Drink of the week: Tailgate Punch

Drink of the week: Tailgate Punch

Well Giants Fans, here we are!  It’s the season opener.  We need to start at the one and only appropriate place: Tailgate Punch.  Here’s how you make it: Ingredients 1 quart blood orange soda, chilled 2 cups lemonade, chilled Two 12-ounce cans peach nectar, chilled 1 1/2 cups vodka, optional Directions In a half-gallon pitcher,…

Happy Labor Day

Happy Labor Day

Labor Day came about because workers felt they were spending too many hours and days on the job (Can I get an Amen!). But let’s get some perspective. In the 1830s, manufacturing workers were putting in 70-hour weeks on average (Yikes!). The holiday was founded to reduce the work week to 6 days a week….

Throwback Thursday: The leather football helmet

Throwback Thursday: The leather football helmet

Before the advent of plastic football helmets, many football players wore leather helmets.  It’s no coincidence that the earliest football helmet looked more like a padded aviator cap than the high-tech crash-tested helmet used by today’s players. The invention of the leather helmet most likely dates back to 1893, when Admiral Joseph Mason Reeve (the…