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Re-activated News Retrieved by Pat Darnell | June 2, 2012 | Bryan TX

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Consultants recommend reuse for Astrodome - Yahoo! Finance New Zealand:

'via Blog this'

I remember when Houstonians voted to build this eighth wonder of the world. It required voting on a bond issue to allow the Harris County muck a mucks to start construction on the Astro Domain or Complex. Like the article says it housed the Houston Oilers, Astros, and Stock Show and Rodeo along with playing host to the NBA Finals, professional boxing, tennis extravaganzas and numerous high school football playoff games.

The big name I remember is Hoffeinz, the first Hoff. I can say it was the first post-modern domain name -- ASTRO Domain.

Funny stuff.
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http://nz.finance.yahoo.com/news/consultants-recommend-reuse-astrodome-211912613.html
http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?61544-Astrodome-Harris-County-Domed-Stadium

Hey! I reckon I'm an Oilers' fan and a Google man

Drove through Tennessee
found my family
'came plain to me:

Hey big brother
you're the bridge
I'm the span

Where have all the Oilers gone?

...gone to Tennessee everyone...

Hey! Uncle Chuck
You're the needle
I'm the thread

Hey! little daughter
you're the spring
in my step

Hey! little son
you're the awe
in the some

Hey! Ole' Pop
you're the stock
I'm the block

Hey big sister
you're the pistol
I'm the shell

Hey momma 'n poppa
you're the pair
I'm the prayer

Hey children
you're the sleep
I'm the deep

Hey Sweetie Pie

You're the hero

I'm the worship!

Honey bunches of oats;
you're pepper
I'm the salt...

Hey old friends we're apart
but I'm still an Oilers fan
and now a Google man
>>pd

Photos: left -- George Reeves, Superman; right -- Billy Cannon. Are they the same person?

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YEAH, THAT'S A PICTURE of George Reeves at left, probably taken years before he first donned the tights of Superman. When I watch those shows, I'm still amazed how good he is, playing an impossible role but maintaining a certain "twinkle" that kept him above the material and rock-bottom budget. The making of that show — and many of Superman's other screen appearances — were recounted expertly in a book entitled Superman: From Serial to Cereal by Gary Grossman. Others have followed in Gary's footsteps, often delving heavily (and not always responsibly) into the mystery of Reeves' death, but this book is still the best. You can get a sampling — and even order your own copy — over at Gary's website, http://www.supermanbook.com/.

http://www.povonline.com/2001/News401.htm

Pictured above on the right is: William Abb "Billy" Cannon (born August 2, 1937) is an All-American and 1959 Heisman Trophy winner from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and one of the American Football League's most celebrated players.
He was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and moved to Baton Rouge when his father got a job there during World War II. He graduated from Istrouma High School.

Billy Cannon later became an orthodontist and subsequently served time in federal prison for counterfeiting U.S. dollar bills that he stored in ice chests, buired in the backyard of one of the houses he owned and rented out. Because of this incident, he was not inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. His life is claimed to be the vaguely disguised subject matter of the novel (and subsequent motion picture) Everybody's All-American by sportswriter Frank Deford, although Deford denies this.

Cannon's Heisman Trophy is displayed at T.J. Ribs restaurant in Baton Rouge. Cannon has eaten for free there since 1986 when, short on cash, he sold the trophy to restaurant owner T. J. Moran.

Billy's son Billy Cannon, Jr. played linebacker for Texas A&M and was selected in the first round of the NFL draft in 1984, by the Dallas Cowboys.

>>pd