DO YOU REMEMBER... THE
DETROIT LIONS WINNING ON THANKSGIVING DAY
I remember as a kid, on
Thanksgiving Day, my Dad would maneuver the rabbit ears on the 'fronchroom'
television to "try" to get that perfect signal from Ohio so
we could watch, through the snow, some of the Lions football game.
GO
LIONS! BEAT THE PACKERS ON THANKSGIVING
(Like in 1962)
There are similarities between pro football’s1962 Detroit Lions and the 2011 Lions – most notably the defensive line. Or, as they were called in’62, the “Fearsome Foursome.” That year, the Lions finished second, 11-3, in the NFL’s West Division. And the Lions gave the first-place Packers their only loss of the season – on Thanksgiving Day – 26-14. The Pack finished 13-1. Here’s a quick look at some of the key players, then and now.
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1962
DETROIT LIONS
Coach George Wilson
Fearsome
Foursome
Roger Brown, Alex Karras, Darris McCord, Sam Williams
Quarterback
Milt Plum, Earl Morrall
Top
running backs
Nick Pietrosante, Dan Lewis
Kicker/punter
Wayne Walker/Yale Lary
Cornerbacks
“Night Train” Lane, Dick LeBeau
High-scoring
wide receiver
Gail Cogdill
Kick/punt
returns
Pat Studstill
Linebackers
Wayne Walker, Joe Schmidt, Carl Brettschneider
Linebackers
DeAndre Levy, Stephen Tulloch, Bobby Carpenter
1962
GREEN BAY PACKERS
Coach
Vince Lombardi
Quarterback
Bart Starr
More stars
Fullback Jim Taylor, halfback & kicker Paul Hornung receivers Max McGee, Boyd Dowler
and Ron Kramer
2011
GREEN BAY PACKERS
Coach
Mike McCarthy
Quarterback
Aaron Rodgers
More stars
Receivers Donald Driver, Greg Jennings, and James Jones, cornerback Charles Woodson, kicker Mason Crosby
DO YOU REMEMBER... THE
J.L. HUDSON'S THANKSGIVING PARADE
America's Thanksgiving Parade, is an annual parade held on Thanksgiving Day in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The tradition started in the city in 1924 by the J.L. Hudson Company department store. It shares the title for the second oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, and is four years younger than the
Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia.
Remember when watching
what was then the Hudson's parade was really something special? For
some reason, the one they have now, isn't special anymore. Maybe it's
because I'm older but, I think it's maybe too commercial or maybe too
many hands in the mix, I don't know. Maybe it's because they start the
Christmas season the day after Halloween now. It used to be when the
parade came on at 10 AM and ended an hour later with Sonny Eliot and
the mayor presenting the key to Santa on the Hudson platform, that's
when Christmas season started and the countdown began. Even after I
had grown up with my own kids, I watched the parade and it was
special.
One thing though, after
I was older, I wondered who was they guy who played Santa in the
parade. Just by the sound of his voice, it always sounded like the
Twin Pines milkman on the Milky the Clown show. And who was Christmas
Carol? I had the hots for her when I was 8 years old. Always wanted
Santa to bring her to my house.
I know what it is about the
current parades. It's the lip synching singing and lame dancing. That's why I
never liked the Macy's parade in NY. They'd bring out these celebrities to
sing and you could tell it was pre-recorded and to me, that was just too
phony. Now, they do it in Detroit and that takes it away from the kids.
OCTOBER, 1992
METRO
ENTERTAINMENT REVIEW
Brad McCarty - Age 6
As I promised in last months issue, I
went out to get Madonna's new picture book, "Six". I knew it was a popular book and
thought that I might enjoy it since I am six also. It took a lot of doing, but a 4th grader named "Tiny"
(word has it around the first grade that he got that name in the big
house) was able to get it for me. Now, I can get the kid
proof top off my old man's sleeping pills, but I couldn't get the protective package off this book, so
I took it home to get my dad's help.
He took one look
at the book, shouted "THAT'S HOT HOW YOU SPELL SIX", and spanked the crap out
of me. He said he would hold onto the book for safe keeping and
for me not to tell Mom about it. He then went to his collection
of books, gave me one, and said "Here... Review this" as he disappeared in his room with my book
for a couple of hours.
The cover was missing
from the book he gave me, so I don't know the name of it but I
do have many unanswered -questions. Why would anyone name their kid
"Jughead? Why does Archie have a tic-tac-toe board in his hair"? How come Lil
Jinx's father always say "Ahem"? And finally, on the back page, why was the
x-ray glasses advertisement circled with a note saying "gotta
get me some of these?
DO YOU REMEMBER... R.A.D.A.R.?
On radio station WRIF in Detroit,
the early 1980s saw the Morning Crew—Jim Johnson ("JJ") and Dick The Bruiser (AKA George Baier)—in their prime, spoofing songs with hits such as "96 Beers," "Beer Frame," "I Can't Drive .25," and "Bars," and lampooning Meet the Press with "Meet the Bruiser." Despite WRIF's playing of disco songs, JJ and the Morning Crew created DREAD: Detroit Rockers Engaged in the Abolition of Disco. Johnson would go on to along tenure co-hosting a popular morning show on sister station
WCSX. In a retailtary blow, Disco DJs Brad Savage and Eric Swan started their
own group called RADAR: Rebels Against Detroit Area Rock. The official
membership card is below.
A
METRO PHOTO BLAST
Eric Swan & Lake Speed at Ford Theater (1982)
GUESS THE
YEAR OF THESE SONGS
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Hawaii Five-O - Ventures
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
One - Three Dog Night
Bad Moon Rising - CCR
In The Ghetto - Elvis Presley
Name this
popular cartoon character from past or present?
LAST
MONTH'S ANSWER
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Mr.
Jinx From the
cartoon Pixie & Dixie
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Congratulations
To: Lara
The show featured two mice, Pixie
and Dixie, and a cat, Mr. Jinks. Mr. Jinks is remembered for
his rhyming but ungrammatical lament, "I hate those meeces to
pieces!". Jinx was similar to Huckleberry Hound
as he would frequently talk directly to the audience, and discuss his plans to trap the
"meeces".
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