A little bit of everything

This is one of my favorite modern Dick Butkus cards. The 2024 Panini Donruss Downtown. It's a comic book type card with a downtown Chicago background, Butkus has a comic book body but they used real images of his flesh, sick card.

Chris Cornell would have been 61 years old today, RIP Chris, you're one of the best to ever do it.

https://youtu.be/XmIqIVxUuKs?si=nTCh_hoXt8UmtL5U

Check this out, this is creepy as heck. A few years ago someone found this abandoned hornets nest in an old shed, it had been fused to a wooden mask that was hanging in the shed.

The Flip Flap Railway was a looping wooden roller coaster that operated at Paul Boyton's Sea Lion Park on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, from 1895 to 1902. It was notable for being the first looping roller coaster in North America. The ride was notorious for the intense g-forces it generated due to its circular loop, it was reported to have generated 12 g's, for perspective, a space lift off generates 3 g's. Due to the g-force, the ride started causing discomfort, nose bleeds, and neck injuries for riders and was shut down in 1902. The g-force of this thing was causing havoc, busting people up, the human body isn't meant to be able to withstand 12 g's. This was way back in the day when people were beginning to experiment with rides and really didn't understand the engineering and danger of what they were doing. The Flip Flap Railway featured a circular loop with a diameter of 25 feet (7.6 meters). This design was problematic, as it produced high g-forces at the top and bottom of the loop. Despite its flaws, the Flip Flap Railway sparked renewed interest in looping roller coasters and paved the way for the development of more advanced, safer looping coasters with teardrop-shaped.

The flip flap railway in action.

Check out the size of the wave that hits this vessel in the North Sea, the captain of the vessel gets an adrenaline rush out of it.

https://youtu.be/6XIqJmFLmzU?si=HciTxpxERxxjjFp9

This is one of my favorite Barry Sanders photos, one of the greatest sports photos period.

Some more cool Barry Sanders photos.

It's fascinating to compare Barry Sanders and Jim Brown, both retired from football at an early age, Brown was 30 and Sanders was 31, Sanders played 10 seasons and Brown played 9, the only two running backs in history to average over 5 yards a carry. Many people consider these two to be the GOAT running backs, you can also throw in Walter Payton, but most consider the GOAT to either be Sanders or Brown. Barry Sanders was the most elusive and dynamic back in the history of football, he could break your ankles, he had more moves than a barrel of fishhooks, while Jim Brown was more of a power and speed back. Fascinating stuff. I love these old photos of Jim Brown at Syracuse, with the cool looking face mask.

This image was used to make my favorite Jim Brown card, the 2005 Topps All-American.

Jim Brown was a big guy, he was just as big as a lot of the defensive players during his era, he loved contact, he was powerful and he was fast, just a nightmare of a running back, he wasn't easy to bring down.