A week to remember

 Something a little different today..

I collect a lot of things, from the tangible (old LIFE magazines, Orioles memorabilia) to the intangible, like the list I keep of actors who will play the part of everyone I know, should it ever become necessary to make a movie about my life. 

(It won't.)

Another list I've been working on is one of well-known people whose names form a week of days. Without further ado, let's meet them now!  

Rick MONDAY played major league baseball from 1966 until 1984, after being the first #1 draft pick in the very first amateur player draft. He signed for the then-astonishing bonus of $104,000, which is what today's players call "lunch money."

TUESDAY Weld was born Susan Weld, but the closest her cousin could come to pronouncing "Tuesday" was "TuTu", and you can see how that turned out. She's an actress, mainly known for playing impetuous, saucy types, but unfortunately, she will turn 80 next month, and there is very little call for a cheeky octogenarian type. We loved her as Thalia Menninger on "Dobie Gillis."

There have been at least three WEDNESDAY Addamses that I can recall, but it's hard to top the original, as played by Lisa Loring on TV's Addams Family. Her dance with Lurch puts her on top for me.

My week, as it were, was made when Peggy told me about a character named Detective Inspector Fred THURSDAY on a PBS show she watched called "Endeavour." Welcome to the list, Fred!

Deadpan actor Jack Webb played LA Police Sergeant Joe FRIDAY on the radio and on two TV series, all called "Dragnet." The show told police stories from the point of view of the police and gave little sympathy to hippies and protestors, who were forced to wear ridiculous clothing and recite corny dialogue. Jack inspired a thousand parodies of his character, few of them flattering.

Apparently, there is a football team in Indianapolis, Indiana, although with all my research, I can find but scant information about it. I'm told that for the last eight games of the 2022 season, they invited a former player named Jeff SATURDAY, who had not coached football above the high school level, to be their head coach. The team responded to his hiring by losing seven of the eight games, leaving Jeff without a job, although Keith Olbermann says that his eyes are definitely "dreamy."

Billy SUNDAY was an average major league baseball player in the late 1800s who became an above-average histrionic evangelist in the early 1900s. He never attended college or seminary, but made a name  - and a fortune - for himself preaching hellfire and damnation. And all before there was such a thing as cable TV!