2022 RIP Thread

[Crimson1967]

New year, new thread.

Dan Reeves.

Dan Reeves, player and coach who participated in nine Super Bowls, dies at 77

Dan Reeves, an NFL player, assistant coach and head coach who retired having participated in a then-record nine Super Bowls, has died at the age of 77. A quarterback at South Carolina better known …

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Damn cannot even get one day into 2022 without someone dying.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Never a Cowboys fan, but I did like Dan Reeves. The man took the Atlanta Falcons to their first Super Bowl, which is about like winning a World War with an army of unarmed Boy Scouts.

 

[tusks_n_raider]

Just Damn....

*Sigh*

As some of you know the Denver Broncos are my NFL team.

Reeves was our HC in the 80's and early 90's and took the Broncos to 3 Super Bowls.

He was also the Falcons HC in the SB where Denver went Back-to-Back in Elway's final game.

For me this Hurts.

RIP Coach

 

[Bamaro]

Peter Bogdanovich, 82, RIP

 

[Bazza]

Peter Bogdanovich, 82, RIP

Reunited with Larry McMurtry and Sam the Lion.......

 

[Bazza]

Betty White's star on the Walk of Fame.......

 

[Toddrn]

Sidney Poitier, Pioneering Oscar-Winning Actor and Director, Dies at 94

The star became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award

www.yahoo.com

 

[Bazza]

Sidney Poitier, Pioneering Oscar-Winning Actor and Director, Dies at 94

The star became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award

www.yahoo.com

Time to watch "In the Heat of the Night" again.

RIP Mr. Poitier......

 

[CrimsonTheory]

Time to watch "In the Heat of the Night" again.

For me, it's time to watch "A Raisin in the Sun" again.

RIP Mr. Poitier.

 

[Bazza]

For me, it's time to watch "A Raisin in the Sun" again.

RIP Mr. Poitier.

After Heat of the Night, #2 for me is "To Sir With Love". "Guess who's Coming to Dinner" right up there too because of Tracy and Hepburn.

All of his stuff is good though - every one......

 

[Bamaro]

Michael Lang, Woodstock organizer/promoter, dead at 77.

RIP

 

[Bamaro]

Dwayne Hickman, Dobie Gillis, dead at 87

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Bob Saget of "Full House" and "America's Rubes Attempt To Get Rich By Staging Comedic Injuries On Home Video" has died in a hotel room at 65.

Comedian Bob Saget Dead at 65, Found in Orlando Hotel Room

Comedian Bob Saget is dead at 65 after being found in an Orlando hotel room.

www.tmz.com

 

[crimsonaudio]

Bob Saget, 65:

Bob Saget, Comic and Star of TV’s ‘Full House,’ Found Dead in Hotel Room at 65

Michael Tran/AFP via GettyBob Saget, the comedian and TV actor best known for playing patriarch Danny Tanner on Full House, has died at 65.The actor was found dead in a hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday afternoon. His death was confirmed by the Orange County Sheriff’s...

news.yahoo.com

 

[Crimson1967]

Never heard it, but I understand his comedy routine was very different from his clean cut TV image.

 

[Toddrn]

Never heard it, but I understand his comedy routine was very different from his clean cut TV image.

Aren't they all.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Never heard it, but I understand his comedy routine was very different from his clean cut TV image.

It was.

I caught it years after seeing him as Danny Tanner - and let me just say that Richard Pryor had nothing of Saget's use of profanity. The difference, of course, is that Pryor was actually funny as a comedian.

 

[92tide]

Never heard it, but I understand his comedy routine was very different from his clean cut TV image.

iirc, he did a really funny version of the aristocrats in the movie

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Aren't they all.

Good old wholesome Tim Allen is another one. After "Home Improvement" got big, I rented one of his standup videos. I hate to break it to folks but I could stand there and utter repeated profanities and tell stories without a linear narrative that invovled grunts and sound effects. And given the fact my pop is a retired E-9 and I was enlisted, I could probably channel a version of R Lee Ermey and make it funnier than Allen did, too.

(So many of these guys I enjoy with script writers and I see the standup and say, "He's not even funny accidentally").