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GhostOfTomJoad

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  1. Was talking w/ a childhood friend of mine from Minnesota this past weekend. My sisters and I grew up next door to his big family (9 kids) and his mom often babysat the 3 of us when my single parent dad was working late. These are the bluest of the blue collars. Mechanics. Printers. Firefighters. Healthcare workers. All have been working since they were teenagers and never stopped. I asked Mark how they were handling things up there. His mother (80) is terrified. His dad (82) has been an insulin dependent diabetic for over 40 years. So are several other members of their now extremely large clan (both in size and girth). When his mom discovered that one of her sons and 4 of her grandsons voted for Trump she broke down in tears. When she asked her son how she could vote for Trump his justification was that a Mexican restaurant that opened up one block away from the restaurant his wife worked at as a shift manager had cut into her restaurant's business so much that they cut her hours. She was having to pick up a second job at Target to make ends meet. Those brown people with their delicious carne asada and frijoles are just making it unfair for Minnesotans who want their bland shit served the same way every day.
  2. Which grifter market will see the biggest growth once NOAA is scuttled? Rainmakers, Anti-Hurricane Shamans, Tornado Soothsayers, or Buckets of Patriot Slop sellers?
  3. Holy shit, dress that guy in maroon and put a bunch of aggy shit in the background and that's my BIL. Same fat neck/no chin, same high pitched whiny voice, same eternal angst against big bad Texas. Total doppleganger.
  4. Re: Curtain-gate, it's clear why Jerrah won't use them during late afternoon games: he thinks the glare of the sun is an advantage that will intimidate the opposition. I'm sure somewhere over the past 15 years there have been a handful of times where the Cowboys benefited from their opponent losing the ball in the sun. Maybe it even tilted a game Dallas' way once. But ol' Jerrah is oblivious to his own team being hamstrung by this stupidity and is doubling down in hopes of it being the difference in a playoff game with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line. He'd rather make it harder for his own team to have success week in and week out on the chance of hitting the jackpot in January where he could then turn around and crow about how brilliant his design and facility management is. That's it. Don't overthink it.
  5. Bonus was the Eagles fan right behind her with the Fuck Around And Find Out shirt.
  6. 3rd and long in the shadow of your own endzone. Let Cooper cook!
  7. Overshown can't get to free agency fast enough. Get paid and get outta Arlington.
  8. Do they play the video of the fans running into AT&T stadium in reverse at halftime?
  9. Thrilling coverage of Zeke on the sidelines staring at the scoreboard, CBS.
  10. There's the Dallas defense of 2024 on display.
  11. Or not, if Overshown keeps doing that! Wow, Agent O!
  12. Hurts will probably get around the corner for the first down ten times today.
  13. Vikes are gonna fuck around and lose to fucking Mac Jones and the Jaguars.
  14. Yeah no shit, this is perfect weather to put up the outside stuff. I stopped hanging lights off the front porch a few years ago, but now's the time to do it, test it, and then fire it up whenever the Mrs says "it's time." Nothing worse than being forced to do it when a cold/rainy spell hits and you're out in the raw trying to go up & down a ladder.
  15. Mac Jones fumbles to give Sam Darnold a chance for his 4th INT today.
  16. It's like the Football Gods are trying to make up for the helmet catch.
  17. I think BV gets another year simply because they're not going to want to pay for both the buyout and whatever it would take to lure another staff to Norman. No matter what Florida's AD said earlier this week, everyone knows that Napier is dead man walking. Lincoln Riley is on the hot seat. Would they want to get into a bidding war for Cignetti? They can only get so much mileage from their softball team's dynasty.
  18. Man, give the fans in Munich credit. They're having fun and this vomit on a plate is heading to OT.
  19. The officials on the field called THAT a catch?
  20. This is the type of game that could put back the marketing of the NFL to an international audience a full decade.
  21. I don't know why they wouldn't be. They've found their Gundy. They're far from blue bloods & they're either going to be a stepping stone for up & comers or be stuck recycling old guys or flame outs who couldn't hack it elsewhere. A decade or two of solid performance, making bowl games on the regular & occasionally playing for a conference championship ain't such a bad thing.
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