Steve Young - NFL Quarterback

And a Cub Scout...

"Steve Young attended Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Connecticut. Young signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1985 after being the first player selected in the year's supplemental draft. However, the Buccaneers posted 2-14 win-loss records in each of Young's two seasons with them, and Young's record as starter was 3-16. In his 19 games, he threw for only 11 touchdowns with 21 interceptions while completing fewer than 55% of his passes. When the Buccaneers selected University of Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde first overall in the 1987 NFL Draft, Young was deemed a bust and traded to the San Francisco 49ers on April 24, 1987, to serve as a backup to Joe Montana. Young would spend the final 13 years of his career with the 49ers, a stint which would help him secure a spot in the Pro Football Hall Of Fame in 2005.

A left-handed thrower, Young was famous for his ability to "scramble" away from the pass rush. He holds the record for most career rushing touchdowns by a quarterback, 43. He is the only quarterback in NFL history to have four consecutive seasons with a passer rating of over 100; he also led the league in passer rating those four years, another NFL record. Overall, Young was the NFL's top rated passer in 6 different seasons (1991-1994, 1996-1997), tying a record set by Sammy Baugh.

He has the second-highest single-season passer rating at 112.8 (set in the 1994 season), next to Indianapolis Colts' Peyton Manning, who shattered the mark in 2004 with a record 121.1 QB rating. However, among quarterbacks with at least 1,500 passing attempts, Young's career passer rating of 96.8 is the highest of any quarterback in NFL history. Peyton Manning is second at 94.8; Kurt Warner is third at 94.0. Young's career completion percentage (64.3%) is the third-highest ever for qualifying quarterbacks, behind Kurt Warner (65.6%) and Chad Pennington (65.5%).

In 1999, he was ranked #63 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Football Players. Young was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on February 5, 2005 and was enshrined August 7, 2005."

(Information edited from his wikipedia biography)

His career is a testament to working hard and always doing your best. If you do, eventually things will work out OK.

Always remember to do your best,
Akela

Join the Cub Scouts in New Milford, Connecticut

This is a year-round family program designed for boys who are in the first grade through fifth grade (or 7, 8, 9, and 10 years of age). Parents, leaders, and organizations work together to achieve the purposes of Cub Scouting. Currently, Cub Scouting is the largest of the BSA's three membership divisions. (The others are Boy Scouting and Venturing.)

Recognition is important to young boys. The Cub Scout advancement plan provides fun for the boys, gives them a sense of personal achievement as they earn badges, and strengthens family understanding as adult family members work with boys on advancement projects. (more info)

Always remember to do your best,
Akela

Welcome to the Pack 58 Blog

This will be the new site to get up to date information on what Pack 58 in New Milford, Connecticut, will be up to in the coming months and things we have done in the past.

I am hoping the leaders will find this to be a useful tool to quickly find the needed resources for planning their meetings, and for getting needed forms to download for trips and awards. Also, I hope this will become a great place for Pack 58 Cub Scouts and their parents to find out what is planned and, maybe, the occasional link to sites and topics of interest that are safe places for your kids to learn and have fun on the internet.

As a memorial to the beginning of this Blog, I present to you the Memorial stone on Brownsea Island commemorating the very first Scout camp, Aug 1-9, 1907.

You can click on the picture to get a better view of the inscription and here is more information on the August 1st, 2007, 100th anniversary of the first encampment on Brownsea Island:

"The Brownsea Island Scout camp was a boys camping event on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, southern England, organised by Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell to test his ideas for the book Scouting for Boys. Twenty boys from different social backgrounds participated from 1 August to 8 August 1907 in activities around camping, observation, woodcraft, chivalry, lifesaving and patriotism. Recognised as the world's first Scout camp, the event is regarded as the real origin of the worldwide Scout movement.

Up to the early 1930s, camping by Boy Scouts continued on Brownsea Island. In 1963, a formal 50 acre Scout campsite was opened by Olave Baden-Powell, when the island became a nature conservation area owned by the National Trust. In 1973, a Scout Jamboree was held on the island with 600 Scouts.

The worldwide centenary of Scouting will begin at the Brownsea Island Scout camp, celebrating 1 August 2007, the 100th anniversary of the start of the first encampment. Activities by The Scout Association in the campsite include four Scout camps and a Sunrise Ceremony."

(Information found in the Wikipedia Scouting Portal)

For those of you that attended the Clatter Valley Camp adventure, well, let's just say that you did not monopolize all of the Scouting fun that week! I am certain that the 100th anniversary celebration was a huge success considering it was celebrated, not just at Brownsea Island, but all over the world. I will be updating this Blog with some pictures of camp to help you remember just how much fun you did have there, and remember to give a BIG THANKS to the many Boy Scouts, leaders and volunteers that put together your Clatter Valley Cub Scout day camp experience. In the meantime, and while you wait for some of those photos, why don't you Cub Scouts take some time to learn your state flags?

Always remember to do your best,
Akela