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Posts posted by hpslugga
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On 10/3/2022 at 9:45 PM, TexArcher said:
Your turn. Say something nice about oklahoma.
I like you a lot less than I like them for making me thinking of something nice to say about them.
That count?
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On 10/4/2022 at 2:37 PM, Wally Pryor said:
Brady dropping off a cliff has been inevitable for a few years now. That thought hasn't aged too well.
Just ask Rob Parker
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5 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:
HWK5H
Herschel Walker Killed 5 Homeless?
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How long until it’s uncovered that he actually has killed someone?
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21 minutes ago, Satchel said:
True. You’ll never hear him express discomfort about doing that.
That man’s been kissing Donald Trump’s ass since well before any of us saw Stephen doing it to Calvin Candie in Django Unchained. Of course he has no discomfort in kissing rich white ass.
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1 hour ago, mdmost said:
They only allow that much mediocrity at Iowa, not Wisconsin. Remember when he was one of the name's thrown out as an OC candidate back in I believe the Charlie years.
Edit: actually 2011 under Mack.
It was actually during the Brown years. And it was really just a cult following. There were some who were into that kind of thing, and that’s because that’s the kind of thing they’re into.
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On 9/29/2022 at 5:12 PM, Ghost of LL said:
But so are the old $0.50 tickets now worth the same as a $1 ticket? Or are we expecting the vendors to do the conversion?
They converted.
As I explained in last year’s thread, the most transparent example is the Tower of Texas ride. Prior to 2021, that thing cost 20 coupons. Now? 10. It is true that some things did increase in cost. So for example you might run into beer that used to cost 8 coupons ($4) and now it costs 5 coupons ($5). But there’s nothing that I’ve seen that increased by 100% and anyone who says that’s what happened is almost certainly lying through their teeth about it.
And as far as previous years, yes those are all good except in cases where there was counterfeiting. That, I don’t think, has ever happened but I’ve been told that if it does, they would void the whole year’s coupons. So if enough people pulled some horseshit in 2018 (or related to coupons printed in 2018) all of 2018’s would be voided. If any of you shitheads try that, I will throw you down a goddamned flight of stairs and I’ll get away with it.
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8 hours ago, Dennis Taylor said:
It's like you were trying to jinx them...apparently it almost worked
Just a tease
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On 9/26/2022 at 10:50 PM, Pato del Muerto said:
If there was a call from Cheney to a hijacker’s phone on 9/11, they don’t get to wave it away by claiming wrong number.
“That last number is a 4, but the writing makes it look like a 9!!!”
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5 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:
And they took schools from the Heartland which was St Mary's, St Edwards, etc. None that play football. But I think the conference did this knowing they were going to lose some football members in addition to who they had already lost in ACU and Tarleton.
And for the life of me I don't know why Simon Fraiser decided it was a grand idea to join the NCAA. Maybe the other sports it works out for them.?
I haven’t seen any reason for their joining. Perhaps they’re the very best Canada has to offer to the point where they’d like to fry bigger fish, but to me this looks a lot like when Prepa Tec tries its luck at football against UIL heavyweights.
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1 minute ago, Longboard Horn said:
LSC got out of hand even before a handful of teams departed. The whole 19 in '19 was ridiculous. They took a of schools from the Great American Conference to have 19 total in the LSC. Some schools were only track and field or a single sport member. Not every school plays football either. That's stupid. I for one don't miss it.
Oh no doubt this isn’t their first exhibition of…issues. Just the very latest. My prediction is MSU will go FCS once that Sikes Mall gets bulldozed and they get their own stadium built right next to the lake.
9 minutes ago, B00M said:OP rubbing their pussy over a 17 hour bus ride. Imagine riding back to fucking Canada after getting butt fucked
Yeah they probably had a tough time explaining to border patrol how those things lodged in their asses were placed there involuntarily and beyond their control.
All kidding aside, apparently they’re used to this. I was trying to find the highlights on YouTube and all I got back was some other games SFU played against other LSC teams…going back 3-4 years ago. And yes, they always get killed like this and if you saw those videos, you’d know why. Put it this way; you’re gonna have a damn difficult time convincing some random Wylie Pirate or Plano Wildcats football fans that Highland Park (let alone their own schools) couldn’t beat this team.
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Midwestern State did something similar over the weekend. Defeated Simon Fraser 77-0, with SFU gaining only 61 yards total offense.
https://msumustangs.com/sports/football/stats/2022/simon-fraser-b-c-/boxscore/11775
”But slugga, I don’t even know who Simon Fraser is.”
You wouldn’t unless you’re a devoted D2 football junkie…or you live in British Columbia, Canada. Yes, you read that correctly.
Even more bizarre? This was a Lone Star Conference game. Again yes, you read that correctly.
The LSC has been so desperate to replace all of the recently departed (Tarleton, Abilene Christian, etc) that they’re apparently willing to reach across international fucking borders.
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12 hours ago, Bama Chick said:
Let this turn into some OJ in a white Bronco shit lol
I actually had this in mind
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25 minutes ago, TexArcher said:
Get the papers, get the papers...
Goddamn you beat me to it
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Just now, Your Mom said:
That’s gayer than Brent Venables and Elton John in a bubble bath.
Well I see that someone clearly had something specific on his mind…
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9 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:
Vikings rubbed sand all up in Roger's vag today.
Yet another MVP performance by the league’s most valuable player, since he is the most valued player in the league. MVP
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1 hour ago, Pancho said:
You people still have no idea what Critical Race Theory is, do you?
“It’s the theory that you shouldn’t be critical of other races!!!”
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5 hours ago, wildcat09 said:
What is dead may never die.
He is no iron-born. No iron-born, he.
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1 minute ago, statsman said:
“Scared”
Of course, the only fear expressed in the article is Tech’s fear of losing the bump in revenue every other year.
But see, that’s something they cannot say.
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21 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:
No it won’t. See college basketball.
From a Buckeye perspective, the OSU-Michigan game is the biggest game on the schedule. It’s “The Game.” The big rivalry game at the end of the season. The team’s goals are: beat Michigan, win the Big Ten East, win the Big Ten, win a national championship. In that order. Last year the Buckeyes lost to Michigan. They didn’t win the conference, they didn’t compete for a national championship.
In a 12-team playoff, they would still have gotten in. The Game wouldn’t have been as important. The conference championship wouldn’t have been as important. It just meant they would’ve been a 6 seed instead of a 3 seed. The expanded playoff will definitely weaken the regular season.
That’s always going to be true regardless of what y’all’s records are. You could face them 8-3 vs 7-4 and it’s still going to be the big circled calendar date of the year. That’s what makes rivalries special, not championship implications. The championship implications aren’t going to be there every single season.
And that’s not unique to college football, either.
Back in 2009 I coached at Wichita Falls High School. The team was terrible. By the end of the year, they’d gone into the final game 2-7. No playoff spot available to them, no real purpose to the rest of the season, right? Except that last opponent was Wichita Falls Rider; their arch rival…who was also entering the game 2-7 with no shot at the playoffs. There wasn’t an empty seat in that stadium, and it was known to be that way well in advance.
In those games, the records don’t matter. In 1997, Texas and Oklahoma met in the cotton bowl, and neither team had a winning record (Texas was 2-2, OU was 2-3). The stadium was filled to capacity, again as expected. It’s also well understood that a big part of your job as head coach of either school depends on whether or not you can beat that team across the river. If you can’t, you’re not gonna last long.
Again, the argument that expanding the playoff diminishes the regular season relies on inherently fallacious reasoning. I can find no better example of a non sequitur than that. Well maybe I can find a contender…
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2 hours ago, TexEx15 said:
The worst fucking people.
Aside from the fact that again, this is an issue between a woman and her doctor, or a child and her parents and the doctor they choose for her… aside from the fact that parsing out whether or not the pregnancy in question really is a result of a rape is not as simple as the girl says so and the doctors have to believe her…aside from the complete indecency of this argument, it’s fraught with gaps in how to deal with certain scenarios.
So say a female (pick the age, don’t care) does get raped and is beaten so severely as to render her unconscious and she’s out for a couple days. Plan B only works when administered 3 days or closer to the sexual event in question. You show me a female that was beaten and raped so severely that she was out for 4 days in a hospital and I’ll show you a female who has no use for Plan B. Or, how about she doesn’t lose consciousness but she is admitted to, let’s say, a Catholic hospital and they refuse to give her a plan B. What’s she supposed to do? Flee from her room and run down to a CVS in her gown to buy it?
Furthermore, plan B isn’t as simple as this…simpleton makes it sound. The way it works is it stifles ovulation. But if you’re already ovulating, it won’t work, which is one of the big reasons it’s considered 57-93% effective. And one would be a shitty person to assume “well no rapist would rape a girl who’s ovulating.” But see, that’s just the thing. None of this is as simple as these idiots think that it is, which is just another reason that the conversations themselves are totally inappropriate. This is like a bunch of women debating at what age a man has to undergo a government forced vasectomy.
Oh and “just feed ‘em a plan B” might not even be an option if those 6 morons on the SCOTUS have things the way Uncle Ruckus suggested. So again, fuck off to people who see brilliance and talent in arguments like that.
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35 minutes ago, Augustus said:
This thread is 3 pages long by the time I started reading it, so I'm sure someone has already noted this, but...
I get where you're coming from, but I believe it actually has the opposite effect. It will make a lot of games meaningful that otherwise would have been meaningless, as far as post-season potential is concerned. So it's expanding the number of meaningful regular season games.
There’s also the added element of the absence of any reason to believe that it “marginalizes the regular season.” That’s just a form of extremist religious dogma that was concocted by fanboys of the bowl system. As far as actual logic is concerned, it ranks right up there with belief in the firmament.
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1 hour ago, Crockett said:
C'mon, even if you are the 12 seed but run that 4-game gauntlet against the best teams in college football after an already great season then you are a deserving champion.
Not to mention a 12-team playoff (or even 16) would make it the most exclusive playoff in the entire sport from high school on up. Nobody ever says that, though. Some always like to whine that this or that number is “too many” without ever giving a clear definition of what that even means or why it’d be a bad thing. It’s just all about the whims and wishes from the bedtime story people.
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16 minutes ago, Satchel said:
How very American of this guy:
Fibra de carbono, calibre .28, fabricado en China.
Si quiere matar a un servidor público, señor Maradona, le recomiendo que compre argentino.
A Streak That Turns 60
in Football
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Ten years ago on the old pre-scat shaggy site, I posted the DMN article commemorating pop999's (and our old Okie neighbor's) streak of 50 consecutive Texas-OU games attended.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2012/10/14/texas-ou-fans-from-park-cities-mark-50-years-of-a-friendly-rivalry/
Yes I'm aware of the DMN paywall.
Texas, OU fans from Park Cities mark 50 years of a friendly rivalry
Sometimes it takes slipping a $50 bill to the ticket taker at the stadium turnstile.
Sometimes it means setting family rules so your children never make wedding plans for the second Saturday in October.
They are neighbors with their college allegiances proudly flying in front of their homes. Beams, a 1976 OU graduate, displays crimson-and-cream flags on his property, while Robertson, a 1977 University of Texas alum, shows off his burnt orange.
Team-specific yard art is nothing new in residential areas. But for these two friends, who teach Bible study together at Highland Park Presbyterian Church, the decorations show not only school loyalty, but a deeper respect.
With Fair Park as the game day locale, Robertson, 57, finds it fitting to compare the rivalry to the pirate ship ride in the midway. “It goes back and forth. Oklahoma fans aren’t like other ones; they know the ship will swing back the other way,” he said.
“One of the things I learned a long time ago was there are a lot more Texas fans around me than Oklahoma fans,” said Beams, 60. “Everyone that knows me knows I’m a Sooner, but it’s not something I get in people’s faces about.
“I don’t typically go around big-doggin’ Oklahoma. … It’s a good, healthy rivalry.”
Beams’ son Colin, 28, echoes his father’s sentiment.
Pregame rituals
While Beams and Robertson differ on which games are their favorites, they can agree on a unified pregame ritual. Two hours before kickoff, they stop by the Fletcher’s Corny Dog stand with their kids, just another two families in a sea of burnt orange and crimson.
“I’ll get there, eat a couple corny dogs, drink a cold belly washer and then enjoy watching the crowd,” Beams said.
“It’s the breakfast of champions,” Robertson said.
The champions label is fitting as Texas holds a slight edge over the last 50 games. Texas has 24 victories, while Oklahoma has 23. Three times, their visits ended in ties.
Playing favorites
With half a century of football between the two, there are plenty of notable ballgames in memory.
Watching Steve Worster run through former Bryan Adams High School standout Bruce Stensrud with the winning touchdown in 1968 was part of Robertson’s top game. But the 26-20 Texas victory was not the last time Stensrud’s and Robertson’s lives would overlap.
A little more than a decade later, Robertson, fresh out of South Texas College of Law, was interviewed for a job by the former Sooners defensive back.
Stensrud, who still resides in Dallas, is a client and friend of Robertson’s, and their Texas-OU rivalry is one of mutual respect.
“You never know who you might run into at the Texas-Oklahoma football game,” Robertson said. “I doubt I’ll get another game that great, but I’ll still keep going.”
For Beams, the dominance of the Sooners in the early 1970s gives him bragging rights and his fondest memories at the Cotton Bowl.
“Everything was clicking,” he said. “Rod Shoate was linebacker, Jimbo Elrod was defensive end, Joe Washington was the running back. … It was just an incredible team, and it was awesome.”
From 1971 through 1976, the Sooners went 5-0-1 against Texas.
“It was tough,” said Robert Porter, a 1979 UT-Austin graduate and friend of Robertson’s. “When you go to as many as we’ve been to, the wins and losses kind of run together. We’ve beat them bad before, and they’ve beaten us bad before.”
This year’s game, with 92,500 in attendance, ranked as one of the more lopsided losses for Texas, but Robertson remained true to his team and stayed to the end. The same could not be said for some other Texas fans who filed out of the stadium during halftime.
After the clock expired, Robertson joined the remaining UT fans in singing “The Eyes of Texas.”
Back and forth
After three consecutive Oklahoma victories, Beams is careful to keep his crimson emotions in check.
“I don’t even have to say a word to my Texas friends. I just have to walk by,” Beams said, “This game is too emotional, and I wouldn’t want them to razz me.”
But wins and losses are merely numbers for Robertson and Beams, who sit in separate sections in the Cotton Bowl.
For four hours on an overcast Saturday in October, they were savoring an afternoon with their children, who are now all grown.
“After you’ve gone 25 or 30 years, you realize the game that day isn’t about winning or losing,” Robertson said. “It’s being there. It’s the memories. It’s the relationships.”
With 50 games down, neither plans to make this his last trip to the Cotton Bowl.
“If I get to 70 straight, I want people to carry me onto the field, so I can wave at the children one more time,” Robertson said.
A year later, HLN did a piece on them on Robin Meade's show in the morning. Before I post it, let me explain the following:
A preemptive "fuck you" to anyone who gives me shit about wearing a red shirt to this. I was given the wrong time for arrival and had no time to change out of that work shirt, which was for Gold's Gym in Garland. This interview was being shot from a bar on Ross and 75. When I was asked if I was coming, I had to cancel my next two PT sessions, jump into my 2008 Mustang and drive all the way from Belt Line and Garland Road to this spot. I had 27 minutes to make this drive of 16 miles on city streets. Not an easy task. I sped, ran red lights, whipped a quick left turn in front of oncoming traffic to get into the parking lot merely 5 minutes before this live shot took place.
Anyways, here it is:
Ten years later, both streaks (as well as my own of 31 as of tomorrow) remain miraculously intact. I say "miraculously" because we did manage to get in for the 2020 COVID game, and that was no easy task, either. Pop999 does have the tiebreaker on Beamer by virtue of the fact that we both went to the 2018 Big 12 Championship game while he did not, so his streak is restricted to Cotton Bowl games only. Of course, those are the ones that matter. Anyone who's been to at least 3 of these games can attest to how both unique and special every one of them is, win or lose. Here's to hoping the 60th turns into the most special for him.