Welcome to the 2024 Rate Olympics, hosted by bigbigbee and Jay!
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On popheads, we’ve been holding games called “rates” for a long time - almost eight years, now. Rates are competitions of songs against each other. Therefore, for our milestone 200th rate ever (!!!), we decided that a good way to honor the spirit and history of rates would be to theme this rate after one of the world’s biggest and best competitions: the Olympics!
Over the past three weeks, 40 songs have been selected to compete in this year’s Rate Olympic Games: 20 voted in during the Opening and Closing ceremonies, and 20 personally sent by the winners of a series of minigames played in the Popheads Discord #rates channel and Daily Discussion thread. The songs eligible for this rate were any previously rated song that has never made the top ten (all Top 10 songs from past rates were discovered to have used performance enhancing drugs 🙁 and therefore were disqualified in the name of fairness and healthy competition).
The final track list is:

1. ABBA - Voulez-Vous
2. APRIL - Oh! My Mistake
3. The Beatles - Penny Lane
4. BLACKstreet (ft. Dr. Dre & Queen Pen) - No Diggity
5. Brandy - When You Touch Me
6. Britney Spears - Womanizer
7. Carly Rae Jepsen - Fever
8. Charli XCX - Claws
9. Charly Bliss - Percolator
10. CHVRCHES - Asking for a Friend
11. City Girls - Act Up
12. Death Grips - I've Seen Footage
13. Fall Out Boy (ft. Courtney Love) - Rat A Tat
14. Flo Milli - Beef Flomix
15. George Michael - Freedom! 90
16. Girls' Generation - I Got a Boy
17. The Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
18. Jamie xx - Loud Places
19. Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
20. Jay Sean - Down
21. Jolin Tsai - Honey Trap (美人計)
22. Kendrick Lamar (ft. Jay Rock) - Money Trees
23. Kesha - Take It Off
24. Kid Cudi (ft. MGMT & Ratatat) - Pursuit of Happiness
25. Lady Gaga - Judas
26. LOONA - LOONATIC
27. Mariah Carey (ft. Ol' Dirty Bastard) - Fantasy
28. MARINA - How to Be a Heartbreaker
29. MARINA - Bubblegum Bitch
30. Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu & Chorus [Lilo & Stitch] - Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride
31. Mitski - Washing Machine Heart
32. Owl City - Fireflies
33. Porter Robinson & Madeon - Shelter
34. Post Malone (ft. 21 Savage) - Rockstar
35. Slayyyter - Daddy AF
36. Taylor Swift - Begin Again
37. Ted Poley & Tony Harnell [Sonic Adventure 2] - Escape from the City
38. The Veronicas - Untouched
39. The Weeknd - Secrets
40. Wolf Alice - Play the Greatest Hits

The Rules (What is a Rate?)

Here is how rating works. For a general overview, please watch this video!

• You must listen to and assign a score to EVERY song in the rate. Ballots with missing scores will not be accepted.
• Your scores must be on a scale from 1 to 10 and can include one decimal place but no more. 6.4 is fine. 6.44 is not.
• HOWEVER: You may give one song in the main rate a score of 11, and one song a score of 0, for your favorite and least favorite song respectively. These are optional but encouraged if you feel strongly about a song.
• Please submit your scores using the format in the prepared submission link below. This makes it infinitely easier for us to record your scores in the rate machine program. You can obviously edit your ballot elsewhere (Word, Google Sheets, etc) but keep this format.
• Comments are encouraged and appreciated! (but not required) Comments can be added to any song by simply typing after your score, like so:

Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity: 10 the real insanity was that this didnt win its original rate

This is the ONLY correct way to write a comment. Any other format, such as the below, will break the rate machine program, and will get your ballot rejected until it’s fixed.

Porter Robinson & Madeon - Shelter: 10: I love anime ❌
CHVRCHES - Asking for a Friend: no one asked you (2) ❌

If you want to change scores or add comments after sending your ballot, feel free to send a message to this account or to u/bigbigbee. Additionally, both hosts are active on the Popheads Discord, so if you have Discord you can message us at @you.lose or @bigbigbee. The server's #rates channel is a blast, very welcoming, and always filled with great music discussion - come join us!

Links and Deadlines

• This rate is due on Friday, May 31 at 11:59PM. (NOTE: this is a different time than previously announced; we had to make a change due to scheduling issues.)
• The reveal will be on Saturday, June 8 & Sunday, June 9; exact times TBD.
• Here is a link to the pre-filled ballot / submission link for submission.
• Here is a link to the pastebin ballot, if the above ballot link goes down.
• Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0puOrss5T9PS9A22Q7aRxY?si=1c7f94f5091d44ce
• Youtube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUTgkPCyKLucEMiX2jsOH9bVcmOvY_hDY
• Apple Music Playlist: https://music.apple.com/au/playlist/ratelympics/pl.u-76oNNdmIWBAXPz

I'm going to give my TLDR of the slapfights in the subreddit

• NixOS is an Open Source OS that many people volunteer their free time to build.
• Anduril makes autonomous AI drones to kill people using NixOS. They have also hired multiple community members to do so.

There's larger drama that spills outside of reddit on this but the TLDR is Anduril is sponsoring NixCon(an in person convention about NixOS) and people aren't too happy about it. A detailed explanation of the community drama can be found here if you care.
This culminated in one of the community members and Anduril employees receiving a temporary suspension to the project. The primary reason as I can surmise is because they were kind of a jerk about being against gendeminority representation in leadership.
Drama Thread 1
Employee of Anduril gets a temporary suspension from the NixOS Project, turns to the subreddit to say goodbye. https://www.reddit.com/NixOS/comments/1cd5fod/in_case_im_unable_to_return_wish_you_all_the_best/

Goodbye! You have made yourself difficult to be missed!

Thanks derpface!

No problem! Your username remind me of someone who is directly complicit in creating tools used in a genocide, and who actively concern trolls about minorities. Cannot think of his name for the life of me, though.

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After some digging, it appears that the root of this is that nix maintainers are limiting the involvement of people who work for defense companies (read: weapons manufacturers). ...

Why would that be reasonable? Those people make weapons that keep you safe. You’d be the first in the corner in a puddle of piss and years of you were invaded because your country didn’t have proper “weapons” to protect you.

Those weapons killed my innocent family members, 2 young girls who never hurt a fly in a war that probably happened before you knew how to type.

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Hope you slip and fall into an unassuming volcano, or something equally awful

Thanks

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You did your best to prevent any constructive discussions and successfully failed to show any growth or sympathy.

Errmmmm ackshyually you are the one stifling constructive discussion good sir! Constructive discussion is when we never listen to minorities of any kind

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To be fair you lost me when you called the need for minority representation "discrimination", again and again, like 10 times in the same thread. You failed to acknowledge the power dynamics at place, and how a "non political" stance just hurts us by default. And what's worse you just dismissed the need to hold a wider conversation on the basis of your own feelings about privilege and discrimination, while ignoring what people were telling you repeatedly 💀 Edit: See? That's why we just leave these spaces. Fuck the alt right and everyone who classifies ethnic and sexual minorities as "political", you ruin good spaces with your toxic waste of ideologies.

I'm an anarchist/libertarian "barefoot in the garden" ecology-loving homestead veteran hippie, with a decent sized LGBTQ+ friend group since I live near Seattle. They are good people if it weren't for the fact that most of them are lawyers.

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Drama Thread 2: Clarification on why guy from thread 1 was suspended. https://www.reddit.com/NixOS/comments/1ceeg8h/transparency_about_jonringers_suspension/

Disgusting. Labeling a man based on an idea that would've been logical pre 2020. So much hearsay and putting words into his mouth. DEI needs to go away, as it is a plague of exclusion and oppression Olympics. It has no place in a free society. It has no place in open source. It's cultural shift with good intentions but naviagted terribly. Nix, this is just wrong and your hearing the man but not listening.

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Is this about the project excluding defense companies? If so that doesn’t make sense to me. Open source should just be tools and allow anyone to contribute.

It's about control over Nix, and the defense sponsor was just the issue being seized upon.

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If you label me as a "racist fascist bigot", then anything I say is malicious.

You've been posting like this a lot over the last couple days. This attitude indicates to me that you are not actually planning on changing anything about your behavior, and you don't actually take any criticism levied against you seriously. You simply frame it as a ridiculous caricature that can be discarded and ignored. So the whole "I take full responsibility" thing rings fairly hollow.

Who the fuck cares? Stop trying to wrangle out some kind of twisted confession. We have churches and preachers to do that. He's a volunteer... He doesn't owe you Anything.When are you going to stop being obnoxious.

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Drama Thread 3
Multiple community members quit the project. Some because of the AI Drone strike thing, some because Guy from thread 1 got banned.
https://www.reddit.com/NixOS/comments/1ceqprq/fifteen_contributors_have_officially_removed/

I for one support LGBTQ inclusion in autonomous murder drone manufacturing. It’ll fix both issues.

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That's great, I don't disagree in principle. But what are we going to do about all the people leaving over this, though? A significant maintainer just left over the Anduril sponsorship fiasco, and over a dozen others have followed him. I think this deserves some airtime and discussion.

thats great, but what are we going to do when the unchecked mod team banned everyone that contributes and doesnt share their opinion? They clearly shift the allowed debate in their favor. This allows them to shape this project after their own liking. this deserves some discussion, but the mod blatantly flag or ban every critic they see. there is no healthy or solution oriented debate to be had under those conditions.

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The thought of any of my work contributing to someone's death by drone makes me feel physically ill. This can be said about almost any open-source contribution. In fact, it can be said if you pay taxes in almost any well-developed nation (that uses drones to defend itself). A $10k per year sponsorship is pocket change. But heck, you can even think that's $10k they have less to spend on drone parts.

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Why not try to be apolitical? For example here "used for horrific things" "People have morals"
"horrific things" arent absolutist? you are saying horrific People with morals means, that their side side is the good one that isnt absolutist? 2) If you take money from everyone, how not take it from one company could be political? Or at least less than not take it? 3) I would agree that isnt good argument, but not absolutist. You can still be against it, protest against, work against it etc. If he said for example "In fact, it can be said if you pay taxes in almost any well-developed nation (that uses drones to defend itself), so why try?" I would agree with you.

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Last New Republic of Earth

• 31 December 2999 AD
  • After 1000 years, Philip J. Fry is unfrozen.
  • Leela gives Fry his career, who rejects it and flees.
  • ry tries to call his great, great, great... great nephew and meets Bender at a suicide booth.
  • The two of them are pursued by Leela, who later has a change of heart and removes her own career chip. They are soon after hired at Planet Express, shortly after midnight on 1 January, 3000/Philip J. Fry, Turanga Leela and Bender Bending Rodríguez join Planet Express.
  • Philip J. Fry from 3007 freezes himself for another 7.95 years. He had attempted to steal his own wallet from the year 2000 and ended up falling into the cryogenics tube, getting refrozen behind himself for another 1,000 years. He sets the tube's timer to unfreeze him again in the year 3007, 7 years later, he returns after he traveled back in time to the year 2000.

3000 AD

• January
  • 1st – Fry, Leela, and Bender are hired by Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, owner of Planet Express.
    • Some time around this point, the Professor accepted Bender's licence agreement without reading it, resulting in his arrest 11 years later due to his clone overclocking Bender.
  • 2nd or 3rd – The new crew's first mission to the moon.
• February
  • (ca. 1st) – Fry is expected to find out where the owls are coming from and to find out who has been leaving out food.
  • Fry moves out of Planet Express and moves in with Bender to Robot Arms Apartments.
• April
  • (before the 13th) – Mom captures the Nibblonians for her Dark Matter farm in Alaska.
  • (13th) – Vergon 6 implodes; Leela rescues Nibbler and has sex with Zapp Brannigan.
• April — August
  • Bender gains a brief period of fame on Chapek 9, until Fry and Leela convinces him to come with them back to Earth.
  • Fry briefly becomes a billionaire, but is robbed of his money by Mom's sons.
  • Fry briefly becomes the Emperor of the planet Trisol.
  • Garbage ball launched in 2052 returns and threatens to hit New New York City.
  • Bender joins Robotology and is sent to Robot Hell after sinning, however, a rescue mission by Fry and Leela gets him out again.
  • Cruise spaceship Titanic sucked into black hole.
• August — November
  • Farnsworth's prize experiment, Guenter, ends in failure after deciding that he would rather be enrolled at a business school.
  • Labor Day – Earth invaded by Omicronians; Earth President McNeal assassinated. (Due on New Republic of Earth is dissolved and New Republic flee to New Earth)
  • Fry wins the ticket to the Slurm Factory and discovers the truth of Slurm.
  • Bender becomes for a brief period of time attached to Leela's emotions.
  • The dreaded El Chupanibre is sent into the Sub-sewer by Bender.
  • Zapp Brannigan accidentally destroys new DOOP headquarters.
• November — December
  • November – Richard Nixon's head elected President of Earth. (Space Federation of Earth is established
  • December (near Xmas) – Robot Santa returns once more to wreck havoc on Earth, however, the Planet Express crew manages to send him back before he can get on with his havoc.

Alternate-reality

• ca. January
  • Hundreds of bending units similar to Bender and Flexo finish work on a giant Bender.
  • Fry makes friends with the giant Bender.
  • Giant Bender kills hundreds of people and destroys buildings.
  • Professor Farnsworth enlarges Zoidberg so he can fight Bender. The two cause more destruction than before.
  • Bender is killed when impaled on a skyscraper.

Space Federation/Galactic Federation of Free Populist
3001 AD

• February — March
  • Shortly before February 14th (Valentine's Day) – Fry, Amy and Zoidberg get in a terrible car crash on Europa, Fry's head is grafted to Amy's body.
  • Fry's ex-girlfriend Michelle unfrozen.
  • Pauly Shore) unfrozen for the 1000 year anniversary of Jury Duty II: Trouble on the Hubble
  • Bender joins the Ultimate Robot Fighting League.
• April
  • (9th) Cubert Farnsworth removed from cloning tank; designated Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth's successor.
• April — December
  • Planet Express Crew rediscover the lost underwater city of Atlanta.
  • Mother's Day) – Earth robots revolt at Mom's instigation; called off the next morning.
  • Earth again invaded by Omicronians after their larva become major fast food sensation; Free Waterfall Jr. eaten.
  • Bender's uncle Vladimir dies.
  • Earth successfully invades Spheron 1.
  • Zapp Brannigan crashes a space-going restaurant onto the Planet Amazonia

Alternate-reality

• April — December
  • Professor Farnsworth demonstrates his latest invention, the Fing-Longer by turning on the What-If Machine and shows alternate realities of the PE crew's choice.

3002 AD

• January — July
  • New New York v. Santa Bender case held. Santa Bender was to be executed at sundown.
  • Massive dark matter spill on the Plutonian penguin refuge. Free Waterfall Sr. eaten by penguins.
  • Earth invaded by the Brain Spawn; defeated by Fry and the Nibblonians.
  • Dr. Zoidberg and Harold Zoid make the movie The Magnificent Three.
  • Martian natives kidnap Amy Wong. She is later released when the worthless "bead" their ancestors traded the planet for is revealed to be a valuable, enormous diamond. The Martians leave Mars and buy a nicer planet.
  • New New York v. Fry and Bender case held. Both Fry and Bender are sent to the HAL Institute for Criminally Insane Robots.
  • Bend-Aid benefit concert for broken robots held in San Francisco.
  • Universe threatened by "time skips;" Prof. Farnsworth and the Globetrotters create a black hole to absorb damaging time radiation.
  • Leela finds herself being the first female ever to play major league Blernsball.
  • Bender becomes the next pharaoh of Osiris 4.
• August
  • (11th) Omicronians invade Earth yet again.
• September
  • (21st) the Planet Express Crew travel back in time to Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.
  • (c. 22nd) Fry, Leela, and the Professor dig up Bender's head which was buried for 1,055 years.
• September — December
  • Three-time Grammy winner and teen singer Wendy found dead in her bathtub at the age of 18
  • Star Trek convention held on forbidden planet Omega 3; Welshie killed.

Alternate-reality

• August 11th
  • Bender is transformed into a human using "reverse fossilization".
  • Bender wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • Richard Nixon's head signs a peace accord with the ambassador Kong of the planet Nintendu 64. Things go wrong with the peace agreement when Kong throws a barrel at Richard Nixon's head and abandons the peace signing.
  • Fry, Leela, Bender and Zoidberg rendezvous with General Colin Pac-Man. General Pac-Man leads them through a pac man-like maze. They exit through a Mario) tube outside Planet Express headquarters. They find out there is another force threatening Earth.
  • Lrrr, of the planet Nintenduu 64 has decided to invade Earth with his "3 different kinds of ships." Fry starts to battle the Space Invaders. During the battle, General Pac-Man is fatally wounded.
  • Fry eventually loses after realizing he could never get the last ship. The last Space Invader ship lands on Earth and their demand is simple: quarters, a million allowances' worth of quarters. The Planet Express crew refuse to accept their offer, but reach a compromise by allowing the space invaders to toss their laundry in with the Planet Express crew's.
  • Leela, Fry, Bender and Zoidberg meet the Professor at the Emerald Building and he gives a gun to Zoidberg and money to Bender.
  • Leela becomes a witch, but then she melts into pudle because a flume of water landed on her.

3003 AD

• January — February
  • Kif and Leela's offspring born.
  • Leela finds out her true origins.
• February
  • (14th) (Valentine's Day) Bender dates the ship, dumps it, the ship doesn't take the break-up well and almost crashes itself into a quasar. The crew dumps their cargo of candy hearts into the quasar causing a mystical love radiation that spreads across the universe destroying many, many planets, including two gangster planets and a cowboy world.
• February — December
  • Earth moved further from the sun to combat global warming, making the year one week longer– President Richard Nixon declares it Robot Party Week; Professor Farnsworth presented with the Polluting Medal of Pollution.
  • Earth v. Zoidberg case held. Zoidberg sentenced to death.
  • Decapodians invade Earth, briefly enslave humanity. Old Man Waterfall crushed and killed.
  • Fry finds the fossilized remains of his dog, Seymour.
  • Zapp v. Fry, Bender and Leela case held. The case never reached a verdict.
  • Roboticon 3003 held in New New York; the advanced Robot 1-X model unveiled.

3004 AD

• Hattie finishes suffering a 30-year bout of insomnia (4ACV04).
• Fry and the Nibblonians defeat the Brain Spawn permanently by banishing them to an alternate pocket dimension (4ACV10).
• The 3004 Olympics are held on Earth. Hermes Conrad competes for Jamaica in the five hundred meter limbo but is disqualified. Bender wins five gold medals in various fembots' bending events competing for the fictitious Grand Duchy of Robonia under the name Coilette (4ACV13).
• Earth conquers the Spiderians of Tarantulon 6; Richard Nixon's head issues a $300 tax rebate (4ACV16).
• Fry makes a deal with the Robot Devil and becomes a notable holophonor star. However, his holophonor opera Leela: Orphan of the Stars, while performed with great success in the first act, flops as a result of the Robot Devil's interference (4ACV18)

3005 AD

• The 'Brainless Drones' who run the Box Network cancel Planet Express's license to make deliveries. Not brought back till 3007.

3007 AD

• November — December
  
  • The people who cancelled Planet Express's license are fired for incompetence and then beaten up. Most die from their injuries and are ground into a pink powder used for various reasons. Planet Express are allowed back on the air.
  • Nudist alien scammers take control of Planet Express and eventually Earth and send Bender back in time to steal Earth's treasures.
  • Fry travels back in time to New York in 2000 to resume his old life.
  • The nudists tell Bender to go back to the year 2000 to kill Fry.
  • Bender comes back and tells the crew at Fry's funeral that he killed Fry. Fry comes to his own funeral, telling everyone his adventure up to when he froze himself.
  • Leela falls in love with Lars Fillmore and nearly marries him. The wedding is called off after Hermes is decapitated again.
  • The Battle for Earth occurs, resulting in the death of the scammer aliens after a doomsday device is launched at the their spaceship.
  • Bender gets awarded the Dirty Double-Cross for this part in defeating the scammers.
  3008 AD
  
• January — December
  
  • Lars and Nudar are killed, afterwards Lars is revealed to be a time paradox duplicate of Fry. Lars is buried at Orbiting Meadows.
  • Bender is ordered to go back in time to put the tattoo on Fry's butt in the first place, but due to Bender's illogical screw up of time, a rip in space is created.
  • A scientific conference is held about the Anomaly.
  • Bender becomes a member of the League of Robots, eventually becoming its leader.
  • Yivo begins forcing shklis tentacles through the Anomaly and mates with everyone in the universe.
  • Yivo takes everyone in the universe out on a date and later proposes, causing everyone on Earth to move onto shkler.
  • Bender and his army drag Yivo into their universe to save humanity.
  • Yivo breaks up with humanity and leaves Universe Gamma with Colleen. The rip in space is closed forever.
  • Dark Matter prices tripled and are $9.99 per ball. Mombil profits greatly.
  • Space Demolition Derby held. Planet Express Ship wins.
  • After playing Dungeons and Dragons, Bender loses grip on reality and is sent to the HAL Institute.
  • Professor Farnsworth infiltrates Mom's dark matter mine in Alaska to get revenge for being dumped by making dark matter useless as fuel, with the Anti-backwards crystal.
  • Cornwood is created and destroyed.
  • All dark matter everywhere is useless as fuel.
  • Professor Farnsworth harnesses Nibblonians as a temporary form of transportation.
  • The Planet Express Ship (and presumably other spacecraft) is converted to run on Whale Oil.
  3009 AD
  
• January - December
  
  • Mars Vegas was destroyed.
  • New Mars Vegas was built.
  • New member Leela and the other Feministas cause chaos with their protests and sabotages, including the accidental murder of the then vice-president Agnew.
  • 3009 Universal Poker Championship was held in New Mars Vegas. Bender wins with 5 kings.
  • Earth v. Feministas case was held resulting in the Feministas being sentenced to fifty years in prison.
  • Bender helps the Feministas escape from Maxi-Padlock.
  • Implosion of the Violet Dwarf Star was stopped by the Feministas.
  • The Violet Dwarf Star is revealed to be an Encyclopod egg.
  • The newly hatched Encyclopod defeats the last known Dark One.
  • The Planet Express crew, Fry, Leela, Bender, Scruffy, Professor Farnsworth, Hermes, LaBarbara Conrad, Amy, Kif, Zoidberg (and possibly Nibbler), go through a wormhole.
  3010 AD
  
• June
  
  • A scary death sphere called V-GINY began "censoring" indecent planets by erasing them with some kind of hellish blackout ray.
  • The V-GINY erased Planet XXX, the Nude Beach Planet.
  • The V-GINY erased Poopiter.
  • The V-GINY erased that world that can't be mentioned in polite company.
  • General Brannigan and his fourth lieutenant, Kif Kroker, met the the President for a top-secret briefing in the Secret White House.
  • Zapp and Nixon went to the Planet Express building to get help from Professor Farnsworth and his crew.
  • The Professor's Tiny One-Man Stealth Fighter left off at Cape Knievel, with Brannigan and Turanga Leela inside of it.
  • They approached the V-GINY but the death sphere's attacks forced them to fly away. The ship got damaged during the fleeing, so Zapp and Leela crashed on what they thought was an uncharted planet, actually an Earthican island.
  • The V-GINY tried to erase Earth.
  • The prophetical Planet Express crew warned the Earthican people to act with purity, using picket signs.
  • The V-GINY agreed to "leave Earth uncensored" if Zapp and Leela (whom it mistook for Adam and Eve) had sex.
• July
  
  • Mayor Poopenmeyer kicks off the 83rd or 34th annual e-waste recycling festival.
  • The Planet Express crew is sent to the Third World of the Antares system to dump New New York's e-waste.
  • Mom launches the eyePhone, and hundreds of "online" people buy it.
  • Fry's Twitcher followers are gifted with a hilarious video of Leela and her talking and singing boil. Soon, it becomes an internet sensation.
  • Mom activates the Twitt-worm, thus creating an unstoppable army of between 1 and 2 million zombie twitchers.
  • Mom launches the eyePhone 2.0, and Fry and Bender's brainwashed followers buy it.
  • Proposition ∞ passes, legalizing robosexual marriages.
  • The Earthican people re-enact the Sith-il War.
  • The Professor invents a forward time machine.
• August
  
  • The Thubanians invade Earth.
    • Earth briefly stopped rotating. But Amy Wong managed to fix the problem by "bringing back" the planet's rotational energy from Thuban 9.
• September
  
  • The Devolution Revolution grants the Sewer Mutants their freedom. Now they are officially regular Earthicans.
• Unknown month
  
  • Zoidberg takes a bus trip to the Grand Canyon
  3011 AD
  
• June — September
  
  • The Professor invents the Banach-Tarski Dupla-Shrinker, and Bender accidentally creates millions of duplicates that threaten to destroy Earth
  • The duplicates leave Earth forever
  • Planet Express goes bankrupt, and the company is turned into a commercial airline. The first flight crash lands on an uncharted planet), and after finally coming home, Plan Am is closed down (6ACV20).
  • The Young People's Choice Awards are held, and Turanga Leela wins for Best Children's Program for Rumbledy-hump. Later, the Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium has all of its child inhabitants adopted by Abner Doubledeal to have them work on production of the rebooted reality version of the show
  • The common cold is reintroduced
• December
  
  • Earth burns up completely
  3012 AD
  
• Unknown date
  
  • Ben is born.
  • Predicted doomsday.
  • The Earth presidential election of 3012 takes place, and Richard Nixon's head emerges victorious.
  • Calculon dies after drinking a vial of food coloring in an acting competition against Langdon Cobb.
  • Zapp and Admiral Chew negotiate the Treaty of Table 7.
  • Amy and Leela become a Butterfly Derby team.
  • 3012 ― Microsoft releases Windows Navy.
• 29 September
  
  • Senator Chris Travers is born.
• October
  
  • The Planet Express crew attends Oktoberfest.

3013 AD

• 2 March
  • Nibbler's personal chauffeur destroys a planet while looking for a ship that he lost on 31 December 1999.
• Unknown date
  • Bender uses a 3D printer to duplicate the guitar of folk singer Silicon Red in an attempt to become a famous folk singer himself. He goes to a railroad camp and begins writing a song about a robot named Big Caboose, when strangely everything in the song begins to actually happen in reality. Because Bender has been wirelessly connected to the 3D printer the entire time, anything he writes about is printed and brought into existence. [7ACV14]
  • Professor Farnsworth joins a street-racing gang. This later results in him getting into a race against Leela, where he accidentally gets them both (along with Fry and Bender) temporarily trapped in the second dimension. [7ACV15]
  • President Nixon cuts off all trade with Omicron Persei 8 after the headless clone of Agnew is accidentally murdered by Lrrr's son, Jrrr, during the fourth Omicronian invasion of Earth. Meanwhile, Fry is accidentally left stranded on Omicron Persei 8, where he is looked after by Jrrr until being rescued by Bender. [7ACV16]
  • Fry and Leela go on a romantic vacation together whilst Bender, Amy and Zoidberg make a delivery to the planet Simian 7, which is inhabited by primates-only. It is revealed that Fry and Leela's romantic getaway is actually a human exhibition at a zoo on Simian 7. [7ACV17]
  • After Bender rescues 15 trapped miners from the solar helium mine, Mayor Poopenmeyer makes Planet Express the city's new Fire Department. However, the crew suspect Bender of committing arson at all of the locations he visits in order to put out more fires and appear more heroic. Unbeknownst to them, a being from the sun that Bender names Flamo has been starting the fires in attempt to scorch the Earth. Eventually, the mystic aldermen of the sun come to take Flamo back and trap him inside the sun. [7ACV18]
  • President Nixon and the last clone of Agnew enjoy watching the show Futurama and Friends Saturday Morning Fun Pit on TV at the White House, however, they are frequently interrupted by an angry mob on the lawn who request changes to content of the show that will teach and protect their children. [7ACV19]
  • Calculon is resurrected with the help of Bender and of the Professor's scientific ritual, [7ACV20] but he must then work his way up to becoming a big-time star again since most people didn't miss him or his acting after he died. [7ACV04] Later, in an unfortunate accident on the set of his old show All My Circuits, he is killed for a second time by falling ceiling lights after performing his greatest and most believable piece of acting ever. [7ACV20]
  • All of Bender's body parts except for his eyes and his mouth are stolen. [7ACV21]
  • Leela learns of her genetic condition of squidification and is then cured by Mom's genetic-engineering facility. [7ACV22]
  • After an alien ship begins approaching Earth, the crew searches Fry's mind to find the meaning of the musical tones emitted by the ship. [7ACV23]
  • The Planet Express crew goes on a team-building retreat, in which Fry and Bender kill celebrated business consultant Dan McMasters, believing him to be a vicious alien killer. [7ACV24]
  • Zoidberg finally meets his girlfriend Zindy in person, but she dumps him. [7ACV25] He then starts dating a florist.
  • Fry proposes to Leela before breaking the universe and marrying her. [7ACV26] To be continued for "Futurama" The Impossible Stream

FXJKHR´s Galactic Federation

• 2113 – All ancient satellites are swept up as garbage.

Galactic Republic

• 2159 – Establishment of the Central Bureaucracy.
• ca.2200
  • Pine trees become extinct.
  • Kidnappster begins holding Lucy Liu's Head prisoner.
• 2200s
  • Decapodians (Zoidberg's species) arrive on Earth.
  • Decapodians eat the anchovy species into extinction.
  • Cast of Star Trek: The Original Series does some musical reunion specials; "Welshie" added to cast to replace Scotty, as James Doohan can't yodel.
  • Church of Trek soars in global popularity. Germany re-named "Nazi Planet Episode Land" as a result. The Church's popularity threatens world leaders, leading to the Star Trek Wars (not to be confused with the Star Wars Trek) and banning of the Church and the show; only remaining copies rocketed to Omega III.
  • The ruins of Old New York progressively decay underground, and many of the upper-city's sewer lines are routed through or near them. Eventually, radioactive waste and good ol' American feces turns sewer-dwelling humans into a race of mutants.
• 2202 - The last pine trees go extinct by this point
• 2203 - Lucy Liu is kidnapped and held at the headquarters of Kidnappster.com.
• 2208 – Scientists increase the speed of light.
• 2266
  • Michelle was originally supposed to be unfrozen. (Alternate First)
  • Spears are used as weapons.
• 2275 – Fairness in Hell Act of 2275 passed, stipulating that anyone who can defeat the Robot Devil in a fiddle contest wins a solid gold fiddle and may leave Robot Hell. Losers only get a smaller silver fiddle, and the Robot Devil may kill them at his discretion.
• 2300s
  • American Express ceases to exist.
  • By the year 3000, "getting twenty-fourth century" is a slang term similar to "getting medieval," implying that the 24th century was a notably primitive and/or violent era, at least by 31st century standards.
    • During the pilot episode, while Fry is frozen, after the first time the city is destroyed, medieval-like buildings appear, only to be destroyed shortly thereafter.
• 2302 - The Monks of Dschubba begin their search for God.
• 2308
  • The Nobel Peace prizes for the union between West and East Coast rappers is given, but then stolen by Bender who comes back in time.
  • At least Stockholm and New York (but presumably the rest of Earth) are destroyed by Bender. This is the first destruction of Earth while Fry was frozen as Alternate First. Later, perhaps in a different year, New York begins to rebuild itself as a medieval like society, but it gets destroyed again, probably also by Bender. Again later, New New York is built. Previous versions of Fry, Bender and the Professor watch all of this is Alternate Second and Third.
  • This event leads to the second medieval age that lasts throughout the 24th century.
• 2310 – Princess Flavia begins an affair with Basil.
• 2329 ― Microsoft releases Windows 100.
• 2354 - Kwanzaa-bot begins giving out What the Hell Is Kwanza?
• 2400s - VISA ceases to exists
• 2400 - American Express ceases to exist.
• 2410
  • The Second destruction of New York occurs
  • Second Middle Ages end and New New York is being built.
• 2443 - Second coming of Jesus
• 2475 – Washington DC rededicated to Washington the Sweathog.
• 2500 – New New York eliminates garbage problem.
• 2511 – The common cold is eradicated.
• 2600s - New Yorkers elect a supervillain governor and he steals most of the world's monuments
• 2600
  • Chapek 9 is colonized by a murderous crew of radical robot separatists
  • The Robot Elders have been hand carved from meteorites by the Robot Founders (1ACV05).
• 2620 - Astronomers rename Uranus to Urectum in order to end a stupid joke once and for all
• 2636 - Mars University) is founded and Mars is made livable
• 2700 - 2702 - The cast of Star Trek: The Original Series leaves Earth
• 27?? – Last ghosts of humans die off.
• 2790
  • Vladimir, Bender's uncle, is born
  • Ava Porter is born
• 2800s
  • Slurm is being sold as a medicinal tonic. Corruptatron runs for mayor of New New York.
  • Prof. Farnsworth joins the Academy of Inventors, which begins holding annual symposia.
• 2800 - Voter turnout in Earth presidential elections is 6%, and stays that low for centuries
• 2801 ― December 25 - Robot Santa Claus is being constructed; goes berserk.
• 2841 ― (9 April) Professor Hubert Farnsworth born in New New York City.
• 2849 - Professor Farnsworth learns to read.
• 2851 - April 9 Hubert J. Farnsworth claims to have born in New New York City, actually being born ten years earlier.
• 2865 ― Sithal War occurs with Galactic Government Civil War Ends

Galactic Empire with Imperial era

• 2873 - A fog monster attacks New New Orleans.
• 2877 - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth finishes graduate school
• 2880 ― Ogden Wernstrom is born
• 2881 ― Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth starts working for Mom's Friendly Robot Company
• 2890 - Staadgi & Staadgi Auctioneers is founded
• 2900 - Professor Farnsworth gives an A minus to Ogden Wernstrom.
• 2912 April
  • (April 10) The Land Titanic sets off in New New York.
  • (April 14**)** Only four days after setting off, the Land Titanic sinks.
• 2922 - Holographic short silent comedy film A Close Shaving starring Harold Zoid is released
• 2923 or 2924 - Bigfoot is born. Seen on the cover of the Nosy Enquirer in 3003 or 3004: "Bigfoot turns 80!"
• 2924
  • After 43 happy years, Farnsworth catches his beloved Unit 47 in bed with another robot he himself invented). They separate.
  • Farnsworth hooks up with Mom instead.
• 2927
  • First Sport-utility robot is built.
  • The Professor meets Zoidberg and saved his life on Triton.
  • The heads of the Yankees from this year will be put in a jar in a Blernsball museum
• 2928 - October 17th: Hubert J. Farnsworth creates the first modern robot (Sport-Utility Robot) while working at Mom's Friendly Robot Company.
• 2931 ― May 13 - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth leaves Mom's Friendly Robot Company
• 2943
  • In an alternate first timeline, a nuclear holocaust wipes out all of mankind, save for a few people who hid out underground.
  • After all the humans die, robots take over the world. (Second Galactic War Alternate First)

New Republic

• 2950
  • Smell-O-Vision is invented.
  • Actor Harold Zoid's career hits the skids.
  • Lando Tucker's son is born. He's 61 by the time of this episode.
• 2952 - The invention of Smellovision coincides with the beginning of Harold Zoid's decline from stardom. ("Fifty years")
• 2959 - Hermes Conrad is born.
• 2960
  • Dixie and Trixie become Slurm spokescreature Slurms MacKenzie's sidekicks.
  • Professor Fisherprice Shpeekenshpell proves that the cows say "moo".
• 2961 – Planet Express is founded, the first delivery crew, consisting of Lando Tucker, Candy, Lifter and Johnny is lost in the Bermuda Tetrahedron delivering cookies to Amanda Zant's niece. Johnny returns to Earth in an escape pod, but cannot remember what it was that took the others.
• 2962 – Educational film Bigfoot: Endangered Mystery! released.
• 2963 – A hurricane hits Kingston, Jamaica. There is a foot and a half of water damage. No casualties.
• 2968 - Jim is born
• 2969 - Melllvar is born
• 2970 - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth discovers that Dark Matter could be used as fuel.
• 2971 - Turanga Morris marries Munda. Forty years prior to "Zapp Dingbat"
• 2972
  • DOOP starts mining dark matter from Vergon 6, led by MomCorp.
  • Turanga Munda and Turanga Morris marry each other.
• 2974 - Hattie begins suffering a 30-year bout of insomnia
• 2975 ― (29 July) Turanga Leela is born
• 2976 - Camp Rectifier begins "praying on the weak".
• 2977-2978 - The Annual e-Waste Recycling Festival is first held
• 2979 ― Amy Wong is born
• 2980 - The 2980 Olympics are held. Tragedy strikes when a boy tries to limbo like his hero, Olympian Hermes Conrad, and breaks his back
• 2981 - The last known Bone Vampire is killed. Species is declared extinct.
• 2982 - The Decapodians create the tradition of the Claw-Plach
• 2983 - Decapods begin the tradition of Claw-Plach
• 2984
  • Likely the setting of the book 2984.
  • Three-time Grammy winner Wendy is born
• 2985 ― Microsoft releases Windows 1000.
• 2989
  • Dwight Conrad is born.
  • The same week Dwight is born, the Professor begins to grow his clone Cubert Farnsworth.
• 2991 - Leela gets her green jacket.
• 2992
  • Amy is the employee of the year at Planet Express (6ACV10).
  • Dr. Zoidberg begins to work at Planet Express (3ACV11).
• 2993 - Hermes is the employee of the year at Planet Express (6ACV10), which means he leaves working for Mom's Friendly Robot Company at the latest this year (6ACV06), suggesting Bender is born at the latest this year.
• 2994 - Hermes is the employee of the year at Planet Express
• 2995
  • Scruffy is the employee of the year at Planet Express (6ACV10).
  • According to Vet Jeffrey Grant, Nibbler is probably born this year. This is later disproven.
  • The movie Bagheart is released, featuring Langdon Cobb.
• 2996
  • Birth year of Bender's stage persona Ramblin' Rodriguez
  • A coin featuring Coolio's face on it is minted.
  • Hermes is the employee of the year at Planet Express/Hermes resigns from being a bureaucrat for MomCorp.
  • Bill McNeal wins the Earthican election for the Presidency. (Assuming four year terms)
• 2997
  • Fronty's Meat Market opens.
  • Amy is the employee of the year at Planet Express.
  • The movie The Greatest Bag on Earth, featuring Langdon Cobb, is released.
  • Battle of Tarantulon IX Minor, colonized by Democratic Order of Planets and DOOP Army, New Republic and Earth New Republic Army)
• 2998
  • Bender's earliest memory, mistaken for his birth.
  • Hermes is the employee of the year at Planet Express.
  • Amy begins her internship at Planet Express for her teacher, Professor Farnsworth, to do her engineering degree, having already worked there several years in an unknown position.
  • Bender Bending Rodríguez attends and graduates Bending College, majoring in bending and minoring in Robo-American studies.
• 2999 - Philip J. Fry is un-frozen after 1,000 years. The second, unseen Philip J. Fry, frozen along with him see 12:32am, (Possibly Alternate First)

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The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack carried out during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by the Palestinian militant organization Black September. 5 Israeli athletes and 6 Israeli coaches were killed.
The Militant is the Socialist Workers Party) newspaper. From The Militant issue published September 15 1972 "The Munich killings":

The deaths of 11 Israeli participants in the Olympics on Sept. 5 brought forth a hypocritical uproar of indignation from government officials and news media in capitalist countries around the world. The purpose of this campaign is to make the criminal look like the victim: to make Israel appear as the victim of Arab violence rather than the criminal oppressor of the Arab peoples.
Leaving aside for a moment an evaluation of the terrorist tactics used at Munich, it is imperative that all supporters of human rights should stand squarely on the side of the real victims: the Palestinian people who are struggling, to regain their homeland against the Zionist state of Israel.
The campaign to whip up anti Arab hysteria began immediately after the incident, with banner headlines condemning "Terror at the Olympics" and "Murder in Munich." President Nixon called the guerrillas "international outlaws," and a State Department statement labeled them "outlaws, brigands, murderers and an intolerable affront to human society." Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern joined in the chorus, urging international sanctions against Egypt and Lebanon to "root out these international outlaws."
The entire publicity campaign is designed by the capitalist rulers to bolster the image cultivated by Israel as a small, defenseless country at the mercy of the Arab people. The reality is the opposite.

The full article can be read here and continues on page 6.

My Bruar Bazerman when he came out the army he walked so fast I basically had to run to keep up with him.
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I watched Olympic walking and it looked to me like running as I swear everyone was completely off the ground and to be walking there must be one foot on the ground at all time.

Like a Special Olympics version of MKUltra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory

20th Century?

• The Stupid Ages. (Alternate First)
• Fry's era is referred to as the Stupid Ages more than once in the series. No dates are given, but the 20th century seems stupid enough to me (Alternate First)

1988 AD

• Fry hides his lucky seven-leaf clover from his brother. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• Fry falls through the ice before ice fishing with his father and catches a cold. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• Barack Obama works as a pizza delivery boy for Mr. Panucci. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• Fry fails to win the Nerd Search '88 Science Competition, which is won by Josh Gedgie. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• Josh Gedgie's winning science experiment is launched into space. Years later, it will be dumped on Saturn's dump moon. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• February 13–28 – The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada/What Hermes will later describe as a "legendary Jamaican bobsled team" first competes in the Winter Olympics. This is historical fact, which is not to be confused with the slightly fictionalised account given in the movie Cool Runnings.

1989 AD

• June 16 - The film Ghostbusters II is released, tarnishing the previously well-regarded Ghostbusters franchise. ("This number has been lame since 1989")
• December 17 - The Simpsons debuts on the Fox Network.

Between 1990 and 1996

• Applied Cryogenics experiences their penultimate power failure (Alternate First)

1991 AD

• The Internet commences robbing people of their privacy (6ACV03). This is actually the date Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.

1992 AD

• Date of manufacture of the green Latura in the Past-O-Rama exhibit. (Alternate First)

1993 AD

• Bill Clinton is inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States.

1994 AD

• Fry fails to graduate from Coney Island Community College. (Possibly Alternate First)

1994 AD or 1995 AD

• Fry scrawls a picture of himself on a rocket (Possibly Alternate First)

1995 AD to 1998 AD

• Fry is unemployed. "I haven't had time off since I was twenty-one through twenty-four!" (Possibly Alternate First)

1997 AD

• Last known power failure at Applied Cryogenics/Applied Cryogenics: No power failures since 1997". Despite this failure and the previous one, Applied Cryogenics will actually maintain continuous power - or at least avoid critical outages - through war, barbarism and alien invasions for the next 1003 years. (Alternate First)
• HAL 9000, the subject of Calculon's one-man show HAL 9000, comes online in Urbana, Illinois. (Alternate First)
• Date on the last existing can of anchovies ("Angry Norwegian Anchovies" brand) in the year 3000. (Alternate Fisrt)
• August - Fry finds Seymour in a New York street after a pizza delivery to "Seymour Asses" which turned out to be a crank call. (Possibly Alternate First)

1998 AD

• July - Fry's dog Seymour Asses has become a beloved member of the Panucci's Pizza family (Possibly Alternate First)
• Unknown - The United States Air Force launches the top-secret satellite USAF Flying Destiny, and the Federal Communications Commission launches the equally top-secret FCC V-Chip. A short time later, both satellites collide to form the planet-censoring V-GINY (Possibly Alternate First)

1999 AD

• Nibbler is assigned as Supreme Fuzzler for a Nibblonian scientific outpost on the planet Vergon VI, where he will remain assigned for a further thousand years. Over the following centuries, Nibblonians consume many of the planet's animal inhabitants and gradually fill the planet's core with dark matter. (Alternate First)
• Fry spills beer on the control console at New York FOX) station WNYW, knocking Single Female Lawyer off the air. (Possibly Alternate First)
• Fry's bank account is left with a balance of 93 cents which, after one thousand years of gathering interest, becomes $4.3 billion. (Possibly Alternate First)
• Decemder 31 (Possibly Alternate First)
  • 9:00am - Fry wakes up
  • 10:00pm - After dinner, Fry leaves his family's house for work at Panucci's/Fry wasn't at his house after 10:00pm according to Farnsworth in this episode.
  • evening - Nibbler orders a pizza to be delivered to Applied Cryogenics, using the pseudonym I. C. Weiner.
  • 11:35pm - Fry leaves Panucci's to deliver Nibbler's pizza, leaving Seymour to wait for him outside. This scene occurs in more than one episode, but "Jurassic Bark" is the first time a clock is visible.
  • 11:??pm - Nibbler's chauffeur, Digby, lands them on the roof of Applied Cryogenics.
  • slightly before midnight - Nibbler hides underneath the desk that Fry will sit at as the new millennium rolls in, intending to deliberately make Fry fall in the cryogenics tube, so that in the future (specifically, the episode "The Why Of Fry") he can defeat the evil brains on behalf of all intelligent life. An alternate version of Fry arrives from an alternate future in which he failed to defeat the brains. He delivers to Nibbler the dire warning, "Scootie-Puff Junior sucks!" before disappearing. The alternate Fry's interference has no lasting effect on the timeline until the events of "The Why Of Fry" in 3002 or so.
  • 11:58pm - Two minutes to midnight, Fry boards the elevator to the Applied Cryogenics floor
  • Fry is sent on a fake pizza delivery to I. C. Wiener at Applied Cryogenics.
  • Fry is frozen at the stroke of midnight when pushed by Nibbler. He wakes up in the future.

2000s

• (presumably early) Baywatch: The Movie becomes the first movie shot entirely in slow-motion, and wins Pamela Anderson the Oscar. (Orginial Timeline or Alternate First)
• Atlanta moves offshore, but after over-developing, sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and is lost until the early 31st century (Alternate First)
• New Atlanta is the capital and most populous city) in the U.S. state of Georgia) (Alternate First)

2000 AD

• January 1 (Possibly Alternate First)
  • Nibbler's plan proceeds: Fry falls backwards into a cryogenic chamber. At that exact instant, Digby (who is also in the room) remembers that he left his spacecraft on the roof unlocked, and locks it remotely using his key fob. These four musical tones and the response from the ship are the last things Fry hears before being frozen.
  • Seconds into the new year, Philip J. Fry is cryogenically frozen due to the actions of Lord Nibbler/his future self.
  • Using a time code tattooed on his ass, Fry returns from the year 3007 back to New York and lives in the upstairs storage room of Panucci's Pizza. Bender also travels back in time to kill Fry but loses him.
  • A Bender from "way at the end" comes to put the code on Fry's ass in the first place.
  • Seymour sees Fry frozen in a cryogenics tube.
  • Fry's family calls off the search for their missing son.
  • Lord Nibbler's mother dies.
  • Digby and Nibbler, now drunk, lose their keys and are forced to take a taxi back to Vergon 6, leaving their spaceship parked on the Applied Cryogenics roof.
• 2 January -Seymour waits for Fry outside Panucci's Pizza.
• 8 November - Bender attempts to kill someone with the same name as Fry. All of Al Gore's votes are destroyed after Bender accidentally shoots them causing George W. Bush to win the election. (Both Bender´s Alternate First and George W Bush´s Orginial Timeline)
• The City of New York quietly dispatches its massive garbage supply out to sea. (Possibly Alternate First)
• Wisconsin wins the Rose Bowl, 17-9. This is Fry's mother's strongest memory of this day. (Possibly Alternate First)
• Past-O-Rama is "like stepping back into the year 2000!" (Alternate First)

2001 AD

• The movie Jury Duty) II: Trouble on the Hubble, starring Pauly Shore), is released. (Alternate First)
• Fry's ex-girlfriend Michelle leaves her husband and family behind and freezes herself for 265 years. (Alternate First)
• (later changed to 990 by Lars) unaware that Fry has also been frozen. (Alternate First)
• Brain spawn use the Infosphere to start a thousand-year quest to obtain all knowledge in the universe. (Alternate First)

2002 AD

• A barge filled with New York's garbage starts floating around the oceans of Earth for 50 years, as no country will take it, not even "that really filthy one" (Orginial Timeline or Alternate First)

2003 AD

• Lucy Liu is named People) magazine's "Sexiest Woman of the Year". (Alternate First)
• Fry gets a job at an aquarium working with a rare narwhal called Leelu. (Alternate First)

2005 AD

• October 20 - Yancy Fry Jr marries an unnamed woman (Possibly Alternate First)

Between ~2005 and 2007?

• Philip J. Fry's nephew, also named Philip Fry honour of his uncle, is born to Yancy Fry and his wife. (Philip Fry Jr appears to be roughly five to seven years old when Bender accosts him in 2012.) (Alternate First)
• In the original timeline, Philip Fry Jr is named because the original Philip Fry disappeared in 2000 and Yancy Fry misses him. In the current revision of the timeline, this is no longer true, but this paradox is seamlessly resolved by the Time Code. (Alternate First)

2006 AD

• Britney Spears becomes queen of something. (Possibly Alternate First)
• Wearing a sink plunger on his head as a horn, Fry-B duels with Leelu. (Alternate First)

2007 AD

• Charlie's Angels III: The Legend of Charlie's Gold is released in cinemas. (Alternate First)
• February 3 - Philip J. Fry II (Fry's nephew and simultaneously his great-grandson) is born. He is destined to be the 1st man on Mars and one of the 21st century's greatest celebrities. (Possibly Alternate First)

2008 AD

• January 15 - A Suicide Booth is built in New York (Alternate First)
• July 17 - The Svalvard Global Seed Vault starts preserving seeds of every known plant species.
• Fry-B plays with Leelu on a rubber raft in her tank, which she punctures (Alternate First)
• Creation of the "infinitely priceless thousand-year-old brandy", later involved in Bender's initiation ceremony into the League of Robots (Alternate First)

2010 AD

• July 31 - Leelu is released back into the sea. (Alternate First)
• August 4 - Depressed, Lars Fillmore hires Leroy's fishing boat to take him to the North Pole to find her. (Alternate First)
• The Loch Ness monster is revealed to be a log with a Halloween mask stapled to it. (Alternate First)
• Leelu is released into the wild and Fry searches for her with Mr. Panucci's cousin Leroy. (Alternate First)

2012 AD

• Michelle Jenkins freezes her body at Applied Cryogenics. (Alternate First)
• The War of 2012 occurs. Conan O'Brien claims to having lost his legs during the conflict.
• Al Gore) drives a hybrid taxi, or "hybraxi" for short. (Alternate First)
• Lars Fillmore hitches a ride with Michelle for 990 years. (Alternate First)
• Fry locates Leelu and nearly takes her home, but releases her after realizing she is with a male narwhal. (Alternate First)
• Bender visits the second Philip J. Fry and attempts to kill him. (Alternate First)
• Fry returns from his trans-Arctic voyage. (Alternate First)
• Bender blows up Panucci's Pizza, which causes Fry's time duplicate to become Lars Fillmore and ends up flash-fossilizing Seymour Asses. Bender hides under the future location of the Planet Express building for 1000 years. (Alternate First)
• Gas costs $100 a gallon. (Alternate First)
• Seymour Asses dies. (Alternate First)
• December 21 - Some people believed that the world would end (Orginial First Timeline)

2018 AD

• December 27 - Charles Constantine dies. (Alternate First)

2019 AD

• Project Satan is created. (Alternate First)
• May 7 - The most evil car is built using many evil mechanics such as Hitler's steering wheel. (Alternate First)
• June 20 - The Were-Car virus is first transmitted, with Calculon being its first victim (Alternate First)

..I was so disappointed when he got caught cheating as he was the type of guy you wanted to be .
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I seen a picture of Ben Johnson before he got caught cheating and he wasx a normal looking guy but after he took the drugs he was seriously strong looking.

I had been hesitating with writing this post for a bit of time (since February 2024), because I don't like to complain publicly and I have been looking for solutions of my problem(s) so far.
Forewarning and context: I am on autism spectrum, ADHD and DCD (dyspraxia). All diagnosed (ADHD and DCD since early childhood; AS since 13 years old). Also, I struggle with depression, albeit well under pharmacological & psychiatrist care. Beside of that, I'm not a native English speaker, I live in Poland (based on Warsaw). It's going to be a long post.
I've started my journey with archery in the end of May 2023. Long story short, my first bow was Rolan Snake "60 (22 lbs) and in between August and September, I've switched to my current bow, Oka Ridge Boga "68 (35 lbs). I've managed to make a such poundage jump. As you may guess, my archery category is BHTR-RB/'traditional-hunter'. Not a modern olympic barebow (a.k.a. "Barebow").
All was fine and neat up until February 2024, when I've noticed that my progress halted. "Learning curve hit it's temporary plateau, as it goes like sinusoid", I thought and moved on. I hardly can describe myself as a "self-taught" archer, as I've received tons of guidance and help from members of the archery club to which I belong to. I've been in a couple of lessons with a coach specializing in field archery. I've practiced indoors too, asking local coach for tips too. For instance, they corrected me about to not making strange twists and turns with my upper body. [I'm writing that because there will be questions about it, foremost]
In the meantime, I've got a opportunity to participate in a couple of field archery (3D and 2D) amateur tournaments. I was at last place at my first one. However, I've managed to not get the very last one (penultimate mostly, sometimes better). My peak performance was achieveing 11th place out of 18, at 3D+2D amateur tournament with WA-like rules (two arrows, 10-8-5-0). I went twice on even more amateurish and local contests (including one at Viking-Slavic fair) and I got a second place twice.
OK, I am getting to the point. Since two months, I've experienced shortfall of my performance. While I've managed to recognize my mistakes (mostly form, but also anchor deficiencies, poor release, too quick release) and sort it out, I repeat the same mistakes once again, with some random "fashion" of former mistake showing on again when I rooted down a current one. I feel like I have very limited control (abysmal body awareness, thanks to AS/DCD combo) about how my body actually works under both tension and the requirements of having certain body parts and muscles not going stiff (no death grip, release hand working only as a leverage, etc.). Seasonal increase of intensity of my depression didn't help either.
Obviously to say, I'get tense when shootings goes wrong, especially when I'm convinced that "I am aligned myself correctly", but the arrow goes differently because I was aligned wrong/differently.
I've already made some decisions in order to chill and calm down, plus to mitigate limited "RAM" in regards of fine motor control and body control. For instance, after a couple of April's tournaments I've decided to only go for tournaments where I can travel by myself (no social pressure, when I rely on someone's good will to travel deep into the country). I've invested with loop earplugs, to lessen the auditory input. So far, I recognized that my archery performance is intristincally linked to my current (ephemeral) mental state and my emotional state. There are moments when I can focus on my shooting and achieve somewhat tight (relatively speaking) groupings or at least 4-5 arrows going in a single direction. And sometimes, even when I take a care of a shot, the arrow goes extremely to the left (or sometimes to the right, bur rarer), because I wasn't aware that my body decided to align and hold the form much differently for this shot. So far, my only reliable test is "indoor 16 meters to 80 cm 6-10 shield [48 cm in diameter]":

• When I hit that substantial yellow centre (16 cm), either is a good shot or just a minor mistake.
• When I hit the red circle, it means I've made anchorelease/bowhand error.
• When I hit the outermost blue circle, it means my form had been incorrect from the start, which made another possible errors as in point above.

Also, I've noticed that I have a problem with properly setting my bowhand, when I need to make an adjustment for arrow drop.
What I expect from you is to get an advice. How to get along with abysmal/very poor body awareness, with DCD, when practicing an archery? My own physical and neural capabilities are somehow limited and it's an awful feeling, when I know that something exact went wrong with that shot, but I don't have a guarantee that my next shot will be better after making a correction (I mean, correction of the mistake, not correcting my alignment sideways). It's like fighting with my own body, when I have a clear mental picture of what I should do, but the nerves and muscle groups goes as they please in details during a drawing procedure. I don't want to abandon archery, as it is my gateway for physical activity and development (alongside other, but non-physical).
I am also considering of changing archery discipline. My first thought is a compound bow, with potentialy more stable anchoring, using sights as a guidance (offloading fine motor skills, muscle memory and intuition to analytical thinking process, when aiming) and less tension while holding an arrow. I could simply go for olympic target bow, but I personally don't vibe with that discipline and also - at least here in Poland - it is "least fun type of archery" at least for me and perhaps most elitistic and offish one. Another idea is to go straight into traditional/re-enactment archery, as to ditch out my own mental burden of trying to shoot accurately and simply having fun with engaging with the history topics. However, the latter one has even more demanding technique at the beginning, while still I have quite beginner archery capabilities...
To not get lost in the post, archery happens to be a really good indicator of how much DCD affects me. While having mediocre archery skills at best, still Im shooting better than I'm throwing sticks, rocks or javelins. I want to enjoy the archery, make steady (even if slow) progress and get the feeling of not returning to the worse place I've have been before. I know that I will never become a really good archer, not with my conditions and being overweight 33-years old. Perhaps I need to find an entire different purpose of practicing an archery...

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Phish, 2024-04-21 Sphere, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/phish-april-21-2024-sphere-las-vegas-nv-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes:
Phish, Friday 04/21/2023 (1 year ago) Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 2023 Spring Tour
Set 1 : The Moma Dance > Sigma Oasis , Party Time , Strawberry Letter 23 , Everything's Right , Shade , Funky Bitch , A Wave of Hope
Set 2 : Sample in a Jar > Down with Disease ¹ > Mercury -> Blaze On ² > You Enjoy Myself , Cavern
Encore : Drift While You're Sleeping
1 Unfinished. 2 Lyrics changed to reference "Bowl."
Jamchart Notes:
Down with Disease - In lieu of lead-pointed playing, Trey sets the initial tone by tossing out spacious chords and arpeggiations. Page synths and hazy Trey delay paint the scene before a slightly dissonant transition space develops. The band then dials up the grime to deliver a sludge-y, stomping minor key rock-out. Ample time is spent in the murk before fading out > "Mercury."
Show Notes:
Down with Disease was unfinished. Blaze On's lyrics were changed to reference "Bowl."
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Phish, Thursday 04/21/2022 (2 years ago) MSG, New York, NY, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 2022 Madison Square Garden Spring Run
Set 1 : Suzy Greenberg ¹ > 46 Days , Plasma , The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday , Wolfman's Brother , Esther , Ghost
Set 2 : Chalk Dust Torture ² -> Tweezer > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Maze , About to Run , The Mango Song > Harry Hood > Character Zero -> Tweezer -> Character Zero
Encore : A Life Beyond The Dream , Tweezer Reprise
1 Dedicated to the "hero of the song," Suzy Greenberg, who was attending her first Phish show. 2 Unfinished.
Jamchart Notes:
Wolfman's Brother - Straightforward in structure, this version builds momentum by way of clever full band interplay. Trey makes his intentions known right away by shifting through multiple effects, toggling between lead playing and funk-oriented rhythm comping. The rest of the band follows suit, as the jam develops into a laid back, conversational groove session. This then patiently builds to the classic, spirited "Wolfman's" ending.
Ghost - The jam begins with an upbeat tempo anchored by cool playing from Trey. Later, the tempo slows as Mike takes the lead with deft work on the bass. Just when you think the chunky notes of the song from Trey are leading to the end of the jam, the rest of the band isn't quite ready to let things go, which leads to a maelstrom of a peak, before finally returning to end the song.
Chalk Dust Torture - Heads into low-key psychedelia-tinged jamming out of the song proper thanks to Trey's thick and goopy effects, then Page suggests major key and a pleasant groove emerges with Mike steadily holding down the fort. The jam gets more delicate and dreamy, even as Fish keeps his usual rock-solid tempo, then builds to a marvelous rock-out climax and a big-time peak thanks once again to Mike's efforts. -> into a great "Tweezer".
Tweezer - Although "average-lengthed" among all versions e'er performed, this gem-of-a-version shines, with the first few minutes of the jam featuring steady, intermittent, "Your Pet Cat"-esque chording and comping by Trey, and a melodically charming/glittering section during which Trey sustains a note for many measures (a modest peak) over excellent accompaniment (that's never dark), before the version concludes atypically with a single chord from Trey that is sustained into the first note > of "2001."
Character Zero - Trey loves MSG, a fact made clear here, when, in lieu of capping the set with a typical "Hood," he elects to floor the Garden, moving from zero to sixty in split seconds, bouncing around the room with typically rocking play (featuring a "Heartbreaker" tease) which, surprisingly, breaks for "Tweezer."
Tweezer - Your Pet "Tweezer" returns, buzzing, if not quite purring, for a few more minutes.
Character Zero - -> from "Tweezer" to cap a fun, inspired close to a set rearranged and redefined.
Show Notes:
This was the rescheduled date for the show that had been postponed due to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 surge in New York City in December of 2021. Suzy Greenberg was dedicated to "the hero of the song," Suzy Greenberg, who was attending her first Phish show. Trey teased Jean Pierre in 46 Days. Chalk Dust Torture was unfinished. 2001 contained Super Bad and Martian Monster teases. Mike quoted Kung and teased Plasma in Harry Hood. Trey teased Heartbreaker in the first Character Zero and Tweezer in the second Character Zero.
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Phish, Thursday 04/21/1994 (30 years ago) Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1994 Spring Tour
Set 1 : Chalk Dust Torture , Sparkle > Foam , Glide , Split Open and Melt , The Lizards , Down with Disease > If I Could > Cavern
Set 2 : Also Sprach Zarathustra > Maze , Fluffhead > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen ¹ > Weekapaug Groove , Scent of a Mule , Big Ball Jam > Possum ² , Amazing Grace ³
Encore : Drums ⁴ -> Jam ⁵ -> All Along the Watchtower ⁶
1 "I walk awakening on the misty fields of forever" lyrics. 2 All Fall Down signal. 3 Without microphones. 4 Carter Beauford on drums. 5 Dave Matthews Band. 6 Phish debut; Dave Matthews Band.
Jamchart Notes:
Possum - Intense jam rocks the house, hard. Great Fish and Page.
Jam - With the Dave Matthews Band. -> in from "Drums" featuring Fish and Carter Beauford. A rocking and very percussive jam with both bands playing along together builds into a good groove which slows and -> to "All Along The Watchtower."
Show Notes:
Foam contained a brief Dixie tease from Trey and Possum contained an All Fall Down signal. The guest trampoline jumper during Mike's Song was then-nine year old fan Katherine Lang. Hydrogen contained the lyrics "I walk awakening on the misty fields of forever." Amazing Grace was performed without microphones. The Drums Jam featured Carter Beauford of the Dave Matthews Band; the rest of the encore (including the Phish debut of All Along the Watchtower) featured the entire band. All Along the Watchtower included a Theme from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly tease from LeRoi Moore. The opening act was Dave Matthews Band.
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Phish, Wednesday 04/21/1993 (31 years ago) Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1993 WinteSpring Tour
Set 1 : Buried Alive > Poor Heart , Foam , Guelah Papyrus , Maze , Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Rift , Punch You in the Eye , I Didn't Know ¹ , Run Like an Antelope ²
Set 2 : Possum , Mound , Split Open and Melt , The Squirming Coil , The Horse ³ > Silent in the Morning , Big Ball Jam > Mike's Song > The Great Gig in the Sky , Weekapaug Groove ⁴ , Gumbo
Encore : Sweet Adeline , Cavern
1 Fish on trombone. 2 Simpsons, Key Change, Tritone Down, and Random Note signals. 3 Trey on acoustic guitar. 4 Unfinished.
Jamchart Notes:
Run Like an Antelope - Unusual, intense and improvisational jam that almost sounds like a "SOAM" jam at times.
Split Open and Melt - The jam from this fiery, intense version was attached to the end of the song "Demand" on the studio album Hoist. In a 1994 interview, Trey noted this performance marked the beginning of a watershed, 14-month period, during which the band really clicked and coalesced on "SOAM's" complex jam rhythm. Not surprisingly, the golden age of "SOAM" overlaps with this 1993 - 1994 period of technical mastery considerably.
Weekapaug Groove - Nice interplay between Trey and Page in the breakdown section, then the jam seems to be headed for home with a fiery peak, but instead veers off-course into more improvisational jamming, gradually diminishing unfinished, and (arguably) > to "Gumbo."
Show Notes:
The jam segment of this Melt is the one that appears at the end of Demand on Hoist. The Mockingbird Narration contained a quote of the Winkie Chant ("O-Ee- Yah! Eoh-Ah!") from The Wizard of Oz . I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone and The Horse featured Trey on acoustic guitar. Antelope contained a Divided Sky tease from Trey, an I'm a Man (Spencer Davis Group) tease from Page, and Simpsons, Key Change, Tritone Down, and Random Note signals. Trey teased Fire (Ohio Players) in Possum. Mike's contained a brief Oye Como Va tease. Weekapaug was unfinished. Gumbo contained a Free Bird-style ending.
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Phish, Tuesday 04/21/1992 (32 years ago) Redwood Acres Fairgrounds, Eureka, CA, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1992 Spring Tour
Set 1 : Suzy Greenberg , Uncle Pen , Split Open and Melt , Rift , Guelah Papyrus , Possum ¹ , It's Ice > Eliza > NICU , Bouncing Around the Room > David Bowie
Set 2 : Dinner and a Movie , Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Tweezer > Tela > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove , Weigh > Cold as Ice > Catapult ² > Cold as Ice , Hold Your Head Up > Lively Up Yourself ³ > Cold as Ice , Sanity ⁴ , Maze , Sweet Adeline ⁵
Encore : Cavern
1 Simpsons, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, Get Back, Oom Pa Pa, All Fall Down, Aw Fuck!, and Me and My Arrow signals. 2 Only Mike; a cappella. 3 Phish debut. Trey on drums, Fish on bass, and Mike on guitar and his only known performance on vacuum. 4 Yastrzemski and Carl mentions from Mike and Trey. 5 Without microphones.
Jamchart Notes:
Split Open and Melt - Very improvisational and exploratory jam with excellent dynamics modulation. Awesome Mike and Trey.
Possum - Extended intro with many signals and "DEG" teases. Great jam that has a nice swingy feel to it before going full throttle.
It's Ice - Good jam and nice work by Page on the Hammond B-3. Segue to "Eliza."
Tweezer - Very melodic, enchanting jam in part. Still among the coolest versions in history.
Mike's Song - Played at slightly slower tempo, the jam includes great Mike, "HYHU"-like jamming, then a tense, spiraling jam. The 2nd jam has some unusual descending riffs, dissonance, and more spiraling tension.
Weekapaug Groove - Simmers at a rather low intensity early on with Trey's playing noticeably restrained. The jam works its way into an improvisational segment with building tension, after which the expected musical fireworks go off. Includes teases of "Happy Birthday to You" and "Linus and Lucy" as well as a birthday announcement from Trey.
Show Notes:
Trey teased Johnny B. Goode in Melt. Possum contained Simpsons, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, Get Back, Oom Pa Pa, All Fall Down, Aw Fuck!, and Me and My Arrow signals, as well as strong Dave's Energy Guide teases. Dinner and a Movie was preceded by a Colour My World (Chicago) tease and quote. Trey used an interesting voice effect during the Mockingbird narration as he spoke of the evil King Wilson. Mike's included a Hold Your Head Up jam. Hydrogen and Weigh were announced as written by baseball Hall-of-Famer Carl Yastrzemski. Trey called Mike "Carl" prior to his Weigh bass solo. Weekapaug contained a Happy Birthday tease and dedication from Trey, as well as a Linus and Lucy tease from Mike. This only known Phish performance of Lively Up Yourself featured Trey on drums, Fish on bass, and Mike on guitar and his only known performance on vacuum. The Cold as Ice outro was followed by a brief vocal jam about the band's comments on their performance of Lively Up Yourself. Sanity contained Yastrzemski and Carl mentions from Mike and Trey respectively. Cavern was introduced by Mike as The Prison Joke.
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Phish, Sunday 04/21/1991 (33 years ago) SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1991 WinteSpring Tour
Set 1 : Golgi Apparatus , Rocky Top > Wilson > Divided Sky , Foam , My Sweet One , The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag > Tela , Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove , Sweet Adeline
Set 2 : Possum , Fee , The Landlady , Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird ¹ > Llama , Uncle Pen , Harry Hood , Cavern
Encore : I Didn't Know ² > David Bowie
1 Narration gave a brief recap of the Gamehendge saga. 2 Fish on trombone.
Show Notes:
This show was part of the University's Earth Day festival. Divided included a DEG tease from Trey. The Mockingbird narration gave a brief recap of the Gamehendge saga. I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone.
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Phish, Saturday 04/21/1990 (34 years ago) Canyon West Room, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1990 Tour
Set 1 : Sweet Adeline , Reba , Funky Bitch , Esther > Foam , Walk Away , How High the Moon ¹ > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg , Bike , Run Like an Antelope
Set 2 : Harry Hood , Runaway Jim , No Dogs Allowed , Uncle Pen , Fluffhead > Highway to Hell , Tela > Tweezer , The Lizards
1 Phish debut.
Show Notes:
This show marked the Phish debut of How High the Moon. No Dogs Allowed was played for "Erik the Viking." Suzy contained How High the Moon, Stairway to Heaven, and Walk This Way teases. St. Thomas was teased prior to Antelope, which contained How High the Moon and Entrance of the Gladiators teases from Trey.
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Phish, Friday 04/21/1989 (35 years ago) The Front, Burlington, VT, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1989 Tour
Set 1 : I Didn't Know , Contact
Show Notes:
This performance was part of The Rock Rumble band competition. This setlist is incomplete. Fish was lowered naked from the rafters during I Didn't Know for a "vacuum solo" instead of his trombone solo, but the vacuum was not powered up. Hollywood Indians, Gidget and Ghandi, Sundog, Peg Tassey, The Fortune Tellers, The Cuts, The Switch, and Dark Hollow also performed. Mike Luoma of WIZN was a judge and Arty Lavigne of WIZN was the emcee; Arty read an introduction that Phish had handed him.
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Phish, 1985-04-21 Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/phish-april-21-1985-goddard-college-plainfield-vt-usa.html
Tour: 1985 Tour
Show Notes: This show was performed at The Bowl in the center of campus.

Trey Anastasio

Trey Anastasio Trio, 2018-04-21 Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/trey-anastasio-april-21-2018-chicago-theatre-chicago-il-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: Waste through Chalk Dust Torture were performed by Trey solo acoustic.
Trey Anastasio Band, 2017-04-21 Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta, GA, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/trey-anastasio-april-21-2017-centennial-olympic-park-atlanta-ga-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: This performance was part of the Sweetwater 420 Festival and was webcast on UphoricTV's YouTube channel.

Mike Gordon

The Mutaytor, 2006-04-21 Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/mike-gordon-april-21-2006-grand-central-terminal-new-york-ny-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: This free outdoor show by The Mutaytor was part of the innagural Green Apple Music Festival. Mike played bass for the whole show that featured a diverse lineup of guests, including the only known collaboration between a member of Phish and Walter Cronkite, who sat in on percussion.

John Fishman

The Mallett Brothers Band, 2018-04-21 ONCE Somerville, Somerville, MA, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/jon-fishman-april-21-2018-once-somerville-somerville-ma-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes:
Pork Tornado, 2001-04-21 Pickle Barrel Pub, Killington, VT, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/jon-fishman-april-21-2001-pickle-barrel-pub-killington-vt-usa.html
Tour: Fish - Pork Tornado Spring 2001
Show Notes:

Page McConnell

Vida Blue, 2002-04-21 State Theatre Of Ithaca, Ithaca, NY, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/page-mcconnell-april-21-2002-state-theatre-ithaca-ny-usa.html
Tour: Page - Vida Blue Spring 2002 Tour
Show Notes: The Billionaires opened. This setlist is unconfirmed as recordings of the performance do not circulate.

Other

Dude Of Life, 2023-04-21 The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/dude-of-life-april-21-2023-the-roxy-theatre-los-angeles-ca-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: Fish sat in on drums from Downtown through the end of the show. The debut of Downtown was only Ella, Fish, and Parker. Ella sang vocals on Lesser Charge. Show of Life was performed in a fast style. This show benefitted The Waterwheel Foundation.

I'm really glad that the geopolitical situation didn't decide the Olympic spots on rings. I have nothing against Simonov but it would have been a shame for Azerbijan to benefit from the fact that Armenian athletes don't feel safe competing in a country that has repeatedly in recent years been in armed conflict as the aggressor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict
The reason that Azerbaijan can host international sporting events is because their travel ban on Armenian citizens excludes international athletes. But that doesn't mean the Armenians feel comfortable or safe in Baku. It's really a shame on FIG for allowing an Olympic Qualifier there.
Nikita Simonov is not responsible for his country's repeated aggressions against it's neighbors. He absolutely should be in Paris because he is a potential Olympic finalist on rings. But for a while it looked like Azerbaijan was going to benefit from the situation.
And this is certainly something to think about as people consider that Azerbaijan is routinely talked about as a potential emergency host for the still as yet homeless 2025 World Championships.
* Before you respond with something about Russia/Belarus, it's important to know that neither country is banned "because of the war" alone. It was because it was the 3rd violation of the Olympic Truce by Russia in 14 years. The Olympic Truce is a formal internationally recognized concept saying that you don't start armed conflict during the period of the Olympics and Paralympic Games, and declared by United Nations resolutions. The Russian Federation used the opening of the 2008 Olympic Games to invade Georgia. It used the 2014 Olympic Games on their own soil as a distraction during their invasion of Ukraine the first time, and the 2022 Invasion occurred during the Paralympic Games. If the Russian Federation had waited 2 weeks they would be competing today.
The IOC has been extremely clear all along that this was about the Olympic Truce and their ethical obligation not to allow the event to be used this way without response.
No other country has ever violated the Olympic Truce.

Article from The Washington Post
A few days before the release of 2016 Bollywood hit “Dangal” (“Wrestling Bout”), which is based on the true story of two medal-winning Indian female wrestlers and their father, the filmmakers unveiled a promotional music video. In the video, the two actresses who play the wrestlers are seen mostly in silhouette while Indian superstar Aamir Khan — who plays the father’s character — is seen on a throne, atop a chariot, sermonizing all around him in verse.
This, unfortunately, is an all-too-accurate representation of the film — and encapsulates a problematic trend in mainstream Bollywood: While plenty of Bollywood films take on gender inequality and women’s experiences, frustratingly few do so in women’s voices, and their attempts at feminism thus fall short.
The narrative around “Dangal” leading up to the film’s release revolved around female empowerment, and with good reason. Its real-life subjects, the sisters Geeta and Babita Phogat, are an inspiration for countless Indian families. Geeta qualified for the 2012 London Olympics, the first Indian female wrestler to do so. Their achievements are rendered more extraordinary by the fact that they hail from Haryana, a northern Indian state with a highly unequal sex ratio — 879 girls to 1,000 boys, going by the latest census in 2001 — and documented practices of female feticide and dowry payment.
To its credit, “Dangal” has put the spotlight on female excellence in sports and stimulated a national conversation on sports other than cricket, which dominates headlines otherwise. On the film’s opening weekend, Geeta became the most Googled celebrity in India. The governments of six Indian states, including Haryana, exempted the film’s tickets from taxation and endorsed it as part of their campaign to protect and educate girls. (I have two young nieces; since “Dangal” took over multiplexes, the running joke in the family is that they will be made to learn wrestling.)
However, this neither undoes nor atones for an extremely disturbing element in the film: its gender politics. It is true that Geeta and Babita’s father, Mahavir Singh, was instrumental to their success, but the film suggests that he was the sole reason for it. In real life, Geeta had a promising and award-filled run up to the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, where she won the gold medal in the 55 kilogram (121 pound) category. However, the script for “Dangal” creates fictitious subplots designed primarily to punish Geeta for harmless displays of independence and freethinking and to elevate her father. That she chooses to grow her hair and polish her nails — against Mahavir’s wishes — leads to (imaginary) failure inside the ring. By the end of the film, we see Geeta grovel and beg him for mercy — and it is his magnanimity alone that ensures that her career gets back on track.
“Dangal” is, sadly, not an aberration. Last year also saw the release of “Pink,” a much-hyped legal drama about three young women who are sexually harassed by a group of influential men. The film aimed to tackle issues that Indian society has long been criticized for, such as misunderstandings around consent, stereotypes about sexually active women and institutional apathy toward victims. However, the voice the film relies on for addressing these topics is that of another male Indian superstar, Amitabh Bachchan, who plays a heroic lawyer emerging out of retirement to help the women. Throughout the film’s courtroom proceedings, the three women are shown as impetuous, emotional and high-pitched characters who need a man’s discipline.
Another 2016 Bollywood hit, “Sultan,” a sports drama headlined by superstar Salman Khan, follows along the same lines. In the film, the female protagonist is an accomplished sportswoman herself, but she is reduced to an object of conquest for her male counterpart. Midway through “Sultan,” she gets pregnant — dashing hopes of sporting glory forever — a profound crisis that the film dismisses in one glib scene, choosing instead to focus on the male’s celebration. By the climax, she is merely standing on the sidelines, cheering for her husband.
Hollywood has frequently been lambasted for deployment of the “white male savior” trope, in which people of color are rescued (often from clumsy representations of their own cultures) by enlightened white men. Bollywood is often guilty of the gender equivalent: The female empowerment in these films is often just a form of male gratification. There is little autonomy or agency on the female’s part; she would be lost if left to her own devices. The burden of her improvement and happiness ultimately fall upon the man’s shoulders.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, “Dangal,” “Pink” and “Sultan” were all directed by men from scripts also written by men, which is a shame: Bollywood has no shortage of talented women artists capable of producing strong work. Ashwini Iyer Tiwari, for instance, is a female director whose film “Nil Battey Sannata” (Good for Nothing) was released in 2016. It is also a story about an overbearing parent and a respectful but rebellious daughter. In contrast with “Dangal,” however, “Nil Battey Sannata” presents its female characters with innate respect: The mother’s anxiety is relatable; the daughter’s chafing is a moving cry for help. In terms of inspiring dramas based on real-life women, “Neerja,” about the courageous head purser of the hijacked Pan Am Flight 73, was co-written by a woman and refrained from any paternalism while bringing forth genuine thrills.
With women writers and directors like these around, there’s no need to refract women’s stories and experiences through male creators. Often, doing so fails to honestly reflect women’s interior lives and agency, which makes for underwhelming drama. With a potential audience of hundreds of millions of people, Bollywood should use its influence to make sure that viewers are hearing women’s stories in women’s words.

Article from The Washington Post
A few days before the release of 2016 Bollywood hit “Dangal” (“Wrestling Bout”), which is based on the true story of two medal-winning Indian female wrestlers and their father, the filmmakers unveiled a promotional music video. In the video, the two actresses who play the wrestlers are seen mostly in silhouette while Indian superstar Aamir Khan — who plays the father’s character — is seen on a throne, atop a chariot, sermonizing all around him in verse.
This, unfortunately, is an all-too-accurate representation of the film — and encapsulates a problematic trend in mainstream Bollywood: While plenty of Bollywood films take on gender inequality and women’s experiences, frustratingly few do so in women’s voices, and their attempts at feminism thus fall short.
The narrative around “Dangal” leading up to the film’s release revolved around female empowerment, and with good reason. Its real-life subjects, the sisters Geeta and Babita Phogat, are an inspiration for countless Indian families. Geeta qualified for the 2012 London Olympics, the first Indian female wrestler to do so. Their achievements are rendered more extraordinary by the fact that they hail from Haryana, a northern Indian state with a highly unequal sex ratio — 879 girls to 1,000 boys, going by the latest census in 2001 — and documented practices of female feticide and dowry payment.
To its credit, “Dangal” has put the spotlight on female excellence in sports and stimulated a national conversation on sports other than cricket, which dominates headlines otherwise. On the film’s opening weekend, Geeta became the most Googled celebrity in India. The governments of six Indian states, including Haryana, exempted the film’s tickets from taxation and endorsed it as part of their campaign to protect and educate girls. (I have two young nieces; since “Dangal” took over multiplexes, the running joke in the family is that they will be made to learn wrestling.)
However, this neither undoes nor atones for an extremely disturbing element in the film: its gender politics. It is true that Geeta and Babita’s father, Mahavir Singh, was instrumental to their success, but the film suggests that he was the sole reason for it. In real life, Geeta had a promising and award-filled run up to the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, where she won the gold medal in the 55 kilogram (121 pound) category. However, the script for “Dangal” creates fictitious subplots designed primarily to punish Geeta for harmless displays of independence and freethinking and to elevate her father. That she chooses to grow her hair and polish her nails — against Mahavir’s wishes — leads to (imaginary) failure inside the ring. By the end of the film, we see Geeta grovel and beg him for mercy — and it is his magnanimity alone that ensures that her career gets back on track.
“Dangal” is, sadly, not an aberration. Last year also saw the release of “Pink,” a much-hyped legal drama about three young women who are sexually harassed by a group of influential men. The film aimed to tackle issues that Indian society has long been criticized for, such as misunderstandings around consent, stereotypes about sexually active women and institutional apathy toward victims. However, the voice the film relies on for addressing these topics is that of another male Indian superstar, Amitabh Bachchan, who plays a heroic lawyer emerging out of retirement to help the women. Throughout the film’s courtroom proceedings, the three women are shown as impetuous, emotional and high-pitched characters who need a man’s discipline.
Another 2016 Bollywood hit, “Sultan,” a sports drama headlined by superstar Salman Khan, follows along the same lines. In the film, the female protagonist is an accomplished sportswoman herself, but she is reduced to an object of conquest for her male counterpart. Midway through “Sultan,” she gets pregnant — dashing hopes of sporting glory forever — a profound crisis that the film dismisses in one glib scene, choosing instead to focus on the male’s celebration. By the climax, she is merely standing on the sidelines, cheering for her husband.
Hollywood has frequently been lambasted for deployment of the “white male savior” trope, in which people of color are rescued (often from clumsy representations of their own cultures) by enlightened white men. Bollywood is often guilty of the gender equivalent: The female empowerment in these films is often just a form of male gratification. There is little autonomy or agency on the female’s part; she would be lost if left to her own devices. The burden of her improvement and happiness ultimately fall upon the man’s shoulders.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, “Dangal,” “Pink” and “Sultan” were all directed by men from scripts also written by men, which is a shame: Bollywood has no shortage of talented women artists capable of producing strong work. Ashwini Iyer Tiwari, for instance, is a female director whose film “Nil Battey Sannata” (Good for Nothing) was released in 2016. It is also a story about an overbearing parent and a respectful but rebellious daughter. In contrast with “Dangal,” however, “Nil Battey Sannata” presents its female characters with innate respect: The mother’s anxiety is relatable; the daughter’s chafing is a moving cry for help. In terms of inspiring dramas based on real-life women, “Neerja,” about the courageous head purser of the hijacked Pan Am Flight 73, was co-written by a woman and refrained from any paternalism while bringing forth genuine thrills.
With women writers and directors like these around, there’s no need to refract women’s stories and experiences through male creators. Often, doing so fails to honestly reflect women’s interior lives and agency, which makes for underwhelming drama. With a potential audience of hundreds of millions of people, Bollywood should use its influence to make sure that viewers are hearing women’s stories in women’s words.

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Click here to see previous entries in this series.
Claimed National Champions
Lafayette (11-0-1) National Championship Foundation, Parke H. Davis
Princeton (10-0-1) Helms Athletic Foundation, National Championship Foundation, Billingsley Report, Houlgate System, Parke H. Davis
^{Bold indicates main national championship selector recognized by NCAA Championship List}
Notable Events

• Utah is admitted as the 45th state
• An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation (later known as X-rays)
• The first speeding ticket is given for going 8MPH in a 2MPH zone in Kent, England
• The first known auto related death happens in Crystal Palace, London
• California and Stanford play the first known women's basketball game
• The first modern olympics are held in Athens, Greece
• Plessy v. Ferguson decision upholds the infamous "separate but equal" doctrine
• Queen Victoria becomes the the longest-reigning monarch in British history
• William McKinely wins the presidential election
• George Burns, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Georgi Zhukov, Jimmy Doolittle, and Homer Norton are born
• Harriet Beecher Stow and Alfred Nobel die

Rules

• The Ball: Prolate speheroid, without specific measurements.
• The field is 110 yds. by 53 1/3 yds., uprights 18 1/2' apart and 10' high, with lines marked every five yards.
• When a team has possession of the ball, it must gain five yards within three downs, to gain a new set of downs
• There are three different ways to score. A field goal is worth 5 points, A touchdown is worth 4 points, the kick after a TD is worth 2 points, and a safety is worth 2 Points.
• Each team consists of 11 players on the field.
• *The game's regulation is separated into two halves, both 35 minutes. If the game is tied at the end of regulation, the next scored point wins the game.

^{Italics denote rule change from previous season.
\}Overtime rules are for simulation only and do not reflect overtime rules of the time.)
The Teams
Teams are listed by their seeding in the bracket.

1. Princeton (10-0-1)
2. Lafayette (11-0-1)
3. Penn (14-1)
4. Yale (13-1)
5. Harvard (7-4)
6. Darmouth (6-2-1)
7. Army (3-2-1)
8. Wisconsin (7-1-1)
9. Michigan (9-1)
10. Carlisle Indian (5-5)
11. Cornell (5-3-1)
12. Navy (5-3)
13. Minnesota (8-2)
14. Chicago (14-2-1)
15. Northwestern (6-1-2)
16. Illinois (4-2-1)
17. Williams (6-4-1)
18. Purdue (4-2-1)
19. Iowa (5-1)
20. Trinity CT (5-3-1)
21. Bucknell (5-2-1)
22. Kansas (2-2)
23. Bowdoin (6-4-2)
24. Georgia (4-0)

First Four Out

• Virginia (5-2)
• Iowa St (2-2)
• Nebraska (2-2)
• Auburn (3-1)

^\Record may not reflect official record of the year)
^{Bold indicates conference auto-bid}
Season Breakdown and 1896 All-Americans
This year is interesting in a few ways. First, it is the first time since 1869, that a school outside of the modern Ivy League claims a championship. With Lafayette going 11-0-1, and being given the title by two selectors, the National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis, both of which split their championships with Princeton. Both of these teams lone tie was actually between each other as well. But Parke H. Davis loves this Lafayette team. In the book that Davis wrote, he doesn't say much about the 1896 season overall, but he mentions one game from this year in his chapter titled "Eight Famous Games." He describes the game between Lafayette and Penn as this.

Lafayette on the defensive, with the score 4 to o in favor of Pennsylvania and only six minutes to play, blocks the latter's kick. In two plays [Lafayette's] Barclay carries the ball 35 yards for a touchdown, from which he kicks a goal, winning the game 6 to 4.

Either way, he speaks highly of this 1896 Lafayette team. I wonder who the coach of this team is... Oh... It's Parke H. Davis.... Well that makes sense. Well let's see if they survive this years playoffs.
We also have our first appearance with a team we'll be seeing for the next few years, but does not exist anymore. Carlisle Indian. Looking at this name you have one of three reactions. Either "What is this school?" or "Wow that's a great football school" or absolute horror at the existence of such a school. It has a troubling history, but there are two videos I really would like readers to watch to get a general gist of its existence. But I must warn you, it isn't a happy history by any means. First is Extra History's video on the topic, and then Hardcore College Football History's video on how that history ties in with the football team.

Playoffs

Round 1
No. 24 Georgia @ No. 9 Michigan - Michigan handles Georgia in a shutout, winning 35-0 to move on and play No. 8 Wisconsin
No. 23 bowdoin @ No. 10 Carlisle Indian - Carlisle handles Bowdoin easily in a shutout 41-0 win. They move on to play No. 7 Army
No. 22 Kansas @ No. 11 Cornell - UPSET ALERT - The Jayhawks win on a walk-off touchdown! They win 21-17 to play No. 6 Dartmouth in the Second Round!
No. 21 Bucknell @ No. 12 Navy - Navy wins in a shutout moving on to the second round to play no. 5 Harvard.
No. 20 Minnesota @ No. 13 Minnesota - Minnesota wins on a walk-off touchdown! They win 6-4 to move on to play No. 4 Yale
No. 19 Iowa @ No. 14 Chicago - A hard fought defensive battle is played, but the Maroons squeak out a victory 6-0 and move on to play Penn
No. 18 Purdue @ No. 15 Northwestern - UPSET ALERT - It is a close game, but Purdue scores a touchdown to put the game out of reach. The Boilermakers win 17-10 to move on and play No. 2 Lafayette.
No. 17 Williams @ No. 16 Illinois - Illinois misses their PAT, AND a field goal, as Williams holds on to move on and play No. 1 Princeton.
Round 2
No. 17 Williams @ No. 1 Princeton - Usually there would be a blow out associated with these early games and top seeds, but it's becoming more competitive. Princeston still wins 21-0 and move on to the Quarterfinals
No. 17 Purdue @ No. 2 Lafayette- The Leopards shut down Purdue's offense in a 24-0 win. They move on to the Quarterfinal Round.
No. 14 Chicago @ No. 3 Penn - It is a tough fought battle, but Penn scores two touchdowns with one missed PAT. The Quakers win 10-0 to move on to the Quartefinals!
No. 13 Minnesota @ No. 4 Yale - Yale wins against Minneosta's great defense, as they score a lone touchdown in a 6-0 win and move on to the Quarterfinals
No. 12 Navy @ No. 5 Harvard - UPSET ALERT - After a Harvard safety, Navy is down most of the game. However, late in the game they score a touchdown to but them ahead! The Midshipmen win 6-2 and move on to play No. 4 Yale
No. 22 Kansas @ No. 6 Dartmouth - Kansas wants to continue its playoff success, but is shut down by the Big Green. Dartmouth wins 38-5 and move on to play No. 3 Penn in the Quarterfinals.
No. 10 Carlisle Indian @ No. 7 Army - Army blows out Carlisle in a 36-4 win, as they move on to play No. 2 Lafayette in the Quarterfinal Round.
No. 9 Michigan @ No. 8 Wisconsin - This game met the hype, as Michigan lines up for a field goal to tie it, but it hits off the upright. Wisconsin wins 24-19 to move on and play No. 1 Princeton
Quarterfinals
No. 8 Wisconsin @ No. 1 Princeton - Princeton handles Wisconsin easier than Williams, as they win 30-4 to move on to the Final Four.
No. 7 Army @ No. 2 Lafayette -Davis' Leopards handle business vs Army as they win 16-6 to move on to the Final Four Round
No. 6 Dartmouth @ No. 3 Penn - Penn blows out Dartmouth in a near shutout. The Quakers win 41-4 and move on to play No. 2 Lafayette in the Final Four Round.
No. 12 Navy @ No. 4 Yale - Yale's offense has been having trouble this postseason, but still wins vs Navy as they move on to the Final Four against No. 1 Princeton
Final Four
No. 4 Yale @ No. 1 Princeton - It's strange seeing this rivals meet outside of the Championship game this time, but its competitive still. Princeton scores the lone touchdown, as they win 6-0 to have a chance to compete for their ninth championship!
No. 3 Penn @ No. 2 Lafayette - Another defensive battle, Penn tries to avenge their lone loss vs Lafayette, but Lafayette scores the killing blow in ANOTHER last minute touchdown. The Leoaprds win 4-0 and move on to play Princeton in a chance to win repeat championships!

The Championship Game at the Polo Grounds III, Manhattan, New York, NY

An over capacity crowd has gathered here in Manhattan, as anywhere around 38,000-40,000 have come to see this matchup between historic powerhouse Princeton, and the team who has found so much recent success Lafayette. The last time these teams met, it ended in a 0-0 tie. This won't be the case as there must be a winner in this game. Princeton takes about 15 minutes to get their first score, a 35 yard field goal. Lafayette has a chance to respond the next drive, but misses the field goal. This will be the story of the entire game. Lafayette throughout this game will have FIVE chances for a field goal and miss each one of them. Princeton has only three scoring chances and takes them, as they get another field goal and a touchdown with a missed PAT. Princeton wins 14-0 as they capture their ninth national championship, and stop a repeat champion from happening.
Click here to see the bracket and finishes.
^{NCAA Championship List
History of College Football Podcast - Ep. 158 - The decade long dominance of Penn football in the 1890s
History of College Football Podcast - Ep. 313 - The Penn Quaker's Glory Years with coach George Woodruff, 1892-1901
Hardcore College Football History - College Football History: 1895-1904 - Prelude To The Disaster of 1905
"Kill the Indian, Save the Man" - Carlisle Boarding School - US History - Extra History
The Carlisle Indian School: The Extraordinary Beginning of College Football's Greatest Underdog - Hardcore College Football History
Retro Seasons For Stadium Reference
This post that summarizes all changes to football rules over the years
Football: The American Intercollegiate Game - Parke H. Davis
1896 College Football Season - Wikipedia
1896 College Football All-American Team - Wikipedia
Polo Grounds - Wikipedia
Sources for Ratings:
Massey Ratings for Rankings and Games
Billingsley Report for Rankings
The Entropy System for Rankings
Loudsound.org for Rankings
plfeming Ratings for Rankings
Sorenson Rankings for Rankings}

One week away folks! 7 doesn’t really have any players that were drafted by the Vikings, but this was a fun Wiki read. There’s a lot about Cunningham outside of his Vikings and football career I didn’t know.

BEFORE VIKINGS

Cunningham was born in Santa Barbara, California, in 1963. His older brother Sam would also become a future NFL player. He attended Santa Barbara High School, and was a graduate of the class of 1981. As a senior, he led his team to a League title and the CIF Finals. He also competed in track and field at SBHS in the high jump; his elder brother Frank was the state champion in the shot put.
He then went on to attend the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He was a 1983 and 1984 College Football All-America Team selection as a punter. In 1984, his senior year, he led the UNLV Rebels to an 11–2 season—still the school's only 10-win season ever—however this was adjusted to 0–13 when it was found out several players were ineligible.
Cunningham was drafted by the Eagles in 1985, and had a decent career as a starter there until 1995, making the pro bowl in 1988-1990, and 2nd team all-pro in 1988. Cunningham tore his ACL in 1991, and had a few injury riddled seasons before retiring in 1995.

VIKINGS

Cunningham joined the Vikings in 1997 after being out of football in 1996. Vikings' coach Dennis Green called him when he was on a job site for his granite business. There he reunited with former Eagles wide receiver Cris Carter. In his first year with the Vikings, he orchestrated two late scoring drives to bring them back from a 9-point deficit to defeat the New York Giants in an NFC Wild Card game at Giants Stadium, 23–22. However, the Vikings lost in the Divisional Round to Steve Young and the San Francisco 49ers.
Cunningham enjoyed the greatest season of his career in Minnesota during the 1998 campaign when he guided the Vikings to a 15–1 regular season record with 34 touchdown passes, only 10 interceptions, and 3,704 passing yards. Cunningham had a good supporting cast that year with Cris Carter, rookie Randy Moss, and Jake Reed at wide receiver and Robert Smith and Leroy Hoard at running back. Cunningham led the league with a 106.0 passer rating while the Vikings scored a then-NFL record 556 points during the 1998 season, making him the first black quarterback to lead the league in that category.
Cunningham claimed the Vikings' Monday night 37–24 victory over the Green Bay Packers was "the greatest night of my football career". He threw for 442 yards and four touchdowns. However, the Vikings ended up being the first 15–1 team to fall short of the Super Bowl, losing to the underdog Atlanta Falcons in the NFC Championship Game by a field goal in overtime.
During the early stages of the 1999 season, after throwing nine interceptions in just six games, Cunningham was benched again, this time in favor of Jeff George. After the team announced that second-year quarterback Daunte Culpepper would be the starter prior to the 2000 season, Cunningham was released.

AFTER VIKINGS

After the Vikings, Cunningham played as a backup and started some games one year for the Cowboys and one year for the Ravens before retiring in 2001.
After retiring from football, Cunningham returned to UNLV to finish his college degree in Leisure Studies. Cunningham has also been active in the Gospel music business since his retirement from the NFL by opening a recording studio and producing Christian worship music. Cunningham, a born again Christian, became an ordained Protestant minister and founded a church called Remnant Ministries in Las Vegas in 2004. In 2020, Cunningham became the team chaplain for the Las Vegas Raiders, replacing former team chaplain Napoleon Kaufman, who stayed in Oakland when the team moved to Las Vegas.
In December 2009, Cunningham was hired by Silverado High School in Henderson, Nevada as the offensive coordinator of the school's varsity and junior varsity football team. His son, Randall Cunningham II, was a freshman quarterback for the Skyhawks.
On June 29, 2010, one of Cunningham's children, two-year-old son Christian, drowned in a hot tub while unattended at the family home in Las Vegas.
In August 2011, following a rumored spat with Silverado's head coach, Cunningham resigned his coaching position at SHS. His son, Randall Jr, withdrew from SHS and registered the same day at Bishop Gorman High School, a private Roman Catholic school in Las Vegas.
In March 2013, Cunningham authored Lay It Down: How Letting Go Brings Out Your Best (Worthy Publishing, ISBN 9781617951275). The book shows readers how to work out the “lay it down” principle in all phases of life.
In December 2014, Cunningham was named head coach at Silverado High School. In his rookie season as head coach, he and his staff turned the football program around from a previous record of 3–7 to a 2015 record of 7–4. The team recorded its first playoff victory since the year 2007. He helped coach two National All-Americans who were chosen to participate in the Blue-Grey All-American Bowl games. Cunningham was not retained as coach at Silverado High School after two seasons in April 2017.
His daughter, Vashti Cunningham, is a track and field athlete who competed in the high jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics, placing sixth overall.

Welcome to the thirty-second season of DK's Survivor.
For this season, 20 new contestants will be left to fend for themselves down under on the beaches of Queensland, where they will be split into two tribes based on their generation.
In the end only one person will be left, and they will claim the title of sole survivor.
Season link: https://brantsteele.com/survivo33/r.php?c=7uJe8n44
(Millennials) - Coomera Tribe:

• Gabby Petruzzi - 30 - Skiing Instructor - Belgrade, Serbia - u/boringperson11
• Greggory Orvilla - 26 - Comic Book Store Owner - Los Angeles, CA, USA - u/BigTeddyBear20
• Holger Hansen - 27 - Aeronautical Engineer - Copenhagen, Denmark - u/AlexExists6
• Juliana Kowalaka - 22 - College Student - Warsaw, Poland - u/BigTeddyBear20
• Katelin Stern - 21 - Pub Worker - Dripping Springs, TX, USA - u/AlexExists6
• Keston Jack - 27 - Sales Manager - Toronto, ON, Canada - u/Popular-Scientist648
• Laci Orozco - 24 - Influencer - AB, Canada - u/swoldow
• Rajni Vaidyaa - 27 - Orthodontist - San Francisco, CA, USA - u/swoldow
• Tyler Cullen - 28 - Actor - Minneapolis, MN, USA - u/SilverOwl24
• Yuma Kalli - 28 - Kickboxer - Taos, NM, USA - u/IdkWhatToDoHere-

(Gen-X) - Karragarra Tribe:

• Aaren Norris - 40 - Spa Owner - Seattle, WA, USA - u/SilverOwl24
• Brad Falls - 41 - Swim Coach/Retired Olympic Swimmer - Miami, FL, USA - u/Popular-Scientist648
• Gertrude Track - 53 - Therapist - Boston, MA, USA - u/AshZomboy
• Ike Campbell - 44 - Grill Chef - Long Beach, CA, USA - u/boringperson11
• Jezebel Rogers - 42 - Hairstylist/Fitness Instructor - Cedar Rapids, IA, USA - u/IdkWhatToDoHere-
• Lavern Colburn - 40 - Business Development Manager - Tuscaloosa, AL, USA - u/Technical_Mushroom12
• Lucille Robles - 53 - Retired Surgeon - Orlando, FL, USA - u/Feisty-Aardvark2074
• Randall Byers - 51 - Barber Shop Quartet Singer - u/swoldow
• Walter Bloo - 48 - Personal Trainer - Orlando, FL, USA - u/AshZomboy
• Wella Hastings - 40 - Restaurant Manager - u/LoveandLightLol

Winner: _____Juliana Kowalaka_____
Runner-Up: _____Ike Campbell_____
Second Runner-Up: _____Tyler Cullen_____
Fan Favorite: _____Gertrude Track_____
Link to wiki page for the season: DK's Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen-X DKSurvivor Wiki Fandom
Quick thoughts:
This season was unfortunately..... not very good. The Millennials struggled big time, and only a couple of them were ever able to gain a footing in the game. Not to mention the fact that we had 3 medevacs and a quit, which just sucked the life out of what was already a predictable and kind of lackluster season.
Despite all of that, there was a still a couple decent players and a few fun idol plays. Juliana did a great job at working her way into the final 3 while maintaining a good social standing with everyone. She wasn't particularly amazing at any one thing, but just had a nice overall game which was enough to get her the win.
Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments, and stay tuned for the sign-ups for season 33! As well, the sign-ups for the final season of DK's Celebrity Big Brother will be posted soon, so keep a look out for that too.
Previous seasons:

• Honduras
• Indonesia
• The Everglades
• Morocco
• Greece
• Tonga
• All-Stars
• Palawan
• The Brazilian Highlands
• Mariana Islands
• Maldives
• Kenya
• Wild West
• Fiji
• Melanesia - Fans vs. Favorites
• China
• Peru
• Canada
• Mexico
• Heroes vs. Villains
• Grenada
• Redemption Island
• West Pacific
• One World
• Puerto Rico - Fans vs. Favorites
• The Caribbean
• Blood vs. Water
• Wallis and Futuna
• Thailand - Blood vs. Water
• Second Chance
• Australia

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