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.

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)

Anyone want to guess how many decks the United Star Ship Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) has?

You got it Star Trek fans. 42

Rainbows

The angle at which light reflects off of water to create a rainbow is 42 degrees. So a rainbow can be located at an angle 42 degrees off the axis of the sunlight. That is, the angle between incoming white sunlight and the outgoing rainbow colors is 42 degrees.

Who knew?

State of Washington and the 42 Star Flag

On November 11, 1889, (right after Montana and shortly before Idaho) Washington proudly became the 42nd state in the Union. For a brief period of seven months and twenty-two days, our nation proudly had forty-two states.

However, because a new flag design does not become official until July 4th, there should not have been a 42 star flag. Since Washington was admitted as the 42nd state on November 11, 1889, the 42 star flag would have become official the following July 4th, but Idaho became the 43rd state on July 3rd, so the new official flag would have had 43 stars.

But do you think something like that could stop 42 from having it's own flag?

Low and behold, the public outcry for the 42 star flag was so great that many manufacturers took it upon themselves to produce, in bulk, the coveted yet unofficial 42 star flag seen below.

Love: All Heart - 42 cent stamp

On June 10, 2008, in Washington, DC, the Postal Service™ issued a 42–cent, Love: All Heart commemorative stamp.

The stamp was designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland. Illustrator Paul Zwolak of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, created the design for the 2008 Love series stamps. Entitled All Heart, the design focuses on a large, bright red heart that is transporting its owner to an unseen beloved who will be gifted with this heart full of love.

Chris Crocker - S - Cincinnati Bengals

Chris Crocker (not to be confused with the crackpot Britney Spears fan of The Soup infamy) signed with the Cincinnati Bengals as a free agent on October 30, 2008.

Crocker entered the NFL as the third-round draft choice of the Cleveland Browns in 2003 out of Marshall and played for the Browns through 2005. So given that he has now played for both the Browns and the Bengals, wearing The Number maybe the highlight of his career.

To the right Croker is shown posing for the camera while his teammate breaks up a pass to the Eagles' Kevin Curtis during the Bengals 13-13 tie with the Eagles on November 16, 2008. The tie was the first in the NFL since 2002. (Photo by Ron Cortes)

Crocker did get his head in the game in the fourth quarter, sacking Donovan McNabb. Crocker ended the game with a respectable, Number-inspired four tackles, one sack and one interception.

Photo by Steven M. Falk

Rule 42

In Chapter XII of Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll the King interjects Rule 42, which states, “All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”

Everyone turns to Alice, who denies she is a mile high and accuses the King of fabricating the rule. The King replies that Rule 42 is the oldest rule in the book, but Alice retorts that if it is the oldest rule in the book, it ought to be the first rule.

An intriguing conundrum....