Richard Kimball

How about the scene in The Patriot where Lucius Malfoy kills the Joker?

I don't pay much attention to the Cowboys anymore, but WTF? Some of my favorite Cowboys memories were from regular season games or were wins in years they didn't win the Super Bowl. The 1972 Divisional playoff when Staubach beat the 49ers with 2 TD passes in the last 90 seconds. Dallas 30, SF 28. The 1979 final season game, where the Cowboys came back from being down by 13 in the 4th quarter to clinch a division championship and put the Redskins out of the playoffs. Dallas 35, Washington 34. In a terrible season in 1974, Clint Longley came back from 13 points down on Thanksgiving to beat the Redskins. Dallas 24, Washington 23. Are you a fan, or do you just want to fast forward to the end of the season and thump your chest? This was a good win against a good team, and it was a nail biter. Enjoy it. I can't make myself root for Dallas anymore, because it makes me sick to see Jerry Jones strutting around after a win. But if you're still a Cowboys fan, enjoy the hell out of this victory.

Some people have an allergic reaction when they see guys running around like Will Ferrell in Elf talking about Santa's arrival every time a new Star Wars/LOTR/Harry Potter/Marvel movie comes out. There's something sad about people seeking a meaning for their lives through corporate consumerism. The Lord of the Rings is a good movie franchise, and yeah, definitely worth a watch, but everything is not for everybody. How would you feel if bass fishermen came up to you, calling you a bitch because you don't want to go bass fishing? Insert any activity you have no interest in for bass fishing. Let people enjoy stuff they want to enjoy, and let them ignore stuff that doesn't interest them.

My daughter has cerebral palsy, and sometimes I park in handicapped spaces when picking her up. Hang up the little blue tag and get out to go get her. Whenever anyone says, "Hey! What's your disability?" I just say, "Tourette's, motherfucker."

Pretty sure Britney Spears parents would.

Just a few random thoughts on Harris. He screwed up in 1984. He held out with the Steelers and ended up going to Seattle. These numbers are approximate, but he was around 400 yards behind Jim Brown to be the all time NFL rushing leader, and had run for over 1,000 yards with the Steelers in 1983. He went to Seattle, and finished the season with 170 yards. Walter Payton rushed for 1400 yards that year, passing Jim Brown, and holding the record until Emmitt Smith passed him. Harris would have held the record for less than a season, but for all time leading rusher, that would have put him in the same company as Jim Brown, Walter Payton and Emmitt Smith. In New Orleans, 1978, he owned a couple of Popeye's Fried Chicken franchises. Don't know if he was instrumental in starting them, but I know they started in New Orleans, and their chicken was a lot spicier and a lot better, then. They ran commercials showing the immaculate reception, then cut to Harris holding up a football with some actors in Steelers uniforms holding him up on their shoulders, and he's say, "Let's got to Popeye's!" All time leading rushers are unusual, especially for their durability. Most running backs go off a cliff after a few years, cause of injuries. Harris was ahead of his time, cause, as Deion Sanders said, sometimes he made a business decision. He stepped out of bounds sometimes, cause taking a hit that would kill a normal human wasn't worth two yards to him. IIRC, he'd take the hit if the two yards were needed to get the first down, but if he already had it, nah.

I know you've all been waiting for my take on this: Sometimes men beat women. Sometimes women use the system to destroy men. From reading the posts and experience in dealing with this stuff (as a responder and supervisor, not a participant,) I suspect this is the latter, but wouldn't bet a paycheck on it. It comes down to the bite mark. If they did proper evaluations, they should be able to check whether the teeth marks match up with Beard's teeth. I haven't read all the posts, so if they've already done this, sorry. If Beard bit her, he's done. If she bit herself and claimed it was Beard, her whole story dies. If the teeth don't fit...

Isn't that what RGIII meant to say?

Thanks for correcting the record. There are way too many people that want to post something shocking, and I'm not talking about @justhookit, I'm talking about the guy who is supposed to be a professional providing no context and a false narrative. The Horns basketball team has been through a tough 24 hours. Tempers are running high. There was no need to throw click bait out there. Way too much of our media sees reporting as nothing more than a grab at clicks by posting whatever is most inflammatory. Even if the story had been true, players had a lot more on their minds than a post-game nicety. That said, going to the fans and reaching out to them, like you describe, is something that should be lauded. Both the players and the fans at the game recognized that the University of Texas is bigger than a coach.

You'd think, and yet...

Did you, now?

For me, it's this, and I'm not sure there's a second place. He didn't write this, but it, combined with the video is heart wrenching, and also brutal. The photos of him with June Cash when they were young, and her looking at him in anguish in the video, which was filmed a few months before she died, the "House of Cash" closed to the public, his framed gold record for "Johnny Cash at San Quentin" with the cracked glass, and at the end when he closes the piano and places his hands on the cover make this an intensely personal piece of work that still speaks to everyone. Sometimes it seems like everything in entertainment is fake, especially the emotions. This isn't. It's real, and it's a masterpiece.

Yeah, I did it next week.

Never cared for the show, but this was one of the all time best openings. It was worth watching just to see Heather Thomas come through those swinging doors in the blue bikini. It's also is a reminder of how terrific some of the action sequences in movies were before everything went CGI. It's two-fold. First, those stunts were dangerous, and when you watch stuff like the guy hanging onto the helicopter, you know it's real. A guy really had to get on a helicopter and hang onto the runner. Saw a sequence recently where they showed before and after on a CGI scene with Supergirl and the Flash. in the CGI scene, Supergirl flies out of the scene like a bolt of lightning, while the Flash uses his arms to create a wind storm. In the before CGI sequence, Supergirl jumps about a foot off the ground while the Flash waves his arms around. You know nothing is at risk in these CGI sequences. The second thing is that it's a different kind of actor and special effects person doing the scenes. The old guys like Hal Needham were a little bit outlaw and also incredible risk takers. The new people are mostly in front of green screens on a set and the special effects people sit in front of computers for hours. It doesn't seem like they have an understanding of anything outside of the studio.

The original Superman with Christopher Reeve was three movies. His trip to earth and growing up was a fuzzy, reverent show. His life in Metropolis with Lois Lane was an early super hero sitcom, complete with bad puns. After Luthor fires his missiles, it's like one of the later Japanese Godzilla movies, with miniature sets and physically impossible action sequences (I mean beyond the impossibility of a man with super strength flying. Even if he could do all that stuff, the things he did wouldn't have worked even in the physics of the created world.) I don't know what the hell that "flying with Lois" sequence was about.

Damn, dude. Less than 24 hours and one guy negged to hell and back, and here you are, feeding us straight lines. Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent. I'll let someone else give it a shot.

So, was that "Fuck you" or "Fuck, yeah!"? Here's the plan. Bezos buys the team. Hires Deion as coach. Changes the name again to the Washington Primes. Logo is this:

Rhule's an above average coach. His specialty is finding guys with the right measurables and developing them by coaching fundamentals. He looks for length, speed, and absence of arrests. He likes the three star guys that are happy just to get an offer, cause he knows they will put forth maximum effort to prove something. He wins the games he should win. You never had those "what the fuck?" games like I got so frustrated with the Longhorns about ever since Mack retired while on the job, where they'd have a team they should slaughter, and then go out looking like they've got a Pepsi bottle stuck between their butt cheeks. His quarterback management, both at Baylor and Carolina, is goofy. IMHO, QB management killed him at Carolina. At Baylor, he lucked out with Charlie Brewer, but ran off Zach Smith, a four star out of Grandview, for transfer Anu Solomon, who was also a four star, but tore up his shoulder in Arizona, and didn't have enough arm strength left to pop a balloon with a dart. His recruiting is pretty bad, in terms of getting the top rated guys, and he's stuck in the JoePa mythos. Not the Jerry Sandusky stuff, but the plain uniforms, lunch bucket, blue collar attitude. Not sure how he'll fare in the NIL era, but his recruiting classes would be in the 30-40 ranking if he was at Ohio State or Bowling Green. TL;DR Good coach, not elite, can take you to a top 20, probably not to the promised land.

Like you wouldn't, anyway.

Keep us posted on how things are going. Do you have all your family in a safe location? Stuff like this reminds us of what's important. Quite a few years ago, I had a fire and then wrecked my car. Realized if I lost my keys it wouldn't make any difference. Family was still there, so it was all good. But, Hook 'em, and stay safe.

Wow. Kick goes into one rear and out the other.