There is a hall of fame punter?

There's one. His name is Ray Guy.

Crazy! 23rd overall pick for a punter is unreal!

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

That's some vintage Al Davis right there.

he was worth the pick, too

Hessdalen Lights

+1

Ray Guy had a huge impact.

I will take your guys word for it. I guess if you had a punter that could consistently punt inside the 20 that would be a huge advantage.

10,000 Year Clock

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

The Clock of the Long Now, also called the 10,000-year clock, is a proposed mechanical clock designed to keep time for 10,000 years. The project to build it is part of the Long Now Foundation.

The manufacture and site construction of the first full-scale prototype clock is being funded by Jeff Bezos, who has donated $42 million, and is located on land he owns in Texas.[1] The final clock will be built near Ely, Nevada.

Byford Dolphin

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

I'm a lifelong hydrophobe, a sea-based drilling rig is akin to a haunted house for me. The Byford Dolphin has suffered through a few mishaps, which includes the instantaneous decompression of 6 workers, killing 5, after a mistake in a diving bell caused the divers to experience 9 atmospheres to 1, causing 4 divers to die of instantaneous decompression.

The description of Hellevik's death is one of the more gruesome things ever.

Yeah, what a terrible way to die. ****ed-up story all around.

Eugh yeh, just read that while having my breakfast. Kind of thing you'd see in some over-the-top movie, that you don't really believe would happen in real life.

Plenty of room for exploration and learning interesting tidbits about the world from this page...

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

I found this particularly interesting...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

Pretty awesome that this exists.

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

Imagine the alternatives.

Yeh that was really interesting. It's kind of nuts that this is it:

Yeah, should have mentioned it was a bit graphic.

A less violent article on Bull Riding:

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

I still don't find the sport interesting, but at the article is full of interesting tidbits, especially this:

There is heated debate between animal rights organizations and bull riding enthusiasts over many aspects of the sport. One source of controversy is the flank strap. The flank strap is placed around a bull's flank, just in front of the hind legs, to encourage bucking. Critics say that the flank strap encircles or otherwise binds the genitals of the bull. However, the flank strap is anatomically impossible to place over the testicles. Many point out that the bull's genes are valuable and that there is a strong economic incentive to keep the animal in good reproductive health. Further, particularly in the case of bulls, an animal that is sick and in pain usually will not want to move at all, will not buck as well, and may even lie down in the chute or ring rather than buck.

Entertainers who have died during a performance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._a_performance

This one is pretty hilarious

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

And this one is interesting iyam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4

It's about a Finnish sniper during the Winter War between Finland and Russia who has 505 confirmed sniper kills in a span of 100 days

Cotard Delusion

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

The Cotard delusion (also Cotard's syndrome and walking corpse syndrome) is a rare mental illness in which an afflicted person holds the delusion that they are dead, either figuratively or literally; yet said delusion of negation is not a symptom essential to the syndrome proper.[1] Statistical analysis of a hundred-patient cohort indicates that the denial of self-existence is a symptom present in 69% of the cases of Cotard's syndrome; yet, paradoxically, 55% of the patients present delusions of immortality.[2]

[The patient's] symptoms occurred in the context of more general feelings of unreality and [of] being dead. In January 1990, after his discharge from hospital in Edinburgh, his mother took him to South Africa. He was convinced that he had been taken to Hell (which was confirmed by the heat), and that he had died of septicaemia (which had been a risk early in his recovery), or perhaps from AIDS (he had read a story in The Scotsman about someone with AIDS who died from septicaemia), or from an overdose of a yellow fever injection. He thought he had "borrowed [his] mother's spirit to show [him] around hell", and that she was asleep in Scotland.[9]

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

An interesting reproductive... feature(?)... of certain hermaphroditic land snails and slugs.

I've posted this podcast way too many times, but http://thedollop.libsyn.com/111-the-emu-war-live

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_B...ootkit_scandal

In 2005, Sony put rootkits (basically nasty viruses) into 22 million of their music CDs to try and protect their music copyrights better. When discovered, Sony released an "uninstaller" which only collected more information from users and opened more security vulnerabilities in their computers. Sony settled a bunch of lawsuits, and got off scott free from a Public Relations perspective.

Unethical human experimentation in the United States

Thats not the only 1st round pick Al used on a kicker.

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