I could have sworn I wrote in my journal about an evening I remember from Charlotte in the 1990s. I can't find any references to those words though after a few minutes of searching.
I thought I wrote about how I was in a microbrewery bar with some of those employees of that law firm in downtown Charlotte.
I remember there were also two Carolina Panthers players there standing around the bar talking to some people I knew. One guy, someone told me, was the 4th-string quarterback. I have no idea his name. Not sure if I would recognize his name if I tried looking it up on the internet.
And this reminds me just some confusing thoughts in my mind. As though my memories are sometimes laced with anger. A kind of hostility that I don't really now understand. I wasn't acting angry or hostile or generally unsociable but there is just in a lot of memories sometimes those feelings of aggression I can't really understand.
Well, I can sort of understand. I mean, that would make sense. I just can't understand where it went. Or something.
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http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1995-07-15/sports/9507150193_1_emtman-draft-pick-training-camp
Orlando Sentinel
THE NFL
Miami Dolphins
July 15, 1995
FOURTH-ROUND DRAFT pick Pete Mitchell agreed to terms on Friday, leaving only first-round pick Billy Milner, an offensive tackle who was the No. 25 overall pick, unsigned with two days left before the start of training camp. Mitchell received a 3-year, $650,000 deal, including a $194,000 signing bonus and minimum salaries each year. He also will receive a $5,000 workout bonus in the second and third years.
CAROLINA PANTHERS
THE TEAM agreed to deals with three of its draft picks. Panthers officials confirmed they had settled on contract terms late Friday night with cornerback Tyrone Poole of Fort Valley State, their second first-round draft pick, and they said they were close to signing Penn State quarterback Kerry Collins, their No. 1 pick in the draft. Team President Mike McCormack said he expected an agreement with Collins by today.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/428102/FOOTBALL-BRIEFS.html?pg=all
Deseret News
FOOTBALL BRIEFS
Published: July 15, 1995 12:00 a.m.
Colts, Emtman negotiate
ANDERSON, Ind. - The Indianapolis Colts held their first two-a-day workouts Friday while the status of defensive lineman Steve Emtman remained unresolved.
The Colts had said Thursday the No. 1 pick in the 1992 college draft must accept a $1.3 million salary reduction for the upcoming season or face release.
Bill Tobin, colts director of football operations, said he had learned from NFL headquarters it was not necessary to place Emtman on waivers until Saturday to resolve the team's salary cap situation.
The Colts want to sign Emtman for $700,000, obtaining $1.3 million in relief on this year's salary cap, and include incentives that would boost his 1995 salary.
Those incentives, however, wold count against next year's salary cap.
Emtman counts $3 million toward this year's $37.6 million salary cap, including $1 million from the signing bonus he received in 1992.
Bills look to the future
FREDONIA, N.Y. - The Buffalo Bills opened training camp Friday without having to explain a missed field goal or missing helmet. Not a word was spoken about how another Super Bowl got away.
For the first time since 1988, the Bills entered a season having missed the playoffs the year before and appeared relieved that any pressure they face will come from themselves.
Other than adjusting to several new faces and a new defensive coordinator in former Denver coach Wade Phillips, Buffalo's biggest problems were getting linebacker Cornelius Bennett into camp and Jim Kelly and Bruce Smith off the injured list.
Last of Jaguars show up
STEVENS POINT, Wis. - The expansion Jacksonville Jaguars were finally all together for training camp on Friday.
The last two arrivals, defensive linemen Jeff Lageman and Kelvin Pritchett, weighed in, did their mandatory 300-yard shuttle runs and then took part in the first of their two-a-day workouts.
Lageman, Pritchett and another defensive lineman, Joel Smeenge, were the only veterans who decided not to heed coach Tom Coughlin's request that they report to camp a week early along with the rookies.
Panthers open 1st camp
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - The Carolina Panthers opened their inaugural training camp Friday without their top four draft choices, all of whom were tangled in last-minute contract negotiations.
The 5 p.m. deadline for players to report to Wofford College passed with the Panthers failing to work out contracts with Penn State quarterback Kerry Collins and Fort Valley State cornerback Tyrone Poole, the expansion team's first two draft picks.
From 8/30/1954 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Statement by the President Upon Signing the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 ) To 5/11/1984 ( my Ashdown Arkansas High School Class of 1984 graduation ceremony ) is 10847 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/15/1995 is 10847 days
From 7/4/1961 ( John Kennedy - Exchange of Greetings on Independence Day Between the United States and the Soviet Union ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 10847 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/15/1995 is 10847 days
From 7/4/1961 ( premiere US film "Most Dangerous Man Alive" ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 10847 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/15/1995 is 10847 days
From 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ) To 7/15/1995 is 1525 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/5/1970 ( premiere US TV series "All My Children" ) is 1525 days
From 8/30/1961 ( premiere US TV movie "Monte Carlo" ) To 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ) is 10847 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/15/1995 is 10847 days
From 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut ) To 7/15/1995 is 1164 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/9/1969 ( Lyndon Johnson - Remarks Upon Presenting the NASA Distinguished Service Medal to the Apollo 8 Astronauts ) is 1164 days
From 4/14/1962 ( John Kennedy - Remarks at the Marine Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 10847 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/15/1995 is 10847 days
From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 7/15/1995 is 1298 days
1298 = 649 + 649
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/13/1967 ( Michael Dean Draper ) is 649 days
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The Seattle Times
Sunday, July 16, 1995
Collins: Bonus Of $7 Million
AP
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Kerry Collins signed a long-term contract with the Carolina Panthers last night that includes a $7 million signing bonus, an amount the quarterback's agent called the largest in NFL draft history.
"Kerry wanted to make a commitment to the Panthers, and this will enable him to do that," said agent Leigh Steinberg.
Steinberg said the contract is structured for seven years but can be voided after three to give the expansion team the right to buy three more years. If Carolina elects that option, the team would pay Collins another bonus, this one $6 million, and the total six-year deal would be worth $21.6 million.
Collins was the fifth selection in April's draft.
The top pick last year, offensive tackle Dan Wilkinson of Ohio State, was given a $5 million signing bonus by Cincinnati. He also was represented by Steinberg.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-16/sports/sp-24484_1_carolina-panthers
Los Angeles Times
NEWSWIRE
Panthers Give Collins $7-Million Bonus
July 16, 1995 From Staff and Wire Reports
The expansion Carolina Panthers have signed quarterback Kerry Collins to a long-term contract that includes a $7-million signing bonus, called by his agent the largest in NFL draft history.
Agent Leigh Steinberg said the complex contract is structured for seven years worth $23.18 million, or six years at $21.6 million.
Collins, the fifth selection in April's draft, signed the contract Saturday night in the Panthers' main offices in Charlotte, N.C., and then drove to Spartanburg, S.C., for today's opening of training camp.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=10012
The American Presidency Project
Dwight D. Eisenhower
XXXIV President of the United States: 1953 - 1961
223 - Statement by the President Upon Signing the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
August 30, 1954
BECAUSE OF great progress in the field of atomic energy during the past eight years, I recommended early this year that the Congress modernize the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, the basic law governing our vast atomic enterprise. This new legislation was enacted by the Congress in pursuance of that recommendation.
The new Act permits us, under proper security safeguards, to give our allies certain information that they must have for an effective defense against aggression. This information includes data needed for training in the use of and defense against atomic weapons and for evaluating the atomic capabilities of a potential aggressor. Agreements of this type with our allies will greatly strengthen our common defense and security.
This Act also sets up procedures to encourage certain exchanges of non-military atomic technology. Thus it recognizes the excellence of the atomic energy programs in certain other nations, and the groundwork is laid for wider participation in the peacetime applications of atomic energy. For example, under the Act our technicians can assist friendly nations or groups of nations in building reactors for research and power.
Also reflected in the new law is the fervent desire of our people to proceed with a plan for an International Atomic Energy Agency which would advance the peacetime applications of atomic energy, as we proposed last December to the United Nations. Although progress on this plan has been impeded by Soviet obstruction and delay, we intend to proceed--with the cooperation and participation of the Soviet Union if possible, without it if necessary.
That it is time to draw more specifically into the national atomic energy program the initiative and resources of private industry is recognized in the new law. For instance, private industry is enabled to participate more fully in the development of economic nuclear power, while the Government continues to assist this progress with basic research and the building of experimental reactors.
Debate on this legislation revealed some misunderstandings about the effect of certain of its provisions on public and private development of electrical power from the atom. I want our people to know that these provisions are designed eventually to relieve the taxpayer of the enormous cost of the commercial aspects of the enterprise, while fully protecting the public interest in atomic energy. In fact, these provisions carry into effect the 1946 policy declaration of the original Atomic Energy Act, that free competition in private enterprise should be strengthened.
As I sign this bill, I am confident that it will advance both public and private development of atomic energy--that it will thus lead to greater national strength--and that programs undertaken as a result of this new law will help us progress more rapidly to the time when this new source of energy will be wholly devoted to the constructive purposes of man.
Note: The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 is Public Law 703, 83d Congress (68 Stat. 919).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055197/releaseinfo
IMDb
Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)
Release Info
USA 4 July 1961 (New York City, New York)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445571/releaseinfo
IMDb
Monte Carlo (1961 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 30 August 1961
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 30, 2006
After they released me from the VA last year, I stumbled around in that senior citizens home, trying to find something to do, the very first magazine I picked up to read was a National Geographic edition from 1981 that described STS-1.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-49
STS-49
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
STS-49 was the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The primary goal of its nine-day mission was to retrieve an Intelsat VI satellite
http://scottfowlerobs.blogspot.com/2011/07/soft-spot-for-kerry.html
charlotteobserver.com
SCOTT SAYS ...
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2011
POSTED BY SCOTT FOWLER AT 10:06 PM
A soft spot for Kerry
Kerry Collins -- the last quarterback the Panthers drafted in the first round prior to Cam Newton -- announced his retirement today.
Give Collins credit. He stuck around the NFL for 16 years, and his flameout in Charlotte after 3 1/4 of those seasons has long been in his rearview mirror. I'm glad he lasted so long -- I've always had a soft spot for Kerry, who I've sensed from the beginning has a good soul. Here are a few excerpts from a column I wrote about Collins in 2010, following the last time we spoke via phone before the Panthers and his Tennessee Titans were to play an exhibition game...
Kerry Collins is a cattle rancher, a father to a first-grader, a husband, an NFL quarterback (still!) and an occasional writer of country music.
Everyone in the Carolinas should now be able to agree on something Collins is not – a quitter.
In his 16th NFL season – he and the Carolina Panthers debuted in the same year -- Collins will visit his first NFL city tonight as his Tennessee Titans play the Panthers in an exhibition game.
...
What does Collins think about when he comes to Charlotte now?
“My memories of Charlotte are mostly pleasant ones,” Collins said. “I don’t think there’s anything that went on in Charlotte that I harbor any resentment about. I made my share of mistakes, for sure, when I was there.”
Collins still comes to North Carolina a good bit. His wife, the former Brooke Isenhour, is from Concord. The two met at a George Strait concert at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 2000, married in 2002 and now have a six-year-old daughter, Riley. The family splits its time between Nashville and Troy, N.C., where Collins owns a 1,580-acre working cattle ranch.....
Collins has been gone from Charlotte a dozen years now – the Panthers controversially released him in 1998. He remains one of the most fascinating figures to ever pull on a Panther uniform.
I know he had problems in Charlotte – most of them fueled by alcohol and partying.... But he... is a fighter, not a quitter. He changed his personal ways for the better, and he has resurrected his NFL career again and again. He is smart, introspective and self-deprecating....
With Tennessee, Collins has morphed into the role of the stable veteran, much like Steve Beuerlein was to Collins in the late 1990s with Carolina.
It would have been hard to imagine a dozen years ago that Collins would still be flourishing in the NFL in 2010. After the Panthers started the 1998 season 0-4, Collins told Carolina coach Dom Capers he thought the team might be better off starting Beuerlein.
Capers said at the time that Collins told him “My heart isn’t in it anymore.” The coach presented it that way to the team and media. Collins has long said he did not use those exact words, but that he was so confused at the time he really did think the team would be better off without him. He was certainly frustrated about his fame and didn’t embrace or understand all that came with being an NFL starting quarterback. He was spiraling downward, personally and professionally.
Capers didn’t just bench Collins in 1998. Capers fired him entirely (and then got fired himself a few months later).
Collins was labeled a quitter by many after that episode. It got worse for him when he was arrested in Charlotte in November 1998 for driving under the influence of alcohol. By this time, he was with the New Orleans Saints. When released shortly after his arrest, a TV cameraman filmed Collins walking down the street with a cigar in his mouth.
But that was all a long time ago. Collins went to alcohol rehab, dried out and got the New York Giants to the Super Bowl in 2000. He later started in Oakland and in Tennessee, making the Pro Bowl in 2008 as a Titan.
Collins was a 22-year-old kid when he got to Charlotte – a rebellious one.
He’s a 37-year-old man now – a good one.
Enjoy your retirement, Kerry. You've earned it.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 4:55 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 07 September 2016
