Cleveland Sports Forum

I have little personal interest in mazes, and I do understand the fear that couple might have felt with a 21 day old infant as darkness fell. They are not necessarily wusses. Dialing 911 was a reasonable precaution for their kid if they were not confident in finding a way out anytime soon. I saw that story earlier today.

What that story reminded me of was when my kid (the Auburn engineering student) told my wife and I that he wanted to take us to dinner.....when he was in 5th or 6th grade. He pulled open a wallet packed with $10 bills to show us, after we inquired about his motive and opportunity.

Turned out that he had a little business going at school. He was designing intricate paper mazes, personalized and customized, for Ten Bucks each.

I wasn't surprised that he was doing it. I WAS surprised that he had kids paying him $10.

Back to the same kid, I'll refresh that he was the one who obliterated his ACL and had surgery here in our part of California less than two weeks before his first day at Auburn.

His paid job from 9th grade on was as a city employee, working with kids in varieties of after school and summer programs. He was good at what he did, and he did improv on the side in a different group.

He blew out his knee as he brought his 6'2" frame down in a comedic dance entertaining some 7 to 9 year olds he had in his charge for his summer job after he graduated high school.

He was a city employee, so his "injury" brought him into California state workers compensation regs.

They paid his med bills, and he participated in their requisite evaluations, over a year after his surgery.

He recently received a letter stating the State of California has declared him 4% permanently disabled.

He got a check for $1500 for participating in the process.

His first comment was, "hey, now when anyone asks how I'm doing, I can say 96%! That's PERFECT, for me!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdSViaW6lUA

In a temporary moment of clarity, I'll toss up a tribute to my super smart wife with this song from my youth linked above.


She's really got a magical spell, and it's working so well...

And nobody knows like me.

Like me.

(Where's THAT lighhouse!....???)

My baby loves love, and she got what it takes and she knows how to use it.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSjPsSLc ... ure=fvwrel

Cali:

It is quite easy to just walk through the corn stalks until you reach the edge of a field... For the life of me I can't understand why, when it started getting dark, they didn't just take the short cut and go through the corn until they safely left the maze and field.

Pat Modell, actress and wife of Art Modell, dies
By DAVID GINSBURG , Associated Press
10.13.11, 08:04 AM EDT

BALTIMORE -- Patricia Modell, the wife of former NFL team owner Art Modell and a longtime television actress, has died. She was 80.

Mrs. Modell was pronounced dead around 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, the Baltimore Ravens announced after being contacted by Modell's son. She had been hospitalized for around five months.


During a 22-year acting career, Patricia Breslin Modell performed on the New York stage, in motion pictures and on television. She starred in the "People's Choice" television series with actor Jackie Cooper and played the role of Meg Baldwin in the soap opera "General Hospital." She also played Laura Brooks on the prime time soap opera "Peyton Place."

Among her many television other roles, she was a regular on "Twilight Zone," `'Alfred Hitchcock Presents," `'Perry Mason," and "Maverick."

At one point in her career, Mrs. Modell had appeared on more television shows than any other woman in U.S. history. Her record was eventually broken by one of her best friends, Lucille Ball ( BLL - news - people ).

She married Art Modell, former owner and president of the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens, in 1969. She retired from acting at that time and immersed herself in her family and community improvement.


In Cleveland, Mrs. Modell served on the board at Ursuline College and was active in the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Cleveland Musical Arts Association, the Cleveland Ballet, the Playhouse Square Foundation, and the Cerebral Palsy Association. She actively supported the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and she started and funded, along with her husband, the Hospice of the Western Reserve in Cleveland.

After Art Modell moved his football team to Baltimore in 1996, his wife served on several boards, including: House of Ruth, Gilchrist Hospice, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and The Walters Art Museum. In addition, the Modells contributed money to the St. Vincent's Center and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

The Modells also gave $3.5 million to the Lyric Opera House, which was recently renamed the Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric.

The Modells pledged $5 million to help start a public boarding school for disadvantaged students. The SEED School, which opened in the Fall of 2008, recruits middle and high school students from around the state. The gift is believed to have been one of the largest private contributions to a single public school in Maryland.

Born in New York, Patricia Modell was the daughter of Edward and Marjorie Breslin. Her father was a Special Sessions Judge in New York City. Monsignor Patrick Breslin, for whom she was named, was Judge Breslin's eldest brother.

Mrs. Modell graduated from the Academy of Mt. St. Ursuline and the College of New Rochelle.

She is survived by her husband, two sons, John and David, and six grandchildren.

Hillbilly wrote:Cali:

It is quite easy to just walk through the corn stalks until you reach the edge of a field... For the life of me I can't understand why, when it started getting dark, they didn't just take the short cut and go through the corn until they safely left the maze and field.

Maybe they missed the shortcut instructions on the way in. Maybe the kid spit up, or messed his drawers. I'm not speaking up for their intelligence......only an understanding of their possible fear with a 21 day old kid.

My only personal knowledge of cornfield wandering is looking for ghosts in the original Field of Dreams cornfield.

That was a great visit.


Perhaps I'm not a representative sampling

As I mentioned on The Browns Board, it sounds like Pat Modell had an interesting and worthwhile life, J.R.

I had no idea she had such a diverse acting career before marrying The Devil of Cleveland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeGPpwFp ... re=related


Beach baby, give me your hand.....

Give me something I can remember.....


From July until September.



I give it a "9" for the beat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ga9Bs4f ... re=related

I know I'll never find another you.

Stay by my side.

These photos were sent via text to my wife and then to me, originating from my daughter's boyfriend's cell phone. Damned if I get them to rightsize on the transfer from my iPhone to Photobucket to here.

At any rate, it's my Auburn kid and recent Florida alum daughter at Toomer's Corner after the Saturday night Florida@Auburn game. It was a big moment for my Florida alum kid to toss her first lifetime roll onto a Toomer's oak. It was a big moment for my wife and I when we tossed our first rolls after last year's Parent's Weekend game. I sure hope those oaks find a way to make it.

I read in the Akron Beacon Journal this week that yet another independently owned family restaurant has closed in the Akron area recently. This one was the Nick Anthe's in Akron's original Italian immigrant North Hill region.

I took all of those great independent restaurants for granted for most of the time when I lived there.

The article referenced the Nick Anthe signature "Kidney Bean Salad" that was always presented without asking when seated.

I vaguely recalled the experience and taste, so went searching for the recipe.

I found it, and made it this morning before I went to The Browns game and let it "set up" in the fridge all day. It's great!

Usually I try to modify recipes taking into account foods my wife does not like.

With regard to this one, she does not like celery, kidney beans, mayonnaise or relish. I told her "sorry, there is no modification to this one possible."

Mine, all mine.

* Exported from MasterCook *

Anthe's Bean Salad

Recipe By : Akron Beacon Journal

Serving Size : 6


3 cans red kidney beans -- rinsed and drained

1/4 cup vegetable oil (I used canola oil)

2 small onions -- finely chopped

2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish

1/2 cup mayonnaise (don't use Miracle Whip) (I used the west coast equivalent of Hellman's Light, and will reduce the amount a tad next time I make)

1 cup celery -- finely chopped


Combine all ingredients; mix well. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

I just caught Michael J. Fox on Letterman.

I admire that guy. Struck by Parkinson's in his relative youth, he just finds a way to keep on carrying on.

Money has helped him of course, but kudos in that he is a champion for others that will go with him and after.

Jesus has righted my wrongs.

At least some of them.

I have usually given him a full platter and a long list.

I see J.R likely righted the pics of my kids from last night.

For that, I am eternally grateful.



I have a hankering for some bread and wine.....

I'm once more close to burying the equivalent of Lassie's Toys after a long Rocky Coltrane absence.


Our local PBS tonight aired a Wavy Gravy documentary that was fun and worth a watch.

Not all the way up there perhaps with the Magic Bus, but still good work and nicely done.

Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie.

Just catching Don Rickles, on Jimmy Kimmel.

Rickles bored me in a period about 30 years ago, but he was funny tonight.

I loved when Kimmel pulled out the poster advertising a Rickle's 5:10 AM show in Vegas from the early 60's.

It reminded of the "night" I was dancing with my (first) wife at a small casino south of the Las Vegas strip and held up my left arm holding my Bud longneck from behind my wife to glance at my Seiko to check the time and was shocked to learn it had "suddenly" become almost 8AM.

That was a good night. And day.

That wife begat me with two Clemson girl grads.

Go Tigers! Whoop those Tar Heels!!