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.

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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

_____________________________ 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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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.   --Charles Dickens https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens