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It’s not a Belgian Farmhouse. it is really good.

It begs the question "on what day did God create Spinal Tap and couldn't he have rested that day?".

My wife will likely hit menopause when our daughter is a teenager. There's a reason when we bought our current home, I sought out a house that has an "extra" space separate from the main house that's heated and has room for a bar.

I think it has a lot to do with Joe Montana just slamming the entire thing a few years back. I think he said that it's totally fabricated and that the rest of the team kinda hated Rudy, so for this to become a movie was completely eye rolling to them.

I can assure you those frozen appendages came from bodies with barely functioning livers

A rabid Iowa homer on Des Moines sports radio was going on about how ISU got routinely jobbed by the officials for "36 out of 40 minutes" (his words). He's diplomatic to ISU at best, and if you ever listen to his Locked On Iowa pods, he lets it be known that he loathes ISU. It's funny how fans can look at the same thing and come to two wildly different conclusions. Especially in basketball.

I'm stealing this from something I saw on Instagram, but sacrificing body parts for NFL success is some peak Midwest shit.

I will gladly trade the admiration of opposing fans for an undefeated home slate any day.

Kansas fans love to tell you how much ISU fans boo and how they’re above such nonsense and it’s the most ridiculous shit I’ve ever seen. Not because they’re wrong about ISU fans, but because they’re exactly the same. Its like all the tough guys over in the football board that make fun of Matt Campbell for arguing with the refs while they then post in 100+ page thread about a decades long Big 12 anti-Texas officiating conspiracy

7 month old is teething like a mother fucker so I feel that.

Phases & Stages >>>>>>>> Red Headed Stranger

I can suddenly empathize with the UT fans in the football forum. The rest of the world thinks we get all the calls, I thought the whole first half BYU could tackle us in the paint and we wouldn’t get a trip to the stripe out of it. To avoid the absurd hypocrisy displayed over there I’ll acknowledge that if literally everyone else thinks we got the calls, then we probably got the calls. Just glad to be at a point as a program and fanbase that we get a little Phog treatment. Good seats last night

K State sucks hind tit, but outside of KU we’re their biggest rival. All they have left to play for is fucking our season up and they will absolutely do everything in their power to do just that.

This was a solid episode. Stuck fish. Lewis immediately selling out AA for an undisclosed amount of Larry's inheritance. All of Larry and Freddy's lies unraveling in a classic Curb coincidence. Larry wedging himself into the gay couple's naming of their child. Maybe not as good as the dinner party a couple of episodes ago, but this was very much the bread and butter of the show. Seems like this last season is going to be a mix of some Curb greatness and a few clunkers here and there.

I hadn’t watched the new episode yet and didn’t realize Lewis was in it. He was in damn rough shape.

That's true as well. It still doesn't feel like even they are anywhere close to the Bears.

Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kansas (I'm counting the Chiefs since such a large % of that metro is in Kansas), Pennsylvania, and Washington all have NFL teams and strongly embrace college football. Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, NY/NJ, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Maryland/DC, California, Arizona, and Colorado all have NFL but are hit and miss on supporting their major colleges. What's interesting is it isn't regional, political, or anything like that.

Northwestern regularly had good seasons in the past 15 years and can't get any traction in Chicago. Minnesota has had some decent teams recently, albeit playing a terrible Big 10 West schedule. It doesn't matter if Michigan is bad, it's a big deal in the Detroit area. It doesn't matter if Texas or Aggy sucks, it's a big deal anywhere in Texas. I think Minnesota does it as a way to differentiate themselves from their neighbors. Because Iowa and the Dakotas don't have pro sports, big timing college sports is a way for them to say "we're more important than that and don't have time to waste on such trivial pursuits". Minnesotans love nothing more than feeling superior to their neighbors. With Chicago I think it has more to do with NW being a private school and so there aren't a ton of alumni living in town and developing a connection with the city wasn't fostered 50 years ago and it's just never taken off. Illinois is far enough way to just be out of that world altogether. I think in the northeast it's a matter of people having incredibly small worlds. Anything outside the metro they live in almost doesn't exist. Syracuse is just too far from NYC. Even Rutgers is, and that's in Jersey so they aren't going to attach to it. BC? Not sure there. Might be the private thing again. I think there are unique factors in all of these situations that contribute more than their the on-field successes. A lot of college fanhood comes from attachments to the institution or places the teams represent.

Tugler going down is a big deal in taking out Dickinson. Obviously I badly want Houston to lose, but this is giving me some legitimate hope that it's possible.

Allegedly it's one of the worst kept secrets in Iowa City that the McCaffery kid is a beard. I couldn't give any less of a shit, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's true. Clark is in her 4th year.

I guarantee there are more dudes in Cleveland locked into the Bucks than there are guys in Minneapolis locked into the Gophers or guys in Chicago locked into NW or Illinois. My point is that some markets that are really into football just eschew college ball completely, while other similar markets embrace both college and pro with relatively equal fervor.

There are pockets all over the country like this and it always surprises me. Minneapolis, Indianapolis, and Chicago couldn't give two shits about college football, and are rabid about the NFL. Milwaukee, all of Ohio, Detroit, and Kansas City all have major college football followings as well as hardcore NFL allegiance.

And one of those guys actually turned out to be a shitty head coach.