It looks like former Michigan footballer-turned-unelected President-turned-SNL pratfall-turned-forgotten living former President Gerald Ford is going to be okay. (I realize the pseudo-irony of posting a link to a Canadian website about an American President, but I was lazy, it was the first to come up on Google News.)

This brings a bit of a dilemma as I prepare the final draft of my 2006 Dead Pool roster. Do I use a pick on a 92 year old guy that seems to collect his mail at the hospital half the time? Or do I pass, seeing how he doesn’t seem to want to go, and even if he does go, he’ll likely max out with a low point total?

These are things that I’m trying to learn, heading into my second pool. Something tells me he’ll be on the list when all is said and done, but I’m really trying to avoid these “gimmes”.

Speaking of death, thanks to Wikipedia, I found out today that former Maple Leaf and hockey magnate Tim Horton, who I already knew died in an untimely accident, apparently did so in the hour(s) immediately before my birth, on February 21, 1974.

I don’t know what that means, but I think it’s a sure sign that I need to be getting free donuts out of somebody!