Colonel Sanders was born today in 1890.  Entrepreneur.com had an interesting article on 7 things we may not know about the Colonel.

From Entrepreneur:

Did you know the real Colonel Sanders once tried to sue KFC?

The chicken chain’s recent marketing campaign has brought Colonel Sanders back to American television screens, embodied first by Darrell Hammond and now by Norm Macdonald. The move has been controversial: any over-the-top portrayal of a real human by a celebrity is going to rub some people the wrong way. (And yes, Colonel Sanders was indeed a real human; a study referenced in the 2012 book Colonel Sanders and the American Dream showed that less than 40 percent of Americans aged 19 to 25 were aware of that.)

However, KFC’s biggest misstep has been the sanitization of the Colonel. As our own Ray Hennessey wrote, “The new Colonel is a caricature, carefully choreographed by the company and its creative hired hands. Instead of resurrecting the Colonel to lead KFC’s sales back to their former fried glory, the company has instead unleashed a childish pantomime that people old enough to remember Colonel Sanders don’t like and people too young to know him can’t possibly understand.”

KFC has been eager to celebrate kitschy parts of the Colonel’s history, while ignoring more complex attributes that made him both successful and dangerous to the brand while alive. Here are a few of the most interesting facts about Colonel Sanders that many people don’t know – including a few that KFC probably would rather gloss over.

 For most of his life, he was a terrible businessman.

Most customers probably don’t realize that the Colonel only became a successful restaurateur after failed careers as a lawyer, insurance salesman, lamp salesman and tire salesman. Sanders often made unwise business gambles and had a habit of getting into fights that resulted in being fired – something that suited him as a self-employed entrepreneur, but that was less ideal as a company spokesperson later in life.

 He once shot someone for his brand.

What Sanders lacked in business skills, he more than made up for in passion. When Sanders painted a large sign pointing potential customers from the highway toward his gas station in Corbin, Ky. (it would eventually expand into Sander’s first cafe), he enraged the owner of a competing gas station, Matt Stewart. Stewart painted over Sanders’ sign, leading to Sanders threatening to “blow [his] goddamn head off” and repainting the sign himself.

When Sanders discovered Stewart once again painting over the sign, he and two Shell officials ran to catch him red handed, heavily armed. In the resulting gun fight, the Shell manager was killed and Sanders shot Stewart in the shoulder. KFC currently has a purposefully poorly acted reenactment of the fight that gave Sanders complete control over the gas station market in the area after his competition was sent to jail for murder.

He cheated on his wife (a lot).

While KFC loves certain quirky details about Sanders personal life, one of the facts KFC chooses not to highlight is his relationship with women, especially his two wives. Sanders married his first wife, Josephine, at the young age of 19. According to Colonel Sanders and the American Dream, his second wife’s nephew said Josephine wasn’t interested in a sexual relationship after giving birth to three children. So, Sanders “found what he needed to find in other places.”

One outlet for Sanders’ sexual energies was Claudia Ledington, a former waitress at Sanders’ first restaurant, Sanders Cafe. Claudia and Sanders wed in 1949, after an ongoing affair and two years after his divorce with Josephine. It would be Claudia that would support Sanders in transforming KFC from a restaurant with a good chicken recipe to a national brand.

Throughout his life, Sanders was notoriously licentious. Sanders’ biographer, John Ed Pearce, recalls a woman at the Chamber of Commerce saying that whenever the Colonel came in she had to beat his hands off of her. A 1970 New Yorker article quotes him observing crowds of housewives seeking autographs saying: “Umm, that gal’s let herself go… Look at the size of that one… I don’t know when I’ve seen so many fat ones… Lord, look at ’em waddle.” In short, if the Colonel was alive today, it wouldn’t be shocking to see his name come up in the Ashley Madison leak.

He’s not a military colonel.

If you’re not from Kentucky, you may have assumed that Sanders served as a military leader at some point in his long life. In fact, he was a Kentucky colonel, a title of honor awarded by the state of Kentucky. Sanders became a colonel in 1935 as the founder and owner of the gas station-adjacent restaurant Sanders Cafe, but misplaced his certificate, receiving his second colonelship in 1949.

In the 1950s, Sanders began marketing himself as a southern gentleman and Kentucky colonel, dying his beard white, crafting a string tie and donning his iconic white suit. As he franchised his concept starting in the ’50s, selling the recipe for his Kentucky fried chicken to restaurants across the U.S., this identity as a Kentucky colonel linked Sanders to a southern ideal that lent the Indiana-born man an air of legitimacy.

He only made $2 million selling KFC.

After KFC went from a single cafe to a franchised concept, Sanders sold the business in 1964, feeling out of his league at the age of 75 as the chain rapidly grew. The $2 million, plus an ongoing salary to remain the face of the brand wasn’t a terrible deal. However, after the company’s profitable IPO, in which shareholders made millions, Sanders began to feel as though he got the short end of the stick.

At the company’s first franchisee convention after the IPO, Sanders took the stage and spent 40 minutes railing against management. He claimed executives were thinking only about the short-term and ruining his reputation. While he failed to win over the franchisees and went on to continue his duties as a spokesperson, it seems a part of him remained convinced he had been tricked into giving up his business.

He tried to sue KFC for $122 million.

After KFC was sold to Heublein in 1971, Sanders’ appetite for disruption grew. When the chain denied him the right to open an antebellum-themed restaurant selling Original Recipe chicken, Sanders sued the company for $122 million. He eventually settled out of court for $1 million and a promise that the Colonel would stop embarrassing the company. Sanders did not keep up his end of the bargain.

According to him, KFC doesn’t use the famous secret original recipe of 11 herbs and spices.

While very few people in the world know exactly what is in Colonel Sanders’ mix of 11 secret herbs and spices, we do know that the Colonel said many times in his life that KFC stopped using his recipe. As KFC is intensely protective of the recipe, it is a difficult matter to fact check. The chain reports that it keeps Colonel Sanders’ handwritten recipe of 11 herbs and spices safely locked away in a vault, utilizing two suppliers to preserve that secrecy of the ingredients.

Whether or not the Colonel’s original recipe is in use today, it is clear that Sanders was dismissive of KFC’s menu in his final years. In 1970, the New Yorker quoted him saying the company’s new gravy recipe “ain’t fit for my dogs.” While the chain turned business around and reportedly improved food quality in the ’80s under new leadership, Sanders’ wasn’t around to see it. He died on Dec. 16, 1980, at the age of 90.

SOURCE: ENTREPRENEUR.COM

From HISTORY.COM

The deadliest natural disaster in American history remains the 1900 hurricane in the island city of Galveston, Texas. On September 8, a category four hurricane descended on the town, destroying more than 3,600 buildings with winds surpassing 135 miles per hour.

Estimates of the death toll range from 6,000 to 12,000, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. Tragically, the magnitude of the disaster could have been lessened if the U.S. Weather Bureau hadn’t implemented poor communication policies.

When the storm picked up in early September of 1900, “any modestly educated weather forecaster would’ve known that” it was passing west, says Kerry Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over in Cuba, where scientists had become very good at tracking storms in the hurricane-prone Caribbean, they “knew that a hurricane had passed to the north of Cuba and was headed to the Gulf of Mexico.”

The Weather Bureau in Washington, however, predicted that the storm would pass over Florida and up to New England—which was very, very wrong.

“I mean they were just way off target,” he says.

The Weather Bureau—predecessor to the National Weather Service—was only 10 years old, and hurricane science in the U.S. wasn’t very advanced. “Galveston occurred at a very interesting time in the science of hurricanes,” Emanuel notes.

The bureau’s director, Willis Moore, “was so jealous of the Cubans that he shut off the flow of data from Cuba to the U.S.,” he says. At the same time, Moore told regional U.S. forecasters that “that they could not on their own issue a hurricane warning, they had to go through Washington”—not a very quick or easy task, in those days.

The combination of blocking information from Cuba, while also making it difficult for local forecasters to report hurricanes, turned out to be deadly.

In the couple days before the storm hit, the Weather Bureau’s chief observer in Galveston, Isaac Cline, began to suspect that Washington’s forecast had been off. He tried to warn the city, but it was too late. Cline’s wife was killed, the port city was devastated, and Galveston was never able to fully recover.

The 1900 hurricane was a wake-up call that the Weather Bureau needed to have better communication channels if it wanted to keep people safe.

“The Galveston hurricane made people realize you can’t play politics with a weather bureau,” Emanuel says. “If you make it political, people will die.”

U.S. hurricane science wouldn’t really take off until the 1940s. But after Galveston, the bureau began to open up communication channels both internationally and within the country. Although the U.S. had begun to send wireless messages out to sea before the hurricane, the practice became more widespread after Galveston.

Today, the United States has advanced systems in place to accurately forecast hurricanes and communicate storm paths to affected areas. “We have come light-years from where we were in 1900,” says Jay Barnes, a hurricane historian who has written about storms in North Carolina and Florida.

The bigger problem, which Galveston would still have faced if it had been properly warned in 1900, is the logistical challenge of evacuating large metropolitan areas in short amounts of time, Emanuel says.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in part because of government negligence (levee failures and inadequate aid after the storm), not an inability to accurately predict and communicate the storm’s path. Hurricane Harvey, which wreaked havoc in Houston as well as modern-day Galveston in August 2017, was also well-forecasted. But without effective emergency plans for mass evacuations, cities still end up suffering from natural disasters—even if they can see them coming.

SOURCE: HISTORY.COM; BECKY LITTLE

Fact: The French-language Scrabble World Champion doesn’t speak French

New Zealand native Nigel Richards memorized the entire French Scrabble dictionary, which has 386,000 words, in nine weeks to earn his title. He has also won the English World Scrabble Championship three times, the U.S. national championships five times, and the U.K. Open Scrabble tournament six times. This comes 20 years after a 28-year-old Richards first played the game.

Fact: A woman called the police when her ice cream didn’t have enough sprinkles

The West Midlands police in England released a recording of a woman who called 999 (the U.K. version of 911) because there were “bits on one side and none on the other,” she says in the recording. She was even more upset when the ice cream truck man did not want to give her money back.

Fact: Uncle Ben’s rice was air-dropped to World War II troops

German chemist Erich Huzenlaub invented a process of parboiling rice to keep more nutrients in the rice and lessen the cooking time. The “Huzenlaub Process” had another unexpected benefit: It stopped bug infestations. The quick-cook, bug-free rice was a big advantage during World War II, and converted rice (as it was then known) was air-dropped to American and British troops. After the war, the company rebranded itself and became Uncle Ben’s Original Converted Brand Rice, named after one of the company’s best rice suppliers. The product hit grocery store shelves in 1947.

Fact: The British Empire was the largest empire in world history

The British Empire was most powerful in the 1920s, when it controlled 23 percent of the world’s population and approximately 13.7 million square miles of territory—or nearly a quarter of the Earth’s land area, according to a report from Statista.

Fact: South American river turtles talk in their eggs

Turtles don’t have vocal cords, and their ears are internal, so scientists believed that turtles were deaf and didn’t communicate through sounds. But research has found that turtles actually communicate at an extremely low frequency that sounds like “clicks, clucks, and hoots” that can only be heard through a hydrophone (a microphone used underwater). These sounds even come from the egg before the turtle hatches. Researchers hypothesize that this helps all the turtle siblings hatch at once.

Fact: Penicillin was first called “mold juice”

In 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming left a petri dish in his lab while he was on vacation—only to return and find that some liquid around the mold had killed the bacteria in the dish. This became the world’s first antibiotic, but before naming it penicillin, he called it “mold juice.”

Fact: The first stroller was engineered to be pulled by a goat (or animal of similar size)

William Kent, a landscape architect, invented the first stroller for the third Duke of Devonshire in 1733. But upper-class parents were hardly expected to put effort into transporting their children around, so Kent designed his model to be pulled by a small animal, like a goat.

Fact: May 20, 1873, is the “birthday” of blue jeans

According to the Levi Strauss company, this was the day that Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis, the innovators behind the sturdy blue jeans we all love, got a patent on the process of adding metal rivets to men’s denim work pants. The pants were called waist overalls until 1960, when baby boomers began calling them jeans.

Fact: 170-year-old bottles of champagne were found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

The bottles of bubbly are believed to have been traveling from Germany to Russia during the 1800s when they sank to the bottom of the sea, according to New Scientist. It turns out that the bottom of the sea, where temperatures are between two and four degrees Celsius, is a great place for wine aging. Wine experts sampled the champagne and described it as “sometimes cheesy” with “animal notes” and elements of “wet hair.” Mmm.

Fact: The MGM lion roar is trademarked

At the start of any movie made by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio, the iconic lion roars at the audience. While MGM has gone through several iterations of lion mascots, the sound of the roar is always the same. The company trademarked the “sound mark” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in the 1980s.

Fact: Neil Armstrong’s hair was sold in 2004 for $3,000

The lucky buyer, John Reznikoff, holds the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of hair from historical celebrities, reports NBC. But Armstrong’s lawyers threatened to sue Marx Sizemore, the not-so-lucky barber who cut the former astronaut’s hair; they said he violated an Ohio law that protects the rights of famous people. Sizemore said he wouldn’t pay, and Reznikoff said he wouldn’t give back the hair but that he’d donate $3,000 to charity.

Fact: Irish bars used to be closed on Saint Patrick’s Day

You might associate Saint Patrick’s Day with wearing green and drinking so much you think you actually see leprechauns. But until 1961, there were laws in Ireland that banned bars from opening on March 17. Since the holiday falls during the period of Lent in the heavily Catholic country, the idea of binge-drinking seemed a bit immoral.

Fact: Nikola Tesla hated pearls

The electrical engineer paved the way for current system generators and motors; the way electricity gets transmitted and converted to mechanical power is thanks to his inventions. But despite his patience with scientific experimentation, he apparently had no tolerance for pearls. When his secretary wore pearl jewelry one day, he made her go home.

Fact: Thomas Edison is the reason you love cat videos

After inventing the kinetograph in 1892, Edison was able to record and watch moving images for the first time. He filmed short clips in his studio, some of which feature famous people like Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill. But the real stars of these early videos are the Boxing Cats—adorable cats that he recorded in a boxing ring circa 1894.

Fact: Brad Pitt suffered an ironic injury on a film set

In Troy, based on Homer’s Illiad, Pitt plays the brave (and buff) Greek hero Achilles. Legend has it that Achilles could not be defeated unless hit in his heel. (It’s where we get the term “Achilles’ heel,” meaning a vulnerable point.) While filming an epic battle scene, Pitt ironically hurt his Achilles tendon—an injury that set back the film’s production by two months.

Fact: Pregnancy tests date back to 1350 B.C.E.

According to a document written on ancient papyrus, Egyptian women urinated on wheat and barley seeds to determine if they were pregnant or not, reports the Office of History in the National Institutes of Health. If wheat grew, it predicted a female baby. If barley grew, it predicted a male baby. The woman was not pregnant if nothing grew. Experimenting with this seed theory in 1963 proved it was accurate 70 percent of the time.

Fact: Martin Luther King Jr. got a C in public speaking

The world remembers Dr. King as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, and people often quote his “I Have a Dream” speech, which he delivered in 1963. Yet more than a decade before that legendary speech, while attending Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, he earned a C in public speaking during his first and second term.

Fact: Bees can make colored honey

In France, there’s a biogas plant that manages waste from a Mars chocolate factory, where M&Ms are made. Beekeepers nearby noticed that their bees were making “unnatural shades of green and blue” honey. A spokesperson from the British Beekeepers’ Association theorized that the bees eating the sugary M&M waste caused the colored honey.

Fact: Bananas glow blue under black lights

To the everyday eye under normal conditions, ripe bananas appear yellow due to organic pigments called carotenoids. When bananas ripen, chlorophyll begins to break down. This pigment is the element that makes bananas glow, or fluoresce, under UV lights and appear blue.

Fact: Wimbledon tennis balls are kept at 68 degrees Fahrenheit

The temperature of a tennis ball affects how it bounces. At warmer temperatures, the gas molecules inside the ball expand, making the ball bounce higher. Lower temperatures cause the molecules to shrink and the ball to bounce lower. To make sure the best tennis balls are used, Wimbledon goes through more than 50,000 tennis balls each year.

Fact: Adult cats are lactose intolerant

Like some humans, adult cats don’t have enough of the lactase enzyme to digest lactose from milk, causing them to vomit, have diarrhea, or get gassy. Cats only have enough of that enzyme when they’re born and during the early years of their lives.

Fact: Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are in New York City

They were given to Henry Abrams and preserved in a safety deposit box. Abrams was Einstein’s eye doctor. He received the eyeballs from Thomas Harvey, the man who performed the autopsy on Einstein and illegally took the scientist’s brain for himself.

Fact: The Pope can’t be an organ donor

Pope Benedict XVI was issued an organ donor card in 1970. Once he ascended to the papacy in 2005, the card was invalid, reports the Telegraph. According to the Vatican, the Pope’s entire body must be buried intact because his body belongs to the universal Catholic Church.

Fact: A one-armed player scored the winning goal in the first World Cup

Héctor Castro, who accidentally cut off his right forearm while using an electric saw as a teenager, played on the Uruguay soccer team during the first-ever World Cup in 1930. In the last game between Uruguay and Argentina, Castro scored the winning goal in the last minute of the game. The final score was 4–2, making Uruguay the first country to win the World Cup title.

Fact: The world’s oldest toy is a stick

Think of how versatile a stick is. You can use it to play fetch with your dog, swing it as a bat, or use your imagination to turn it into a light saber. That’s why, in 2008, the National Toy Hall of Fame inducted the stick into its collection of amazing toys as, very possibly, the oldest toy ever.

SOURCE: Reader’s Digest: Elizabeth Yuko

September starts the apple season here, so today’s offering is Apple Pecan Pound Cake!

Apple Pecan Pound Cake

Ingredients:

2 cups of sugar

1 ½ cups of vegetable oil 

2 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

2 ½ cups of all-purpose flour 

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt 

1 tsp. baking powder 

3 cups diced apples 

1 cup of chopped pecans  

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350*.

Grease and flour a bundt pan. Mix sugar, oil, vanilla and eggs together. In a separate bowl whisk flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder. Add to the mixture in the first bowl gradually.  When batter becomes stiff, mix by hand. Stir in apples, pecans. Pour into greased and floured 10 in. bunt pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Cool in pan for 15 minutes before removing from pan to cool completely. 

Enjoy!

Bob Newhart passed away recently –(born Sept 5, 1929; died July 18, 2024)—and the article from Facts.net details some things you may not have known about the legendary comedian.

From Facts.net:

Bob Newhart, a name synonymous with comedy, entertained audiences for decades with his unique style and wit. Ever wondered what made this legendary comedian tick? Bob Newhart was not just a comedian; he was an actor, author, and a television icon. From his early days as a stand-up comic to his memorable roles in TV shows like “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Newhart,” his career spanned over 60 years. But there was more to Bob than met the eye. Did you know he started as an accountant? Or that he won a Grammy for his first comedy album? Buckle up as we dive into 30 fascinating facts about Bob Newhart that will make you appreciate this comedy legend even more.

Early Life and Education

Bob Newhart, a beloved comedian and actor, had a fascinating background that shaped his career. Here are some intriguing facts about his early years.

Born on September 5, 1929, in Oak Park, Illinois, Bob Newhart’s full name was George Robert Newhart.

He attended St. Ignatius College Prep, a Jesuit high school in Chicago, where he developed his love for comedy.

Newhart graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 1952 with a degree in business management.

Before his comedy career, he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

After his military service, he worked as an accountant and an advertising copywriter.

Breakthrough in Comedy

Bob Newhart’s entry into comedy was unconventional but led to significant success. Here are some key moments from his early comedy career.

Newhart’s comedy career began with a series of telephone conversations he recorded and sent to radio stations.

His debut comedy album, “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart,” released in 1960, became the first comedy album to hit number one on the Billboard charts.

The album won three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, making Newhart the first comedian to achieve this honor.

His follow-up album, “The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back,” also reached number one on the Billboard charts.

Newhart’s unique deadpan delivery and stammering style set him apart from other comedians of his time.

Television Career

Bob Newhart’s success in comedy led to a prolific television career. Let’s explore some highlights from his time on TV.

In 1961, he starred in “The Bob Newhart Show,” a variety show that showcased his comedic talents.

From 1972 to 1978, he starred in the sitcom “The Bob Newhart Show,” playing psychologist Dr. Robert Hartley.

The show was a critical and commercial success, earning Newhart several Emmy nominations.

In 1982, he returned to television with “Newhart,” where he played innkeeper Dick Loudon. The show ran for eight seasons.

The series finale of “Newhart” is considered one of the greatest TV finales, featuring a surprise twist that delighted fans.

Film Appearances

While primarily known for his television work, Bob Newhart also made notable appearances in films. Here are some interesting facts about his film career.

Newhart made his film debut in the 1962 movie “Hell Is for Heroes,” starring Steve McQueen.

He voiced Bernard in Disney’s animated films “The Rescuers” (1977) and “The Rescuers Down Under” (1990).

In 2003, he appeared in the holiday classic “Elf,” playing Papa Elf alongside Will Ferrell.

Newhart also had roles in films like “Catch-22” (1970) and “In & Out” (1997).

His versatility as an actor allowed him to transition seamlessly between comedy and drama.

Awards and Honors

Bob Newhart’s contributions to entertainment had been recognized with numerous awards and honors. Here are some notable accolades he received.

In 1993, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Newhart was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame in 1993.

He won his first Primetime Emmy Award in 2013 for his guest role on “The Big Bang Theory.

In 2002, he received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, one of the highest honors in comedy.

Newhart was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Television Critics Association.

Personal Life

Bob Newhart’s personal life was as interesting as his professional career. Here are some facts about his family and interests.

He married Virginia “Ginnie” Quinn in 1963, and they had four children together.

Newhart was a devout Catholic and credited his faith for helping him navigate the ups and downs of his career.

He was an avid golfer and participated in numerous celebrity golf tournaments.

Despite his fame, Newhart maintained a reputation for being humble and down-to-earth.

He continued to perform stand-up comedy and make guest appearances on television, proving that his humor was timeless.

Bob Newhart’s Legacy

Bob Newhart’s career was a testament to timeless humor and versatility. From his groundbreaking comedy albums to his iconic TV roles, he left an indelible mark on entertainment. His unique deadpan delivery and quick wit influenced countless comedians. Beyond the laughs, Newhart’s work ethic and humility earned him respect across the industry. Whether through “The Bob Newhart Show” or “Newhart,” his characters remain beloved. Even today, his performances continue to resonate with new generations. Bob Newhart wasn’t just a comedian; he was a cultural icon whose contributions shaped comedy as we know it. His legacy is a blend of laughter, innovation, and enduring appeal. As we reflect on his achievements, it’s clear that Bob Newhart’s impact on comedy will be celebrated for many years to come.

SOURCE: FACTS.NET

Today is Keanu Reeves’ birthday (born in 1964) and one of my all-time favorite movies is The Replacements.  The comedy details a bunch of misfits recruited to finish out the regular season of football during a players’ strike.  Reeve plays a washed-out college quarterback who redeems himself by uniting the team and leading them to victory. Gene Hackman plays the coach recruited to lead the misfits to win 3 out of the 4 remaining games to get into the playoffs. The team has never played with each other before—most are not even football players– but each brings something special to the game and they learn to unite and play as a team.

Contrast them with the striking professional players—a bunch of “bitchy millionaires” who at one point tell their fans during an interview that they know $8 million sounds like a lot of money, but they have to pay so much to their agent, and so much to their ex-wife…Then another player interrupts and asks the fans if they know how much insurance costs on a Mazzerati?  It’s all about money to them—not the love for the game.

It’s a rough start for the Replacements, losing the first game, but they rally in the second and third games and they actually have a shot at the playoffs.  The fans are loving these replacement players too—so much so, that some of the striking players return for the last game.  (Bruised egos, if you ask me.) That causes the owner to strong arm the coach, who truly believes in his quarterback (Reeves), to replace Reeves with the “star” quarterback.  The first half is a disaster because the prima donna refuses to be a team player.  The coach benches him and Reeves shows up to help the team win.

Happy Birthday Keanu!