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Nov 9, 2021 14:50:05   #
Retired CPO wrote:
Thanks. The plains Indians thought they were good spirits and wouldn't kill them. Worked out pretty well for them! My wife liked the 2nd silhouette, she thought the first one with only one horn showing looked kind of strange.


The Plains Indians used the buffalo for meat, hides, bones for tools, etc.
Buffalo sustained their lives.
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Nov 8, 2021 15:14:57   #
daldds wrote:
I’m curious to find out if anyone else sees what I see at first glance.
No hints.


A tragic, wasted life!
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Nov 7, 2021 15:30:17   #
vonzip wrote:
coming and going.


It would be nice if you identified the Model and year
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Nov 3, 2021 13:10:36   #
FotoHog wrote:


how did they get to the crows nest?
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Nov 3, 2021 12:41:29   #
joer wrote:
Today I experimented with my smart phone camera...Galaxy S21 Ultra.

The first image is the normal camera view.

The second is telephoto 10X.

The third is a deep crop of the second image...at this magnification the image began to break up.

I was about 25-28 feet from the bird. The phone was on a tripod with head loose, which is the way I like to shoot birds. I transferred the images to my computer and opened them is C1 then saved to jpg.

Using the phone was a little awkward and there was shutter lag. The Blue Jays tend to stay still for only a second or two. I used the night mode...the phone has four cameras and each has a different pixel count.

I'll have to try it in the other camera mode to see which is the best.
Today I experimented with my smart phone camera...... (show quote)


How do you attach a smart phone to a tripod?
Picture would help
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Nov 2, 2021 13:40:07   #
Hal81 wrote:
Seen this yesterday not far from my house.


SMOOCHING WITH HIS SWEETIE?
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Oct 31, 2021 18:49:48   #
Mi630 wrote:
This is a portrait I took of Johnny Lujack. Currently 96 years old and sharp as a tack. He belongs to the same golf club I belong to. Finally moving full time to Florida. A humble man. First time I met him I went and introduced myself. I said, Mr. Lujack…He stopped me cold and said his name was John.
The club had an open house for him and we all hoped the family would bring his Heisman along. He wouldn’t do it. He said it would appear too flashy. Damn!


Johnny Lujack
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Johnny Lujack
Lujack on a 1948 Bowman football card, wearing jersey No. 32, posing as if attempting a pass
Lujack on a 1948 Bowman football card
No. 32
Position: Quarterback
Personal information
Born: January 4, 1925 (age 96)
Connellsville, Pennsylvania
Height: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight: 186 lb (84 kg)
Career information
High school: Connellsville
College: Notre Dame
NFL Draft: 1946 / Round: 1 / Pick: 4
Career history
Chicago Bears (1948–1951)
Career highlights and awards
AP Athlete of the Year (1947)
First-team All-Pro (1950)
2× Pro Bowl (1950, 1951)
100 greatest Bears of All-Time
NFL passing touchdowns leader (1949)
NFL passing yards leader (1949)
NFL rushing touchdowns leader (1950)
3× National champion (1943, 1946, 1947)
Heisman Trophy (1947)
2× Unanimous All-American (1946, 1947)
Career NFL statistics
Pass att/cmp: 404/808
Passing yards: 6,295
TD–Int: 41–54
Rushing yards: 742
Rushing touchdowns: 21
Interceptions: 12
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR
College Football Hall of Fame
John Christopher Lujack[1] (pronounced Lu' jack; born January 4, 1925) is a former American football quarterback and 1947 Heisman Trophy winner; he is currently the oldest living recipient of the Heisman Trophy. Lujack played college football for the University of Notre Dame, and professionally for the Chicago Bears. He was the first of several successful quarterbacks who hailed from Western Pennsylvania. Others include Pro Football Hall of Fame members Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath, Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, Joe Montana and George Blanda.


Contents
1 Early life and college career
2 Professional career
3 Post-playing career
4 Career statistics
4.1 College
4.2 Professional
5 References
6 External links
Early life and college career
Lujack was born to Alice and John,[2] in 1925 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania,[3] the youngest of four sons and fifth child in a family of six children.[3] The family is of Polish descent and included older siblings Valentine ("Val"), Stanislaus ("Stan"), Victoria, Aloysius ("Allie", who went on to play professional basketball), and younger sister Dolores.[2][4][1][3][5] His father, John, worked for the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad for thirty years as a boiler-maker.[5]

He was on the Connellsville High School football team from 1939 to 1941, and was also senior class president and valedictorian.[6] In high school, he lettered in four sports; baseball, football, basketball, and track.[2][7]

His 1941 high school team, named the Cokers for workers in the coal milling industry who feed the ovens, went 8–0–1, but did not get to play for the WPIAL league championship because their last game, with Brownsville, ended in a 13–13 tie.[8]

People in Connellsville had wanted him to go to the United States Military Academy (Army) at West Point, going so far as to ask their local congressman for an appointment, but Lujack, a fan of Notre Dame from listening to their football radio broadcasts, had his heart set on playing in South Bend.[9][10] He was the first Connellsville High School student to receive an appointment to Army.[2]

Lujack attended Notre Dame, where he was given a scholarship by Frank Leahy, from 1942 to 1943 and then 1946 to 1947. His career was interrupted for two years by World War II after his sophomore season, where he served as an officer in the United States Navy. His time in the Navy was spent hunting German submarines in the English Channel as an ensign.[9][10]

When he returned from the Atlantic (ETO) duty he appeared on the cover of the September 29, 1947, issue of LIFE.[11] He led the 1947 Fighting Irish to 9–0 record for his senior year, where he completed 61 passes on 109 attempts for 777 yards and also ran 139 yards on 12 carries, and won the Heisman Trophy.[8] As he had in high school, he once again received varsity letters (called "monograms") in four sports (again baseball, football, basketball, and track) while at Notre Dame, becoming the third person to do so.[9] He was a two-time unanimous All-American (1946 and 1947) and led Notre Dame to three national championships (1943, 1946 and 1947).[12][13] And, in addition to winning the Heisman, he was named Associated Press Athlete of the Year.[10]

Professional career
He was paid USD$17,000 for his 1948 rookie season with the Bears and $20,000 for his fourth and final season.[8] In his rookie season he played defensive back where he had 8 interceptions for 131 yards and kicked 44 out of 46 extra points.[8][14]

In the summer of 1949 he starred in a radio program on ABC, The Adventures of Johnny Lujack, which was a summertime replacement for the Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy show. It was a 30-minute program and broadcast on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.[15] The show was broadcast from the studios of WGN in Chicago over the Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS) and ran for 13 weeks.[16]

In the final game of the 1949 season, the 9–3 Bears defeated their hometown rivals, the Chicago Cardinals (6–5–1), by a score of 52–21 on December 11. In that game Lujack threw six touchdown passes and set an NFL record with 468 passing yards.[17][18] The record was broken later by Norm Van Brocklin.

His wife is the former Patricia Ann "Pat" Schierbrock, daughter of Josephine (née Wilson) and Frank H. Schierbrock.[19] Lujack and Schierbrock were married in Davenport, Iowa at the Sacred Heart Cathedral on June 26, 1949.[12][20] They have three children:[21] Mary, Jeff, and Carol (1954–2002).[22]

Sid Luckman and George Blanda played behind Lujack in the rotation at quarterback for the 1949 and 1950 seasons.[23][24]

During the 1950 season, Lujack set an NFL record with 11 rushing touchdowns by a quarterback. This record was tied by Tobin Rote with the Green Bay Packers in 1956, and broken by the New England Patriot's Steve Grogan in 1976.[25][26] Lujack, named to the 1950 All-Pro First Team, also set a Bears record for 109 total points in a season with 11 touchdowns, 3 (out of 5) field-goals, and 34 (out of 35) extra points.[27] That record was surpassed by Gale Sayers in 1965 with 123 total points.[28]

Post-playing career
After four years with the Bears he returned to Notre Dame as an assistant coach for 1952 and 1953 to repay Frank Leahy as a debt of gratitude for having given him a scholarship to Notre Dame.[6][8] Leahy wanted Lujack to succeed him as the head coach of the Fighting Irish, but Terry Brennan was chosen instead by Reverend Theodore Hesburgh, the university president.[29]

In 1954, he then went into the car dealership business with his father-in-law, at Lujack Schierbrock Chevrolet Company of Davenport, Iowa.[6][30] He sold his dealership interest to his son-in-law in 1988.[31] Sometime in the late 2010s, Lujack's was sold by his ex son in law to Smart Automotive.[32]

Lujack served as a television color commentator for several years, teaming with Chris Schenkel to call New York Giants games on CBS from 1958 to 1961.[21][33][34] However, in 1962 when Ford signed on as a major sponsor and learned that Lujack was a Chevrolet dealer, he was replaced by Pat Summerall.[34][35] He also worked with Jim McKay on CBS doing college football and on ABC college football telecasts in the late 1960s.[citation needed]

On June 8, 1978, Lujack was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame.

In 2005, he donated $50,000 to Connellsville High School toward a new field house for the football stadium.[6] It was later named Johnny Lujack Field House.[6] The Johnny Lujack Training Facility was formally dedicated in 2009 and he was also inducted into the inaugural class of the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame.[10]

He is the oldest living Heisman Trophy winner.[36]

Career statistics
College
Year Comp Att Pct Yds TD
1946 49 100 49.0 778 6
1947 61 109 56.0 777 9
Professional
Year Team GP GS Att Comp Yds TD Int Lng Record
1948 CHI 9 3 66 36 611 6 3 64
1949 CHI 12 7 312 162 2658 23 22 81
1950 CHI 12 12 254 121 1731 4 21 70 9−3−0
1951 CHI 12 6 176 85 1295 8 8 78 4−2−0
Career[37] 45 28 808 404 6295 41 54 81 13−5−0
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Oct 29, 2021 05:43:22   #
quixdraw wrote:
I have been a serious photography enthusiast for better than sixty years. Bought my first darkroom at twelve, got hold of my first "Real" camera at 15, and have been learning and working on photography ever since. As an adult, acquired the best equipment I could afford and continued to learn. I was a little slow going digital because I was pretty happy where I was, but made the switch and went all in. Continued on the learning path, and generally getting pretty decent results. For a very long time, I believed it was all about the photographer, Eye, Skills, abilities. Then I realized it sometimes is the photographer, but the camera and lens enable achievements / captures impossible otherwise. Think Bugs or Birds or Astro. I cheerfully use the various built in features of the cameras, on the other hand, most times I don't really need VR, I generally get the photo. The years of learning, practice, and experience will usually carry me through. I have some deletes, but except in the worst conditions, a small percentage.
I got an advert today for the newest pro super camera, I'll leave out the brand to avoid that swamp. From the intro piece it sounds as if the camera will do everything but trigger itself. The sample photos were stunningly good. The eye, of course, remains, but does someone acquiring one of these, and learning its capabilities, jump past decades of skill development and learning? I won't buy one, and have an old style background, so even if I did, could never know. What do you think?
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In addition to photography your also an accomplished cook and photographer of some tasty dishes.
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Oct 26, 2021 14:17:57   #
Shades of Death Trail
It was created in the early 20th century when two wealthy local men dammed a creek that ran through the narrow valley between houses they had just built. They gave it its name from the wraithlike vapor formations they often saw rising off it on cooler mornings. They further named the pass Haunted Hollow.
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Oct 26, 2021 13:53:01   #
edwdickinson wrote:
Hickory Run State Park PA
Overcast and occasionally rainy day.


Comment on the name "Shades of Death Trail"?
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Oct 20, 2021 16:24:53   #
Huey Driver wrote:
My Grandfather Jay W. McHenry of Benton, Pa (center in the plaid shirt, one of the 13 original shareholders) and other original founding members of the Painter Den Hunting Club. In 1926 these 13 men purchased land and founded a club for hunting and fishing on a mountain top in Pennsylvania. This was their first hunt during the Winter of 1926. Today the club thrives and has increased substantially in land size and allows the logging industry to selectively harvest timber. Membership is limited to about 50 and a prospective member must be voted in. Most members are the descendant of the original founding members. They built a beautiful cabin that will accommodate all members. Every year towards the end of August they put on a large clam bake for members, families and guests. Makes my mouth water just thinking about that. I have been fortunate enough to attend that probably 10 or so times. If I had stayed in that part of the country, I would have tried my best to become a member. The second picture is the cabin is at the edge of the lake as it is today.
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My Father belonged to the White Deer Club on Garners Run near Neff's Mills PA. It had a varied membership of County Agents, professors from Penn State, etc.
It was a hard scrabble Revolutionary War farm that supplied hard wood charcoal to the local Iron Furnaces that made canon balls for George Washington's army. The charcoal pits were still evident in the 1950's.
300 acres of land with several ponds on Leading Ridge and Garner's Run adjacent to a large PA State game propagation reserve.
Great memories. Good Ruffed Grouse, squirrel, and deer hunting. It was available for summer member visits. One inviolate rule was that the "wives could not redecorate the club house"










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Oct 20, 2021 15:20:32   #
vonzip wrote:
Thanks Mike. I haven't heard the expression "long in the tooth" for some time. vz


receding gums with age
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Oct 16, 2021 15:57:06   #
NMGal wrote:
A really nice building. Sure a lot of wires there.


one per phone-aka Buenos Aires
love the kink in the top wire
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Oct 16, 2021 15:48:35   #
pbcbob wrote:
Gators do not attack. Just maintain a modest distance.


only when hungry
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Oct 16, 2021 15:42:22   #
Floyd wrote:
... did it happen to me? Last week I was up in Shiloh National Forrest, driving some of the lesser traveled roads and decided I would take a picture of thick stands of trees with light beams coming through, and that's all I noticed. A couple of days later, as I go through pictures of my trip, something caught my attention and the second picture is an enlarged portion. What I caught (almost center of the pic), I have not the slightest idea, though my wife agrees that could be curly red hair up the leg and/or body. No Photoshop, only enlarging and bring up light. Do youall have any idea?
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Sasquatch?
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