RIP George Foreman

[nickp]

The air fryer is cool but the George Foreman grill was the real game changer for us millennials

 

[Cosmo]

That time Michael Scott toasted his foot in a Foreman grill...

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

No better bacon than bacon made on a George Foreman grill

 

[Webster]

Talk about someone who re-invented public perception of himself. He was the ugly American when he first broke in ... and turned into everyone's grand-dad.

RIP.

He always struck me as a bad dude who knew how to smile

 

[John]

If you've never watched When We Were Kings, try to find it streaming somewhere.

 

[Huggy]

Time for another watch of When We Were Kings, an incredible documentary.

 

[Huggy]

Back in the late 1980s a boxing gym opened in my town, among those who trained there was a young Lennox Lewis and a badass Olympic silver medalist named Egerton Marcus. One of the coaches there had fought in the 1968 Olympics for (I think) Kenya. He said when he got to the area where the boxers were being checked in he saw Foreman leaning against a wall waiting for his turn. He said he was huge, nasty and thoroughly unapproachable. He said if he'd been told that Foreman was holding up that wall merely by leaning against it he would have believed it.

 

[Huggy]

And while the Thrilla in Manila will always be the best, most brutal heavyweight championship fight in my eyes, Foreman's fight against Ron Lyle was the wildest, most fun heavyweight fight I've ever seen.

 

[garrow]

 

[Smallpotatoes]

And while the Thrilla in Manila will always be the best, most brutal heavyweight championship fight in my eyes, Foreman's fight against Ron Lyle was the wildest, most fun heavyweight fight I've ever seen.

@Huggy , do you remember anything about when he fought five different guys in Maple Leaf Gardens?

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Nice work from Kevin Iole.

Kevin Iole

IOLE

www.keviniole.com

 

[playthrough]

I used a Foreman grill to cook too many dinners in my first apartment.

Same. After I got married my wife guilted me into getting rid of it. But I was a five-star chef on that thing.