A Canadian hero....
TIL Vince Coleman, a railway dispatcher, sacrificed his life in order to warn an incoming train of an imminent explosion. His telegraph said "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys." He saved 300 lives.
TIL Bob Ebeling, The Challenger Engineer Who Warned Of Shuttle Disaster, Died Two Years Ago At 89 After Blaming Himself His Whole Life For Their Deaths.
TIL that in 1980 Weird Al Yankovic turned down a 5 million dollar (worth 14 million today) beer endorsement stating "a lot of my fans were young and impressionable, so ethically I believe I did the right thing"
Well if he's traded he wouldn't have a choice.
Plus, if the Bills were going to give him a new contract that he wanted, I'm sure he would be ok with Buffalo.
That being said, I don't see OBJ as a player that McBeane would give up a lot for
TIL that several months before Russell Crowe won the Oscar for Gladiator, the FBI warned him that the al-Qaeda were planning to kidnap him as part of a “cultural destabilization plot”. For nearly two years, the FBI guarded Crowe in public and refused to give him any details about the threat.