There has been such a sad run of people of note that have passed away that I had enough for a football-only post and for a non-sports version along with yet another sports version when I have time.
If you have been around long enough to notice, I'm sure that you see the trend that I write a lot during football season, a reasonable amount in the three winter months and whenever I have the time during the baseball season, so as Jim Ross used to yell on Mid-South Wrestling- Business is about to pick up.
Goodbye to Rob Garrison at the age of 59.
Garrison portrayed "Tommy" of the Cobra Kai in the original Karate Kid film and uttered the one line that, among the many that became part of pop culture from the film, is remembered most.
As a battered Daniel LaRusso was whacked around the mat by the superior skills of John Lawrence, it was Garrison as Tommy that stood behind the inspirational leadership of Sensei John Kreese and shrieked "GET HIM A BODY BAG, YEAHHHHH!"
Garrison would appear with Cobra Kai members in the music video "Sweep the Leg" by No More Kings and of course, would repeat his trademark phrase (at 5;53 of the video, if interested)
Garrison appeared in an episode of the YouTube series "Cobra Kai" (which is excellent by the way) during its second season and was scheduled to return for the upcoming season three.
If you've known me, I'd be stunned if you didn't know what a huge fan of the film and the Cobra Kai that I am and I have often said if there ever was an event that I could get to that had all of the Cobra Kai members available, I'd go for a picture with all them/
Garrison and others were at the Pittsburgh comic convention last year, but all of them were not in attendance, so I didn't go and now a full reunion will never happen.
Goodbye to Aron Eisenberg at the age of 50.
As a Star Trek fan, I've always thought that Deep Space Nine was the best of the Trek spinoffs shows and yet often isn't mentioned when Star Trek shows are discussed by the casual watcher.
Eisenberg portrayed Nog, the delinquent station runabout that becomes the first Ferengi to enter Starfleet.
The character evolved over the seven-year arc of the show (Arguably too much, but that's a minor quibble), but Eisenberg played the role well and didn't become an annoying presence as so many supporting characters can be.
The diminutive Eisenberg had only one functioning kidney and as a result, would have his height slowed and resulted in his height stopping at 4'11.
Eisenberg didn't stop acting after DS9, but would also own his own photography studio.
Goodbye to Cokie Roberts at the age of 75.
Roberts was a longtime political reporter and commentator, working for National Public Radio for over forty years and for ABC News for over thirty years as well.
Roberts was often recognized as one of the female trailblazers in Washington journalism, winning several awards including the Edward R, Murrow award for contributions to public radio and the Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in journalism.
Both of Roberts's parents represented Louisiana in the House of Representatives as her father Hale Boggs was the Majority Leader in 1972 (Boggs served 15 terms over two tenures) when his plane disappeared over Alaska, and her mother Lindy Boggs would succeed her late husband and serve for eight terms.
Goodbye to Rick Bognar at the age of 49.
Bognar was a professional wrestler that was best remembered for a failed run in the then-WWF in the late 90s.
In 1996, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash had left the WWF to move to WCW and even though the WWF couldn't stop the pair from going to the competing organization, however, they could stop them from using the wrestling names that they used for the WWF in "Razor Ramon" and "Diesel" as those were trademarked by their company.
In an ill-advised decision, the company attempted to emulate soap operas, which often slide a new actor into an existing role in their program with a one time voice over acknowledgment of the new actor playing the character and then move along as nothing had changed.
Bognar was installed as "Razor Ramon" and Glen Jacobs (who would reach stardom later as "Kane")
would be inserted into the position as "Diesel"
The pair were quickly dubbed by fans as "Fake Razor" and "Fake Diesel", but the experiment was a huge failure and would last just a few months before being dropped.
Bognar would injure his neck in Japan in 1998, which for the most part ended his career, although he still would wrestle occasionally in Japan and his native Canada using the name "Rick Titan", which played off the Razor character to a certain degree.
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