People on TV you may not know are dead

I’m the type of person that likes to look things up on IMDB. That hobby has led to the discovery of a lot of dead TV stars that I never knew were dead. I’m gonna go down a list of about 10 of them and maybe some of these will be news to you.

Peter Boyle (the dad from Everybody Loves Raymond): He has been dead for about a year now. I heard about it when it happened, but he’s on TV almost everyday, so that’s a little weird.

John Ritter (Jack Tripper from Three’s Company): He’s one of my favorite TV characters of all time, but unfortunately he died 4 years ago.

Earl Hindman (Wilson from Home Improvement): We only got to see about a third of his face on Home Improvement (I always want to call the show itself Tool Time), but Wilson died of lung cancer back in 2003.

Glenn Quinn (Mark from Roseanne): He was the guy that married Becky that always used to wear the leather jacket when he first came on the show. Died of an overdose about 5 years ago.

Lane Smith (He played the chief in Lois and Clark and also played the dad in the Paulie Shore classic “Son in Law”): Poor guy died a couple years back of Lou Gehrig’s disease. In case you still don’t know who he is, he played the dickhead that used to coach Gordon Bombay from the Mighty ducks when he was little.

Danny Pintauro (Jonathan from Who’s The Boss?): Well he isn’t dead, but he is openly gay so that may be just as bad…just kidding! It’s his choice and we should respect it…even though it was obvious since he was about 8 and a half.

Don Knotts (Mr. Furley from Three’s Company and Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show): Who didn’t love Mr. Furley. That man had the best suits ever. He was 82 when he died so he lived a long life, but I still thought I would add this one.

Jim Varney (Earnest from all of the Earnest movies): My favorite Earnest movie was Earnest Goes to Jail. Earnest died over 7 years ago from lung cancer.

Merlin Santana (Romeo from The Steve Harvey Show): He played the ever so cocky best friend of Bullethead on a show that not many of you may have seen. Got shot in the head by his ex girlfriend about 5 years ago.

Mark Curry (Mark Cooper from Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper): Relax…Mr. Cooper didn’t die. He was even on The Drew Carey Show for a while before it got cancelled, but just last year our old friend Mr. Cooper was involved in a house explosion that he apparently caused himself because he had “lost the will to live.” Fortunately, he survived and is now enjoying life with his friends and family.

Football Fans

So at work I deal with a lot of younger kids (ages 11-14) and at some point have discussions with them about football and their favorite teams. Some are Redskins fans like me, some are Ravens fans, some are Cowboys fans, but most are Colts/Patriots “fans.” Anyone you meet nowadays that is a fan of the Colts or Patriots can also be referred to as a Richard-riding fan of a successful team. Frankly, it’s annoying.

Common sense would tell you that if you have grown up and/or lived in this area for a while, your favorite team should be the Washington Redskins, or if you are young…POSSIBLY the Ravens (because if you are my age and like the Ravens, then who the hell did you like before they were around???). So pretty much anyone would agree that it is annoying and convenient to be a Colts/Patriots fan right now. These are the same types of kids as the friends we have who are fans of the Dallas Cowboys.

You see the 1990’s were dominated by a group of losers known as the Dallas Cowboys (who happen to be the rivals of the local Washington Redskins). At the time it was very convenient to like that team because they were winning Super bowls left and right. That is how the current Cowboys fans in the area have come about…kids that were Richard-riders in the 1990’s. Most of these people lack in other departments (penis size/length, outlook on present/future life, inability to maintain a steady girlfriend of at least average looks, etc.), and use the fact that they rode the Richard of a once successful football team as a means for obtaining attention. Let’s be realistic, is there really any other reason as to why you like them? You can make some retarded reason up, but the bottom line is that you are the same type of person as these kids who currently “like” the Colts and Patriots. You’re retarded, and annoying. Arguments such as “we beat you all…” are useless because you did not do anything. Some football team from Dallas might have, but you did not do a thing. Fans of local teams can say that because in our case, “we” stands for Washington, and we are residents of the Washington metropolitan area, which is the city/area that the team plays for.

Looks like I win again.