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We get ESPN Magazine, a freebie for points we were going to lose. The current issue has a very difficult and bittersweet article about YA Tittle, who is 87 and beset with dementia. It's a lovely sad paean to all our folks who've been there. I can't find a link to the article, but if you do find it please read. Cool guy.

Regarding that "points you're gonna lose" gambit; I didn't have a current such letter, so used last year's to renew Time. Most recent issue I got had expiration date changed to August 15 instead of August 14, so I assumed the renewal had gone through; I had gotten nothing from the online renewal either way. No "sorry, Charlie", no "your renewal succeeded". Then I didn't get a Time last week at all. Either they didn't publish last week (I could check), or the mail-delivery human screwed up (it happens; also, sometimes I get a Saturday mag delivery on Monday). Or someone in my apt bldg "borrowed" it, which could account for those sometime-Monday deliveries, but this time they forgot to put it back. I should still be on the current subscription 'til August anyway. I'm out of town this weekend so won't find out if I got my Time this week until I get back.

But wait. The plot thickens. Same airline sent me a new letter after all this. But it expired at end of June. Or did it, really?

These were ancient points we had no idea about since we seldom fly anymore. The mag selection was eclectic to say the least. But we're getting espn, forbes, wsj, iinstyle, golf, and something or other else. Paperless society indeed. Not

That's sad to hear. He was probably sacked too many times. He was the 49ers quarterback the last time I cared about football.

Since because I must love suffering I've never been a seat-upgrader, I have lots of points on various airlines. Couldn't use them for a next-day flight from the airline then known as Northwest when my Mom died because there were so many restrictions-on-points. Fare would have cost me $700.00 after using up enough points to almost get 2 people to Hawaii, supposedly. I wound up getting to Detroit on another airline, one I had no points to speak of on but who offered a discounted fare after checking with the funeral home to see that I was telling the truth.

I still have those points for the Hawaii trips on now-Delta. We'll see if my sister & I ever get there (& back, of course).

Y.A. Tittle was the QB for the New York Football Giants when they became the first NFL team I really cared about. I was around seven or eight years old and the Giants drafted a QB from Ole Miss named Glynn Griffin. I distinctly remember a photo of those two and a third QB sitting side by side on the bench together. I was so young that I thought the NFL draft was similar to the way we would pick teams to play a game of football in our yard. To my seven year old mind, it struck me that those New York Giants must be some pretty good Yankees to pick a guy from Mississippi (and especially an Ole Miss guy) to play with them on their team. The Giants became my favorite team and stayed that way until the Saints drafted Archie Manning. They are still my second favorite team and are the only team I support other than the Saints.

Y. A. Tittle will always be remembered because of this photo, taken September 20, 1964.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-pl ... 144796136/

TheConfessor wrote:Y. A. Tittle will always be remembered because of this photo, taken September 20, 1964.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-pl ... 144796136/

John Baker ran for Sheriff here in 1978 and used the photo as a campaign tool. He won.

Beebs52 wrote:We get ESPN Magazine, a freebie for points we were going to lose. The current issue has a very difficult and bittersweet article about YA Tittle, who is 87 and beset with dementia. It's a lovely sad paean to all our folks who've been there. I can't find a link to the article, but if you do find it please read. Cool guy.

That's the "body issue," right? --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:We get ESPN Magazine, a freebie for points we were going to lose. The current issue has a very difficult and bittersweet article about YA Tittle, who is 87 and beset with dementia. It's a lovely sad paean to all our folks who've been there. I can't find a link to the article, but if you do find it please read. Cool guy.

That's the "body issue," right? --Bob

Yep, that's it.