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I just saw clips of his special in the background while surfing through Netflix, and I get that they're just small clips, but it all seemed absolutely awful. I think he's popular because he's a good looking guy in a field that's not exactly dominated by good looking guys.

You can rely on the other dude's money.

Yeah, UT and Bama are fine if they win their leagues. It's the Pac I could see getting shafted. Those schools are bigger brands than TCU, but they might not be big enough here. Given that this appears to be the committee's last season to play kingmaker with 0 objective requirements, I could see them going out in style. Some buddies and I were talking about this in a group chat. I realize that orange isn't flattering, but he's pushing Mangino territory.

Love those Army unis. Don't care for that Navy helmet at all, TBH. Busy as hell.

Yeah, I guess when you pan the landscape, you can't/shouldn't leave out the Pac champ, undefeated Georgia, undefeated FSU, and 1 loss Texas with a Big 12 title. The thing I don't trust is if the Pac has a 1 loss champ (fairly plausible), that champ is a considerably lower brand than OSU or Michigan, and my trust in the committee to do the right thing in the face of bringing in a bigger brand is nil. It's probably irrational, but I expect them to do anything possible to put the biggest brand possible into that spot.

Agreed, but

I’ve done two before, but our folks absolutely hate hosting the same day as one of the others, as we’re constantly watching the clock to be on time for the next one, so instead of double booking we just do days that aren’t the actual holiday. Keeps the stress lower for sure.

I personally prefer tomatillos to tomatoes, and can pretty much always find them, so it's a no brainer on my end to just go full tomatillo.

I assume this is in reference to the hot sauce I inquired about in Steel Shank? I want to make that as well as the Ninfas sauce. But I might just dick around with this recipe on Friday to kill off the baby japs my buddy gave me. Or just sautee them and make breakfast with them, eggs, and what will likely be leftover ribeye from Thursday at my dad's.

I have a bunch of tiny japs that came in late from a buddy's garden. This seems like a perfect use-up for them, but I wonder how the ratio computes. These things are a fraction of a typical grocery store one.

I'm very interested in trying this, but my question is what you use to prevent the veggies from charring/sticking while you boil? Will there be enough water/juice from the tomatillo to create the liquid?

I think that the 1 loss Michigan or Ohio State team still goes.

That green sauce looks intriguing

From the time I was in junior high until I graduated, my dad, brother, and I would watch this on Christmas Eve, after church.

Hays has a very solid brewery, IIRC. Some of the regulars at Toppling Goliath back when my wife worked there had family out that way and would always bring some back when they visited. So I guess you could warm up with that after the game.

That looks absolutely delicious.

Not sure if I'll have the usual updates or not. Nothing has really changed with the in-laws. BIL is now 32 and living at home, getting stoned every day, and claiming he can't afford to go rent his own place even though he has a stupid BMW sedan with a racing stripe that he could sell for enough to make a down payment on a house. He's made some occasional threats of self harm but refuses to do anything other than smoke weed to address his mental health issues. FIL still has a tendency to get irrationally angry about politics and interject it out of nowhere thanks to his buddies sending him YouTube conspiracy theorist videos. Of course, knowing full well that my wife and I are on the other side of the fence. MIL still nags him before he's actually behaving in a problematic fashion, which has a tendency to instigate the problematic behaviors. Years ago I pretty much always took his side, but as time has worn on I've come to the conclusion that his anger is getting worse, my MIL's frustrations are more justified, and he should probably do something about it. The wild card in hopefully reducing the drama is our new daughter. She was born in August, and they're all absolutely enamored with her and thus far seem to try and always be on their best behavior in her presence. I don't know if that's a sustainable solution to their issues, but it's definitely not hurting anything. If they want to scream at each other and threaten various forms of self harm when we aren't around, then I guess that's their prerogative. We're getting together there on Saturday, and I just hope I can convince my wife to head home before Farmageddon kicks (7PM). We both have to drive, so the booze will be very minimal, and I'd have to imagine that will have a tangible effect on things too.

We’re perpetual underdogs. You’re perpetual favorites. Its not THAT surprising IMO.

Ok. Cool.

We had our chances. You were better.

Nope. Prior obligations. I was there before the KU game though.

He does.

They've kinda gone to shit, honestly. The kings of MN beer for me are Schell's and Fair State. Plenty of other really good ones too.

Apparently he bumped the ref, according to the announcer

Glad we kicked this shithead to the curb