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Since we’re wrapping up the Your Gotta Bereave Dead Pool this week, let’s take a moment to remember our favorite death cartoons…
   

Today’s sad, sad passing of Harper Lee gives one team some important points with only 10 days to go in the 2016 pool! Team Digger O’Dell, led by Kathy, gets a new 16 points, 11 for Harper’s 89 years and an extra 5 for the single shot.

It would be silly to try to write about Harper when she can summarize her own perfection in this quote from Scout:

“Atticus said to Jem one day, “I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

RIP Harper.

Congrats to Kathy.  Insincerely, Commissioners Satan and Missy

Today’s sad, sad passing of Abe Vigoda puts some points on the board after we’ve had crickets in this game for almost 8 weeks! (Very famous people died in those 8 weeks, btw.)

Each of these 4 teams has earned a whopping 6 points for Abe’s 94 years:

• Dead Man Guessing – Joan/Jerome
• Digger O’Dell – Kathy
• 10-Zero – Johnny/Lori
• The Stiffs – Mark

Vigoda was likely most famous for his role of Detective Phil Fish on Barney Miller from 1975-82. But it was his role of Sal Tessio in The Godfather that will make him live on forever. Satan get chills whenever he sees Tessio knowing his deadly fate say “Tell Mike it was only business, I always liked him.”

The scores are updates, congrats to the point grabbers.
Insincerely, Commissioners Satan and Missy

Over the years everyone has had Scott Weiland on their list at least once, but with his sad, sad passing today, only one team gets the points. Team Left for Dead, led by TJ, picks up a whopping 67 points, 52 for Scott’s age of 48, then 5 bonus points for the single shot and 10 for the overdose.

Weiland was best known as the front man of the 90’s band Stone Temple Pilots who had 11 Top 10 hits on the charts and sold 13.5 million albums. He then went on to have a few great side projects including Velvet Revolver.  Weiland battled drug addiction for over 20 years but seems to have lost the war there.

Congrats to our point grabber.  Insincerely, Commissioners Satan and Missy

Today’s sad, sad passing of Frank Gifford gives some points to our resident all-football team, SuccumbOnOver, coached by Jack. He picks up 31 points – that’s 16 for Frank’s 84 years, plus 5 bonus points for having the single shot and another 10 bonus points because it’s August.

Gifford played football for the NY Giants from 52-64 and went to the pro-bowl a few times, at three different positions. When his career ended, he went on to host Monday Night Football from 71-85. He married his third wife Kathi Lee in 1986 and she hasn’t stopped talking about him on TV since.

Points page is updated, congratulations SuccumbOnOver.

Insincerely, Commissioners Satan and Missy