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Time of India
16-07-2025
- Sport
- Time of India
Tampa Bay Buccaneers walk down painful memory lane for the team's 50th anniversary
(Image via Tampa Bay Buccaneers X) Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrate their 50th anniversary by bringing back the jerseys from the 1976 wardrobe. This is wonderful news! But why is it painful? Because in the 1976 NFL season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a 0-14 record. They lost all 14 games. And, they did not win or tie even a single game! In five of those, they didn't even score a single point! Now, this is a painful memory. But the stance of the 2025 Buccaneers team? They look like they want to reverse the painful record! From 0-14 to 14-0! Technically, 17-0. And we can't wait to have that, can we? Anyway, since the curiosity is kicking in about the 0-14 record, who was the head coach of that season? How did he cope? Let's find out! John McKay was the head coach and he used sarcasm to cope with the 14 losses The 1976 NFL season marked John McKay's first year as the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He came with a stellar record of 127-40-8 from 16 years at USC. But the first year with the Buccaneers was marred by losing 14 games in a row. He used sarcastic humor to cope with the mounting stress. At a press conference, McKay told reporters, 'You guys don't know the difference between a football and a bunch of bananas.' Following this, a member of the media left a case of bananas at his doorstep. Regarding that, he told reporters at the next press meet, 'You guys don't know the difference between a football and a Mercedes-Benz.' Hoping he would wake up and find a Benz at his doorstep! Another way McKay used to cheer his team up was when he told the reporters, 'We have determined that we can't win at home and we can't win on the road. What we need is a neutral site.' When a reporter asked him, 'What do you think of your team's execution?' His response is still echoed today. Because it went on to become one of the most famous quotes of John McKay - 'I'm in favor of it.' The head coach believed in his team through thick and thin. Even though it was a disappointing season, the jerseys made a lasting impression. They were going to be remembered after a long span of 50 years! Now, let's talk about the 2025 Tampa Bay Buccaneers' revamped jersey from the 1976 wardrobe. Tampa Bay Buccaneers players will sport the 1976 NFL season's jersey with absolute pride Leilyn Torres of ABC Action News reported that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would be celebrating their 50th season in the NFL by unveiling the return of the team's original 1976 jersey. The jersey has a modern take to it. The orange numbers are bordered with red outlines. Every jersey has a creamsicle 50th season patch attached to it. The sleeve pattern is in three stripes. The 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers' jersey is a tribute to the fans and players Buccaneers Chief Operating Officer, Brian Ford, told Torres, 'The '76 Jersey represents a piece of Buccaneers history and serves as a tribute to the generations of fans and players who shaped this franchise. As we launch into the 50th season, we're proud to reintroduce The '76 Jersey and the tradition it embodies. It is a reminder that every Buccaneers fan, from the originals to the newest generation, is part of an evolving story that started in 1976 and continues being written today.' Also Read: Shedeur Sanders could be traded to Matthew Stafford's Los Angeles Rams | NFL News - Times of India Catch Rani Rampal's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 4. Watch Here!
RTÉ News
15-07-2025
- General
- RTÉ News
'I have to have hope,' says Tuam relative as excavation works begin
The daughter of a woman whose child died in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home has described as "absolutely momentous" the beginning of excavation work at the site in Co Galway. Annette McKay's mother Maggie O'Connor was sent to an industrial school when her mother died in 1936. While there, Ms O'Connor became pregnant after she was raped by a caretaker when she was 17. She was then moved to Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Ms O'Connor was separated from her child after the birth and was moved to St Anne's in Loughrea. It was there where she was told that her baby, Mary Margaret, had died in Tuam. "Even a thimble full of Mary Margaret, to place that baby with her mum, would mean everything" Ms McKay spoke to RTÉ's News at One about her mother's experiences and the subsequent investigations and inquiries into the deaths at the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam. She explained that her mother did not speak about her experiences in the home until she was 70. "It was the birth of my first grandchild that upset her very much, which was not the case for my mum loved babies and it brought out this harrowing tale about her baby; her bonnie baby, Mary Margaret," she said. "It was just unreal, how could we have lived all our lives, and she get to be 70 and we didn't know about this terrible, terrible thing that had happened to her?" Ms McKay said that it also feels "very hard and emotional". "I've had my DNA taken because I'm in the group described as old and vulnerable," she said. "Because I'm on the advisory board, I do have this bird's eye view of the discussions around DNA techniques, what's possible, what's not possible, the ages of the babies. "The way they've been lying in the water table, commingled remains; it is technically very, very difficult, but I have to have hope." "Even a thimble full of Mary Margaret, to place that baby with her mum, would mean everything," Ms McKay said. Ms McKay said that her mother had been moved from Tuam to St Anne's in Loughrea, and she had been told that it was the women who the nuns regarded as "troublesome" or "wanting to spend too much time with their babies" who were moved from Tuam. "There was no bonding with that child to be allowed," she explained. "So mum was pegging washing out in Loughrea, and the nun came behind her and just said 'the child of your sin is dead' and they threw her out the same day - that's all she ever knew about that baby." She said that her mother was traumatised by her experiences in the Mother and Baby Home. "I always tell people the nuns lived in our home because the nuns were always present - all the trauma, all the damage, all the pain, all the stories. "I can recall now, the names of the sisters who abused my mother, so for her to keep that secret for 50 years, was a tremendous stigma and shame visited on those women." "They had no idea about how deep the trauma was and how terrible the experience she's lived through" After leaving the home, Ms O'Connor moved to Belfast, where she met Ms McKay's father. "She had my older brother in Belfast, but (the father) deserted her... she wrote to her sister in Bury and her brother-in-law came to rescue Maggie and my older brother. "My father reappeared again, then there were two more children, and then he deserted her for good. "So, Bury is where she remained and always described living in our town as a sanctuary." Ms McKay said that her mother had always referred to English people as "very welcoming" and had helped her though "traumatic episodes". "They had no idea about how deep the trauma was and how terrible the experience she's lived through." In 2015, the Government set up an investigation into 14 Mother and Baby homes and four county homes, which found "significant quantities" of human remains on the Tuam site. The inquiry found an "appalling level of infant mortality" in the institutions and said that no alarm was raised by the state over them, even though it was "known to local and national authorities". The State inquiry led to a formal government apology in 2021, the announcement of a redress scheme and an apology from the Sisters of Bon Secours. Ms McKay said that her mother had not been very interested in the redress scheme and had asked her daughter to deal with the proceedings. "A solicitor came and said she would take the case on and suddenly all this paperwork appeared - the baby's death certificate, the birth certificate and this place called Tuam. "Years later, in a story in an English newspaper: 'A terrible discovery in the West of Ireland of a grave containing a septic tank containing the bodies of 796 children'. "I knew she was on that list. And she was." A team of Irish and international forensic experts have broken ground at the site of the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam. The excavation will take two years and will try to identify the remains of the infants who died between 1925 and 1961, more than 11 years after Catherine Corless first drew attention to the burial site. Ms McKay described as "absolutely momentous" the beginning of the work at the site. "We were there last week, and the team gave us a chance to see what the site looks like now. It's forensically sealed and they were preparing to work. "I describe that journey as a chance to say goodbye for now."
RTÉ News
14-07-2025
- General
- RTÉ News
Start of excavation work 'momentous', says Tuam relative
The daughter of a woman whose child died in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home has described as "absolutely momentous" the beginning of excavation work at the site in Co Galway. Annette McKay's mother Maggie O'Connor was sent to an industrial school when her mother died in 1936. While there, she became pregnant after she was raped by a caretaker when she was 17. She was then moved to Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Ms O'Connor was separated from her child after the birth and was moved to St Anne's in Loughrea. It was there where she was told that her baby, Mary Margaret, had died in Tuam. Ms McKay spoke to RTÉ's News at One programme about her mother's experiences and the subsequent investigations and inquiries into the deaths at the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam. "Even a thimble full of Mary Margaret, to place that baby with her mum, would mean everything," Ms McKay said. She explained that her mother did not speak about her experiences in the home until she was 70. "It was the birth of my first grandchild that upset her very much, which was not the case for my mum loved babies and it brought out this harrowing tale about her baby; her bonnie baby, Mary Margaret," she said. "It was just unreal, how could we have lived all our lives, and she get to be 70 and we didn't know about this terrible, terrible thing that had happened to her?" Ms McKay said that her mother had been moved from Tuam to St Anne's in Loughrea, and she had been told that it was the women who the nuns regarded as "troublesome" or "wanting to spend too much time with their babies" who were moved from Tuam. "There was no bonding with that child to be allowed," she explained. "So mum was pegging washing out in Loughrea, and the nun came behind her and just said 'the child of your sin is dead' and they threw her out the same day - that's all she ever knew about that baby." She said that her mother was traumatised by her experiences in the Mother and Baby Home. "I always tell people the nuns lived in our home because the nuns were always present - all the trauma, all the damage, all the pain, all the stories. "I can recall now, the names of the sisters who abused my mother, so for her to keep that secret for 50 years, was a tremendous stigma and shame visited on those women." After leaving the home, Ms O'Connor moved to Belfast, where she met Ms McKay's father. "She had my older brother in Belfast, but (the father) deserted her... she wrote to her sister in Bury and her brother-in-law came to rescue Maggie and my older brother. "My father reappeared again, then there were two more children, and then he deserted her for good. "So, Bury is where she remained and always described living in our town as a sanctuary." Ms McKay said that her mother had always referred to English people as "very welcoming" and had helped her though "traumatic episodes". "They had no idea about how deep the trauma was and how terrible the experience she's lived through." In 2015, the Government set up an investigation into 14 Mother and Baby homes and four county homes, which found "significant quantities" of human remains on the Tuam site. The inquiry found an "appalling level of infant mortality" in the institutions and said that no alarm was raised by the state over them, even though it was "known to local and national authorities". The State inquiry led to a formal government apology in 2021, the announcement of a redress scheme and an apology from the Sisters of Bon Secours. Ms McKay said that her mother had not been very interested in the redress scheme and had asked her daughter to deal with the proceedings. "A solicitor came and said she would take the case on and suddenly all this paperwork appeared - the baby's death certificate, the birth certificate and this place called Tuam. "Years later, in a story in an English newspaper: 'A terrible discovery in the West of Ireland of a grave containing a septic tank containing the bodies of 796 children'. "I knew she was on that list. And she was." A team of Irish and international forensic experts have today broken ground at the site of the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam. The excavation will take two years and will try to identify the remains of the infants who died between 1925 and 1961, more than 11 years after Catherine Corless first drew attention to the burial site. Ms McKay described as "absolutely momentous" the beginning of the work at the site today. "We were there last week, and the team gave us a chance to see what the site looks like now. It's forensically sealed and they were preparing to work. "I describe that journey as a chance to say goodbye for now." Ms McKay said that the day also feels "very hard and emotional". "I've had my DNA taken because I'm in the group described as old and vulnerable," she said. "Because I'm on the advisory board, I do have this bird's eye view of the discussions around DNA techniques, what's possible, what's not possible, the ages of the babies. "The way they've been lying in the water table, commingled remains; it is technically very, very difficult, but I have to have hope. "Even a thimble full of Mary Margaret, to place that baby with her mum, would mean everything."
NDTV
14-07-2025
- General
- NDTV
How 796 Babies Were Secretly Dumped In Septic Tanks By Nuns In Ireland
A woman whose sister was among the estimated 796 newborns secretly dumped in a septic tank beneath the St Mary's Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Ireland, has just one mission - to give her a dignified burial. The facility was run by the Bon Secours Sisters from 1925 to 1961, and Mary Margaret died there 80 years ago. Forensic experts started excavating the site recently after years of pressure from families and survivors seeking closure. Growing up, Manchester native Annette McKay, 71, was aware that she had an older sister who died when she was a baby. She was unaware that nuns had buried her in a mass grave. But one day, when Ms McKay gave birth to a son, she thought her mother, Maggie O'Connor, would be ecstatic to know that she had become a great-grandmother. However, she found her crying outside her house, saying, "It's the baby, the baby." Ms McKay told her mother, 70 at the time, that her great-grandson was doing well. Ms O'Connor was not referring to him. "Not your baby, my baby," she remarked, disclosing a long-kept secret. In June 1943, Nuns had informed Ms O'Connor, confined at the time as an unmarried teenage mother, that her "child of your sin is dead" without providing further details, and no dignified funeral was ever planned, CNN reported. Ms O'Connor later relocated to England, where she had six more children and led what seemed to be a beautiful life, said Ms McKay. She added that her "glossy exterior was part of her survival" and that this was her "armour." Ms McKay lamented that she never met her sister, but she took comfort in the thought that Ms Margaret was buried in a small tomb in the Irish countryside. But after the truth came to light, Ms McKay vowed not to rest until her sister's remains were laid to rest with dignity to keep her name at the forefront of this national reckoning. Ms McKay said she would not have her mother's name inscribed on her headstone until she can bring her back together with Mary Margaret. Pregnant girls and single women were taken to dozens of "homes", including the Tuam institution, to give birth in secret over the majority of the 20th century. Children were frequently taken from their mothers by force after they were born. The mother and baby homes didn't save "illegitimate children" before 1960, an Irish government inquiry, launched in 2015, found. Hundreds of babies perished, and their remains were thrown away; their mothers usually never found out what had happened to their children. Some babies were rehomed in places like Ireland, the United Kingdom, or even in other countries like the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
'Astonishing' increase in Lake Erie surface temperature this summer, scientist says
The surface temperature in the western basin of Lake Erie is currently 26 C, and in some places, it's more than 30 C, according to data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA). The average temperature for the lake on July 31 is around 24 C, according to data on NOAA's website. "It's not record-breaking but certainly impressive, especially considering the cool spring we had," said Mike McKay, the director of the University of Windsor's Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research. Temperatures on the lake were 2 C below the 30-year average just three weeks ago in mid-June, McKay said, so it's astonishing to see it heat up so quickly, especially considering how much energy it takes to raise the temperature of water. Sustained hot weather in the region is the culprit, he added. Monitoring the temperature in Lake Erie is important, McKay said, because water temperature is a contributor to the formation of blue-green algae, which can produce toxins that cause itchy, irritated eyes and skin and flu-like symptoms, such as headaches, fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. "One of my colleagues published an article in ... Science a few years ago called 'Blooms Like it Hot,'" he said. "And it's true — cyanobacteria, blue-green algae … often prefer temperatures above 25 C." But temperature isn't the only contributor to the blooms, he said. Nutrient loads in the water are a more important factor. "We had a relatively dry spring, which meant fewer nutrients washing into the western basin, meaning less fuel for these algal blooms," McKay said. A forecast released by the Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science on May 8 predicted only mild to moderate blue-green algae blooms for 2025. Temperatures across the lake vary considerably, McKay added. It's typically warmer in the western basin, cooler in the centre and quite a bit cooler in the eastern basin. Even within those areas the temperatures fluctuate. "As of this morning, about an hour ago, temperatures off Sturgeon Creek were 25 C and off of Hillman Marsh 24.4," he said.
