Pat Tillman - S - Arizona State Sun Devils

Given the Arizona Cardinals pending appearance in Super Bowl XLIII this Sunday, this is probably the proper time for Pat Tillman to make his appearance here on 42.

Tillman, an Army Ranger who passed up a multimillion dollar contract with the Arizona Cardinals to serve his country was killed in Afghanistan in 2004. Prior to his all to brief stint in the NFL he patrolled the defensive backfield for Arizona State from 1994 through 1997, helping the Sun Devils to the 1997 Rose Bowl.

After the conclusion of the 2004 Arizona State football season, the The Number no longer appears on the Sun Devil roster as the jersey worn by Pat Tillman was retired. Connor Banks, a senior defensive end from Richmond, California, wore The Number for the Sun Devils during the 2004 season as a tribute to Tillman. Prior to each game, Banks carried the American flag out of the team tunnel and onto Frank Kush Field.

On Saturday, April 15, 2006, more than 10,000 participants turned out for Pat's Run in Tempe, Arizona. The racers traveled along the 4.2-mile (6.8 km) course around Tempe Town Lake to the finish line, on the 42-yard (38 m) line of Sun Devil Stadium.

Erick Brock - DB - Atlanta Falcons

Signed by Atlanta on May 19, 2008 out of Auburn, Erick Brock finished fifth on the Tigers defense with 59 tackles in 2007 while setting a season-high with eight stops against LSU. Brock finished fourth on the team in tackles with 50 in 2006 and tied for third on the team with five tackles against Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl.

Born on April 4, 1985 Brock attended Benjamin Russell High School (Alabama) and finished with 84 tackles, six interceptions and four blocked punts as a senior. He helped lead his team to a 13-2 record and 5A state championship as a junior and a 10-3 record as a senior.

He now proudly sports The Number for the Atlanta Falcons.

Cricket

Anyone want to guess how many laws there are in cricket?

If you are intersted in what they are...well...that is a problem. But here is a link for you anyway. Click here.

Jason Richert - LB - Jesuit High School

Proudly sporting The Number, linebacker Jason Richert of Jesuit High School in New Orleans, Louisiana scores his teams only touchdown on this interception and 52 yard return against Catholic High School of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The Bears of Catholic High defeated the Blue Jays 16 to 9 on September 21, 2007 at Olympia Stadium in Baton Rouge.

Richert went on to be named to the Times-Picayune All-Orleans Football Team.

Super Bowl XLII plus I

In what we will refer to here as Super Bowl 42 plus 1 - the Pittsburgh Steelers are back!

Dustin Jeffrey - C - Pittsburgh Penguins

The Penguins’ sixth round pick (171st overall) in 2007, Dustin Jeffrey is now proudly sporting The Number in the NHL. Previous to this he played four OHL seasons for Mississauga and Sault Ste. Marie, recording 252 points (100+152) in 246 games. In the truest tradition of The Number Jeffrey received the Dr. Bill Kelly Award as the Greyhounds Most Gentlemanly Player in 2006 and 2007.

Clinton Hart - FS - San Diego Chargers - PART II

Well it looks like we have found one thing that can bring The Number down!

THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS!

Clinton Hart hangs his head after the Chargers 24-35 defeat at the hands of the Steelers in this AFC Playoff Game played on January 11, 2009 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Morris Peterson - G - Michigan State

This one comes to Quattro Due courtesy of our friend "The Pen".

Michigan State University will retire the school jersey of New Orleans Hornets guard Morris Peterson, who helped lead the Spartans to the 2000 national title. The ceremony retiring The Number will be held before tip-off Saturday (January 17, 2009) when the Spartans host Illinois at the Breslin Center.

The Associated Press named Peterson a second-team all-American his senior season, when he also was voted the Big Ten's player of the year by coaches. The Flint native ranks 10th on Michigan State's career scoring list with 1,588 points. In his career, the Spartans won three straight Big Ten Championships, two Big Ten Tournament titles and made two Final Four appearances.

Peterson becomes the ninth player in Spartan men's basketball history to have a jersey retired. Peterson was selected by the Toronto Raptors with the 21st pick in the first round of the 2000 NBA draft. He spent seven seasons with the Raptors and has been with the New Orleans Hornets since 2007.

Studio 42 - MLB Network

MLB Network launched on January 1, 2009 in approximately 50 million homes as the largest network debut in cable history. MLB Network will air live games, original programming, highlights, classic games, and coverage of baseball events. The MLB Network studio is located at 40 Hartz Way, Suite 10, Secaucus, New Jersey 07094.

This new network will revolve around its showpiece, "Studio 42". Named to honor Jackie Robinson and The Number, Studio 42 measures 9,600 square feet, and will be used as a demonstration center by MLB Network’s on-air talent, which includes former players. Studio 42 is designed to be a replica baseball field, featuring a half-scale infield made of field turf, measuring 45 feet from base to base and a pitcher’s mound 30 feet from home plate that can be moved back for more realistic demonstrations. The studio also features a replica outfield wall, complete with padding, brick designs, three different seating areas that can hold up to 173 people, and a 25-foot out-of-town scoreboard loosely modeled after the scoreboard at Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia that will be updated in real-time.

Great Lakes Dunes

On October 2, 2008, in Empire, Michigan, at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, the Postal Service issued 42–cent Nature of America: Great Lakes Dunes commemorative stamps in 10 designs.

The stamps and souvenir sheet were designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland.

The Great Lakes Dunes is the tenth stamp pane in the Nature of America’s educational series that features the beauty and complexity of major plant and animal communities in the United States. Previous issuances in the Nature of America series were:

Sonoran Desert (1999)
Pacific Coast Rain Forest (2000)
Great Plains Prairie (2001)
Longleaf Pine Forest (2002)
Arctic Tundra (2003)
Pacific Coral Reef (2004)
Northeast Deciduous Forest (2005)
Southern Florida Wetlands (2006)
Alpine Tundra (2007)

Matt Dodge - P - East Carolina

Tonight, proudly sporting The Number for the East Carolina Pirates, Matt Dodge got off a 68 yard punt against the Kentucky Wildcats in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee.

Ford Field - Detroit, Michigan

Row 42 at the site of Super Bowl XL, Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.

Jim Leonhard - S - Buffalo Bills

Jim Leonhard, out of Wisconsin, was the only member of the Buffalo Bills opening day, 53-man roster to be undrafted in 2005. Leonhard is shown here on the sidelines of the Bills November 13, 2005 home game against the Kansas City Chiefs proudly sporting The Number.

On April 29, 2008, Leonhard signed with the Baltimore Ravens.

Matt Robinson - DE - Wake Forest

Yesterday, Matt Robinson and The Number made their debut in the Inaugural Eagle Bank Bowl at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC.

Here Robinson is shown going by three Navy defenders who are demonstrating how they will be doing the "The Train" at the club after the game.

Wake Forest held on to top Navy, 29 to 19.

42 Ways to Kill Hitler

For those of you who kept saying, "I wonder when Hitler will make his way into the blog?", the time has come.

Courtesy of National Geographic, I give you "42 Ways to Kill Hitler". You may be thinking that old Quattro Due made this one up, but no, check the link. This is very real and unavoidable my friends.