Who came first, Yogi Bear or Yogi Berra?
This question popped into my head while showering this morning. "Why were you thinking about these two characters in the shower?" you ask. Well, I think it is becoming more and more an obsession of mine to Wikipedia things. I "wiki" everything.
Ex.) Last year, when the Giants won the Super bowl, I used wikipedia to look up what the third Manning brother (yes there is one) did for a living because his other two brothers were two of the biggest names is sports at that point.
Turns out he is the eldest bro., was a star receiver is high school with Peyton as his QB, but was diagnosed with spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spine, and was forced to be a spectator from there on out. He now is part owner of an energy firm in New Orleans that works with oil and gas stocks.
To get more in depth, I will also note that while I was looking this information up, Eli Manning’s Wikipedia page was updated that he had won Superbowl 42. The funny thing is that the game wasn't quite over, there was maybe a few seconds left on the clock, and I think the classless opposing coach, Bill Belichick, had already left the game, because the Giants were definitely going to win. Yes, wikipedia was reporting the news before it happened!
So today I checked old "wiki" and found out that Yogi Berra, born Lawrence Peter Berra in 1925, was later nicknamed "Yogi" by his friend and fellow Major League baseball player, Bobby Hofman, years before the picnic basket stealing bear named Yogi appeared as a Hanna-Barbera cartoon in 1958, when Berra was in his early 30's. The article also stated that Hanna-Barbera denied that the bear was named after Berra, and that Berra was sometimes called "Yogi Bear," which he hated.
Ex.) Last year, when the Giants won the Super bowl, I used wikipedia to look up what the third Manning brother (yes there is one) did for a living because his other two brothers were two of the biggest names is sports at that point.
Turns out he is the eldest bro., was a star receiver is high school with Peyton as his QB, but was diagnosed with spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spine, and was forced to be a spectator from there on out. He now is part owner of an energy firm in New Orleans that works with oil and gas stocks.
To get more in depth, I will also note that while I was looking this information up, Eli Manning’s Wikipedia page was updated that he had won Superbowl 42. The funny thing is that the game wasn't quite over, there was maybe a few seconds left on the clock, and I think the classless opposing coach, Bill Belichick, had already left the game, because the Giants were definitely going to win. Yes, wikipedia was reporting the news before it happened!
So today I checked old "wiki" and found out that Yogi Berra, born Lawrence Peter Berra in 1925, was later nicknamed "Yogi" by his friend and fellow Major League baseball player, Bobby Hofman, years before the picnic basket stealing bear named Yogi appeared as a Hanna-Barbera cartoon in 1958, when Berra was in his early 30's. The article also stated that Hanna-Barbera denied that the bear was named after Berra, and that Berra was sometimes called "Yogi Bear," which he hated.
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