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Tex Long

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  • Birthday 04/04/1943

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  1. Say something - other than complaininfg nobuddy say nothing.
  2. Clothing-optional beaches FTMFW. There are few things that feel better than swimming nekkid.
  3. It's close. All it needs is to require the networks to air XII and ACC games instead of SEC and B1G. Well... that, plus require advertisers to pay the same rates for the XII and ACC games. It's a win-win-win-win for errybody.
  4. Too many Jacksonvilles.
  5. Second (or third, et cetera) the last few. Disappointed no new random tires this time.
  6. Lost me at "unlubed".
  7. Not absolutely true. Numerous factors, including ledge width and declination, surface friction, wind-speed and direction, personal balance issues, and vertical distance from (and material of) ground level - all of these and many more - contribute to "wrongness" of ledge interactions.
  8. We just need to have all HS students who intend to participate in Intercollegiate Sports take an AAT - Athletic Aptitude Test. Besides collecting physical and mental test results, AAT would also assign minimum and maximum dollar value to each student-athlete, and schools would not be allowed to pay more than maximum nor less than minimum. Test scores and valuations would be publicly available. To maintain scholastic standards, schools would be required to deduct all of its normal student tuition and all other fees from the amounts paid to each student-athlete. No more "scholarships" for athletes, just real educational benefits like every other student. This might affect expensive schools negatively, but that only serves to level the playing fields. Straight NIL would probably belong to the employer, the school, but not necessarily exclusively - actual name/image/likeness payments could be split between school and athlete, and non-NIL employment (ditch-digging, vinyl siding sales, etc) would be none of the school's business other than any restrictions on all students in general. And, best of all, Deloitte could be entrusted with the AAT.
  9. That's just not true. He absolutely did not forget to go. He just couldn't remember the ZIP code.
  10. Your keyword is "RUFF!" Please indulge responsibly.
  11. New coaches, new QB, first game... all of that. Like many Surlys, I expect tOSU to be at least a bit discombobulated, and I expect that will be enough for us to take them. I also expect them to join UGa in being a team we play twice this season. Gonna be a helluva ride, that's a fact.
  12. With all due respect for our HC - and he deserves plenty of it - I join you in admitting that in those circumstances I also was thinking - hell, shouting - "First and goal, Sark! First and goal means First and Manning..." I don't believe there would have been any controversy about using Arch to add " or Keep " to the "RPO" call and taking away one or even two defenders from that short-yardage D. Well... not if it worked the way it worked when he actually did it. I guess we'll see. Can't wait.
  13. When I was 10, my uncle took me to the OU game. We lost, but I had a great time, and afterward he gave me $5 to spend on the Midway. It was a lot of money for the times - gas was $0.20 a gallon and Dr. Peppers were five cents and came in an eight-ounce bottle. He gave me the money in change, quarters for one pocket, and nickels and dimes for the other. He told me not to take more than one coin out at a time, and when I complained about so many coins, he said that it was because if I took a bill or even a handful of coins out, a man would approach me, show me a card trick or two, and then offer to bet he could make the Jack of Hearts jump out of the deck and spit cider in my ear. He told me that if I took that bet, I would be standing there with cider running down the side of my neck and people would be laughing at me for making a bet with a man from Oklahoma. I think he was probably correct, and I have always been leery of the Jack of Hearts in any setting or circumstance.
  14. Definitely not about the money. It seems that he and Milwee couldn't agree on whether to be "QB Co-coach" or "Co-QB Coach".
  15. My experiences with documents that contain both "fully guaranteed" and "millions of dollars" leads me to suspect that events may not turn out to be what some people likely expect.
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