4 HIM for a 5:15am Ruck

5 HIM for a 6:00am Deck of Death consisting of:

• Diamonds: Flying Squirrels
• Clubs: Mountain Climbers
• Hearts: Merkins
• Spades: SSHs with Squat Jumps
• Joker1: Rifle Carries up the Hill
• Joker2: Indian Run to and fro the Emlen “The Gremlin” Tunnell Statue
  • A few quick facts about the man (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/sports/football/emlen-tunnell-the-giants-greatest-packer.html)
    • Emlin Tunnell was a Garrett Hillian who was a star halfback at Radnor High School in 1940 and 1941.
    • As a freshman football player in 1942 (at the University of Toledo), Tunnell was knocked unconscious by a collision that broke a neck vertebra and left in him critical condition. When he awoke in the hospital, a priest was administering Last Rites.
    • He was told he would never play football again so he decided to enlist with the Coast Guard (Before that, Tunnell had never been on a boat, and he could barely swim.)
    • During his time with the Coast Guard, he was involved in multiple lifesaving exploits (honored posthumously in 2012)
    • In 1948, he hitchhiked from his home in Garrett Hill to the Polo Grounds in Harlem, showing up unannounced, to ask for a tryout
    • He was the 1^st African American to play for the New York Giants
    • He was the African American to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
    • In July of 2021, a new Coast Guard Cutter was named to honor the hero (https://www.marinelink.com/news/new-fast-response-cutter-honors-emlen-488857)

The Wrapup

• Count-O-Rama
• Name-O-Rama
• Some Labor Day musings about labor shortages and good thoughts for those starting new forms of labor as the new school year is upon us