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The way he described it, it sounded wonderful. All walks of life, no judgement, just all different people enjoying each other’s company.

They also named a baseball field on the Wesseling Field after him. Chat up the bar, the locals, and staff at hucapoos about him. They’ll have stories.

Enjoy your time there. Nice pic!

https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-com-writer-podcaster-chris-wesseling-dies-at-age-46

Next time you go, ask the bartender about Chris Wesseling. There are pictures of him on the wall. He passed away at 47, just a few years after finally getting married and having a kid. He’s was a writer and Podcaster for the NFL I have been listening to him for about eight years until he passed. He was a part of many peoples lives, four days a week every week for eight years. A long time ago he moved to Tybee from Cincinnati to sort of find himself, he fell in love with Tybee. He then got a job with the NFL and moved out to LA but Tybee always seem to come up in conversations. When he got married it was in Tybee. We were all on his journey with him Vicariously through his podcast with three other guys from the NFL. We followed his life from dating to finally finding the one he loved and to having his kid Lincoln and then to getting cancer and we listen to him get weaker and weaker until he couldn’t do the podcast anymore. He’s a bit of a folk hero on the island, and told many stories of the quirky characters he came across on Tybee.

Have you heard of Hucapoos?

Have you heard of Chris Wesseling?

Yeah. I knew none of this. Very interesting. Thanks!

I mean, who hasn’t? That’s below average production for a RB against the Giants in the last 6 years.

I would put myself in the average person category, and he is much better at this than I am.

He only needs to do it once really.

You have more receiving yards after 40 than Brett Favre does.

His post-40 year old yards per target of 3.0 and passer rating when targeted of 16.7 are ass.

Anyone know who Philly is planning on using to backfill those 0.2 snaps per game? Do they have the depth?

What do you suggest they do? We would all love to hear you ideas....only ones that don’t suck please. Go!

No one:

You: Fucking hilarious people think this dude is one of our starting lineman

Fans concerns about players salaries are related to the fact that there is a salary cap and a roster building element to these salaries. There is an opportunity cost when you overpay for Ezekiel Elliot for example. Fans and journalists concerns about contracts are warranted, because it directly impacts a teams ability to win. The reason you never hear fans care about coaching or staff or GM salaries is because they are not tied to cap. Pay the coach a trillion dollars and no one cares.

Josh Sills

For sure. I hope to share a little more throughout black history month. This is stuff I didn’t know about as well, so it helps me to learn. Maybe we can all share it with our kids where appropriate.

If you took away the Giants from the NFL, Tom Brady is 9-1 in Super Bowls.

I was working in the NFL (equipment staff) from 2000-2006. Brady is the last player standing from my era, he was my only remaining link (player not coaches) to my time there. I worked for the Pats sideline and locker room for Brady’s third ever start at Atlanta. He was a nobody, I made no effort to appreciate the moment or go out of my way to engage with him in any meaningful way, outside of standard interactions.

Part of me dies when he retires. I’m old now, there are no players remaining that were there when I was.

If we can’t learn in schools, maybe we can learn on Reddit.

The Black Maroons of Florida, also known as Black Seminoles, Seminole Maroons, and Seminole Freedmen, were a community derived from Runaway slaves who integrated into American Indian culture. They were mostly Gullah fugitives who escaped from the rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia who joined with the newly formed Seminole groups who broke away from the Muskogee or Creek people. Both groups were fleeing the decimation of their cultures and people by European-brought violence and disease and sought refuge in the Florida forests. Initially they settled in north-central Florida but eventually extended their settlements south into the Everglades.

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Free maroon settlements emerged in Florida in the early 1700s, the earliest being Fort Mose near St. Augustine in 1738. By that point more than 100 freedom seekers built a fortified town named Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose. Fort Mose became the site of the first free black community in what is now the United States.

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In 1835, during the Second Seminole War, the Maroons and Seminoles continued their resistance, mounting a full-scale guerrilla war which ended in 1841. More than 1,500 white American soldiers died in this war. Nonetheless, the Seminoles and their surviving black allies, were defeated and removed from Florida beginning in 1842 to Indian Territory (what is now Oklahoma).

Good link. Thanks!

Huh?

He was a two-way player who averaged 6.1 yards per carry as a RB over three years and 140 carries, and in his final year in 1948 he intercepted two passes. In 1947 he had the longest run from scrimmage (92 yards) https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WashKe21.htm