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13 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
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*In addition to to being the first black NFL HOFer and having a CG ship named for him, Tunnell was the first black NY Giant (1948), first black NFL assistant coach, and is NFL's #2 all-time INT leader, trailing only fellow Hawkeye Paul Krause.
**and when he played at Iowa, there was already a 50+ year legacy of black players on the Hawkeye roster.
For fellow Hawkeye fans, Iowa/NFL alum @QuinnEarly has produced a documentary about Iowa's first black FB player (1895) Frank Kinney Holbrook-

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I'll be sure to DVR that to watch when I get a chance
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14 Aug
"As long as a man has a car, he can do anything and go anywhere. Is there anyone who will undertake to travel this summer from Peking to Paris by automobile?" - Le Matin 1/31/1907

5 cars decided to try, and on 8/10/1907 Prince Scipione Borghese finished first. #DavesCarIDService Image
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11 Aug
These B-lister jerks ruining it for all of us in Austin's vibrant Z-list community
Austin's "celebrity" community consists of Willie Nelson, Matthew McConaughey, and 500 trivia questions
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11 Aug
Gonna pin a Whip Inflation Now button to my lime green leisure suit, crack a Billy Beer, sit back and listen to some ABBA on my 8 track
On the upside, maybe all of this will eventually reboot punk rock
Time to bust my groovy threads out the mothballs
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9 Aug
Sucks when you move to a new place only to find out the previous tenants left it trashed
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Can Gavin remodel this fixer-upper under the 580 and flip the polls before the recall? Tune in tonight!
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9 Aug
no sir, all you have to do is tweet it with the #DavesCarIDService hashtag and wait patiently.
I will continue to do my pro bono weekend car identification here as a community service. The DCIDS Substack site is for the very best of that content, organized by topic, with extra history & patter from me. Think of it as my book, with a couple of new chapters every week.
as an aside, car IDing is increasingly the main (or only) reason I'm still on Twitter. It makes me happy, and seems to make other people happy regardless of their politics. A shit-ton more personal satisfaction than dishing out a viral sick burn or whatnot.
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