Deaths of Famous People (2017)

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Doürfäceändattitüdeexißtence.

As the Germans would write it.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I forget - who ran the country between Kohl and Angela the Great?

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Bono

I forget - who ran the country between Kohl and Angela the Great?

[skippy1999]

Bono

[nats2playoffs]

On June 16, 2017, actor Stephen Furst died from complications related to diabetes at his home in Moorpark, California, at age 62.

But someone posted THIS on Stephen Furst's Wikipedia page, which was removed moments ago:
Death
On June 16, 2017, Furst died from a heart attack when someone shot a pistol loaded with blanks at his home in Moorpark, California, at age 62.[14]

Why did someone post that, Mathguy might ask? Furst played Kent "Flounder" Dorfman in the 1978 film, Animal House, that also starred John Belushi. It was Belushi's character, Blutarsky, who drew Flounder into a prank that went terribly wrong. Flounder was told to shoot a horse that he hated. He didn't know that the pistol was loaded with blanks. The frantic Flounder shot the gun into the ceiling, frightening the horse so much that it died of... a heart attack.

[imref]

I shouldn't laugh at that

[tomterp]

 Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

"I can't believe I threw up in front of Dean Wormer."

"Face it, Kent.  You threw up on Dean Wormer."

[imref]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/28/europe/michael-bond-paddington-bear/index.html

[WerthHisWeight]

I forget - who ran the country between Kohl and Angela the Great?

For the record, that would be Gerhart Schröder.  Regards from Berlin!

[mitlen]

Vito "Babe" Parilli

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/babe-parilli-backup-qb-jets-super-bowl-iii-team-dead-87-article-1.3330007

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/P/PariBa00.htm

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Vito "Babe" Parilli

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/babe-parilli-backup-qb-jets-super-bowl-iii-team-dead-87-article-1.3330007

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/P/PariBa00.htm

1st QB to take the Pats to a league championship.  OK, it was the AFL, and we were blown out by San Diego, but ...

[KnorrForYourMoney]

Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, as featured in the book/movie "Moneyball," was just massacred by Mike Rizzo.

[skippy1999]

Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, as featured in the book/movie "Moneyball," was just massacred by Mike Rizzo.

[tomterp]

Legendary sportscaster Bob Wolff.

 

A wikipedia cut and paste:

Bob Wolff is the longest running broadcaster in television and radio history.[5] He and Curt Gowdy are the only two broadcasters to be honored by both the Baseball and Basketball Halls of Fame. Wolff has also been honored with induction into Madison Square Garden's Walk of Fame, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame, Sigma Nu Fraternity Hall of Fame and many others.

Wolff has been a professional broadcaster in nine decades and is still going strong. Seen and heard on two ESPN TV specials in 2008, he's been on the Madison Square Garden Network since 1954 and on Cablevision's News 12 Long Island since 1986.

Wolff became the pioneer TV voice of the Washington Senators Baseball Club in 1947, moved with the team to Minnesota in 1961 and then joined NBC as the play-by-play man on the TV Baseball Game-of-the-Week in 1962.

Also heard on Mutual's Game-of-the-Day, Wolff was selected to be a World Series broadcaster in 1956 and that year called Don Larsen's perfect game across the country on the Mutual Broadcast System and around the world on the Armed Forces radio. He also was on NBC Radio for the World Series in 1958 and 1961.

Wolff has been seen and heard doing play-by-play on all the major TV networks. Another of his classic broadcasts was the NY Giants / Baltimore Colts 1958 NFL Championship Game called, "The Greatest Game Ever Played". On the collegiate scene, he's broadcast the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Gator Bowl and many others. Wolff was television play-by-play voice of the Detroit Pistons for multiple seasons.

Wolff was also the 33-year play-by-play announcer of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show,[6] and the National Horse Show, the Garden's college and pro basketball and hockey games, men and women's tennis, track and boxing events as well as gymnastics and bowling. He did soccer games for the old Tampa Bay Rowdies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wolff

[welch]

Bob Wolff, who started broadcasting sports in 1947, has died. Bob was the "voice of the Nationals / Senators / Nats" from 1947 until the team moved after the 1960 season.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bob-wolff-hall-of-fame-sportscaster-of-astonishing-longevity-dies-at-96/2017/07/16/2282229e-6a7e-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html?utm_term=.784565792948

[HondoKillebrew]

RIP.  Met him once about 20 years ago.  He was a great broadcaster and a great man.

[Ray D]

RIP.  Met him once about 20 years ago.  He was a great broadcaster and a great man.

Never met him, but my mom and his wife were in the maternity (Columbia Women's Hospital) ward at the same time; his son and I were born on the same day, same place.   Whenever my dad and I listened to him, my mom would remind me of that.

[hotshot]

Class guy. Easily the best to ever broadcast games in DC.

[Ray D]

Class guy. Easily the best to ever broadcast games in DC.

Wolff  teamed up with Chuck Thompson in the late 50s, and I'd put them up there with Charlie and Dave for best ever in DC.  (There was also Arch MacDonald, who I have heard great things about, but I never heard him.)

[hotshot]

Arch was a very poor man's Red Barber (the "Southern charm" minus Barber's class, which balanced Red's delivery and allowed him to succeed in NY where Arch failed). Not Bob Wolff by a long shot.

[Ray D]

Arch was a very poor man's Red Barber (the "Southern charm" minus Barber's class, which balanced Red's delivery and allowed him to succeed in NY where Arch failed). Not Bob Wolff by a long shot.

Always thought Barber was an idiot.

[dcpatti]

Chester Bennington, the singer from Linkin Park, has committed suicide. He was 41. http://www.tmz.com/2017/07/20/linkin-park-singer-chester-bennington-dead-commits-suicide/

[skippy1999]

Chester Bennington, the singer from Linkin Park, has committed suicide. He was 41. http://www.tmz.com/2017/07/20/linkin-park-singer-chester-bennington-dead-commits-suicide/

Damn, I was just listening to "Heavy", what a shame

[imref]

Damn, I was just listening to "Heavy", what a shame

Man,  between him and Cornell, that's horrible.  I didn't realize he had such a messed up upbringing.