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The team itself was notorious, particularly because they were viewed as a traitorous departure of the Cleveland Browns from northeast Ohio. I’m not a sports fan, but even I couldn’t miss the outrage it caused.
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The game show Wink is, as is unsurprising for an 87 year old rich and famous person from the 70’s, a huge, cranky Trumper…
But hey, he’s 87, and I’m not sick and it’s not a snow day, so Tic Tac Dough and The Joker’s Wild (joker, Joker, JOKER!!!) aren’t really on my radar anymore.
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Why not, there were two musicians named “Englebert Humperdink”?
(OK, the modern one wasn’t born with that name, it’s a stage name taken from the original composer, but c’mon, it’s an even sillier name than Wink Martindale.)
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One for each eye?
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Beat me to it.
Ummmm…
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Well, I can’t watch CBS football coverage without always going “James Brown. . . ?”
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I refer to them as The Professional American Football Franchise formerly known as the Cleveland Browns.
For a while, Kareem Abdul Jabbar was tearing up the field as a running back for the Dolphins. Now, we all know that Kareem was talented, but even so…
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And ‘Muhammad Ali’ is what a friend of mine once called " the ‘John Smith’ of the Muslim world."
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As I recall, the game-show-host incarnation of Wink Martindale discusses this briefly in a recent episode of the Go Fact Yourself podcast.
The nostalgia of a 70’s latch key kid. [Takes a deep hit]…[Exhales] Nice.
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