George Foreman has died

They were also incredibly easy to clean. Whoever designed it was intimately aware of both the struggle of cleaning a grill grate and not being able to fit pans in dishwasher or standard kitchen sink.

Hulk Hogan is also a compulsive liar, so I don't believe this story.

Who's the 'she' in this story?

I mean... I consider myself a versatile home cook, and I've owned and used more products similar to the Thunder Mixer than products similar to the George Foreman grill. Sometimes it's a mystery what people buy. Why would you buy a separate appliance rather than a ridged grill pan for your stove top?

Hulk Hogan also destroyed gawker because he was too cowardish to admit he's a sex freak. Obviously Peter Thiel was involved because he's too cowardish to admit he's gay, but the takeaway is that our society is run by toddlers who never learned to regulate their emotions (let alone manage the wealth a capitalist society allegedly demands. Eg people outside of Buffet demanding to be taxed more and Chuck Feeney making the gates foundation look like money-grubbing assholes).

The ones that are well compensated are the ones that survived high school and probably college football, where they weren't really compensated that much at all.

In high school, the football coaches would nag me at the beginning of the football season to join the team -- understandable since I was an example of the kind of wall of muscle and flesh you wanted in your defensive lines. I never joined because it didn't seem like much fun to me to be constantly slamming into other guys of that size.

More recently, I ran into one of the guys who did join the team, played defensive tackle, and went on to also play in college. Having also relatively recently seen up-close the effects of TBI, alzheimers, dementia -- even a short interaction made it obvious he was suffering heavily from hitting his head so much; the sad part is that he's the same age as me, and that by the time I hit middle age, he's probably going to be dead. Well, that's one of the sad parts, the other big one is that his reward for all that is two jobs in retail to try to make ends meet because he never got paid much for playing, and the TBIs made it hard to find a high-paying career.

I think most folk would gladly shorten their lifespan by decades for a million dollars today - the ultimate sacrifice for future generational wealth? Not that a million gets you anything substantial anymore...

It's amazing how long it's taken football to fall from fame for this reason, like boxing did.

Not certain it'll ever happen. At least not for the foreseeable future.

Soccer players suffer more concussions and they aren’t paid much.

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Thanks! It's getting late so I only watched the first 20 mins for now, but agreed. He obviously had a great upbringing. I'll check out the rest tomorrow.

That aside, I used to love Tosh.0, and didn't even know he was still around. I'm a little sad to see him becoming and even sounding like Bill Maher. The old edge pusher is gone, understandably. We all got old and I hate it :).

I actually had one for a couple years when I lived alone in a fairly small apartment. I really liked it; it cooked hamburgers well enough and it was super cheap, like $15-20 when I bought it during a sale.

Obviously a full-sized grill would have been better, but I didn't really have that as an option in my apartment. It was easy to clean, cooked stuff relatively quickly, and neatly fit right next to my toaster. I think it's a good product for what it is.

Why they got a retired boxer to promote it, I have no idea.

I get that re: celebrity endorsements, I've never understood why someone would buy a product just because a celebrity is in the commercials.

Now, that out of the way, the Foreman Grill was/is? a nifty little product that actually worked really well. I was gifted one, and despite having a really nice grill and big yard, sometimes I just want to be quick and lazy and bang something out.

The goal of the endorsement is to catch your attention through entertainment.

Then you need something to trigger them to say yes, I want that.

Aside - many people want something easy for them to use, which this thing was. Julia Child's success is a great lesson of a very good chef making it simple & showing mistakes.

as another comment said, it makes for a decent indoors apartment grill. i used to use one all the time to make hamburgers or grilled cheese in college.

I had one in college in the 90s that still works to this day.

I always thought the same until I got one.

It is a really good product.

It especially stands out if on a diet and going to eat a lot of chicken breast.

Steak I wouldn't cook in it but it makes great chicken. Especially on a diet that you aren't going to add much else calorie wise with how you cook it.

I don't know what 100% Christian is intended to imply here, although it's obviously critical.

Biblical christianity isn't for the perfect or righteous, but for sinners. Christ rejoices more over the one sinner that repents than the 99 who need no repentance (John 15).

I don't know much about Foreman. But, his fifth marriage did last 40 years. Seems like, at some point, his perspective on marriage/commitment got more aligned with biblical wisdom.

Being a Christian celebrity doesn't require you to stick to Christian values. It's much more important to proclaim your membership than to live it. It's like wearing a team jersey without playing the game. The appearance matters more than the practice.

Christianity in America is like a brand - more about identity and affiliation than discipleship or doctrine.

A lot of the replies to this comment seem to assume that the "5 marriages" component is meant to cast Foreman's christianity as hypocritical, when I think it's more a commentary on how christian values affect relationship stability.

I say this also as someone who's left the church, and whose religious parents and inlaws are multiply-divorced.

Do you think Jacob had his twelve sons with the same woman?