Remember going to lunch that afternoon listening to Mike and Mad Dog, who refused to ID the "well known athlete" speculated to be on board. Eerie (and before 9-11 speculation on how to handle a rouge plane)
Oct 25, 1999: A private jet carrying golfer Payne Stewart flew across half the country with everyone on board unconscious, until it ran out of fuel and crashed in South Dakota.
Stewart was one of the most popular players in golf, known for wearing old-fashioned knickers and flat caps on the course. That June he had won the US Open at Pinehurst by sinking a 15-foot putt on the final hole. In September he helped the US win the Ryder Cup.
On Oct 25 he took off from Orlando in a Learjet headed for Dallas with five others. Shortly after takeoff the plane lost cabin pressure. Without oxygen at that altitude, everyone on board would have passed out within moments.
When the plane stopped responding to air traffic controllers, the Air Force sent fighter jets to check on it. The pilots could see the windows frosted over and no movement inside. The Learjet kept flying on autopilot for about four hours, drifting northwest across the country, while the whole nation watched it on the news.
It ran out of fuel and crashed into a field in South Dakota. Everyone on board was killed. Stewart was 42.
There's a statue of him at Pinehurst, fist raised, frozen in the moment he made that putt to win the US Open.
maybe Farrah was the lucky one... Pam Anderson of all people seems to have got it right as she has gotten older. Something to be said about aging gracefully
found it amusing that Peter Marshall always referred to him as "Vinny" whenever called upon on the original Hollywood Squares. But then again, I thought he was English and not from St. Louis....
this is not the message you should be sending coming down the homestretch.... why do lefty loons suck at politics and elections so badly? You have to give folks a reason to vote for you, not alienate and hector those with you selfrigheous blather....
The Democratic Party and its leaders are not “reflective of what the electorate looks like,” Angie Nixon told @DashaBurns.
She added that Democrats need to call out racism within the party or it will “hemorrhage voters.”
Listen to #TheConversation: politi.co/47wneWR
sure, as long as the vendors get paid 100 cents on the dollar on whatever they are owed first. go finance your blow some other way DJ
News: Dustin Johnson and 10+ other LIV players are rallying together in the hopes of negotiating with the PIF for their claims that total $100 million+
They seek "severance payments" and are not expected to sign the RSA in its current form. @TheAthletic
nytimes.com/athletic/7720038…
another feh result in Week 6-- 3-3 which puts me at 23-22-3 for the YTD. Week 7 selections:
Browns -2
Jets - 3 1/2
Cincy - 2 1/2
NIners - 2 1/2
Rams -3
Denver - 4 1/2
Cowboys - 3
Shorter version @ShakurStevenson escapes Dana's imposed indentured servitude on "his" fighters...
The right wing whackjob "I'm a victim" mentality at its finest. Dungy's ideology is known by anybody who follows the NFL... and he was hired and employed for years by NBC notwithstanding. Frankly, as a broadcaster he added little. So spare me the political victim hood idiocy
Tony Dungy says that he's pretty sure that NBC fired him because he's pro life.
Tony and his wife, both devout Christians who have 11 children, says that NBC knew who he was when they hired him.
He was a speaker at the March for Life in 2023 which NBC was unhappy about.
He and his wife run the Dungy Family Foundation which has worked with pregnancy centers.
Honorable man.
Not exactly Taylor and Burton splitting up is it?
The details of the fractured relationship between Joe Buck and Troy Aikman has fully emerged.
awfulannouncing.com/espn/det…
For Cornel West and his tiny circle of irrelevant scolds to think he is on the "right side" of history in His delusional mind is pretty astonishing
Barack Obama is trying to present himself as morally concerned about Palestinian suffering while avoiding responsibility for his own presidential record!
Obama should be judged not only by what he says about injustice now, but also by what he did—or failed to do—when he had the power to influence events! #TruthJusticeLove @kbla1580 @tavissmiley
HOLY who turned down those thermostat dials Batman!
From the unaired swimsuit beauty pageant episode…
@DCOfficial @homeofdcu @TheDCUniverse @Batman
@60s_Batman
Shout out to @70sNFLSuperPro
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