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It was a wacky, wonderful and bizarre year in sports. Jim Caple chronicles the strange-but-almost true.

The "Happy Days" cast was one of the most beloved in TV history. Which "Happy Days" cast members have died since the show went off the air?

Reb Brown Recounts "Captain America" Beginnings - Pittsburgh, PA - Actor Reb Brown is in Pittsburgh

Happy Days. For most viewers of Happy Days, the wildly popular ABC sitcom of the 1970s and early 1980s, the sight of Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli jumping over a shark on water skis during the September 20, 1977 episode was not a momentous event. It was simply agreeably silly—a result of the Fonz taking up the challenge of a local beach bully to endanger his life with an ocean predator. Yet the Fonz’s machismo would come to define a moment in pop culture when a once-beloved creation takes a noticeable dip in quality. Premiering in January 1974, Happy Days was a perfect storm of sitcom ...

Back in the 1960s, Ralph Muller of Monticello rebuilt a 1937 Chevy coupe for drag racing at strips near Port Byron and Cordova in Illinois, as well as Cedar Falls and other sites. He also took it to car shows in Des Moines and Rock Island in the late ’60s — as well as inside Veterans Memorial Building on May’s Island in Cedar Rapids. When his mother, Catherine Muller, suggested he start a car show in Monticello, he and two buddies did just that. Bob Oeschger of Cascade and Rick Heeren, now of Springville, joined in the effort, and the trio staged their first show in February 1970.