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  1. 1 minute ago, Wanker Bob said:

    I don't understand why the league didn't have a rule where if a franchise moves the name and branding stay with the city. If they could just be the Oilers with the same look it would have brought many older fans back. I guess the owner that moved the Browns left the name behind but the Oilers one didn't?

    Because they think we're just commodities and we grow on trees. Who cares if diehards stop watching, we can replace them 1:1 or even 2:1 with casual fans!

    I'm jealous of the Browns and (likely) the Supersonics when Seattle gets an NBA expansion team. Your suggestion is precisely how it should work, unless the NFL and its franchises want to start paying for the infrastructure their business requires (i.e., stadiums). 

  2. 1 hour ago, Longboard Horn said:

    NOTICE ALL THE SHITTY UNKEPT GRASS!

    Of course it looks shitty. Unless you're a golf course, the idea of covering your acreage with grass in this part of the country is pretty stupid. A&M's not physically in East Texas, even if their ethos belongs there.  

  3. 1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

    That white men are superior?

    no, just the "getting rid of Comanches" part, it made Texas a lot more livable... white people are pretty swell but I think "superior" is overstating it pretty badly

    I haven't read Summer Moon yet but it's literally been on my reading list for three (for fuck's sake) years now-- thanks for reminding me. Got The Last Gunfight and Three Roads To The Alamo for Christmas so I guess Summer Moon will have to wait at least a few more weeks

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  4. 9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    And yes, sorry to tell you, when we talk about nutbar conspiracy theories people DO tend to immediately think of one side of the political spectrum

    maybe those people should broaden their reading a bit

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  5. 18 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Disney says, what the hell, give her a Star Wars movie. 

    people still eat Star Wars up as long as ZOMG LUKE SKYWALKER WITH HIS GREEN LIGHTSABER!!!!! is in it

    why would Disney stop any of the shit that people say they hate, when the fan base has demonstrated there's nothing they won't tolerate as long as they get to snack on sweet sweet memberberries?

    I probably need to add a PS, I'm not saying The Mandalorian is bad, not good, meh, any of that. I haven't watched it, I have no opinion about it either way. All I see from my limited exposure to it is squeeing over what amounts to different levels of fan service. 

  6. 13 hours ago, Reagan1k said:

    Both mentioned that others and I had continued to check in with them even after we knew they were off the wagon.  They mentioned what an impact that had on them and reinforced / reminded me about carrying the message to the still suffering alcoholic. 

    As someone who's relapsed multiple times in the past after 30-60-80-180 days, I can vouch for this. Let me first acknowledge that my sobriety is nobody's responsibility but my own, and I was always 100% responsible for my relapses. Having said that, it made a huge difference to have a sponsor who knew the difference between detaching with love but continuing to present the program as "always here when you decide you want it", and having a sponsor that treated me like a losing Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes certificate. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, Horn80 said:

     Strike up the aggy war hymn!

    If we lose, that's 11 straight years with at least four losses.  

    Here is the all-time Top Ten in win %, with their respective longest streak of four-loss seasons in parentheses:

    1) Ohio State (5)

    (tie) Michigan (4)

    3) Notre Dame (7)

    4) Alabama (5)

    5) Oklahoma (6)

    6) Texas (10, current)

    7) USC (6)

    8) Nebraska (17, current)

    9) Penn State (6)

    10) Tennessee (16, current)

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  8. 7 minutes ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    I said this earlier in the season and people on this board acted like I just smoked meth laced with lsd. Liberty would beat our asses 

    Yeah I don't mean to sound like Wescott Eberts horking down black pills, but the Liberty team I watched last night was out for blood. They have good athletes and their head coach is at least as good as ours. We have better raw talent on our roster but most of it is spoiled and lazy. Properly motivated, even our badly coached lazy talent could beat Liberty, but I can't really envision a scenario where we would be properly motivated-- our guys looked totally into it against Oklahoma State and Kansas State but otherwise it was on an individual case-by-case basis this year and most of the last 10+ seasons.

  9. 1 hour ago, gmr548 said:

    You do not have to recruit guys constantly, for years, to get them on the roster. You draft them and they're under contract for four years.

    And they're grown men who may or may not feel like being coached

  10. Just now, Surly Bevo said:

    Nobody when talking about Nick Saban says, "oh but that's two years at the Dolphins were pretty damn mediocre". 

    I feel like Vic Mackey would probably say that, except "mediocre" is too big of a word for him

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  11. 28 minutes ago, miguelito said:

    A quote I heard about stupid people:

    "One of the hallmarks of the dangerously stupid is the consistent belief they've found great solutions that experts somehow missed."

    whew!!! I'm glad I'M not one of the stupid people!!! I bet they don't even know they're stupid!

  12. 2 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

    Just saw that. Aggy would have to pull off one of their biggest choke jobs ever to lose that game now

    that's not what they really do under Jimbo Fisher. Jimbo earns his paycheck by going chalk every year.

    They did beat Florida though-- in a year when coronavirus scattered the season and LSU was epically bad and Auburn was subpar, and there weren't any pesky losable non-conference games, chalk would have been a two-loss season and they only lost once. So, credit to Jimbo Fisher for Exceeds Expectations this year! 

  13. On 12/25/2020 at 2:56 PM, TornACL said:

    I was at the Texas CU game in Austin in 90. Despite it being a loss, that was a hell of a game. DKR was rocking in the third quarter. Surprised it isn't on YouTube anywhere. 

    Surprised at that too, texassports.com says it was on ESPN. If the 1993 game is up there (an ESPN broadcast), you would think the 1989 and 1990 games would be as well. 

    What might be happening is that a third party might be cockblocking the upload on YouTube. I have uploaded about a dozen non-UT football games to YT over the years, sans commercials, and of those dozen exactly one got nuked by copyright claim (immediately after uploading), and it wasn't ESPN (the original broadcaster) that made the copyright claim. It was some cocksucker third party making the claim on ESPN's behalf. 

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