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  1. LSUDad

    LSUDad Veteran Member

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    Nope, that was Randall "Tex" Cobb
     
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    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    Who also got off one of the greatest movie lines ever on a young Patrick Swayze "boy, using that oriental martial bullshit is gonna get real expensive"
     
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  3. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    All gondolas in Venice must be painted black unless they belong to a high official
     
  4. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    I don't think so. I remember Matuszak in Caveman and The Ice Pirates and a bunch of TV guest appearances.

    You are thinking of Tex Cobb, who was a former professional boxer. He beat Shavers and Spinks but lost to Larry Holmes in a heavyweight title fight.
     
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  5. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    I saw that fight on TV. Holmes gave Cobb a brutal bloody beating. Cobb's face was nothing but a mass of blood but he refused to go down. It went the 15 round distance. It was the fight that Howard Cosell said he was so disgusted that they didn't stop the fight that he would never broadcast boxing again
     
  6. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    April 20 is also 420 Day. Fire up a doob and wait for Cinco de Mayo to satisfy the munchies
     
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    Yeah, I remember it as 420 day and Hitlers Birthday. Happy Birthday to your son however
     
  8. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    One guy called the fight "a violent game of tag". But . . . Cobb got $700,000 for it.

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  9. LSUDad

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  10. Bengal B

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    Coaches and players didn't make anywhere near the kind of money they do today. I was a young kid in the 60's when the Green Bay Packers were winning every year. Hall of Fame running back Jim Taylor from Baton Rouge and LSU lived in a house in my neighborhood during the off season. It was just a regular house in a middle class neighborhood, not a mansion or anything that would be on Cribs. My Dad had a regular job at Exxon and we lived in a bigger house than an NFL superstar.
     
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