Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Jan 1, 1946: The Atomic Bowl: Marines Football Game Played in Post-Atomic Bomb Nagasaki. "A band played the fight song, “On Wisconsin!” The rules were changed from tackle to two-hand touch because of all the irradiated glass shards from the atomic blast remaining on the turf." Talk about surreal!



With Japanese women recruited as cheerleaders...



Susan Southard writes about the event in "Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War" (2015):



Here's a short article on it:
The 'Atomic Bowl': Football on a Killing Field in Nagasaki (January 1, 1946)

QB Angelo Bertelli's [1921-1999] strangest football game ever was the Nagasaki 'Atom Bowl' played on the nuclear fallout ashes. The New York Times sports writer didn't mention it in his 1999 obit.



The Chicago Tribune sports writer didn't mention the Atomic Bowl in QB Bill Osmanski's [1915-1996] obit either.




Atomic City by Exferno - Come out of your fallout shelters and dance across the radioactive landscape.




While the site was on break(down) I came across this domain for sale:



One bad Rogue...


Sources tell KOBI in Medford, Oregon that 9 or 10 patients died at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center when a "nurse injected multiple patients with tap water in an attempt to cover up their misuse of the hospital’s supply of pain medication, specifically fentanyl."


The original Mickey Mouse entered the public domain today. Mickey has a long history with the Navy, appearing in the insignia of the Curtis  O2C-1 Helldivers from Naval Air Reserve Base New York that were used in KING KONG (1933) for the Empire State Building attack scene. During WWII, Disney artists helped boost morale by designing over 1,200 insignia for the U.S. military including one for Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 245 that featured Mickey with guns blazing.


When Howard Hughes "RKO Pictures" camera crews traveled to the east coast to film location shots for King Kong, an RKO representative contacted the Commanding Officer of NRAB Floyd Bennett Field with an offer: RKO would donate $100 to the Officer's Mess Fund and pay the pilots $10 each to fly around the Empire State Building. The C.O., not knowing his superiors had previously denied RKO's request, accepted the offer.


Debbie Does New Years:




I'll Be Back later...