Hertz Brothers

The Crouch brothers set a number of records, eclipsing not only the mark for most combined disposals by brothers in a home and away season, but also the most disposals by brothers in an AFL game.Both Matt (45 disposals, seven tackles, one goal) and Brad (42 disposals, 10 clearances) set career-high disposal tallies against the Eagles. Acting captain Rory Sloane also set a new career-high marks for disposals (38) as well as clearances (14). The tough midfielder also tallied 23 contested possessions and nine tackles.The trio were fed all day by dominant ruckman Sam Jacobs, who finished with a round-high 51 hitouts, 22 of which were to advantage, to go with 17 touches.Recalled wingman Paul Seedsman provided plenty of run and carry, with his 25 disposals generating a game-high 609 metres gained and eight inside 50s.Fans can login or register here for free to vote for their three top Crows after every game of the 2017 season.One lucky participant after each round will claim a signed Hertz Crows football, courtesy of the Club’s official match ball partner, simply by voting. Don’t forget members of the Adelaide Football Club are also entitled to 20% off car rentals through HertzPolls opens immediately after every Crows game. Users assign three votes to the player they deem Adelaide’s best contributor, two to the second-best and one vote for their third most valuable Crow in each match.Polling closes on Tuesday at 4.30pm (SA time) after each round when the final votes are collated using a points system.A maximum of 100 points per game can be awarded to the entire team. Each player is given a percentage of the total votes received to go towards their season tally (For example, if 1,200 votes were placed in Round One and Taylor Walker receives 600 then that is the equivalent of 50 per cent of all votes for that round and he would receive 50 points towards his season tally. If the second best player received 120 votes from 1,200 then that is the equivalent of 10 per cent and he will get 10 votes towards t... (Adelaide Crows)

For some, June 1967 was the start of the Summer of Love, a time when more than 100,000 gathered in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood to follow Timothy Leary's directions and “turn on, tune in, drop out.” For others, that June came to be known as the start of the “long hot summer,” when 159 riots centered around the civil rights movement broke out across the country, landing over 11,000 people in jail and resulting in the deaths of over 75 people. For the nearly 3.4 million military men and women on active duty, the summer of 1967 was and could be only one thing: the height of the Vietnam War. But for five young men from the Alle-Kiski Valley, that summer was the start of a lifelong, unbreakable bond of friendship. One for all, all for one Dave Hertz was 18, and it was the summer after high school. He was walking down Corbet Street in Tarentum on an otherwise normal day. Four of his friends drove by on their way to New Kensington. “They saw me and said, ‘Hey, you want to go with us?' I asked where they were going and they said, ‘We're going to join the Marine Corps.' I got in the car and went with them,” Hertz said. In that car were two cousins, Jerry and Len Valenti, now 68 and 67, respectively, Larry Struhar, 67, and Ted Slavin, 69. Jerry Valenti, had wanted to join the service a year earlier when he graduated from Har-Brack High School in 1966. But his cousin Len was only 16 so he couldn't sign up with him. He waited for one more year. “Me and him were going, regardless,” Jerry Valenti said. When the time came they picked up Struhar, who had convinced Slavin to come along. Once Hertz jumped in the car, the five were off to the recruiter. “I don't even think I thought about it,” Hertz said. All five just wanted one thing: to fight for their country. The five spent the rest of the summer waiting for that moment, on Aug. 22, when they were to report for duty. “The recruiter, he took us to the airport and we were gone,” Jerry Valenti said. Honor, courage, com... (Tribune-Review)