Robert C
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1 hour ago, JLowe said:
There's still San Antonio, and now Austin (as the Bills have threatened). Of course, that will happen over the dead bodies/brains preserved as AI operating robots of Jerry Jones and the McNairs.
If Jones and McNair can keep an NFL team out of Austin till I can move the hell out of here (11 1/2 years and counting) then I might actually think positively of them for once. Or at least slightly less negatively than I do now
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No clue why I've had a song I only know from a TV show I haven't seen in a couple decades stuck in my head the last two days
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33 minutes ago, nofuture said:
Has anyone mentioned that Brady is playing against the Patriots this week? You'd think the sports media would be covering this.
This is actually only the second mention of it I've seen. I think my near total embargo of American sports media has worked.
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3 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
TRADE!
Carolina sends TE Dan Arnold and a 3.
Jacksonville sends CB C.J. Henderson and a 5.
I'm going on two hours sleep and really distracted by work, so my blurry eyes misread that "Dan Arnold" as "Sam Darnold" and I got REALLY confused
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I hate it when I can see what’s about to happen to A&M well before it happens. Getting king back won’t fix it enough, I’m afraid.
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So I'm coaching my son's baseball team again. He's still six, but moved up to 8u/coach pitch for the fall. To say we're bad is putting it much too mildly. We don't have a single kid who has played coach pitch before. About 1/3 of the kids have never even played t-ball before this and only 3-4 of the kids that have played before show any signs they'll eventually figure it out. I have to remind them constantly not to stand on the plate to hit, and to run if they somehow hit the ball. One tried to hit while facing away from the other pitcher, then jumped straight up in the air when the ball came after we got him turned round correctly. One of the three seven year olds runs away from the ball screaming if it comes his direction when he's in the field.
We had our first game Saturday. Lost 20-1, and it was only that close because we played four innings, and they limit the game to five runs per inning. We didn't record an out in the field. And we actually exceeded my expectations, because two kids who had never hit a single ball in practice actually put the ball in play. And of course we were playing a team where four kids were wearing their 8u all-star caps from the spring season.
My main job is to keep these kids from getting discouraged and quitting. The league is doing em a disservice by having the teams this unbalanced in talent and experience. And my assistant coach is one of these gung ho idiots who is fine with running kids off the team because "there's 25 kids on the waiting list." I figure if I can get em through the year without losing interest either from getting their heads beat in repeatedly or from dealing with fools like that I'll have done my job.
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3 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
Nebraska and Oklahoma play in a game that would have been incredible if it was still 1994.
Oklahoma was lousy in the 90s. They were mediocre at best till Stoops came around. Good game in the mid to late 80s, though.
7 minutes ago, RIPPA said:Texas has made a change at QB
Casey Thompson is the new starting QB
No surprise there. I'm curious how good Thompson actually is. Still remember Garrett Gilbert having a good game vs. Alabama in his first real action, then turning back into Garrett Gilbert for the rest of his career.
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Really glad I wasn’t able to watch the A&M game. Figure I would’ve been throwing stuff by halftime. Least they won.
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The cat is the final boss in the sequel.
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18 hours ago, RIPPA said:
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
I still feel like I am the only one excited about this
You are most definitely not the only one. Give me a game with Tina, and Torgue on the lute, and I'm definitely in. Probably the only new game I care about on the horizon. Everything else (KOTOR again, Vice City again, Skyrim again again, GTA Online again again) is all just remasters/remakes
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As a public service reminder, ignore Rippa when he says the Giants are absolutely 100% without fail going to lose a game. Not that I'm still bitter or anything.
Now if I can just remember my Yahoo login before tomorrow.
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2 hours ago, Technico Support said:
My daughter started 1st grade last week. Two classes were already put in quarantine by the end of the week. Today, her whole class was released an hour after school started because a few kids in her class exhibited Covid symptoms.
I feel your pain there. Went through exactly that last fall in Kinder. It's a half hour drive to my son's school. That was a fun drive over.
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46 minutes ago, Kuetsar said:
I'm breaking out my 360 to play some '11 because I've got the jones for college football.
I still have a dynasty going on 2012 (I think that's the year at least). My strong safety typically wins the Heisman, and most years my fullback is the runner up. All of Texas' players are like 5'3'', 135 pounds, except for their kicker and punter, who are about 7', 450 pounds.
It's the only reason my PS2 is still hooked up after the PS3 & PS4 have been left in a box in the closet.
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19 minutes ago, EVA said:
You were bear-ish on A&M last season, and look how that turned out! A&M is gonna have a real good team. I wouldn’t worry about the OL at all. They’ve been recruiting studs there for some years now. They will have the bodies they need there. And A&M doesn’t play a serious opponent until October, so they’ll have plenty of time to get stuff figured out.
Yeah, I had that post in mind. I was really happy to be completely wrong about both RB and OL last year. Partly I'm maybe hoping it works the same. And partly I've been rooting for this team for nearly forty years, and I've seen things go south quickly too many times. They could turn out to be really good, but I'm not counting on it.
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3 hours ago, EVA said:
If Texas A&M can figure out their QB, they’re a dark horse natty contender, too. All the other pieces are in place for a run at the SEC title, at the very least. Absolutely nasty looking on both sides of the line of scrimmage.
Defense will be nasty, I think, but lots of question marks on the offensive side, along with some really talented individual players.
RB turned out miles better than I though it would last year, and I figure it will be even better this year. Wydermyer is a potential all American at TE, and Cupp may finally be healthy there as well. Those are the only really solid things on offense.
Everybody's excited because of King at QB, probably because they equate white, athletic QB with Manziel by default. We'll see how that goes.
There's talent at WR, but I don't think there is a single guy there that's not a major question mark.
OL was really good last year, but four of the five starters are gone. Granted, the one that is left is the best of the five and is a likely all American, but again, lots of question marks.
It may all come together, but that's a lot of pieces that need to fall into place.
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1 hour ago, Tabe said:
The fact that a freshman QB for Ohio, who hasn't even taken a snap yet, is making well over $1m from his name shows just how restrained the market has been. Players have been cost tens of billions of dollars over the years.
Manziel wouldn’t made more than Fisher just off my fellow Ags.
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I know everybody out there was worried about Jimbo Fisher's financial future with only seven years at $7.5 million left on his contract. Well, worry no more. Reupping for three more years at $9 million per year. Presumably all guaranteed. Ags presumably bidding against themselves there.
Guess I can look forward to more letters from the university asking for money. It feels like Texas has sent me more with their latest coaching change and buyout - too bad I'm rooting for their total, perpetual failure.
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3 hours ago, Tabe said:
Meanwhile, Tennessee has announced that Michigan transfer Joe Milton will start at QB. Milton was atrocious for Michigan last year, looking completely lost on the field. How much of that was lack of talent and how much was poor coaching? Guess we'll find out!
Large sections of Tennessee's team seems to have left/transferred/been arrested so playing with what's left may not give him much opportunity to shine.
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6 hours ago, Eivion said:
You should wait until November for the 10 year anniversary edition. That way you can access all the Creation Club DLC as well.
Crap. Forgot that was coming out. Wonder if progress will carry over.
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Not football related, but ties in with how gross kids sports have become. Found out tonight that one of the players from the team I coached this spring got scouted/recruited to be part of a select team. It was a T-ball team. He's five.
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I resisted the call for months, but Skyrim being on Game Pass has finally suckered me back in. I'm sure I haven't touched it since before my son was born, and he just started first grade, so I've had plenty of time to forget stuff. I remember next to nothing, which is making things interesting. Things boil down into three categories so far
1 - things I run into, get surprised by, and then say "oh yeah, I kinda remember this"
2 - things I run into, get surprised by, but then they seem vaguely familiar so I'm assuming I've seen them before
3 - things I run into, get surprised by, and then I ask what the hell was that?
I'm guessing that last group is DLC stuff I've never seen, since I only ever played the base game
So far I'm ignoring all quests. I've done the introductory shit it's a dragon, run away! main quest, but that's it. The lack of dragons flying around annoying me is nice.
Mostly I'm running around finding things on the map, while picking flowers, whacking rocks with a pickaxe, and setting the local wildlife on fire.
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Damn game about made me throw things last night.
I finally managed to get an empty room, so it was time to sell the contents of my nightclub warehouse, which was 90% full. Seemingly easy mission. Drive to three spots. Deal with minimal opposition. Drop off merchandise, all $1.5 million worth. Easy, right?
Problem 1: It's raining
Problem 2: The second dropoff forces me to drive clear across the map, on winding roads through hilly terrain
Problem 3: The truck I'm driving is the worst handling vehicle I've ever seen in a video game.
That damn truck barely made it up moderately steep hills in the wet, tires screaming for grip the entire time. Then it got stuck in the second dropoff point. On perfectly flat ground. I had to call in my Dubsta 6x6 to ram it a couple of times so I could get it moving. Then it did the same thing 30 feet away, forcing me to grab the Dubsta again. Then it got stuck under a low bridge. I barely managed to get it out from under the bridge, then made my way to the dropoff without any further issues.
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On 8/20/2021 at 7:59 PM, jstout said:
He probably deserves his own thread, but Tom T. Hall died.
Dang, that one hurts. I'll play "I Love" for my son till he gets annoyed at his dad for being a giant old sap. Then I'll keep playing it anyway.
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I remember there was a little bridge by the police station a little ways down from the start line. I always grabbed a stock car and parked it down by that bridge, drove the crap car Hillary wants you to use over and swapped cars there. I've beaten it legit, but REALLY don't want to have to do it again.
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NFL 2021 - WEEK 4
in FOOTBALL
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I hope you're right there. I'm OK with "Screw you, I'm moving my team to Austin" being the threat every shithead team owner uses, as long as we don't mess up and actually get a team by accident.
I'm starting to be fearful that Austin is getting big enough to actually get a team one of these days. I've been here since 71, minus six years in College Station and Houston, and the place is unrecognizable to me if I think back to being a kid. Full of people who moved here in their keep Austin weird shirts pricing out everybody who used to make the place what it was before their rent tripled. We used to live on 38th, just east of Mopac when I was little. When he was watching TV my dad would go out during commercial breaks and shoot rats in the garage. Imagine doing that in THAT neighborhood now. The folks that tore down the existing homes to build their two million dollar houses would piss themselves.