Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

Maybe?  At the same time, they still "sold out" their gritty aesthetic for some dollars and various appearances on MTV's "Unplugged." 

I would, too, for the money coming their way.

Mary Shelley born in 1797 Frankenstein was born sometine after that
Huey Long was born in 1893
Ted Williams was born in 1918
Warren Buffett is 96 today almost said Beatty
Tug McGraw was born in 1944
Robert Parish is 73
Lewis Black is 68
Cameron Diaz is 54 today

1146 European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time,ya well that worked

1956 Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens in Louisiana, the longest continuous bridge in the world

1993 150,000,000th visitor to the Eiffel Tower - probably the biggest tourist trap of all time

1997 Greg Rudaski is the first to serve two 141 mph serves in a tennis match at the US Open

2019 Co-founder and CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has his Twitter account hacked; racist comments are posted in his name. That's a shame

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Gleiwitz Incident (1939)
In 1939, Nazi forces staged an attack on a German radio station. They shot a well-known Polish sympathizer and planted his body at the scene, reporting the attack as the work of Polish saboteurs. The attack was part of a Nazi propaganda campaign called Operation Himmler, which involved a series of staged incidents intended to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany and provide a basis for the invasion of Poland.

Birthdays
12 AD Caligula
1903 Radio and TV host Arthur Godfrey
1928 James Coburn, American actor
1935 Frank Robinson
1944 Earnie Shavers, American boxer
1945 Van Morrison Brown-eyed Girl
1949 Richard Gere
1971 Chris Tucker



Events

1422 Henry VI becomes King of England at 8 months old after the death of his father Henry V - Brilliant

1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson gives his famous "The American Scholar" speech to Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College

1854 A major outbreak of cholera occurs in Soho, London; physician John Snow calls it "the most terrible outbreak of cholera which ever occurred in this kingdom"

1888 The body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, is found in Whitechapel in London's East End

1895 First professional football game: QB John Brallier is paid $10 and his team wins 12-0

1897 Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope (Kinetographic camera), a device that produces moving pictures (US patent 589168)

1909 A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball

1910 Theodore Roosevelt makes a speech in Kansas advocating a 'square deal': property shall be "the servant and not the master of the commonwealth"

1918 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennant ever the season ends September 2

1934 1st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 0, All-Stars 0, 79,432 in attendence

1935 First national skeet championship in Cleveland, Ohio

1935 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of US arms to foreign nations at war

1935 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of US arms to foreign nations at war

1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies

1946 Foghorn Leghorn, a Warner Bros. cartoon character Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, debuts in "Walky Talky Hawky"

1955 First sun-powered automobile is demonstrated in Chicago, Illinois

1969 Rocky Marciano dies in a plane crash at age 45

1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets an aircraft altitude record of 123,523 feet

1985 Night Stalker suspect Richard Ramirez that terrorized California is captured in East Los Angeles

1987 The Great Potato Incident: Minor league Williamsport Bills catcher Dave Bresnahan attempts to lure an opposing baserunner off third base using a potato carved to look like a baseball; umpire calls runner safe, and the catcher is fined $50 and released by the team

1990 Baseball outfielders Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. become the first father and son to play on the same team, the Seattle Mariners; the pair hit back-to-back singles in the first inning and both score

1994 A Pentium computer running Richard Lang's ChessGenius 2 program defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris

2006 Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" is recovered from a raid by Norwegian police; the painting was said to be in a better-than-expected condition

2017 Indications that Neanderthals are the first to make glue out of tar are strengthened by research published in "Scientific Reports"

Monoplies break the bastards up, if others would have fell in line instead of taliking a good game like the rebels they present themselves to be. many of them anyway

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Paddy Roy Bates Founds His Own Nation (1967)
The Principality of Sealand is a purported micronation located on Roughs Tower, a World War II-era British sea fort located in the North Sea six miles (10 km) off the coast of Suffolk, England. Since 1966, the installation has been occupied by the associates and family of Paddy Roy Bates, a former British Army major and pirate radio broadcaster who claimed it as a sovereign and independent state in 1967.