Captain Hemlock

Florida congressman Greg Steube hospitalized after falling off his roof. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/florida-rep-greg-steube-fall-from-roof-b2264961.html?amp

Was a DDP pick last year.

Not to be confused with “The Big Hurt”

Congratulations to @Banana on officially winning the 2022 pool.

I’m an old timer. How about Jack Benny in 1974?

Hmm, 13 hits in not quite 14 days. Well done, everyone.

It looks like @Doulton also picked Bernard Kalb.

Bernard Kalb is a hit for me here.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35408999/white-sox-closer-liam-hendriks-start-cancer-treatment

Bernard Kalb was picked by me

Bernard Kalb

He was a unique for me in DDP last year. Hopefully, this year as well.

I did better than expected last year so I’ll throw together a list later in the month.

What does this have to do with American Football Players?

As expected, not nearly as many unique picks for me this time. Most surprising one is Gene Hackman. I realize he’s in pretty good health but he does turn 93 this year and is very well known.

It’s a good thing @gcreptile is German and therefore is a beer aficionado.

Maybe not quite the same scenario but a few years back a Dallas Stars-Columbus Blue Jackets hockey game was suspended after Rich Peverley of the Stars had a heart attack and they resumed at a later date. One of my friends was at that game and said it was the scariest thing he had ever seen

Chuck Hughes died after collapsing during a game in 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hughes?wprov=sfti1

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-11593685/amp/Buffalo-Bills-safety-Damar-Hamlin-24-given-CPR-collapsing-field.html Damar Hamlin

Martina Navratilova https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/02/tennis/martina-navratilova-throat-breast-cancer-wta-spt-intl/index.html

This is an amazing undertaking with this many teams and this many selections. Thank you. for running this.

Surprised he’d be rejected. He had a pretty major role in the 1980’s film version of Brighton Beach Memoirs.

In no particular order, here are some people from my DDP semi-short list who didn’t make the cut, for various reasons: Brian Grant , John Fetterman, Chris Van Hollen, Ben Ray Lujan, Sammy Basso, Lester Wright, Walter Orthmann, Myron Kandel, Nicholas Veliotes, Efrain Guizar, Klaus Schwab

I think you have Linda Ronstadt assigned incorrectly. She's on my team which is ck, not ch. Also, Georgia Holt should be a DNS as she died earlier this month.

Here are my 3 teams. I hope to at least improve upon my dismal tied for 354th place finish in 2022. Team name: Captain Hemlock's Twenty: Steve McMichael (Joker) Ady Barkan Mangosuthu Buthelezi Jimmy Carter Mary de Rachewiltz (Poet) Jules Feiffer Frederic Forrest Louis Gossett Jr. Polly Holliday Earl Holliman Bernard Kalb William Leuchtenburg Edie McClurg Ronnie Milsap Yoko Ono William "The Refrigerator" Perry Richard Riordan (Los Angeles Mayor) Mark Russell George Schlatter Gay Talese Rigor Mort Us (a "B" team to Captain Hemlock's Twenty) Ruth Buzzi (Comedienne-Laugh-In) (Joker) George Alagiah Rico Carty Ronny Cox Sam Donaldson Roy Estrada David Hartman Whitey Herzog Daisaku Ikeda Toby Keith Mirtha LeGrand Robert MacNeil Malachy McCourt Dikembe Mutombo David Newell Sidney Offit John Okafur (Mr Ibu) Norman Podhoretz Mason Reese Wendy Williams Team: Rolls Off The Tongue-(theme) People with interesting sounding names Esteban Volkov (Joker) Maude Apatow John Wayne Bobbitt Young Boozer Dick Butkus Bambos Charalambous Hopewell Chin'ono Marlin Fitzwater Slinger Francisco (Calypso Musician-Mighty Sparrow) Norm Hitzges Jerry Kill Pops Mensah-Bonsu Fatos Nano Mumilaaq Qaqqaq Socrates Rizzo Ludwig Scotty Otis Sistrunk Anna Smashnova Bill Tush Reality Winner