From King’s College, London:

Get your Kleenex out:

Back story is here.

Fascinating video:

Steve Rushin at ESPN offers this poignant remembrance of a good movie and a great story and the cultural impact it made:

It is unclear why — or even if — men had tear ducts prior to 1971, for none had ever wept in public, though Walter Cronkite famously came close, removing his glasses in 1963 to announce the death of President Kennedy.

So it was a watershed event in every sense of the phrase when ABC aired its “Tuesday Night Movie of the Week” on November 30, 1971, and men failed to blink back tears in front of their wives and children and even each other for the first time in human history.

Forty years ago tonight, at 8:30 Eastern time, half of all television sets in use in America were tuned to the premier of Brian’s Song, a 90-minute made-for-TV film about the brief, unlikely friendship between Chicago Bears’ teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers.

Only 17 months earlier, Piccolo had died of cancer at age 26, leaving behind a wife and three daughters. Actor James Caan, who hated the hurried production schedules of TV, agreed to play Piccolo because he liked the script, by William Blinn, based on a chapter of I Am Third, Sayers’ little-read autobiography of 1970.

Read the rest.

Billy Dee Williams (playing Gayle Sayers) delivers a show stopping speech:

Sadly, my head is stuffed with far too much meaningless trivia making Jeopardy a family favorite.

Here’s a video clip of the first time anyone has ever gone all in on back-to-back Daily Doubles:

Seriously.

Recognizing the serious threat turkey fryers pose to the national security of the United States the Department of HOMELAND SECURITY has issued a warning via Twitter to all Americans.

Linked to the tweet was this ominous video:

Gotta love living in a nanny state.