Let's start with a little history, shall we? On November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying most of the Marshall University football team clips a stand of trees and crashes into a hillside just two miles from the Tri-State Airport in Kenova, West Virginia. The team was returning from that day’s game, a 17-14 loss to East Carolina University. Thirty-seven Marshall football players were aboard the plane, along with the team’s coach, its doctors, the university athletic director and 25 team boosters–some of Huntington, West Virginia’s most prominent citizens–who had traveled to North Carolina to cheer on the Thundering Herd. “The whole fabric,” a citizen of Huntington wrote later, “the whole heart of the town was aboard.” Marshall got a new football coach–Jack Lengyel, from the College of Wooster in Ohio–and set about rebuilding the team. The NCAA gave the Thundering Herd special permission to let freshmen play on the varsity squad, and Lengyel cobbled together a ragtag group of first-years, walk-ons and the nine veteran players who hadn’t been on the plane that night. The team lost its first game of the 1971 season but–with a last-second touchdown that seemed almost too good to be true–defeated Ohio’s Xavier University 15-13 in its first home game since the crash. The Herd won one other game that season, and nine in Lengyel’s four-year tenure at Marshall, but none was as emotional as the first.Also-On this day in 1986, Wall Street arbitrageur Ivan Boesky pleads guilty to insider trading and agrees to pay a $100 million fine and cooperate with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation. “Boesky Day,” as the SEC would later call it, was crucial in exposing a nationwide scandal at the heart of the ’80s Wall Street boom. And-On this day in 1776, the St. James Chronicle of London carries an item announcing “The very identical Dr. Franklyn [Benjamin Franklin], whom Lord Chatham [former leading parliamentarian and colonial supporter William Pitt] so much caressed, and used to say he was proud in calling his friend, is now at the head of the rebellion in North America.” DOJ and SEC looking into SNAP and if they misled investors. Interesting.Ed note: sour grapes. You lose when you buy IPO stocks like Snap chat. $SNAP, Snap Inc. / H1 Starbucks cutting 5% of its workforce in an effort to become more "nimble." Gotcha. Ford getting in on self-driving deliveries. Guess they decided not to test this in my neck of the woods. Too bad.$F: $F, Ford Motor Company / H1 This is the day The Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. So the FAA had not launced a new probe into Boeing. Interesting comment with all that has been reported. Might be a good idea to check sources before printing such news. What do I know? Facetime on the Apple watch does not make me wish for one. I will stick with my Citizen echo-drive that keeps accurate time and never needs charging. $AAPL No Tesla news today? What is their response to VW's EVs? Did they really make a profit in Q3? Does cashing in energy credits count as profit? So many questions, so few Tweets. Where is Jon Corzine and will MF Global make the move to some self-driving vehicles soon? Where is Marissa Mayer and was she really in talks with Tesla about the CEO spot? Have a great day everyone. Stay safe, sage, and sane out there. Excelsior! Make your day a great one!notes via @deercreekvols.