[Ads-l] Big Sky

[Laurence Horn]

> On Aug 29, 2021, at 1:38 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Joe "Big Sky" Montegna would have a nice ring to it also.
> 
> JL

Honoring those famed Big Skies over Chicago. Or were those Big Shoulders?

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> On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 1:33 PM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Anyone else remember when the San Francisco 49ers tried to give star
>> quarterback Joe Montana the nickname "Big Sky"?
>> 
>> Wikipedia:
>> 
>>>> Montana earned the nickname "Joe Cool" for his ability to stay calm at
>> key moments, and "Comeback Kid" for his history of rallying his teams from
>> late-game deficits. His teammates in San Francisco called him "Bird Legs"
>> [70] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Montana#cite_note-70>[71]
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Montana#cite_note-71> due to his very
>> thin legs and small calves. He was called "Golden Joe" because he played in
>> California (the Golden State), and also appeared on a poster superimposed
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superimposition> in front of the Golden
>> Gate
>> Bridge <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge> with the wording
>> "The Golden Great".[72]
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Montana#cite_note-72> Two more names
>> were provided by a *San Francisco Chronicle
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Chronicle>* nickname contest
>> early in his NFL career: the winner was "Big Sky", but another contestant
>> suggested that since "Joe Montana" already sounded like a nickname, Montana
>> needed a real name, and christened him "David W. Gibson".[73]
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Montana#cite_note-73> Montana liked the
>> Gibson name so much that he had it stenciled above his locker.<<
>> 
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>> On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 9:15 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> From around 1950, the state of Montana has embraced the
>>> promotional nickname of "Big Sky Country."  There's even a tourist town
>>> called Big Sky.
>>> 
>>> Of diverting pedantic interest is that "Sonh-yoo-wau-na, or Big Sky," is
>>> among the "Sachems and War-Chiefs of the...Six Nations" listed as signers
>>> of a treaty with the United States which was entered into at
>>> "Kon-on-daigua, N.Y." (modern Canandaigua), June 26, 1794.
>>> 
>>> See _Gazette of the United States_ (Jan. 30, 1795), p. 10.
>>> 
>>> Modern use of the phrase comes from the title of A. B. Guthrie's
>>> best-selling novel, _The Big Sky_ (1947), filmed in 1952.
>>> 
>>> JL
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