Kurt Schaeffer

On this day in history trivia and facts collected during a 25-year career in radio. Rock history, sports, world & entertainment history. #BOTD Celebrity #obits.

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I'll have what he's having.

[CineAura @duygarena9]

Charlie Chaplin in The Rink (1916), making a cocktail 😂

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Nice.

[Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬 @AlexTran677026]

This is so wholesome.
On the last ever Carol Burnett Show, Tim Conway surprised Carol with her idol, Jimmy Stewart.
Her reaction transforms her into a kid again.

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I remember that game. Reagan was a former sportscaster. 38 years ago.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

“I’m going to destroy the Soviet Union.”

“I’m going to destroy some names and a case of Budweiser.”

[Clare 🦋 @SayWhatSugar]

Omg Dolly Parton and Carl Dean 🥹😭 from the Dolly museum

[The Cowboy Regg ✭ @Irish_Cowboy88]

🏴‍☠️ Ray Guy was a different kind of “punter”.

🏈 Outside of @PatMcAfeeShow is there another punter in history that could break tackles like this?

🎥 Credit Kevin Gallagher

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Today's Public Service Announcement of the Day.

[GG @GarryGates]

The NFL has released footage of the proper technique Chop Robinson should have used to hit Patrick Mahomes.

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

If the Flintstones' house was real. 🥲

[Love Music @khnh80044]

Actor Gary Sinise took over 1,000 children of fallen soldiers to Disneyland, free of charge❤️

[Things From the Past @pastarchive]

This futuristic jukebox was made in 1961.

The AMI Continental held 100 45-rpm records, giving listeners 200 song selections.

Its most distinctive feature was the curved, illuminated title display above a transparent dome that exposed the record-playing mechanism below.

Available in mono and stereo versions, the Continental became one of AMI’s most recognizable jukebox designs of the early 1960s.

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

The best way to celebrate a win 🥹

[Kurt Schaeffer @OffbeatAlmanac]

Um...

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Wife Carrying World Championships have been held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, since 1992: the prize for the winner is the wife's weight in beer.

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

HILARIOUS: When #Bills quarterback Case Keenum went UNDERCOVER at training camp to see how many autographs he could get from his teammates without them recognizing him.

💀💀💀

One of the greatest football undercover videos ever.

[Kurt Schaeffer @OffbeatAlmanac]

Be kind.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

This is what a real man raised with love, respect, and strong family values looks like❤️

[TMZ @TMZ]

Dennis Haskins, best known for playing Principal Richard Belding on "Saved by the Bell," has died at 75 💔🙏 https://t.co/MXzGD47eNL

[Kurt Schaeffer @OffbeatAlmanac]

Neither of Keenum's kids had ever seen him play football.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

"It was so much fun. I'm going to remember this night forever. This is incredible."

QB Case Keenum speaks with @notthefakeSVP after getting the start in the Bears' 27-7 win vs. the Eagles 🏈

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How did I miss "Salvage 1" ?

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Andy Griffith Went From Mayberry to the Moon

Most of us remember Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor, keeping the peace in Mayberry.

But in 1979, he tried something considerably more ambitious.

He went to the Moon. 😂

In the short-lived ABC series Salvage 1, Griffith played Harry Broderick, a junkyard owner with an outrageous business idea: build his own spaceship, fly to the Moon, collect equipment abandoned during the Apollo missions—and bring it home to sell.

And Harry actually built the thing.

His homemade spacecraft, appropriately named the Vulture, incorporated salvaged equipment including a cement mixer, a gasoline tanker trailer and surplus rocket engines. Then Harry recruited a former astronaut and a fuel expert to help make his lunar junkyard run possible.

The premise sounds like somebody dreamed it up over a few beers.

But Salvage 1 took its science seriously enough to have legendary science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov serve as a scientific adviser.

The series didn't last long. ABC aired it during 1979.

But for one wonderfully strange moment in television history, Sheriff Taylor traded Mayberry for a homemade rocket—and went looking for junk on the Moon. ❤️

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

Bears legend Dick Butkus's only career reception came against the Eagles in 1972.

On a botched extra point attempt, Butkus catches a "singleton", after which he playfully offers Bill Bradley a souvenir.

[RetroNewsNow @RetroNewsNow]

📺DEBUT: The Jack LaLanne Show premiered 73 years ago, September 28, 1953.

Long before Jane Fonda, Richard Simmons or home workout videos, Jack LaLanne was getting Americans off the couch and exercising on television.

Known for his signature jumpsuit, upbeat personality and simple at-home exercises using things like chairs and broomsticks, LaLanne became one of television’s first fitness stars.

The 15-minute morning program began locally on San Francisco’s KGO-TV before eventually going national.

If you watched daytime TV in the ’60s, ’70s or ’80s, there’s a good chance you remember Jack 💪

[CineAura @duygarena9]

Rita Hayworth “learned steps faster than anyone I’ve ever known,” Fred Astaire recalled. “I’d show her a routine before lunch. She’d be back right after lunch and have it down to perfection. She apparently figured it out in her mind while she was eating.” Here they are performing “The Shorty George” in You Were Never Lovelier (1942).