Billy Joe Tolliver (born February 7, 1966) is a former American football
quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) and
Canadian Football League. Over the course of his NFL career, he played
in 79 games, completed 891 of 1,707 passes for 10,760 yards, threw 59
touchdowns and 64 interceptions, and retired with a passer rating of
67.7. A graduate of Texas Tech University, Tolliver was selected 51st in
the 1989 NFL Draft by the San Diego Chargers. He started 19 games in two
seasons at San Diego before being traded to the Atlanta Falcons, where
he saw playing time as a backup for three seasons. In 1994, he became
one of three starting quarterbacks for the Houston Oilers. He played
quarterback for the Canadian league's Shreveport Pirates during their
final season of activity in 1995, and played for the Falcons and Kansas
City Chiefs in 1997. He then started in 11 games for the New Orleans
Saints in two seasons.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Joe_Tolliver>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1783:
American Revolutionary War: After three years and seven months,
Spain and France abandoned their attempt to capture Gibraltar from the
British.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Gibraltar>
1900:
A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco fell ill to bubonic plague
in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_plague_of_1900%E2%80%931904>
1986:
President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier fled the country after
a popular uprising, ending 28 years of one-family rule in the nation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Duvalier>
2014:
Researchers announced the discovery of the Happisburgh
footprints in Norfolk, England, the oldest known hominid footprints
outside Africa at more than 800,000 years old.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happisburgh_footprints>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
finesse:
1. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, politics) To evade (a problem,
situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem.
2. (transitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To handle or manage carefully or
skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.
4. (intransitive, card games) To attempt to win a trick by finessing.
5. (intransitive, croquet, obsolete) To play a ball out of the way of an
opponent.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/finesse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's
no better rule.
--Charles Dickens
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens>