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 1st 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)
- A few quick facts about the man (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/sports/football/emlen-tunnell-the-giants-greatest-packer.html)
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