WHAT'S YOUR SIGN?

Well it's black history month and today we thought we'd honor some great black people. Today's theme: Astrological signs!

Of course we'll be starting wiith the first ever black, male American Gladiator, Gemini. His best event was the Joust, where he lost only 8 times in his career. But the most interesting thing about him is that he appeared on the game show, Press Your Luck. He was then just known by his birth name, Michael Horton. You may be wondering if there is any tie to the Salt City? Well, in Season 2 of American Gladiators, former Syracuse University football player, Larry Csonka joined Mike Adamle up in the announcing booth. We can only speculate, but we think it's safe to say that Csonk and Gemini were probably off galavanting together quite a bit!



Next on this list is a fine, fine comedian. He's probably best known for his role on Mad TV, where he does a great impression of Shaquille O'Neal and many other famous black persons. That's right, it's mister Aries Spears! The closests connection we could find was that he does an impersonation of weather maven Al Roker, who has a sub named for him in Oswego, which is but a mere stone's throw from the Salt City.






And then of course, there is Dr. J himself, Julius Erving. Now his name is not an astrological sign, but the good doctor played the star player of the Pittsburgh Pisces in "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh." Now, we could have just as easily of used Meadowlark Lemon, who played one of Erving's teammates in the movie, but since Dr. J is actually a Pisces, we decided to use him. Oh and belated Happy Birhday to the doctor from SCS (it was on the 22nd)! If you haven't seen "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" than you don't know what you're missing! Sure the plot, acting, basketball are all, well, not good, it's still a good watch we feel. The SCS connection? SCS is also a Pisces, and Dr. J spent some time in the ABA, which will, soon enough, be in the Salt City.


And our final honoree today is of course is Terrell Owens. Huh? Well we consider him to be a Cancer. A locker room cancer that is. Owens is a pompous media hungry primadona, who puts himself above the team. The Salt City connection? Well Terrell is on the Dallas Cowboys, and on the Cowboys coaching staff is none other than former Syracuse University head coach, Paul Pasqualoni.




And there you have an astrological look at Black History Month from the Salt City.