Has anyone heard of this guy???

Miras Yifter and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin are actually the same person. Tired of winning olympic and world championship gold medals, Miras underwent a skin coloration surgical procedure (and gained 50 lbs) yet before he could achieve the elusive gold record-gold medal double in 1984, he tragically died in a vomit-doping accident.

Is that who you are thinking of?

"'The Big Barfer' (aka Bob Kampainen)."

Classic!

mtn man wrote:

Oh, and Elvis still holds the mile record at Tupelo, Mississippi High School. You could look it up.

I can vouch for this!

(great post, by the way)

What's the record?

Unfortunately, that part of his posts was just as fictional as the rest. Elvis didn't run track.

mtn man wrote:

Alright, I'll try to clear this up.

In 1959, there was a plane crash in Iowa that killed Buddy Edelin, Richie Rojas, and ?The Big Barfer? (aka Bob Kampainen). It?s been referred to as ?The Day the Running Died.? It was memorialized in a song called ?American Pie? recorded by Don Sage.

Though your post was full of detail, I must point out that you are wrong in the above paragraph. Everyone over the age of 30 knows for a fact that neither Buddy Epsen nor Bob Barker were killed in that plane crash. Otherwise, a fine post.

Correct. Epson went on to found an imaging company, and Barker beat up some golfer a few years back.

If you take a look at the record books, you'll find that it was indeed Emil Zappa who won all three distance golds in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Zappa had a fairly decent comeback in the 1956 marathon, but then retired and recorded some pretty trippy albums 10-15 years later. Man, that guy sure could run and play the guitar.

You guys got it all wrong i'm sorry I just feel the need to correct all of you, I looked in my political science book today-it was bill fontaine and he was from Dibble, Oklahoma-not ohio or ontario, and yes he did die in a motorcycle wreck but it wasn't his motorcycle it was his teammates tom foolery.

Tom was hot rodding around town on his new hog and bill was out on one of his "easy" ten milers, little did he know that when refilling his blinker fluid and switching the summer air in his tires to winter air, he accidentally disconnected his breaks. as a joke he was going to pretend to hit poor bill as a joke and stop right behind him, poor bill. he never suspected a motorcycle to come run him over from behind, he never heard it coming because he was an avid dixie chicks fan and was singing "ready to run" at the top of his lungs.. sad but true

well, i heard about this one dude named Kennedy who could run really well. he ran for EVERYTHING! i mean, he even ran for President! and WON! but the craziest thing, is that he was shot while sitting in a car. pretty sad. good guy, and he had a hot concubine to boast!

captain goofy wrote:

there was this other dude who was pretty good at a young age...Jimmy Ryundorfer. that boy could run. he ran for some witch in kansas...or maybe it was witchita, i don't remember.

You fool. The witch was in Oz. Dorothy was from Kansas. Get your f***ing fairytales straight.