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Don't Worry, Online Shopping Is Easier Than You Think
Not long ago, people who needed to purchase holiday or birthday gifts had to get dressed and go to the store in order to do their shopping. Getting ready to go shopping and having to deal with crowds can literally drain all of your energy. Fortunately, online shopping is now an option. Read here for great advice on how to shop online.
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Call the online company before you make a purchase. If you have some kind of problem with your purchase, you want to be able to know that you can reach customer service easily. That's why it's a good idea to call before you give them your credit card information. If you can't get anyone on the phone, steer clear.
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When you are shopping online, use reviews and ratings to your advantage and make smart purchases. If Lineman knives are buying a rug and 10 out of 11 reviewers say the item was not the correct color, you probably want to look somewhere else for the item. Also check to verify that a customer had to purchase the item in order to make the review.
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If you shop online, keep the data from credit cards safe. Always use Bull cutter knives shopping sites. Find the padlock icon, which indicates that a site is secure. It's normally found on the URL bar of the browser, normally around the top right area.
Trust your instincts when it comes to shopping online. If you do not feel comfortable, leave the site immediately. It is better to pay a little bit more for an item than take the chance on giving your personal information out to a site that may not be legit.
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7+1 Classic American Pocket Knives
1) Toothpick, slipjoint folding knife, white plastic scales (shell knife, aka Handle Knife Patent), nickel silver bolsters, slender clip-point blade a.k.a. toothpick (not to be confused with the Arkansas toothpick, which is an ironically named humongous knife). Tang stamp "COLONIAL PAT No. 231064", 11 cm closed, 20th century (mid-20th, maybe?)
2) Fish knife, slipjoint folding knife, cracked marble celluloid handle with a fish-shaped shield, nickel silver bolsters, carbon blades: 1 clip-point and 1 saw/hook-remover/bottle-opener. Tang stamp "Imperial PROV. USA", 12.5 cm closed, c. 1946-1956.
3) TL-29 a.k.a. electricians knife, linerlock folding knife, rosewood handle with brass inset "TL-29" and lanyard ring, nickel silver bolster, brass liners, carbon steel blades: 1 spear-point and 1 wire-stripper/flat screwdriver. The name stands for "Tool, Lineman, number 29", originally from the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Tang stamp on the ricasso "CAMILLUS NEW YORK", and on the blade "TO RELEASE PUSH CENTER LOCK TO LEFT", 9.5 cm closed, circa 1960s.
4) Trapper, slipjoint folding knife, dark red bone (peach seed jig) handle with nickel silver shield "CASE", nickel silver bolsters, brass liners, chrome vanadium carbon blades: 1 clip-point and 1 spey. A Case model #31950 CV. Tang stamp on main blade "CASE XX" and 8 dots for date, and on the spey blade "USA 6254 CV), 10.5 cm closed, 2022.
5) Engineers knife, slipjoint folding knife, jigged bone handle with steel shield "USA" and lanyard ring, steel bolsters and liners, carbon steel blades: 1 spear-point, 1 bottle-opener/flat screwdriver, 1 punch, 1 can-opener. Identical pattern with an ubiquitous camping knife, later adopted for the U.S. Army Engineers. Tang stamp "CAMILLUS CUTLERY CO. CAMILLUS N.Y. USA" (4 lines), 9.3 cm closed, 1942-1945.
6) Buck 110 a.k.a. "Hunter", lockback folding knife, ebony handle, brass bolsters, stainless steel blade. Tang stamp "BUCK 110 USA" and date symbol, 12.3 cm closed, 2018.
7) Barlow, slipjoint folding knife, derlin (synthetic) handle, nickel silver bolster with fancy scroll work, carbon steel blades: 1 clip-point and 1 pen-blade. A Schrade #206, a.k.a. "Grand-dad's barlow". Tang stamp "SCHRADE USA 206", 8.5 cm closed, 1976-1983.
+1) Hunting knife or "Bowie knife", full tang fixed blade knife, jigged bone handle, carbon steel blade. The outlier, neither American nor a pocket knife, but made for the American market and advertised as a "bowie-knife" *, with its iconic clip-point blade. Tang stamp on the ricasso "ALFRED WILLIAMS SHEFFIELD ENGLAND", and on the blade "EBRO" between two Maltese crosses, 22 cm total, circa 1890-1920.
* For collectors, a "bowie" is a knife made for carrying (as opposed to keeping in your kitchen or toolshed), for the American market (regardless of where it was manufactured, the most famous ones are indeed from Sheffield), and somewhat arbitrarily, from 1827 to 1865 (from the Sandbar Fight to the end of the American Civil War). A more generous date range goes to the end of the 19th century, from 1827 to 1900. Everything else is up in the air: it can be big or small, simple or fancy, fixed blade or folding, with a clip-point or dagger or any other blade pattern, and of any materials. Today most people associate the term with a large fixed blade knife with an intense clip-point blade, regardless of when and where it was made.
P.S. I'm missing a stockman knife, and I want very specifically a Case medium stockman with clip, spey and sheepfoot blades, and a nice bone handle (pattern stamp 6318SS).
#tools of the trade#folding knife#knife#bowie knife#trapper#engineers knife#tl-29#trs#sheffield#england#usa#multitool#barlow#trc#trp
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Big Deal headcanons!
Jake loves hugging and touching his friends. A random squeeze on the shoulder here, a pat on the back there, a little hand holding too and some hair ruffling. He always does it when he feels safe enough to do so. Nobody is safe from him, unless they tell him outright that they don’t like hugs or to be touched.
When Big Deal was at its best, Samuel got a a small tattoo on his back representing Big Deal and one representing Jake. He never told anyone about it and he will take it to his grave. Its still leaves a very bittersweet feeling in his chest when he thinks about it.
Jerry loves animals, especially cats. He always wanted to have one but before big deal he was too young take care of one and after joining he didn’t want to waste money for the necessitates of having one. When he has some free time he likes to hang out in places where there are many strays. He can spend hours just petting them.
Sinu hates horror moves with zombies or ghosts in them with passion and refuses to watch them. He gets scared of them very easily and prefers to forget that they even exist. Once Jake managed to convince him to watch one with him and rest of Big Deal. When the first jump-scare arrived, he let out very high pitched scream and punched the TV screen. It broke. Everybody laughed at that and Sinu took offense to that and gave silent treatment to everyone in Big Deal for a week. (Samuel never let it go and from time to time liked to remind him of it.)
Brad dislikes having long hair. His hair was very rough and stiff so anytime he touched it, the sensation was horrible for him. He first dealt with it by braiding his hair but after some time he couldn’t stand even that. He then decided to just shave it off. And now he likes the way he looks without it.
Jason is a writer. He likes to write poems and short stories. He has at least 10 notebooks full of his writing. He doesn’t like talking about it because he thinks he isn’t very good at it and gets a little self-conscious about it. To this day Sinu was the only one who knows about it and he only found out by accident. He walked in on Jason writing down a poem and they talked a little about it. It ended with Sinu promising not to tell anyone about it.
When Lineman first got his tattoos the fact that they were only lines was something he didn’t want, but he didn’t have enough money to pay for coloring them. Before meeting Jake he was a little embarrassed about them and secretly gathering money to fill them up. He stopped thinking about it after meeting Jake for the first time.
Lua Im is very good with knives. After joining Big Deal and finding out she was very bad at hand to hand combat she got depressed about her inability to save herself if she ever finds herself in danger. But after some time she saw a video on youtube that discussed the use of knives in a fight and decided to give it a try. She soon found out she was pretty good at it and started training for self defense. Soon after she started to carry a pocket knife with her. She hopes the time she has to use it to defend herself won’t ever come.
#lookism#jake kim#big deal lookism#big deal#samuel seo#jerry kwon#sinu han#brad lee#lua im#lineman lookism#big deal headcanons#lookism webtoon#and yes#samuel still counts as big deal for me#i really liked coming up with those#gin posts lookism
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Holidays 4.8
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Aerosol Day
All is Ours Day
Baghdad Liberation Day (Kurdistan)
Bloating Prevention Day
Colorism Awareness Day
Counter Stool Memorial Day
Cushing’s Disease Awareness Day
Cuti Bersama (Indonesia)
DAB Day (Draw A Bird Day)
Day of Military Commissariat Employees (Belarus)
Day of Silence
Day of Valor (Araw ng Kagtingan; Philippines)
Dog Farting Awareness Day
Draw a Picture of a Bird Day
Drug Control Authority Workers’ Day (Kyrgyzstan)
Economist Day (Tajikistan)
Geranium Day (England)
Ghodejatra (Nepal)
Grand Ivy Day
Grand National Ladies Day (UK)
Ground Ivy Day
Hammerin’ Hank Day
International Bird Day
International Day of Pink
International Feng Shui Awareness Day
International Pageant Day
International Romani Day (a.k.a. International Day of the Roma)
Ja Morant Day (South Carolina)
Martyrs’ Day (Tunisia)
Ministry of Defense Day (Thailand)
More Cowbell Day
Mule Day
National Animation Day (Russia)
National Arcade Day
National Banjo Day
National Best in the World Day
National Catch and Release Day
National Dog Fighting Awareness Day
National Idiot Day
National Plitvice Lakes Day (Croatia)
Peanuts-Kids-Baseball Day
Polling Day Eve (Samoa)
Pygmy Hippo Day
Radish Day (French Republic)
Rex Manning Day (in “Empire Records”)
Right to Read Day
Rumenians’ Independence Day (Sweden)
Sealing the Frost (Cuchumatan Indians; Guatemala)
Shiatsu Day
Shiba Inu Day (Japan)
Step into the Spotlight! Day
Trading Cards for Grown-Ups Day
Tutor Appreciation Day
Twin Peaks Day
World Mixed Martial Arts Day
World Neurosurgeon’s Day
Zoo Lovers' Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Milk in Glass Bottles Day
National Empañada Day
2nd Monday in April
Global Day of Action on Military Spending [2nd Monday]
National Lineman Appreciation Day [2nd Monday]
Weekly Holidays beginning April 8 (2nd Week)
Ora;, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week [thru 4.14]
Take Your Poet to School Week [thru 4.12 from 1st Monday]
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Rumenians' Independence Day (Romernas Nationaldag; Sweden)
Festivals Beginning April 8, 2024
Children’ Book Fair (Bologna, Italy) [thru 4.11]
Electric Mountain Festival (Solden, Austria) [thru 4.12]
NFRA Executive Conference (Tempe, Arizona) [thru 4.10]
Seatrade Cruise Global (Miami, Florida) [thru 4.11]
Feast Days
Ædesius (Christian; Martyr)
Allen Butler Talcott (Artology)
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Buddha's Birthday (Mahāyāna Buddhists; Japan)
Constantina (Christian; Saint)
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Feast of the Hummingbird (Aztec)
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Hana Matsuri (Flower Festival on Buddha’s Birthday; Japan)
Juan van der Hamen (Artology)
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Kanbutsu-e (Buddha’s Birthday; Japan)
Kiki the Rattlesnake (Muppetism)
Lazarus Saturday (Orthodox Christian)
Nuzzle Quran (Malaysia)
Odd Nerdrum (Artology)
Our Lady of Good Counsel (Christian)
Perpetuus of Tours (Christian; Saint)
Prayer for Clarity Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Red Wine Day (Pastafarian)
Walter of Pontoise (Christian; Saint)
William Augustus Muhlenberg (Episcopal Church (USA))
Zoo Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Nēmontēmi, Day 4 (of 5) [Aztec unlucky or fasting days, taking place between 4.5-4.18]
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [19 of 60]
Premieres
All the Old Knives (Film; 2022)
American: The Bill Hicks Story (Documentary Film; 2011)
The Apocrypha (Religious Text received as Canonical by Catholic Church; 1546)
Bars and Stripes Forever (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)
The Boss (Film; 2016)
Box Car Bandit (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1957)
The Century, by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster (Book; 1999)
The Clash, by The Clash (Album; 1977)
David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell (Book; 2014)
Destitively Bonnaroo, by Dr. John (Album; 1974)
Father Noah’s Ark (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1933)
Fever Pitch (Film; 2005)
The Fireman (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1931)
From Russia, with Love, by Ian Fleming (Novel; 1957) [James Bond #5]
The Gambler (TV movie; 1980)
Hanna (Film; 2011)
Have Gun, Can’t Travel (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1967)
Inspector George Gently (UK TV Series; 2007)
Jerry the Lion (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1950)
Just Dance, by Lady Gaga (Song; 2008)
Killing Eve (TV Series; 2018)
Kingdom (BBC TV Series; 2007)
La Gioconda, by Amiliare Ponchielli (Opera; 1876)
The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper (Children’s Book; 1930)
Lucky Star (Anime TV Series; 2007)
The Mansion Cat (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 2001)
Miss Lonelyhearts, by Nathanael West (Novella; 1933)
Mr. Right (Film; 2016)
On the Heights of Despair, by Emil M. Cioran (Philosophical Book; 1934)
The Organ Grinder (WB MM Cartoon; 1933)
Sea Salts (Disney Cartoon; 1949)
The $64,000 Question (Radio Quiz Show; 1955)
Smash by The Offspring (Album; 1994)
The Smurfs Springtime Special (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1982)
Soul Surfer (Film; 2011)
Toys in the Attic, by Aerosmith (Album; 1975)
The Trouble With Being Born, by Emil M. Cioran (Philosophy Book; 1973)
Twin Peaks (TV Series; 1990)
The Unusuals (TV Series; 2009)
Von Drake in Spain (Disney Animated TV Special; 1962)
Where Did Our Love Go, recorded by The Supremes (Song; 1964)
Ye Olden Days (Disney Cartoon; 1933)
Today’s Name Days
Beate, Rose-Marie, Walter (Austria)
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Julia, Juuli, Juulika, Lia, Liana, Liane (Estonia)
Suoma, Suometar (Finland)
Julie (France)
Beate, Rose-Marie, Walter (Germany)
Lazaros (Greece)
Dénes (Hungary)
Alberto, Dionigi, Walter (Italy)
Dana, Danute, Dziedra, Edgars, Žanete (Latvia)
Dionizas, Girtautas, Julija, Skirgailė (Lithuania)
Asle, Atle (Norway)
Apolinary, Cezary, Cezaryna, Dionizy, Gawryła, January, Radosław, Sieciesława (Poland)
Agav, Irodion, Lazar, Ruf (Romania)
Alla, Anna (Russia)
Albert (Slovakia)
Amancio, Dionisio, Julia (Spain)
Hemming, Nadja, Tanja (Sweden)
Gillian, Jill, Jillian, Jolyon, Julia, Julian, Juliana, Julianna, Julianne, Julie, Julien, Juliet, Juliette, Julio, Julissa, Julius (USA)
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Day of Year: Day 99 of 2024; 267 days remaining in the year
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Hebrew: 29 Adair II 5784
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Julian: 26 March 2024
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Positivist: 15 Archimedes (4th Month) [Eudoxus]
Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 21 of 92)
Week: 2nd Week of April
Zodiac: Aries (Day 19 of 31)
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Holidays 4.8
Holidays
Aerosol Day
All is Ours Day
Baghdad Liberation Day (Kurdistan)
Bloating Prevention Day
Colorism Awareness Day
Counter Stool Memorial Day
Cushing’s Disease Awareness Day
Cuti Bersama (Indonesia)
DAB Day (Draw A Bird Day)
Day of Military Commissariat Employees (Belarus)
Day of Silence
Day of Valor (Araw ng Kagtingan; Philippines)
Dog Farting Awareness Day
Draw a Picture of a Bird Day
Drug Control Authority Workers’ Day (Kyrgyzstan)
Economist Day (Tajikistan)
Geranium Day (England)
Ghodejatra (Nepal)
Grand Ivy Day
Grand National Ladies Day (UK)
Ground Ivy Day
Hammerin’ Hank Day
International Bird Day
International Day of Pink
International Feng Shui Awareness Day
International Pageant Day
International Romani Day (a.k.a. International Day of the Roma)
Ja Morant Day (South Carolina)
Martyrs’ Day (Tunisia)
Ministry of Defense Day (Thailand)
More Cowbell Day
Mule Day
National Animation Day (Russia)
National Arcade Day
National Banjo Day
National Best in the World Day
National Catch and Release Day
National Dog Fighting Awareness Day
National Idiot Day
National Plitvice Lakes Day (Croatia)
Peanuts-Kids-Baseball Day
Polling Day Eve (Samoa)
Pygmy Hippo Day
Radish Day (French Republic)
Rex Manning Day (in “Empire Records”)
Right to Read Day
Rumenians’ Independence Day (Sweden)
Sealing the Frost (Cuchumatan Indians; Guatemala)
Shiatsu Day
Shiba Inu Day (Japan)
Step into the Spotlight! Day
Trading Cards for Grown-Ups Day
Tutor Appreciation Day
Twin Peaks Day
World Mixed Martial Arts Day
World Neurosurgeon’s Day
Zoo Lovers' Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Milk in Glass Bottles Day
National Empañada Day
2nd Monday in April
Global Day of Action on Military Spending [2nd Monday]
National Lineman Appreciation Day [2nd Monday]
Weekly Holidays beginning April 8 (2nd Week)
Ora;, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week [thru 4.14]
Take Your Poet to School Week [thru 4.12 from 1st Monday]
Independence & Related Days
Australis (a.k.a. Grand Duchy of Australis; Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Rumenians' Independence Day (Romernas Nationaldag; Sweden)
Festivals Beginning April 8, 2024
Children’ Book Fair (Bologna, Italy) [thru 4.11]
Electric Mountain Festival (Solden, Austria) [thru 4.12]
NFRA Executive Conference (Tempe, Arizona) [thru 4.10]
Seatrade Cruise Global (Miami, Florida) [thru 4.11]
Feast Days
Ædesius (Christian; Martyr)
Allen Butler Talcott (Artology)
Anne Ayres (Episcopal Church (USA))
Apollonius (Positivist; Saint)
B. Albert, Patriarch of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)
Barbara Kingsolver (Writerism)
Buddha's Birthday (Mahāyāna Buddhists; Japan)
Constantina (Christian; Saint)
Cornelius de Heem (Artology)
Day of Amon-Ra (Pagan)
Dionysius of Corinth (Christian; Saint)
Feast of the Hummingbird (Aztec)
Feast of the Three Days of the Writing of the Book of the Law begins (Thelema)
Freedom of Religion Day (Everyday Wicca)
Geronimo Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Hana Matsuri (Flower Festival on Buddha’s Birthday; Japan)
Juan van der Hamen (Artology)
Julie Billiart of Namur (Christian; Saint)
Kanbutsu-e (Buddha’s Birthday; Japan)
Kiki the Rattlesnake (Muppetism)
Lazarus Saturday (Orthodox Christian)
Nuzzle Quran (Malaysia)
Odd Nerdrum (Artology)
Our Lady of Good Counsel (Christian)
Perpetuus of Tours (Christian; Saint)
Prayer for Clarity Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Red Wine Day (Pastafarian)
Walter of Pontoise (Christian; Saint)
William Augustus Muhlenberg (Episcopal Church (USA))
Zoo Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Nēmontēmi, Day 4 (of 5) [Aztec unlucky or fasting days, taking place between 4.5-4.18]
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [19 of 60]
Premieres
All the Old Knives (Film; 2022)
American: The Bill Hicks Story (Documentary Film; 2011)
The Apocrypha (Religious Text received as Canonical by Catholic Church; 1546)
Bars and Stripes Forever (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)
The Boss (Film; 2016)
Box Car Bandit (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1957)
The Century, by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster (Book; 1999)
The Clash, by The Clash (Album; 1977)
David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell (Book; 2014)
Destitively Bonnaroo, by Dr. John (Album; 1974)
Father Noah’s Ark (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1933)
Fever Pitch (Film; 2005)
The Fireman (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1931)
From Russia, with Love, by Ian Fleming (Novel; 1957) [James Bond #5]
The Gambler (TV movie; 1980)
Hanna (Film; 2011)
Have Gun, Can’t Travel (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1967)
Inspector George Gently (UK TV Series; 2007)
Jerry the Lion (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1950)
Just Dance, by Lady Gaga (Song; 2008)
Killing Eve (TV Series; 2018)
Kingdom (BBC TV Series; 2007)
La Gioconda, by Amiliare Ponchielli (Opera; 1876)
The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper (Children’s Book; 1930)
Lucky Star (Anime TV Series; 2007)
The Mansion Cat (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 2001)
Miss Lonelyhearts, by Nathanael West (Novella; 1933)
Mr. Right (Film; 2016)
On the Heights of Despair, by Emil M. Cioran (Philosophical Book; 1934)
The Organ Grinder (WB MM Cartoon; 1933)
Sea Salts (Disney Cartoon; 1949)
The $64,000 Question (Radio Quiz Show; 1955)
Smash by The Offspring (Album; 1994)
The Smurfs Springtime Special (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1982)
Soul Surfer (Film; 2011)
Toys in the Attic, by Aerosmith (Album; 1975)
The Trouble With Being Born, by Emil M. Cioran (Philosophy Book; 1973)
Twin Peaks (TV Series; 1990)
The Unusuals (TV Series; 2009)
Von Drake in Spain (Disney Animated TV Special; 1962)
Where Did Our Love Go, recorded by The Supremes (Song; 1964)
Ye Olden Days (Disney Cartoon; 1933)
Today’s Name Days
Beate, Rose-Marie, Walter (Austria)
Lazar, Lazo (Bulgaria)
Diogen, Dionizije, Klement, Timotej (Croatia)
Ema, Emanuel (Czech Republic)
Janus (Denmark)
Julia, Juuli, Juulika, Lia, Liana, Liane (Estonia)
Suoma, Suometar (Finland)
Julie (France)
Beate, Rose-Marie, Walter (Germany)
Lazaros (Greece)
Dénes (Hungary)
Alberto, Dionigi, Walter (Italy)
Dana, Danute, Dziedra, Edgars, Žanete (Latvia)
Dionizas, Girtautas, Julija, Skirgailė (Lithuania)
Asle, Atle (Norway)
Apolinary, Cezary, Cezaryna, Dionizy, Gawryła, January, Radosław, Sieciesława (Poland)
Agav, Irodion, Lazar, Ruf (Romania)
Alla, Anna (Russia)
Albert (Slovakia)
Amancio, Dionisio, Julia (Spain)
Hemming, Nadja, Tanja (Sweden)
Gillian, Jill, Jillian, Jolyon, Julia, Julian, Juliana, Julianna, Julianne, Julie, Julien, Juliet, Juliette, Julio, Julissa, Julius (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 99 of 2024; 267 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 15 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 23 of 28]
Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 30 (Ren-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 29 Adair II 5784
Islamic: 29 Ramadan 1445
J Cal: 9 Cyan; Twosday [9 of 30]
Julian: 26 March 2024
Moon: 0%: New Moon
Positivist: 15 Archimedes (4th Month) [Eudoxus]
Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 21 of 92)
Week: 2nd Week of April
Zodiac: Aries (Day 19 of 31)
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🛠️ Discover the Finest Hand Tool Brands and Manufacturers in the USA! 🇺🇸
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Klein Tools 80020 Tool Set with Lineman's Pliers, Diagonal Cutters, and Long Nose Pliers, with Induction Hardened Knives, 3-Piece
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Hello!! I did a thing... I big oops... I have no idea where this is going but honestly... gosh, Bucky is finally given the spotlight! Yes, I am talking about that trailer.
So, I guess bear with me? From what I feel, this is going to be ... quite the journey. Spoilers, if I accidentally am on to something?
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Nothing made sense anymore. The world seemed to be upside down and he couldn’t find an anchor to hold on to. A thousand thoughts on his mind, past and future blurred into a chaotic present. He had found a still moment in the universe, after his best friend retired and that was the only way he could cope with the ever-changing situation.
He had believed that a new beginning was all that he needed; but before he could begin, he had to be free of his past and that he simply could not do. Working with Wilson was not his cup of tea, either. He was searching for meaning but maybe fulfillment wasn’t about what he had already done, maybe it was about the things he hadn’t and that was worse.
It was simple mission; keep an eye on a questionable individual. Well, at least, that was what the files told him. Girl, early twenties, not a very interesting life – to him, at least, he thought. She might have loved studying and serving coffee to people she didn’t know just so she could earn her living. And a clue that linked her to an old enemy – Zemo. No one knew what their relationship was, or even if there was any. They had been able to pick up a single message sent from her phone to an unknown number that it was later identified as Zemo’s.
He was standing outside the coffee shop she was working, not knowing if he would be able to identify her; they only had a blurry picture of her – another clue that she was onto something as she was avoiding to be seen. Not that he could blame her for that. If she was working with the man that put him trough all of that a couple of years ago, he didn’t know if he would hand her over or… He walked inside, trying to appear as relaxed and nonchalant as possible, knowing that he would be awkward anyway. Sam could have done this, he thought, rolling his eyes at that. It was quite busy, actually, and the atmosphere was cozier than what he had expected. And so, he found the table that furthest away but had a good angle-view to keep an eye on the personnel and sat down. He scanned the place but there was no trace of the girl from the picture. He was pretending to read the menu so no one would come soon to take his order.
He was about to stand up and leave, having spent almost half an hour being a jerk and not ordering a thing, when a soft tornado rushed through the front door. He was left gawking at her for a moment and then quickly shook it off. She murmured an apology to her colleagues but they just smiled at her, as if they knew why she was late. He was able to distinct two words: application, problems. He cleared his throat and not a moment later, there she was.
“Hello! What can I get you?” she politely asked him, ready to take his order, not exactly looking at him. Whatever she was previously doing, affected her still. He was caught by surprise, because he actually never looked at the menu.
“An americano and um, what do you suggest?” he had to act normal, he thought again. Maybe channel his inner long-lost self. She finally looked at him, with a questioning smile on her face. The picture they had was old and did not do her any justice.
“Our sour lemon bars are amazing” she informed him after a second of brainstorming. Sour, huh? He noticed her body language – she truly didn’t know who he was. Then again, without his long hair and a visible metal arm, not many people could recognize him. He nodded in agreement and she left.
She was in a pretty bad mood. The application she had sent to the university was still not accepted, her computer broke down, she was barely making it by and she was tired having had zero sleep the night before, tormented by nightmares. She handed the order to Jackie and sat down, behind the bar. While Jackie was preparing everything, she was making herself a cup of coffee.
“He is cute” she heard – and so did he, thanks to his enhanced senses. He was not used to being called cute or anything like that. Maybe an older version of him was pretty good with women – this one, not so much. He wasn’t bad, unlike Steve, but … something wasn’t there anymore.
She looked at him, for a split second before gulping her coffee down.
“Better you than me” she whispered. The other girl was shocked.
“What happened?” she asked her, a ton of concern laced her voice and that captured his attention.
“I don’t know what to do” she said, almost desperate. As his lemon bars were being transferred to a beautiful plate, Jackie asked the one-million-dollar question.
“What about that guy? Helmut?”. That was all Bucky needed to add her to his suspect list – well, to cross off everyone else but her, really.
“Hasn’t delivered and I am running out of time” she murmured in fear of being heard. She was right to be afraid of that, he did eavesdrop. Bucky hoped that she would be the one to bring his coffee but unfortunately, another waiter came.
For the better part of an hour, he tried to catch anything of importance, having already informed Sam. But there was nothing. She just did her job. Deciding that it was better to leave in order not to attract any kind of unwanted attention, he left the money on the table and walked out of the place, faster than he would have liked.
Who was she?
It had been pretty hard for her, lately. That roughly translated into more than ten years. She was used to being treated badly by life but she was standing right on the edge and she had nothing to grab onto to stop her fall. As long as she could remember, she was alone. The first person she had met was a grim old lady, telling her to stop crying otherwise the Sinnerman was going to eat her. Once she was at an age, she could understand what was happening, she was made aware she had no family – that wanted her, anyway – and that was why she had ended up there. It more of a torture-place than an orphanage.
By the age of fifteen, she had achieved an early high school graduation, and her caretakers saw that she didn’t have the potentials to become the next prodigy, no matter the hard work. Being fifteen and on the streets was something she wished on nobody. She was smart, though – she got a job and soon was able to afford her own place. It was small but it was all she needed. A roof over her head, a bed and a shower.
Lately, things were just not easy. She hadn’t been paid for at least four months and she had no cushion of money to fall onto. Her landlord would kick her out any minute now, and she had no backup plan. Her study application hadn’t panned out yet and when a stranger reached her, promising her a ton of cash and a name, she didn��t think twice.
When she agreed to hack into a couple of databases, she had no idea who that person was. Only that he knew her parents and was willing to pay. That was all she needed, really. Little did she know, she was helping a criminal to get out of a life-long sentence. She tried to back away, but a single threat was more than enough to persuade her. She wasn’t used to knives being that close to her neck.
She had done her part, even though she regretted it, but he had still to deliver and she had no other option. She would stay awake, thinking why her? Out of all the hackers in the world, why her?
“Don’t worry! They’ll choose you, they would be stupid not to” Jackie told her, as she was ready to leave. She laughed at that.
“I am not gonna pay them, I am the one asking them for a fund. They would be stupid if they did choose me!” she explained again, waving her goodbye. She was closing up the place today. She didn’t mind. The later she got back to her place, the smaller the chances to meet her landlord. She liked working alone, being alone. That was why she had it easier than the other girls back in the day. They struggled keeping up with the classes, the training, the killing. She did her job, and got on with her life. Well, at least until she was kicked out.
Placing the last cups back on their self, she heard the door opening and closing – footsteps were approaching her.
“I’m sorry, we’re closed” she chimed, as she turned around. That guy again. Yeah, alright, he was cute but her mind was warning her. He smiled – but it was forced and she saw it. Something wasn’t right.
“Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t see any sign” he said and it was true, she hadn’t put on the closed sign. He knew that she knew – but instead of making a run for it, she played along. Sam was waiting outside, car ready.
“Oh, yeah, that’s my bad” she calmly informed him, letting her towel down and picking up the sing to hang, moving slowly through the space. He recognized her moves but it couldn’t be. Her moves were familiar but not fully known. He was closing in. After a rather long eye-contact, she threw the metal sign at him, aiming his exposed neck, almost cutting him. She was strong.
All it took was two steps and they were engaged in a full-blown combat. He threw up his forearms like an offensive lineman blocking a defensive back, but she slipped to the side, pushed his elbow down and away, caught his head, and rolled him into the floor. Not even a second later, Bucky threw her off of him and was on his feet, watching her rush toward him in slow motion. He reached under his shirt even as he pushed past the tables. She did not try to stop the gun; she rolled his hand under his wrist, drove his arm over and back, and pulled him backward and down. She had the gun before he slammed into the floor, and was pointing it at him.
She wasn’t afraid to use it, and he was almost scared by the look on her face. He had seen that look before. He tackled her, grabbed her wrist with his right hand and held the gun hand against her chest, while he placed his left arm tightly around her neck. She headbutted him but neither flinched.
Before she could do anything, Sam placed a cloth on her mouth and nose and knocked her out.
“Took you long enough” he mused at an annoyed Bucky. He rolled his eyes at him, still very much confused as to why she knew those moves.
“I think she was trained for the Black Widow program” he let on, as he picked her up while Sam made everything to look as if nothing had happened. He even closed up the place.
Bucky placed her on the backseat of the car. She wasn’t a Black Widow, yet her fighting style…
“Who is she?” Sam asked as they were driving away.
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The gore, guts and horror of an NFL fumble pile
Jameela Wahlgren
Stories from the bottom of the most lawless play in sports.
Retired NFL defensive lineman Fred Smerlas recalls them as the most exhilarating yet frightening moments in pro football, a purgatory of cheap shots and atrocities where you did your time unwillingly, a place where dragons lurked.
The fumble scrums. The barbaric scramble to recover a bouncing oblong spheroid, maddening in its Boing! Boing! Boing! misdirection.
As an offensive player, covering the ball keeps a critical drive alive. As a defensive player like Smerlas, you can proudly present the prize to your own sideline, offering it up like some precious blood-ruby.
In tight games, the fumble stakes were so high, the adrenaline coursing so strongly to the brain, that the big defensive linemen, those lumbering apex predators, would hold up the ball and beat their chests, howling primal screams of accomplishment.
“As a defenseman, recovering a fumble was the difference between getting off the field or having to stay there for another 10 plays and getting your head caved in,” Smerlas said. “They were huge. You trained for them since when you were a little kid. And then, boom! A fumble happens and everything goes dark. Only the ball lights up. No matter what’s around you, you go for that thing. When those lights go out, it’s ‘Here we come!’”
Now 62, Smerlas was a five-time NFL Pro Bowl selection during a 14-year career as a nose tackle with the Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers and New England Patriots. No pushover between the lines, he was then the only Greek player in the NFL, with a 6’3, 270-pound body filled out by dolmades, bougatsa and baklava.
Inside the pile, you kept your eyes closed, like a feeding shark, to guard against knifing hands that were trying to maim and blind, yank and punch scrotums, and dislocate fingers.
Yet the billy-club violence of those pileups still makes him shudder. The man-weight was so great that he could hardly breathe, and players hurt one another for the fun of it. Nothing was safe or sacred when 2,000 pounds of unscripted National Football League flesh-and-muscle pressed down on anything lying beneath it — untuned baby-grand pianos crushing hapless players fighting for both the ball and for oxygen.
Inside the pile, you kept your eyes closed, like a feeding shark, to guard against knifing hands that were trying to maim and blind, yank and punch scrotums, and dislocate fingers. The football changed hands often and ruthlessly. Late-comers dove into the jumble with their helmets first, heat-seeking missiles looking to break or dislodge anything in their way — the ball, even teeth. You couldn’t even trust your own teammates because in the heat of the scrum, it was often impossible to determine friend from foe.
Years after leaving the game in 1992, Smerlas still remembers the screams that came from a snapped femur or tibia, the animal grunts, that soulless profanity. Perhaps worst of all, he can still smell the rank breath of those miners’ sons and blue-collar pigskin heroes, many amped up on amphetamines or steroids, or both, a concoction that made them unscrupulous and even dangerous.
“You got guys grabbing your balls, punching you in the chest, gouging your eyes. In the fumble pile, everything gets whacked. You’ve got 330-pound men jumping on you. Let me tell ya, get hit by guys that size with pads and helmets, and it gets ugly fast,” Smerlas said. “In the pile, we used a different language. Part Greek. Part Italian. Part filth. ‘You fucking cocksucker, I’m gonna kill you.’ Guys would purposely go without brushing their teeth and eat garlic for five days straight. You’d be down there and pick up some rank smell and tell yourself, ‘I don’t want to know what that is.’”
So dreaded are the pileups that they come to players in their dreams long after retirement: The ball is still bouncing. Mammoth men converge. All that villainy and violence, and without a referee in sight.
The average National League Football game is comprised of 24.7 possessions, about 12 per team, and 3.2 of them (about 13 percent) end in turnovers. Out of 2.3 fumbles per game, on average at least one will be lost.
The 1938 Chicago Bears and 1978 San Francisco 49ers share the indignity of suffering the most fumbles in a season (56), and the 2011 New Orleans Saints can boast about having the fewest (6). The most fumbles to occur in a single game is 10. That slapstick ineptitude took place four times between 1943 and 1978.
Those numbers don’t tell the whole tale. While fumbles are brief events, their casualties, from lost molars to blown momentum, add up quickly. Famous college coach John Heisman, canonized with his own trophy after he died in 1936, once advised his players, “Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.”
Fumbles changed the rules of the game, and many earned their own monikers: The “Holy Roller” (also known as the “Immaculate Deception”), the “Miracle at the Meadowlands”, the “Butt Fumble”, and an incident between the Broncos and Browns in 1987 that was so crushing it became known simply as “The Fumble”. In the 1960s, a generation of players earned reputations as ball-strippers, boasting nicknames that evoked the wicked street-poetry of the The Longest Yard: “Refrigerator”, “Assassin”, “Night Train”, “Diesel” and “Bus.”
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Today’s game is its own cacophony of violence, and fumble pileups are still no place for the meek. Players are bigger, faster and more agile than ever before. But back in the old days, before instant replay and probing multi-angle camera shots kept players in check, before the emergence of new rules that banned head slaps and ruthless high-and-low hits, the field of play was more primitive, more ungoverned, more savage, according to interviews with 18 retired players, coaches and officials.
Gary Plummer, a former linebacker for the Chargers and 49ers, believes his era of fumble piles was more ruthless than today’s. He says that modern players are as prized and protected as Triple Crown racehorses.
“They can call it a respect for your opponent, but I think that it’s because most players realize that they’re making $5 million a year, and you don’t want to mess up somebody’s career, so the intensity isn’t as heightened,” he said. “When we played, guys were fighting to put food on the table. Today, it’s all about getting an extra Ferrari. There’s a difference.”
Cliff “Crash” Harris, a cog in the Dallas Cowboys’ fabled “Doomsday Defense”, was tagged by Washington Coach George Allen as “a rolling ball of butcher knives.” Oakland quarterback Kenny Stabler, himself known as “the Snake”, described mammoth Raiders offensive lineman George Buehler as a “Coke machine with a head.”
Defensive lineman Rich Jackson, who played for the Raiders in the late 1960s, was known for a bear-paw swipe called the “halo spinner”, and once broke Green Bay Packers offensive tackle Bill Hayhoe’s helmet with a head slap. Lyle Alzado, the terrorizing Raiders defensive end, called Jackson the toughest man he’d ever met.
Jackson called himself “Tombstone”.
“When they asked me why,” he said, “I’d tell ‘em that the tombstone is the termination of life, a symbol of death, the end of the road.”
Even Tombstone considered fumble scrums to be cold-blooded places. “You’d hear guys holler and you couldn’t imagine what was going on to make a man scream like that, the dirty things taking place,” he said. “But I was down there. And I did whatever it took. We played desperate in the old days.”
This lawlessness built football legends. Some players had particular reputations for violence. They possessed the honed skills of hired hitmen, only too glad to employ them inside the scrum.
Gremlins like Dick Butkus, Ray Nitschke, Jack Lambert, Lawrence Taylor and Joe Greene, who was known for being just plain mean.
“Everybody knew that you didn’t piss off Joe Greene,” said Clinton Jones, now 74, a former running back drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in 1967. “You’d even try to compliment him. You’d say ‘Nice hit, Joe.’ Because you knew that if you didn’t treat him nice he might try to eat you, and that would make for a long afternoon. Some guys had no limits.”
Then there was Conrad Dobler, who earned lasting infamy — and a cover story in the July 25, 1977, issue of Sports Illustrated — as the dirtiest player in football.
As Los Angeles Times sports columnist Jim Murray once wrote, “Conrad didn’t play football, he waged it. You couldn’t describe what he did as play. Not unless you figure the Indians played Custer. Dobler turned a line of scrimmage into a killing ground. He went about the game with … maniacal, suicidal fervor.”
For many players, the word “Dobler” meant frothing, filthy hits.
“Guys like Conrad Dobler would bite your eyeballs out,” Smerlas said. “Conrad would eat a child, for God sakes. He had no conscience. He’d tape his hands and rub them in salt and go after your eyes. He was like a crab. Everything on him was going to hurt you. If the ball was on the ground, he would punch you in the ribs or in the throat. You could beat Conrad to death, he wouldn’t care.”
Yet even the formidable Dobler quakes at memories of the scrum. “All that stuff they said I did at the bottom of the pile was bullshit; I avoided piles,” he said. “They were dangerous places. You could get hurt. Being there on the ground with your legs spread out and guys piling on, you could break something. One of the most dangerous places was standing around a pile. You’d get hit by some guy using his helmet as a battering ram. It was a good way to get your ass knocked off. All I wanted to do was get out of that pile and check my bones to see if anything was broken.”
Dobler insists he didn’t need the cover of a fumble scrum to inflict his damage. “If I hurt players, I did it out in the open. I’d bring up my hands and hit ‘em in the face mask. I’d catch ‘em in the solar plexus with my fist. That stopped ‘em real good. It was all legal. The refs didn’t like my leg whip, but it was sufficient to knock a guy off his feet.”
Fumble piles were the perfect cover for criminality. Players who moments earlier had been felled by brutal hits sought out scrums to exact revenge, knowing they could hide from cameras and the discerning eyes of opposing sidelines and referees.
“When we played, there was no place to hide between the white lines,” Dobler said. “If I got my hands on a defense guy in the pile, I beat the shit out of him. You got no mercy. I made a guy cry once.”
An opponent once tried to bite off Dobler’s finger in the scrum. “But I always wrapped my hands before games. They were caked in dirt and mud and sweat. I might have even picked my nose with those fingers. So I laughed at those guys.
“Myself, I never bit anyone. I liked my teeth too much. And I still have beautiful teeth.”
Though steeped in venom and hostility, the fumble scrum is also a place where real technique, finesse, sophistication — perhaps even something like artistry — could shine. Think of Mikhail Baryshnikov with a helmet and shoulder pads.
Some players entered the fumble scrum more as pacifists than combatants. The game was built as much on savvy and skill as testosterone and eye-gouging, they reasoned. Sure, smash-mouth worked, but so did sleight of hand.
“Players talked trash in the pile, but I didn’t get into it. You throw down all that hate and you get consumed by it,“ said Riki Ellison, who played linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Raiders between 1983 and 1992. “Every locker room had the big bad-ass defensive linemen who were on the top of the food chain and set the mood. But some guys played a game of psychology in the pile. Matt Millen always talked about stuff that had nothing to do with football, like the weather, how his parents were doing or what was going on in his life. It was pure comedy. It would throw off a guy’s aggression.”
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Few players were as crafty as Cliff Harris.
“As a free safety, I caused a lot of fumbles, many more than I recovered,” recalled Harris, who played in five Super Bowls and was elected to six consecutive Pro Bowls. “I had a technique. It wasn’t any big secret. I’d come up from behind a player and punch the ball out with my fist. We called it stripping.”
By the 1960s, teams were practicing how to snatch loose footballs. “You were trained to fall on a fumble in a certain way,” Harris added. “You weren’t supposed to dive and land on the ball, but hit the ground next to it and curl up around it. If you tried to pick it up and run with it, there was better chance you’d really get injured.”
Players worried the fumble scrum might result in season-ending injuries. Football could fulfill dreams of glory, then tear everything away when one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rolled over your leg.
“When I got to the NFL in 1976, I had to develop a receptivity to pain and learn how to deal with brutal, nasty, mean people,” said linebacker Reggie Williams, who played 14 seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals. “In the fumble piles, you’d expect someone to go for your gonads. Before instant replay, I felt a bunch of hands going for my nuts, so I’d get in the fetal position and clamp my buttocks together. One guy put his finger inside my nose and pulled, trying to rip the skin. Players would scratch your eyes, give you infections. It was all part of the nastiness of that pile. The dirtiest players were usually the ones on steroids. A steroid-induced athlete is a different kind of animal.”
Neck-twisting was considered fair game. “It wasn’t unusual for some guys to grab a player’s face mask and just twist, you know, literally wring his neck,” said Lee Roy Jordan, who played weakside linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys in the 1960s.
Thirty years later, necks and other vulnerable body parts are still being wrung in the pile. Today’s players don’t carry brass knuckles like Butkus or Nitschke, but they have ways of going for the jugular. “You put your hands up by somebody’s neck and, especially with an elbow, they stop moving,” said Stephen White, a former defensive end who played between 1996 and 2002 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New York Jets (and now contributes to SB Nation). “You hit the throat, the ribs or the midsection, somewhere that makes the guy cough up that ball.”
Smerlas likens the toughest players to prison enforcers.
“We pounded the shit out of people. A lot of guys should have been put in cages after the game. We brought the adrenaline to every game,” he said. “I popped a finger out a few times and pulled it back myself. Once I hit the side of some guy’s helmet and ripped the side of my hand off, pinky to wrist. I ran off the field with all this white stuff oozing out, and they sewed it up right there without any pain killers. That kind of aggression.”
Kevin Gogan, a veteran offensive linemen who retired in 2000, earned the nickname “Big Nasty” for his legal hits as much as his reputation for dirty plays. Calling scrum violence “learned behavior,” he offered some pointers on exerting maximum nastiness.
“The best place to hit was right in the soft tissue. I’ve poked my fingers in people’s eyes,” Gogan said. “It’s not a good feeling, oh no. I remember one game where I kneed this guy in the nuts, hurt him real bad. He got up before me and stomped on what he thought was my leg, with those fierce inch-long cleats they used for grass fields. But he hit my teammate instead of me.”
Even referees have developed techniques to survive the fumble pile. After all, they venture between the lines without the same protective equipment or blind aggression as players. In a scrum, they feel more like the Christians than the lions.
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Now 90, Jim Tunney was nicknamed the “Dean of NFL Referees,” and wore No. 32 on his black-and-white uniform. He was particularly wary of fumbles, which he called “the most exciting play in football.”
“As an official, you’re foolish to dive into those scrums. I told younger refs, ‘Take your time. Don’t worry about it. Let things settle down,’” Tunney said. “Sorting through those players was like trying to take a steak from a dog’s mouth. I’d see referees dig into that pile and I’d tell them, ‘What are you worried about? Trying to find the right guy with the ball? C’mon.”
Once Tunney sensed that the worst brutality was over, he pounced.
“That ball comes loose and 22 guys come looking for it all at once. Only one or two are going to get to it. The rest are piling on, trying to hurt each other,” he said. “As an official, you peel those guys off. You say ‘It’s over, it’s over. Get off of there.’ And most times they would. But until you got down to the bottom of the pile, it was Darwin’s survival of the fittest. I would tell players, ‘If you haven’t read Charles Darwin, you better go back and read him.’”
Most players simply have to come to terms with the idea that sacrificing their bodies is for the good of the team. Because inside the pile, some drooling 380-pound lummox with pads and an attitude could hurt you even when he wasn’t trying. Like a hippo rolling on the riverbed.
“The weight of the pile was overwhelming and caused physical pain. I broke my arm underneath one pile against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Just the weight of all those bodies,” Ellison said. “A guy was on top of me and my arm was in an awkward position. You can’t do anything about it. You just gotta suck it up and wait the 10 seconds for the bodies to unpile.”
Geoff Schwartz, an offensive guard who played for five teams and retired in 2016 (and now contributes to SB Nation), said that fumbles took a particularly hard toll on the largest players. He stands 6’6 and played at a whopping 340 pounds.
“Fighting for the ball in those piles was the most exhausted I’d ever been on the football field over a 30-second period,” he said. “Trying to keep control of the ball, when guys would do anything to punch it out. It just wore me out.”
Sometimes, fumbles would punish players for their instincts. When a football popped loose into the open field, big defensive linemen got hurt doing something they later reconsidered as plain foolhardy: picking up a loose fumble and trying to run for a touchdown.
“Defensive linemen never got any glory so when we could pick up a fumble, we tried to score,” recalled Bob Lilly, a Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle in the 1960s. “One time I had Larry Cole on my left, and Cliff Harris, another one of my teammates, wants the ball too. So he comes running up and hit me in the back and tore my hamstring in two. I thought two things while I was falling: I wonder who that son of a bitch was who hit me in the back, and that I should have lateraled to Larry Cole.”
“Tombstone” didn’t fare much better in a similar situation. “I was playing Cincinnati one day and there was a fumble on the 5-yard line. The rest is kind of blurry. But it was the worst experience I ever had,” he said. “I picked it up, and I was thinking TD. I took the first step and it suddenly felt like the entire stadium was on me. They had me by the arms and the legs and the neck, pulling and punching and doing everything they could to get that football. And I told myself right there, ‘Man, don’t you ever do that again.’”
If a retired NFL player’s long-past career can seem like a fading dream, then the fumbles are the nightmares, those nagging memory loops, full of anxiety and feelings of impotence, that wake you up in a sweat at 3 a.m. Suddenly, you’re drowning in the bathtub, or caught stark naked on a public bus, mired in quicksand while trying to outrun a serial killer.
Gary Plummer once picked up an opponent by the eye sockets in retaliation for being kicked in the groin.
Either you come to terms with the chaos and the powerlessness, maybe even embrace it, or you don’t. You shudder, block it out of your mind. Or get therapy.
Gary Plummer once picked up an opponent by the eye sockets in retaliation for being kicked in the groin. How’s that for a nightmare? His mantra: hit or be hit. “If you weren’t fearless on the football field, you wouldn’t have a very long career,” he said.
Many players avoided people like Plummer. After all, why mess with Bigfoot when you know the bloody outcome? “I wasn’t in many of those piles,” said Harris. “I chose not to be until I had to be.”
Wait, even the guy known as the “rolling ball of butcher knives” avoided the pile? “I was a tough player, but I was also a smart player,” Harris said. “What kept me healthy was my thinking, not my instincts. And my instinct was to stay away from those scrums.”
Though fumbles are still much-ballyhooed by fans, NFL officials maintain a love-hate relationship with them. In 2018, the league changed one rule, no longer calling a loose ball a fumble if the player who lost the ball regains control “immediately”.
Some have called for a possession arrow, like the one used in basketball, to curtail the violence and the guessing game of the fumble scrum. Even coaches have begun asking their players to hold back.
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Players who once sought out the fumble pile now can only shake their heads. “It’s amazing to look back on it,” said Plummer. “I was a broadcaster for the 49ers for 13 years and I’d go to practices and training camps and I’d watch the drills and hits and I started thinking, “My God, I used to do this. How crazy that was. It’s like you have this ’S’ on your chest and a cape on your back when you’re playing. Fear never once entered into the equation.”
Long-retired NFL veterans describe their fumble psychosis as if they’re lying prone on the analyst’s couch. “Our era featured the sons of coal miners and men who worked in the steel mills. For them, football was bloodsport,” Clinton Jones said. “And when players left the game, they had post-traumatic stress. They had nightmares of the piles and the intensity of the sport, one campaign after another. They remembered all the vicious hits. Deacon Jones was a good friend of mine, and he’d always say, ‘Somebody slams the door and I jump.’”
Deep down in that fumble-pile flashback, desperate men will always be fighting for the football, brutality still being waged. The ball is right there for the taking. The only question that remains: How badly do you want it?
Forever lurking in the deep are delinquents like Lambert, Nitschke, and Butkus. “They were fierce. They loved the fumble scrum,” said Tunney. “That’s all a linebacker cares about. He doesn’t care if he’s having dinner that night. He just wants that ball. If you’re a running back and you fumble, you might make one attempt at the ball, but you wouldn’t be caught dead on the bottom of that pile. You leave that to the big guys.”
By the time he retired in 1973, Butkus had hard-coded trepidation into a generation of NFL veterans, not only for his felonious tackles, but for what he did in the pile, and everywhere else. He broke bones, crushed egos and prompted stretchers to be brought onto the field. NFL Hall of Fame defensive end Deacon Jones said Butkus, “was a well-conditioned animal,” and that “every time he hit you, he tried to put you in the cemetery, not the hospital.”
After both retired, Tunney asked Butkus about his zest for violence. “I
always called him Richard. I asked him, ‘Richard, did you ever intentionally try to hurt somebody?’
“He said, ‘Nah, not unless it was in a game or something.’”
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