Monsoon Classic: WCW 1986- US Title Magnum TA vs Nikita Koloff Worldwide: 8/23/1986

Source:Monsoon Classic- Magnum TA facing Nikita Koloff for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship, in 1986.

"US Title Magnum TA vs Nikita Koloff Worldwide Aug 23rd, 1986" 

From Monsoon Classic

Here are two wrestlers who could wrestle all night because they were both all muscle and always in great shape. Nikita Koloff was 6'4 or 6'5, 275-280 pounds and Magnum TA was maybe 6'3, 250 pounds, so Nikita was obviously, the bigger stronger man. But Magnum was big and strong enough to beat someone with the size and strength of Nikita Koloff.

TBS: WCW 1989- Ric Flair vs Terry Funk: I Quit Match (1989)

Source:TBS- Ric Flair vs Terry Funk in 1989.

“Clash of the Champions IX 11 15 1989 Ric Flair vs Terry Funk I Quit match xvid” 

From TBS 

I don’t know if you can find four better pro wrestlers for a cage I Quit match than Ric Flair, Sting, Terry Funk and Mr. Muta. The amount of pain and even torture these four men were able to put themselves through because of their conditioning, physical strength and just character and courage was simply unmatched by almost anyone else who has ever been a pro wrestler. Two other guys I would thrown into this group would be Hulk Hogan and The Undertaker for the same reasons as these four men.

Ric Flair was seen as a classical if not classy pure wrestler who made most of his living just wrestling in the ring and not getting into street fights like this and most of that is true. But he beat the great Harley Race for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, a match where he may of lost on points, but beat Race in it. He was in a lot of cage matches, including with The Horseman against The Road Warriors and The Koloff’s and did very well in those matches. Sting could wrestle or fight anyone anywhere. It didn’t matter to him and Terry Funk was a street fighter who could wrestle. Similar to Mr. Muta.  

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NBC Sports: NFL 1986- Cincinnati Bengals @ Denver Broncos: Full Game

Source:NBC Sports- a look at the Denver Broncos defense.

"1986 WEEK 13 3 BENGALS at BRONCOS" 

From J Redwine

The Bengals were masters at underachieving in the mid 1980s. They might have had the best all around talent of anyone in the AFC Central in this period, including the Cleveland Browns, especially on offense, but could never come through and get into the playoffs, pre-1988.

The Broncos on the other hand during this period, were a blue-collar, hard-working team, that got everything they could get, out of all the possible talent that they had, under head coach Dan Reeves. Other than QB John Elway, not another great, perhaps even Pro Bowl caliber player on offense. Most of the Broncos great players were on defense, led by Karl Mecklenberg, Rulon Jones, Simon Fletcher, Dennis Smith, and others. 

So this Bengals-Broncos game was very important in 1986 because both teams were trying to win their divisions. But it was also an interesting matchup between a team with a lot of talent on offense, as well as good players on defense, vs a team that didn't have many great players at all, especially on offense, but had a lot of very good players and a lot of depth, that was also very well-coached.

NBC Sports: NFL 1985- Denver Broncos @ Atlanta Falcons: First Quarter

Source:NBC Sports- presents the National Football League. Today from Atlanta Fulton Stadium, the Denver Broncos vs. the Atlanta Falcons. I'm paraphrasing here, but that's pretty close to how NBC Sports introduced their NFL coverage.

"These games are always pretty fun. This was a pretty good one till Denver took over late in the game. Bartkowski is probably one of the best "bad" qbs of all time because he had an absolute cannon for an arm." 

From Classic Sports

I don't get the Steve Bartkowski is one of the best bad QB's of all-time. That's like saying someone is the best ballet dancer from Wichita: that line means nothing. Steve Bartkowski was one of the best power-arm (my line) QB's in the NFL in the early 1980s. He was Pro Bowl caliber when he had a good o-line and good receivers to throw the ball to. 

The Atlanta Falcons were at best up in down during the 1970s and early and mid 1980s, when they would have one good year or a decent year, followed by a really bad year or mediocre bad year. It's hard to play well when you're getting sacked all the time and your defense doesn't get stops. Which is what Steve Barkowski had to deal with in his 10 years in Atlanta.

As far as Atlanta Fulton Stadium: I think this is the worst of the multi-purpose stadiums that had grass. This is a stadium was good for baseball for the fans and the fans being really close to the action and it was really loud for Braves game. But especially early in the season with the cutup field for baseball and the fans being far away for football, it wasn't a good place for NFL football. 

NBC Sports: NFL 1981- Week 15- Bryant Gumbel Halftime Report

Source:NBC Sports- Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach John McKay. 

"1981-12-13 NFL 81 Halftime Report" 

From Classic Sports

To know that the 1980s was a different decade for the Pittsburgh Steelers than what the 1970s was, just look at their first two seasons where they missed the AFC Playoffs in both seasons. They did miss the playoffs in 1970 and 71, but it didn't get much better for the Steelers after 1981. They won the AFC Central in 1983 and 84, made it to the AFC Championship in 1984, but only made the playoffs one more time in the 1980s by making it to the playoffs during the last game of the 1989 season, thanks to a Cincinnati Bengals loss on Monday night, against the Minnesota Vikings.

New York Yankees TV: MLB 1978- Cleveland Indians @ New York Yankees: Highlights

Source:GI Bomber- New York Yankees announcer Bill White, interviewing Yankees 1B Chris Chambliss.

"1978 Regular season, Indians at Yankees, sept. 30th , 1978.

That was the next to last regular season game, with the Yankees holding a one game lead over the Red Sox in the AL East. On the next day, in the last game of the regular season, the Yankees lost against perennial "Yankee killer", Cleveland southpaw Rick Waits : in the meantime the Red Sox won against Toronto, forcing a memorable one game play off on Monday at Fenway Park (decided by the famous Bucky Dent HR).

Here is only the beginning of this game.... a long one. Nice to see great players in action." 

From GI Bomber

The Cleveland Indians actually playing in an important game in 1978. An opportunity to knock the New York Yankees out of the AL East divisional race. Playing the spoiler was about the best that the Indians could do in the 1970s. They were expected to finish last pretty much every year during that period, as well as the 1980s, even though they did have some real All Star talent like Buddy Bell, Andre Thornton, and a few other Indian players, especially in the 1980s.

ABC Sports: FBS 1978: Michigan Wolverines @ Columbus Buckeyes: Highlights

Source:ABC Sports- the 1978 version of the game in the Big 10 Conference.

"The final game of the ten year war.  Sadly, the cameras didn't catch Woody Hayes punching himself in the final minutes.  But at least they caught him punching the Clemson player in the Gator Bowl the next month.

Game played on November 25, 1978 in Columbus." 

From Wolverine Historian

If there is such a thing as a Super Bowl in division 1 college football, at least during the regular season, it's the Michigan Wolverines-Columbus Buckeyes (as I call them) game. Before conference championship games that didn't even start until the early 1990s, this was the closest thing that we had in American, division 1 college football. It seemed like every year during the 1970s, this game decided who would win the Big 10 Conference and play in the Rose Bowl that season.

ABC Sports: FBS 1978- Gator Bowl- Columbus Buckeyes vs Clemson Tigers: Full Game

Source:Tiger Ray- the 1978 Gator Bowl, from ABC Sports.

"1978 Gator Bowl - Clemson vs Ohio State" 

From Tiger Ray

Woody Hays last game as the Buckeyes head football coach. Was the fact that he was caught punching one of his players on the sidelines the reason why this was his last game, possibly. But Ohio State might have already had enough of Coach Hays and perhaps that was just the reason for Ohio State Athletics firing Woody and moving on without him.

NFL Network: 'Full Color Football: The Final Frontier'

Source:NFL Network- Full Color Football.

"Episode 5: "The Final Frontier" (original air date: 10/14/2009) profiles the league's final year, 1969, including the contentious debate on post-merger league realignment, Joe Namath's near-retirement, and innovations like the West Coast Offense and stack defense that found their origins in the AFL. With the respectability it long sought now secure, the league ends on a high note with Hank Stram's Kansas City Chiefs soundly defeating Minnesota in Super Bowl IV." 

From The AFL History

You want to know how the good the American Football League was: the NFL thought they had to merge with them because of this new competitor that they had, that was taking players away from them, that the NFL just missed, overlooked or were too bigoted to sign. And I'm talking about all of the African Americans that ended up playing in the AFL. 

You could've called the AFL short for the African Football League or the AAFL the African American Football League, because the AFL didn't care about race or color but were the best football players available. Something that a lot of NFL teams overlooked in the 1960s, the Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers being exceptions to this, as well as the Los Angeles Rams. The NFL knew they had to merge with the AFL or risk becoming the second best gridiron league in the world that risked losing markets and players to the new AFL.

Thats how successful the AFL was, if you were a talented football player in the NFL in the 1960s but were being overlooked because perhaps you came from a small college or were a little undersize, the AFL was a viable option for you because they would give you a look and a chance to be successful. The NFL perhaps had not other choice but to merge with the AFL and become the best gridiron league in the world, instead of having the two bests.

Sophia Loren: Boy On a Dolphin (1957)

Source:Bandit Boy- The Italian Goddess Sophia Loren in Boy On a Dolphin (1957)

“Italian Actress Sophia Loren – Boy On A Dolphin” 

From Bandit Boy 

Sophia baby, as gorgeous, sexy and adorable as ever.

This scene in Boy On a Dolphin, reminds me of the opening scene in Lady in Cement with Frank Sinatra that came out in 1968. Tony Rome (played by Frank) is on his boat just off the Florida coast in Miami and jumps in the water to go scuba diving and sees a young blonde woman who is lifeless with her eyes opening at the bottom of the ocean. Actually, the only thing that that scene from Lady in Cement and this scene with Sophia Loren, have in common is that you have a young hot sexy women, wearing almost nothing and jumping in the water.

Lady in Cement is a very good and funny movie and it also features Raquel Welch, (worth the price of admission) Boy on a Dolphin minus Sophia doesn’t look like a very good movie. “A sponge diver on a sunken ship filled with artifacts, including a priceless ancient gold statue of a boy on a dolphin.”

You can see how the movie got its name and sure who doesn’t want to watch Sophia Loren in a bikini in the water. (Well, what straight man anyway) But that movie has been made before. And I think Sophia would be the only reason to see this movie. 

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Washington Examiner: 'UMD Announces Move To Big Ten Conference'

Source:Washington Examiner- UMD officials talking about moving from the ACC to Big 10.

"UMD Announces Move To Big Ten Conference" 

From the Washington Examiner

I don't like this move because the ACC was a perfect home for them and the Big Ten is a Midwest conference. And you'll see a lot of great Southeast rivalries that Maryland has going away.

NBC Sports: FBS 1975- Orange Bowl- Oklahoma Sooners vs Michigan Wolverines: Full Game

Source:NBC Sports- this photo is from NBC Sports.

"1976 Orange Bowl Michigan vs Oklahoma 1 1 1976" 

From Virgil Moody

Classic matchup between two of the most historic programs in college football. If you like the passing game and watching strong arm QB's drop back and throwing the ball to great receivers, with great speed and hands, you are watching the wrong game. Both the Sooners and Wolverines would've run the ball 100% of the time, if they thought they could do it and no one could stop their running games. Both Barry Switzer and Bo Schembechler were very conservative as offensive head coaches, especially Switzer who had the triple option, wishbone running game.

NFL Films: 'Lost Treasures of NFL Films-'The Renegades of the AFL'

Source:NFL Films- Buffalo Bills offensive lineman Bill Shaw, being interviewed for this film.

"This video is a telecast, broadcast, and production of NFL Films. I claim no ownership of this material, and do not profit from it in anyway. This video is intended for historical and educational viewing purposes." 

From Grey Beard

The AFL only helped the NFL because it made them a better league and showed them that there are a lot more then just 14-16 markets in the country that could support major league, pro football. And that there were a lot more major league caliber players out there, that the AFL brought in, especially African- American players and players from small towns and small colleges that were even at one point on an NFL team, but later being cut and being picked up by the AFL.

But with most independent, renegade, startups, that are trying to be the alternative to whatever the established product or organization, the early days of the startup are going to be rough. The National Football League wasn't considered to be a major sports league, until the late 1950s with the two NFL Championships that were played between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants. The NFL was almost 40 years old at that point. But the AFL was definitely a success because now it's the American Football Conference that's part of the NFL, thanks to the 1970 NFL-AFL merger.

CNN: Dr. Cornel West- 'President Barack Obama is a Black Puppet'

Source:CNN- Princeton Professor and 21st Century Black Panther Cornel West.

"Princeton professor, Dr. Cornell West explains some of his recent criticism of President Obama. Lisa Sylvester reports."

Source:CNN

It's statements like this that make it hard for serious Democrats such as myself to name someone and others to take so-called Progressives, ( if you want to call Cornel West that. Marxist-Communists-Socialist Bastard, would be more accurate) even though he's so far-left and irresponsible at times with statements like this, Progressive might not be the right word for him. Perhaps political entertainers, or satirist, escaped mental patient, drug addict, these are the right terms for people that you shouldn't take seriously. That if they tell you its's sunny in Miami, Florida even in the summer, you might want to see a Miami weather report first before you take that seriously.

Dr. West seems to have this idea that unless African-Americans are either as far to the left and as socialist as him or they aren't even really as African-American as him. Even if their complexion is darker than Dr. West's, which is crazy. 

The African-American community is not monolithic politically. You have the Cornel West's and other Democratic Socialists of the world, Representative Maxine Waters would be another and than you have leftists like Reverend Jesse Jackson, Representative John Lewis and others who share Dr. West's political goals, but are more careful with what they say politically and can speak to a broader audience.

Cornel West is not a problem solver but a movement mover, more interested in keeping a movement alive rather than advancing the cause of the movement with real policy achievements and problem- solving policies. I sort of hate to put it this way, but Dr. West is sort of like like the Jesse Helms of the left and even far-left, someone more interested in advancing a cause and keeping a movement alive, rather than having policy achievements and objectives they can point to.

Biography: The Iceman Richard Kuklinski

Source:Biography- The Iceman Richard Kuklinski.

"Richard Kuklinski suffered a rough upbringing and committed his first murder as a teenager. He eventually found a living as a hitman for the Genovese, Gambino and DeCavalcante crime families, becoming known as  "The Iceman" for his method of freezing victims to obscure their time of death. Following his incarceration in 1988, Kuklinski freely shared his experiences with interviewers and was featured in multiple documentaries." 

From Famous Biographies 

The photo on the bottom is from a 2001 documentary that A&E and Biography produced about New Jersey mob hitman Richard Kuklinski, where Kuklinski gave an extensive interview about his life and career as a mob hitman.

Source:Biography- interviewing mob hitman Richard Kuklinski in 2001.

The Iceman is the perfect nickname for mafia hitman Richard Kuklinski because thats exactly what he was. He was a cold-blooded man who could kill people with absolutely no feeling of what he was doing one way or the other, other than completing the task at hand and someone like that has no business ever living on the streets again.

I don't like referring to human beings as animals (even if I don't want to use the word asshole) but if you were to call someone an animal, The Iceman would be towards the top of the list. Big, powerful, strongman, who didn't have much if any care for anyone's life other than his own.

Kuklinski's job as he saw it was to stay alive and live as comfortably as he could. And killing came naturally to him and was something he was excellent at as far as all the murders he pulled off even if did kill some bad people who society would be better off having those people as dead. 

We have the death penalty in America for people like Richard Kuklinski. People who have no care for anyone else's life other than their own, who actually get pleasure in taking someone else's life even if that person is also bad, and who are a real threat to murder again.

Gata Bella: Barbara Walters Special- Sophia Loren Interview (1990)

Source:Gata Bella- The Italian Goddess Sophia Loren, when she was very young.

"Sophia Loren Documentary and Interview. Interview with Barbara Walters, 1990."

From Gata Bella 

This is from the same ABC News interview that Barbara Walters did with The Italian Goddess Sophia Loren in 1990. The top photo is from a documentary of Sophia when she was a kid. But the second photo is a photo of her and how she looked in 1990 at 55.

Source:Gata Bella- The Italian Goddess Sophia Loren, being interviewed by ABC News's Barbara Walters, in 1990.

Just look at Sophia Loren at this point in 1990. She is around fifty-six at this point and Barbara Walters looking very cute as always too, but Sophia Loren still a goddess at this point and looking great.

And if you look at how she started out in Italy born in 1934 under the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and how poor she and her family were in Italy and during a war-time and not worrying about how they were going to eat everyday and would they not have a place to live and everything else that comes from the hell of extreme poverty and then what she made of herself, it is an incredible life. That seems to of only of come out of Hollywood.

Sophia goes from extreme poverty war-torn Italy under a horrible dictatorship, to Italian and Hollywood goddess within less than twenty-years. Who else could’ve accomplished this and accomplish everything that she has to being one of if not the top Hollywood goddess's of all-time and one of the best actress’s, singers, perhaps even comedians who has ever lived. And all of this coming after the hellish start that she had in life, where she has a father that she almost didn’t know at all and had a mother who lived through hell as well. 

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Gata Bella: Sophia Loren- The Italian Goddess

Source:Gata Bella- The Italian Goddess Sophia Loren.

"Pictures of the magnificent Sophia Loren."

Source:Gata Bella

When I think of goddess’s Sophia Loren is in the top one-percent of all-time and if not number one all-time, you can certainly see number one from where she is. And yes a big part of what makes Sophia a goddess is physical with the hot baby-face, the tall curvy athletic voice, the incredible feminine native-Italian voice. The way she moves, the way she sings, the way she talks. The way she presented herself and the fact that she knew she had all of these incredible physical attributes.

So she has all of this going on for her, with women who see her and are always jealous of her. But in Sophia’s case, we’re talking about someone who is a great singer and a great actress. Who also just happens to be one of if not the best looking women of all-time. So we are not talking about a bimbo, someone who is great to look at and perhaps jump in the sack with. But with the guy wanting to get away from her as soon as possible before his wife or girlfriend or finds out.

But also because mentally the bimbo does nothing for him mentally, other than someone to make fun of. Sophia is a goddess, physically, professionally and mentally. 

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Fanciulla Kaestner: Sophia Loren- Mambo Italiano

Source:Fanciulla Kaestner- The Italian Goddess Sophia Loren's, Mambo Italiano.

"Sophia Loren - Mambo Italiano"

From Fanciulla Kaestner

The best looking Italian woman of all-time, whether she’s from Italy, America or anywhere else. As one of the top 1% of best looking women of all-time, who can act, sing and make you laugh.

If you watch this video, you can see that Hollywood knew how to use Sophia and how to get the most out of her and she knew who she was and how to get the best out of herself. You have this freakin Italian goddess with the look, with the great face, body, height, voice, personality and everything else. And they knew that and she knew that as well and they both knew how to use her and how to play her.

You see her in her movies and she’s generally playing someone who can sing and dance and that with the great personality, who can also make you laugh. And you see her dancing with great actors, two of the best ever and perhaps the two best ever in Cary Grant and Marlin Brando. Who she must have been a pleasure for them to work with, let alone dance with.
And those movies that she was in, we're always bringing that out in her.

Sophia is one actress and entertainer that Hollywood knew what they were getting and how best to take advantage of all of her qualities and get the most out of her.

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HBO: 'The Buzz: Ethel Premiere'

Source:HBO- from HBO's film about Ethel Kennedy.

"The Buzz was at the premiere of the HBO Documentary, "Ethel."

Source:HBO

This is a documentary about Ethel Kennedy who of course was the wife of former U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York Robert F. Kennedy. As well as the sister in-law of President John F. Kennedy and sister in-law of U.S. Senator from MassachusettsTed Kennedy. Who is now in her late eighties and still reasonable healthy and has survived her husband by over forty years.

Not as high profiled as former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy who after she left the White House due to her husband's assassination in 1963 because a New York celebrity in the fashion on journalism scene. Ethel has been more laid back and has stayed away from the spotlight and has been more of a behind the scenes figure in the Kennedy Family and their political dynasty. And has done work fundraising for her family when they've run for office and has raised money for other causes. She was critical to her husband's political success in the 1960s as far as offering advice and keeping his strength up, but not as public as a figure.