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Hairy Biped

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  1. I got called an asshole this weekend after recounting the time I helped the Round Rock Express come from behind to win a game. It's the bottom of the 8th inning and Round Rock had runners on 2nd & 3rd trailing by one run with 2 outs. Their offense had been dead the whole game and a lot of the fans had already left making the ballpark pretty quiet. Our seats were right behind first base and you could easily hear all of the chatter on the field. Round Rock batter pops up a super high shot that was gonna come down right behind the first base bag for an easy out, and the baserunners were off on contact because it was 2 outs already. I watched the ball and when it got about halfway back down, I started yelling "No, no, no, no, I got it, I got it, mine" really loudly, and to my complete surprise, the first baseman stopped tracking the ball and looked back for whoever was calling him off. By the time the ball hit the ground, the runner on 3rd had already scored to tie it, and the runner from 2nd had rounded 3rd and was heading home to take the lead. EVERYBODY left in the stadium looked directly at me, I guess trying to process what just happened. The first baseman looked at me like I just shot his dog. The Express shut down the other team in the top of the 9th and turned an almost certain loss into a win because of my big mouth.
  2. My college roommate's parents' house was just a couple of miles from the site. Lucky for them, the hills in that area protected them from the brunt of the blast. His mom told me that the walls on the house bowed in and then wobbled before settling back into place. She also said it blew out decades of dust that she didn't know was there. My dad and older brother both stepped outside of their respective workplaces to see the giant mushroom cloud. As my dad was leaving his building there were ceiling tiles and all sorts of things that were mounted to the walls that were falling down like a scene in a movie.
  3. Your honor, in my defense, I was drunk the entire weekend. Plus, I lost my abacus.
  4. The Brenham salt dome explosion that killed three and injured 21 others also happened 43 years ago last week. There would've been a lot more victims if it had happened in a more populated area. A worker from the oil & gas company responsible for the blast stopped a school bus full of kids from driving through the valley where the explosion happened just minutes before.
  5. Back in 1995 I was going North on 281 in downtown San Antonio almost to the I-10 West exit, but not in the exit lane. At that point on the freeway, it's elevated because there are surface streets that cross underneath it. I notice someone coming up on me way faster than what was safe in my rearview mirror and he jerks into the exit lane right before he's about to hit me. My guess is that he was either trying to pass me or changed his mind about exiting because he tried zipping back into my lane in front of me. He misjudged his speed and cashed into the retaining wall right at the "V" that divides the exit and other lanes, and popping right over the edge and down to the street below. There was no way that I could stop or go back to render aid. The next day I saw news footage of the wreck and his car looked like a crushed beer can. I also saw a small plane crash into a field outside of the SA airport and the pilot died in that one too.
  6. Jeez. Some of those idiots were penciling themselves into the Elite 8 and calling their season a complete failure if they don't. Why? They've won 3 more games and have only 4 less loses than a disappointing Texas team that's on the bubble. They aren't anywhere near an upper tier team. If they deserve a 4 seed, we deserve no less than a 6 seed. It never, ever changes with those morons.
  7. I was on the ESPN App. It just showed up in my listings now that the game is over. WTF?
  8. I have SEC+ and Hulu Live with SEC Network and it still didn't show up on my listings.
  9. His dad was our OC my soph and jr years in high school in the mid 80s. One day Bill Boy rolled up to visit one of our practices in a Cadillac convertible with the top down and his wife/girlfriend was wearing a big fur coat when it was about 80 degrees. We were all like, "what the hell is going on here?"
  10. I have one of those boxes somewhere in my memorabilia collection. I packed it all away when I moved and haven't seen it since. That was in 2003.
  11. Probably coincidence, but the location where the Black Hawk started tracking from was the home of a Saudi Cultural Attaché.
  12. Holy shit! I didn't realize that was her half sister. I have a crazy, long distance (like really long distance) connection to all of this. Robyn Lively was in Teen Witch with my buddy Lee. He only had a small part in the movie, but he was on the movie poster and VHS cover. His family actually owned my childhood home before my parents bought the house from his parents. Sorry for the thread hijack, but it really is a small world.
  13. I'm almost at the age where everything confuses me, and this thread is one of those everythings. As a side note, does anybody know if they still make Hawaiian Punch?
  14. CSB, the band who sang that song, Deep Blue Something, played at my 21st birthday party at a buddy's house before they "hit it big". I choose them because they were getting popular on the Texas college scene, so I knew that it would attract the sorority type girls and the plan worked. I ended up hooking up with not one, but two that night. Not at the same time though. Good memories.
  15. That loss to KC was the death knell for the Oilers. I remember after the game, people were burning their Oilers gear in small bonfires in the parking lot. The fanbase started losing interest at that point because Bud Adams was crying for a new stadium, but wouldn't spend the money to put a championship level team on the field. The fans pretty much threw up the double birds and Adams took the money and ran. When the Oilers left, it felt like a member of my immediate family had died. I've tried to love the Texans, but it's just never been the same. I don't think it ever will.
  16. It wasn't a false start. He reacted to the UGA player jumping offsides. If the defender moves offsides, any offensive player can "react" to it, and the penalty is on the defense. It's unusual that he was so far from the offending player, but the rule still stands.
  17. Jack-hammer feet! That was his too. I actually appreciated his calls, because as annoying as he could be, he was always engaging and unbiased. But over the top for sure.
  18. Winning a playoff game is always more valuable than balling out and losing. That's the wholefucking point to playing playoff games. Nobody is arguing that he didn't play great, but he wasn't the MVP because he lost and his season is over and his effort didn't impact that outcome. That's not even worth arguing. It was a bitch move. Losers are losers and should always be treated accordingly. He can be the All-Peach Bowl RB, but he was not the most valuable player, because HE FUCKING LOST.
  19. Just saw that they gave Skat the Peach Bowl MVP. First time ever the MVP has come from the losing team. He had a great game, no doubt, but I'm pretty sure that an INT to clinch a playoff win, or 2 TD and one 2 point conversion passes in OT to win the game are more valuable. It's a bitch move. I'm getting where I fucking hate those chodes in Atlanta.
  20. What a shit show that game was. I have no idea how we won it. I hope we got all of our "stupid" out in that game, and play focused from here on out. But, I have my doubts. But finding a way to survive a day like today is no small feat. Live to play another day. Time to move on to bigger and better things.
  21. Fuck Joe Tessitore and fuck Jesse Palmer too. They've ruined far too many college football game viewing experiences. They're every bit as bad as Galindo.
  22. The call was correct, but shit, they don't miss a call against Boise St. They sure miss a lot from PSU tho.
  23. The stadium talk always confuses me. FIrst of all, Kyle is still a weirdly built shithole, with more obstructed and limited view seats than any other stadium I've ever been to. Secondly, how would they know shit about DKR? They haven't been there in more than 14 years. DKR has gone through 2 or 3 renovations/updates since then. They are collectively indoctrinated into believing everything A&M is the best that exists, and none of them are objective enough to question or research it. That, of course, is the core issue preventing them from being successful at anything.
  24. The Superdome, where the bowl game was being played. This year Sam played played/won at NRG, Rice Stadium and The Superdome, all of which have hosted SBs. It was probably the best trivia question they could come up with for those 2 teams. The attendance tonight was less than 14,000. They should've played the game at Tulane instead.
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