Drink Suggestions for Recently Departed...

What a crazy couple of days for the death pool. We were locked up at 4-4, with the threat of getting slapped with a Subway sandwich looming. (We decided that whoever got to 5 deaths first would get to slap the other person across the face without retaliation.)

Bryn squeaked out the "victory" (I cringe writing the word victory he

re) with his team, "Steiney and the Bandit's" 2012 pick-up, Etta James, passing away Friday morning. On Saturday afternoon, the tweets flooded in that Joe Paterno had passed away as well. It turned out that the rumors of his death were mildly exaggerated (Click here to read why.) He died Sunday Morning.

In honor of the recently deceased, we have a drink in their honor. Usually they're pretty easy to come up with. Al Davis? Silver and black. A shot of Patron Silver and a shot of Johnny Walker Black. The "Just Win, Baby!" But what to drink for this week's departed?

Etta James - Bryn suggested the drink be classy and elegant. I agree. So...what does that mean?

Joe Paterno - We know we need to look the other way when we drink it, but what should the drink itself be?

Make your own "At Last" and looking the other way jokes, if you'd like. I already feel bad enough about this.

RIP Joe Paterno

Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno (pronounced /pəˈtɜrnoʊ/; December 21, 1926 – January 22, 2012^[1]) is a former college football coach who was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions for 46 years from 1966 through 2011. Paterno, nicknamed "JoePa," holds the record for the most victories by an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football coach with 409 and is the only FBS coach to reach 400 victories.^[2] He coached five undefeated teams that won major bowl games and, in 2007, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach. Paterno was fired mid-season by Penn State trustees in November 2011, after long-time assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested onchild sexual abuse charges.^[3][4]

RIP Etta James

Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer whose style spanned a variety of music genres including blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, gospel and jazz. Starting her career in the mid 1950s, she gained fame with hits such as "Dance With Me, Henry", "At Last", "Tell Mama", and "I'd Rather Go Blind" for which she claimed she wrote the lyrics.

RIP Al Davis

Allen "Al" Davis (July 4, 1929 – October 8, 2011) was an American football executive who was the principal owner (titled as "president of the general partner" or "managing general partner," depending on the source) of the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. His motto for the team was "Just win, baby."^[1]

Date of birth	July 4, 1929
Place of birth	Brockton, Massachusetts
Date of death	October 8, 2011 (aged 82)
Place of death	Oakland, California
Position(s)	Owner Head Coach General Manager Commissioner
College	Syracuse
Awards	AFL's Coach of the Year in 1963
Honors	Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1992
Career record	23–16–3 (as coach)

RIP Harmon Killebrew

Harmon Clayton Killebrew ( /ˈkɪlɨbruː/; June 29, 1936 – May 17, 2011), nicknamed "Killer" and "Hammerin' Harmon", was an American professional baseball first baseman, third baseman, and left fielder. During a 22-year baseball career in which he played for the Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins, and Kansas City Royals, he was second only to Babe Ruth in American League (AL) home runs and retired as the AL career leader in home runs by a right-handed batter (since broken by Alex Rodriguez).[1] He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984.
Killebrew was a stocky 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), 210-pound (95.3 kg) hitter with a compact swing that generated tremendous power. He became one of the AL's most feared power hitters of the 1960s, belting 40 homers in a season eight times during an era in which pitching was dominant. In 1965, he helped the Minnesota Twins reach the World Series, where they lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers. He had his finest season in 1969, hitting 49 home runs, recording 140 runs batted in (RBI), and winning the AL Most Valuable Player Award. Killebrew led the league in home runs six times and in RBI three times, and he was named to eleven All-Star teams. He hit the most home runs for any player in the 1960s.[2]
With quick hands and exceptional upper-body strength, Killebrew was known not just for the frequency of his home runs but also for their great distance. He hit the longest measured home runs at Minnesota's Metropolitan Stadium and Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, and was the first of just four batters to hit a baseball over the left field roof at Tiger Stadium.
Despite his nickname

Hitler reacts to Osamba Bin Laden death

ROT IN HELL Osama Bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden ( /oʊˈsɑːmə bɪn ˈlɑːdən/; Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن‎, ʾUsāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011)^[1][2][3] was the founder of al-Qaeda, a militant Qutbist SunniIslamic organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualtyattacks against civilian and military targets. He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family.

Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.^[4][5][6] From 2001 to 2011 bin Laden was a major target of the War on Terror, which has resulted in a total of between 80,000 and 1.2 million civilian deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia between 2001 and 2007.

On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed inside a secured private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, byU.S. Navy SEALs in a covert operation authorized by U.S. President Barack Obama.