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July 5[edit]

Desperately trying to find a WWE "Big Dick Johnson" video[edit]

Once, years ago, I found a hilarious video on YouTube. I did not save it. For years now, I've been searching for it on and off. It consumes me and has turned into kind of an obsession. It's gone forever on YouTube, it seems. I don't have the original URL. Here is part of it in *very* bad quality, which is not acceptable as it ruins the entire thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlXR-RGVhfY

With lots of time and efforts, I have located the WWE RAW show to be aired in "November 6, 2006", as shown on this page: http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/results/raw/061106.php (look in the bottom for the relevant description of the part I'm looking for).

Are you able to find this in proper quality for me? I would really, really appreciate it. If I had some kind of DVD or something of the broadcast, I could edit out just the part I want. If there is any confusion, I'm talking about the "Big Dick Johnson" comedy routine part in the end of the show. I've searched and searched until my fingers went numb. Nothing but irrelevant results, everywhere.Beamadepeo (talk) 01:08, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Playing two professional sports[edit]

Have there been any athletes in the U.S. who played two (or more?) sports professionally, other than Bo Jackson? I see that both John Elway and Dan Marino had the chance to play professional baseball, but chose to play only professional football. RudolfRed (talk) 04:38, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There's a long list of multi-sport athletes. Not all of them played both sports professionally, but there are some examples such as Gene Conley, "the only person to win championships in two of the four major American sports". ---Sluzzelin talk 04:41, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good article to link to S. Most of the people listed played their sports at different times in their life. Like Bo Deion Sanders played professional baseball and football at the same time. MarnetteD | Talk 05:20, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Thorpe is an obvious choice. HiLo48 (talk) 05:27, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Australian sportsmen linked to professional American Football will give you some of those who have done it in two countries. HiLo48 (talk) 05:31, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Lance Armstrong competed as a professional in Triathlon. I assume everyone knows his other ~~vice~~ sport. HiLo48 (talk) 05:34, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (who played 4 sports at elite level) and Snowy Baker (who played or was involved in 26 sports!). -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 05:39, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Off the top of my head, I can think of Deion Sanders (Major League Baseball and National Football League]], Brian Jordan (MLB and NFL), Danny Ainge (MLB and National Basketball Association), Bud Grant (NBA and NFL). There are other close ones, who either were drafted (but did not play) multiple pro sports, or who succeeded in sports that lack significant professional leagues. Jim Brown, considered by some to be the greatest NFL player of all time, was also notable for his lacrosse playing ability, and was a star on the Syracuse lacrosse team in college, but at the time the U.S. lacked any pro lacrosse league. Wilt Chamberlain was a hall-of-fame volleyball player after his pro-basketball career ended, but volleyball was something of a fringe sport at the time. Jackie Robinson was a four-sport star at UCLA before going pro in baseball (as the Negro Leagues, were, at the time, the only real outlet for his athletic talents). Bob Hayes had a successful NFL career after being an Olympic gold-medal runner. Willie Gault missed one summer Olympics because of a boycott, but participated in the winter Olympics as a bobsledder and went on to a long NFL career. Tom Glavine had a long, successful career as a MLB pitcher, but he was also a very good hockey player, and was drafted by the NHL. Likewise Dave Winfield, a hall-of-fame baseball player, had a very successful college basketball career and was drafted by the NBA and ABA, but elected to play baseball. Recently, we have examples like Russell Wilson, a young NFL phenom who played minor league baseball briefly and seriously considered a long term pro baseball career, and Jeff Samardzija, a pitcher for the Cubs who was an all-American wideout for Notre Dame in college and would likely have been drafted by the NFL had he not announced his intention to play baseball full time. That's just what I can come up with off the top of my head. --Jayron32 13:11, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just thought of a few more outside of team sports. Travis Pastrana is a notable motorcycle and rally car racer who has recently started racing stock cars (NASCAR's Nationwide Series), and there are many auto racers who have raced both open wheel (CART/Indycar, Formula 1) and stock cars. Those would count if you consider different vehicles to count as different "sports". Tony Stewart is a very notable example. He's won the Indianapolis 500 and and NASCAR Sprint Cup title, I believe the only person to have done so. I remember that a few times, he raced in both the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in the same day, having a top-10 finish in both races one year. Shaun White has won both Summer and Winter X-Games gold medals, in skateboarding and snowboarding. --Jayron32 13:21, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if either of these are/were pro sports (I suspect not), but Eddie Eagan, USA–Light Heavyweight Boxing gold at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and Four-man Bobsled gold at the 1932 Winter Olympics. We have a List of multiple Olympic medalists which might help. --TammyMoet (talk) 14:58, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely NOT professional, officially, but this is where the words becomes messy. In those days all Olympic participants were meant to be pure, lily-white amateurs, never having been paid for doing any sport of any kind anywhere. Hence the problems Jim Thorpe had. But it eventually became obvious that athletes from some places, such as USSR and East Germany, along with American college athletes on scholarships, were professional in every way except official description. Eventually the Olympics gave up on the amateur ideal. HiLo48 (talk) 04:40, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody mentioned Michael Jordan's baseball career yet. Rmhermen (talk) 15:23, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

MJ was not a particularly gifted ballplayer, but he made significant improvement in his skill level before deciding to go back to basketball. That reminded me of a book about baseball cards, published around 1980, which had a card of Hall of Fame basketball player Dave DeBusschere in his White Sox uniform. The authors of the book said, "Anyone who thinks Dave DeBusschere was a great athlete was better off never having seen him pitch." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:54, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all the replies. RudolfRed (talk) 18:35, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Others: Several NFL kickers and punters have had successful pro careers in other codes of football. The rage started with "soccer style" kickers imported from Europe in the 1960s and 1970s, notably players like the Gogolak brothers, Pete Gogolak and Charlie Gogolak, John Smith (of the famed Snowplow Game), Garo Yepremian (who's famously botched pass attempt on a blocked kick nearly cost the Dolphins their perfect season). From outside the world of association football, Darren Bennett played Australian Rules Football before becoming an NFL punter, who (despite the slight misnomer) is largely responsible for introducing the "Rugby style punt" to the game in much the way that Pete Gogolak introduced the "side-on" soccer-style kick to placekicking (previous kickers were "straight-on" kickers). While Rugby-style punting has not become as ubiquitous as soccer-style placekicking, Bennett is notable for being quiet successful at both sports (most imports to American football from other codes are usually not as successful at their first sport as Bennett was at his). --Jayron32 21:07, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Deion Sanders is the only person to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series. → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 11:07, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The actor of The Rifleman fame, Chuck Connors, played for the Boston Celtics (NBA), the Brooklyn Dodgers (MLB) and the Chicago Cubs (MLB). He was also drafted by the Chicago Bears (NFL) but never played for them.--William Thweatt ^Talk^Contribs 04:29, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Phantom" album[edit]

This is probably a long shot, but I remember a couple of years hearing an interview with a music historian who had been going through all the artists on what I'm guessing was the Billboard 200, but could have been another chart – definitely in the US. He might have even been writing a history of them, I'm not sure. But anyway, there was one album or single where he couldn't find much evidence of the band ever having existed, and he thought that the album/single that charted might have been a hoax. I think the band was from either Detroit or Cleveland, and might have been associated with Motown, I'm not sure. I was wondering if anyone could tell me who that band was... 58.7.129.50 (talk) 05:40, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Edit: might have been the author of this this book. 58.7.129.50 (talk) 05:44, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, I found it :) Ready 'N Steady. Very interesting read. Thanks anyway. 58.7.129.50 (talk) 05:46, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

U2 album[edit]

I recently heard about a U2 album (?) called People. I've never heard about that album before, it includes the track Slide Away ft. Michael Hutchence, I Wanna Be Around ft. Tony Benett and a strange version of Creep ft. radiohead. Is that an official album? I don't know but I couldn't find anything on it in any place. Does anyone knows about it?? Ms.Bono^(zootalk)^☆ 13:28, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the track listing on Musicalmente, which gives the date of release as 2010. I'm a bit reluctant to give links to downloads here, but a quick Google tells me it was a "fan-made album" (maybe a sort of bootleg?), and maybe in Spanish. --TammyMoet (talk) 14:53, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good, thanks! :) Ms.Bono^(zootalk)^☆ 15:12, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bono dancing Tango[edit]

I saw the cover of Hello magazine for Argentina where Bono is in the front page. It said Bono was seen dancing tango in Puerto Madero. Anyone knows the date of that edition of the magazine?? For the way Bono was dressed and his shades I think it was 2007 or 2008 but I am not sure. Ms.Bono^(zootalk)^☆ 13:33, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This cover? It's from March 2011. - JuneGloom Talk 21:32, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

JuneGloom, I am not sure, I cannot follow the link (due to Internet poor access). The cover I am talking about shows Bono with a dancer girl, he has a green cap covering his head. Ms.Bono^(zootalk)^☆ 14:58, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, the page has disappeared. Does this link work for you - [1]? The issue is definitely from March 2011 though. The other stories on the front cover, Elizabeth Taylor's death and Richard Gere's vacation, are from the same month and year. - JuneGloom Talk 15:07, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! JuneGloom. Nope, the link doesn't work for me. I only have access to www.wikipedia.org. Hard to understand and sad, but that's the truth :) Thanks for the info. Best wishes! :) Ms.Bono^(zootalk)^☆ 17:42, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Numb (U2 song) Video[edit]

After Edge receives a bouquet of red roses, a masculine hand caresses his face. I heard is Bono's hand. Is it true? Ms.Bono^(zootalk)^☆ 15:29, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Day of Rage Monty Python (?) Reenactment[edit]

Can anyone identify the movie scene being reenacted here? I think John Cleese may have played the part. Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 17:48, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think you may be thinking of the witch trial from Monty Python and the Holy Grail but I would hesitate to use the word reenactment. Dismas|^(talk) 17:54, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The pic is not a reenactment but it is reminiscent of a few scenes in Life of Brian. The man in the center reminds me of Terry Jones hermit who had been living in a pit and hadn't spoken a word for years until Brian fell on him and trod on his foot. The holding up of the book could come from several places in the film. MarnetteD | Talk 18:47, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't exactly mean reenactment, but allusion doesn't seem any more helpful. I have to say the image also reminds me of the opening of True Blood for some reason. μηδείς (talk) 20:16, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is it vaguely reminiscent of the stoning scene from Brian? That has John Cleese reading from a scroll. - Cucumber Mike (talk) 21:10, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, apparently I was conflating the nine-bladed sword scene with the stoning one. μηδείς (talk) 02:14, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]