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Welcome to National Pepper Pot Day!
Having been nicknamed as “the soup that won the war,” Pepper Pot has its very own day. National Pepper Pot Day is observed annually on December 29th.
The winter of 1777 – 1778 was brutal. The Continental Army was fighting for the newly formed country of the United States of America during the Revolutionary War. As they were camped at Valley Forge on December 29th, 1777, George Washington asked the army’s chef to prepare a meal that would boost their morale and warm them. The chef rounded up some peppercorn, small bits of meat, tripe and other ingredients and called it Pepper Pot Soup, also known as Philadelphia Pepper Pot Soup.
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Throwback Thursday: Syracuse boy steals football from Browns quarterback's locker (PS; Croyle)
Everyone remembers when Tom Brady's Super Bowl jersey was stolen.
On Feb. 5, the New England Patriots quarterback led his team to a come-from-behind victory over the Atlanta Falcons. After the game. his number 12 jersey was stolen from his bag. It was recovered a few weeks later at the home of a former Mexican newspaper editor, Mauricio Ortega.
A similar thing happened in 1964.
Only this time it was a football stolen from the locker of Cleveland Browns quarterback Frank Ryan after the NFL Championship game, by a boy from Syracuse.
The Post-Standard's Pete Gaffney wrote on Dec. 30, 1964: "The longest pass in the history of Cleveland Browns football was intercepted in Syracuse yesterday by a police sergeant who snatched the prized pigskin from its illegal receiver."
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Don't expect to see NC State's Bradley Chubb in Sun Bowl :: WRALSportsFan.com (wralsportsfan.com; Henderson)
The biggest question of the week for N.C. State hasn't been how the Wolfpack would play against Arizona State in the 2017 Sun Bowl.
It's been focused on who would be playing – more specifically, can fans expect to see Wolfpack senior defensive end Bradley Chubb take the field?
Well, if you read between the lines, the answer appears to be, “No.”
Wolfpack head coach Dave Doeren has had multiple media appearances the last couple of weeks and at each he dodged any direct questions about Chubb and his status for the game.
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“I'm not answering that question,” Doeren replied when asked if Chubb would play last week at his national signing day press conference last week. “I just told you, he can't wait to go to the Sun Bowl.”
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Buried by Lake Effect snow? In CNY, we just start digging (video) (PS; Long)
It may seem obvious - to those who hail from Central New York - that when it snows it often snows hard, leaving no option but to start digging oneself out.
Take Redfield, N.Y., which (unofficially) broke the county's 48-hour snow record with more than 5 feet this week.
Nearby Oswego saw over three feet in a 24-hour period, which according to many of the locals hasn't happened in a while, not that kind of accumulation in such a short period anyway.
Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow issued a state of emergency on Wednesday, urging people to stay off the streets. Shovels, snow brushes, plows and blowers were all hard at work clearing streets, driveways and vehicles in the snowy city.
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