829, he invented a bland, biscuit-like cracker he thought could help suppress sexual desire, especially among adolescent boys
#TwistedHistory
.
@LargeBarstool
: "Hey Annie,
@TheClemReport
has to reschedule the Twisted History of Wrestling, what do we have in the can to use for this week?"
@AnneMcCarthy
: "I have 41 pages on serial killers."
August 17, 1969: Woodstock Music Festival. There were 742 overdoses were reported throughout the three days, and In one distressing case, a 17-year-old named Raymond Mizsak was accidentally run over by a tractor while asleep in his sleeping bag.
#TwistedHistory
1918: American Soldiers paying tribute to the horses, donkeys & mules that were killed during WW1.
Over 8 million died from transporting ammunition & supplies to the front, from the horrors of shellfire, & from terrible weather & appalling conditions.