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The Hit (Irish TV Series), The Hit
The Hit may refer to: Books * ''The Hit'' (novel), a 2013 novel by David Baldacci *''The Hit'', a 2013 novel by Melvin Burgess *''The Hit'', a 1957 novel by Julian Mayfield *''The Hit'', a 2009 novel by Patrick Quinlan Film and television * ''The Hit'' (1984 film), a 1984 feature film directed by Stephen Frears * ''The Hit'' (1981 film), a 1981 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Zdeněk Podskalský * ''Schlager'' (film), English title ''The Hit'', an Israeli comic musical film of 1979 * ''The Hit'' (Irish TV series), an Irish reality TV series * '' The Hit (South Korean TV series)'', a Korean music mash up TV series Music * "The Hit", a song on the album by '' Bang Camaro II'' by Bang Camaro Sports * The Hit, a November 20, 1960 tackle by Chuck Bednarik of the Philadelphia Eagles on Frank Gifford of the New York Giants, which knocked Gifford unconscious and is considered one of the hardest hits in the history of the National Football League See also * Hit (disambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hit (novel)
''The Hit'' is a thriller novel written by American author David Baldacci. This is the second installment to feature Will Robie, a U.S. Government assassin who first appeared in Baldacci's 2012 novel '' The Innocent''. The book was initially published on April 23, 2013, by Grand Central Publishing. References External linksOfficial website {{DEFAULTSORT:Hit, The 2013 American novels Novels by David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang Camaro II
Bang Camaro is an American hard rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. Founded by guitarists Bryn Bennett and Alex Necochea in 2005, it is composed of members of various indie rock bands from the area. In 2009, the group is signed with Black Sword Records, 8th Impression Music, and Fontana/Universal. Musical style and influences The band is composed of a bassist, a drummer, two guitarists, and a lead singer complement drawing from a pool of eight to twelve vocalists. The basic song structure highlights catchy choruses and integrates frequent guitar solos.David Shankbone. Interview with Alex Necochea, ''Wikinews'', October 8, 2007. The band cites as influences Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly, plus metal bands such as Iron Maiden, Skid Row, Def Leppard, and Dokken. Discussing their anthem rock style, band member Alex Necochea said, "We're really not heavy metal. I think our focus is more on writing great singles, as best as we can make them. That's just something Bryn and I grew u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and the highest professional level of American football in the world. Each NFL season begins with a three-week preseason in August, followed by the 18-week regular season which runs from early September to early January, with each team playing 17 games and having one bye week In sport, a bye is the preferential status of a player or team that is automatically advanced to the next round of a tournament, without having to play an opponent in an early round. In knockout (elimination) tournaments they can be granted eit .... Following the conclusion of the regular season, seven teams from each conference (four division winners and three wild card teams) advance to the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Giants
The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. The team plays its home games at MetLife Stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, west of New York City. The stadium is shared with the New York Jets. The Giants are headquartered and practice at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center, also in the Meadowlands. The Giants were one of five teams that joined the NFL in 1925, and they are the only one of that group still existing, as well as the league's longest-established team in the Northeastern United States. The team ranks third among all NFL franchises with eight NFL championship titles: four in the pre–Super Bowl era (1927, 1934, 1938, 1956) and four since the advent of the Super Bowl ( XXI (1986), XXV (1990), XLII (2007), and XLVI (2011)), alo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford (August 16, 1930 – August 9, 2015) was an American football player, actor, and television sports commentator. After a 12-year playing career as a halfback and flanker for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL), he was a play-by-play announcer and commentator for 27 years on ABC's ''Monday Night Football''. Gifford won the NFL Most Valuable Player Award from United Press International in 1956, the same season his team won the NFL Championship. During his career, he participated in five league championship games and was named to eight Pro Bowls. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1977. After retiring as a player Gifford was an Emmy Award-winning sportscaster, known for his work on ABC's ''Monday Night Football'', '' Wide World of Sports'', and the Olympics. He was married to television host Kathie Lee Gifford from 1986 until his death. Early life Gifford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia Eagles
The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. The Eagles compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Lincoln Financial Field in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. The franchise was established in 1933 as a replacement for the bankrupt Frankford Yellow Jackets, when a group led by Bert Bell secured the rights to an NFL franchise in Philadelphia. Since their formation, the Eagles have appeared in the playoffs 28 times, won 15 division titles (11 in the NFC East), appeared in four pre- merger NFL Championship Games, winning three of them ( 1948, 1949, and 1960), and appeared in three Super Bowls, winning Super Bowl LII at the end of the 2017 season. Thirteen individuals affiliated with the Eagles have been inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, including Bell, Chuck Bednarik, Bob Brown, Brian Dawkins, Reggie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Bednarik
Charles Philip Bednarik (May 1, 1925 – March 21, 2015), nicknamed "Concrete Charlie", was an American professional football player in the National Football League (NFL). He has been ranked one of the hardest hitting tacklers in NFL history and was one of the league's last two-way players. His November 20, 1960 tackle of Frank Gifford in an Eagles game against the New York Giants at Yankee Stadium, known simply as The Hit, is widely considered one of the hardest tackles and most notable plays in NFL history. A Slovak American from the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, Bednarik played for the Philadelphia Eagles for his entire 13-year NFL career from 1949 through 1962. In 1967, in his first year of eligibility, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Early life Bednarik was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on May 1, 1925. His parents emigrated from Široké, a village in eastern Slovakia, five years earlier, settling in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hit (Chuck Bednarik)
"The Hit" is a phrase used to describe one of the most famed plays in the history of the National Football League in a November 20, 1960 game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Giants at the original Yankee Stadium in The Bronx in New York City. In the play, Chuck Bednarik, a linebacker with the Philadelphia Eagles, tackled Frank Gifford, a running back for the New York Giants, in the game's fourth quarter, knocking Gifford unconscious. He was removed from the field on a stretcher and transported by ambulance to a local hospital, where he was diagnosed with a deep concussion. The hit is considered by NFL analysts and fans to be the most, or certainly among the most, vicious defensive tackles in professional football history. Bednarik's tackle, which was perfectly legal and drew no penalty, has been widely described over the years as likely the hardest and most vicious tackles in the history of the National Football League. The tackle knocked Gifford unconscio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hit (South Korean TV Series)
''The Hit'' () is a South Korean music program starring Song Eun-i and Kim Shin-Young as the MCs. The show aired on KBS2 from February 8 to April 19, 2019. It is distributed and syndicated by Korean Broadcasting System, KBS every Friday at 20:00 (Time in South Korea, KST). The program also aired on KBS World with English subtitles. Synopsis This is a music show where 2 different artists or groups come together to make a music shuffle that mashes up each of their hit songs that they selected to make it an even greater hit song. The groups which manage to hit 10K hearts from the audience before the performance ends are able to receive the "Golden Record Disc" on which they then sign. The "Golden Record Disc" is then displayed at the recording studio itself. Airdate Cast List of Episodes Ratings * Ratings listed below are the individual corner ratings of ''The Hit''. (Note: Individual corner ratings do not include commercial time, which regular ratings include.) * In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess (born 25 April 1954) is a British writer of children's fiction. He became famous in 1996 with the publication of '' Junk'', about heroin-addicted teenagers on the streets of Bristol. In Britain, ''Junk'' became one of the best-known young adult books of the decade. Burgess won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British author. For the 10th anniversary in 2007 it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. Early life Burgess was born in the Municipal Borough of Twickenham, Middlesex, England (now administered as part of Greater London). Author He completed his first book accepted for publication in his mid-thirties: a novel, ''The Cry of the Wolf'', published by Andersen Press in 1990, which was highly commended by librarians for the Carnegie Medal, which Gillian Cross won for ''Wolf''. Cross featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hit (Irish TV Series)
The Hit is an Irish talent show series that began airing on 26 July 2013 on RTÉ One and sees songwriters showcasing their songs to established artists. The artists then battle one another to find the perfect song they can turn into a hit. It was hosted by Aidan Power and Nicky Byrne. A pilot episode was aired in September 2012 on RTÉ Two hosted by Laura Whitmore. On 15 March 2013, RTÉ announced that the show had been ordered for a full series to be broadcast in the summer. On 30 August 2013, Finbar Furey was announced the winner of the series, with the song "The Last Great Love Song". Gerry Fleming, the song's songwriter, won the €20,000 prize. The show wasn't as successful as ''The Voice of Ireland'' and was cancelled after one series. RTVE, the Spanish public broadcaster, was rumoured to be considering using the format as the selection process for its entry in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. Format In each episode, six chosen songwriters pitch their songs to two esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schlager (film)
''Schlager'' ( he, שלאגר), or ''The Hit'', is a 1979 Israeli comedy musical film. The script, lyrics writer and film director was Assi Dayan, the music was written by Svika Pick, and the stars were HaGashash HaHiver (The Trackers) trio. Compared to other projects of Dayan, Pick or The Trackers, this film did not sell well and did not take central place in the Israeli culture. However, one of its songs, "Shir Ha'frecha" ("The Bimbo Song"), performed by Ofra Haza, became Haza's signature song. Plot Dr. Shooky Heftzibah's dancing school is in serious debt and Heftzibah is looking for people he can convince to pay him large sums. He is reuniting with his long-forgotten friend, the lazy garage owner and widower Ziggy Fuchsman, promising to find Fuchsman a new wife if he pays Heftzibah's debts. However, Heftzibah's debts are so large that he must look for a rich new wife for his friend. Heftzibah reads obituaries and takes Fuchsman to a ''shiva'' in order to seduce the new widow, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
