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Pretty sure it was a one armed man. It's happened before.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Richard Kimball replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
IIRC, that was an Oklahoma thing. Nebraska wanted it. At the time, the big 3 were Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. Oklahoma wanted the Red River Shootout, as it was called then, and thought it would put them at a disadvantage to play both Texas and Nebraska every year. Nebraska got pissed, because Oklahoma was their big rival, kind of like aggy got pissed to find out Oklahoma was the big rival for Texas. It was also their biggest media exposure game of the year. -
FWIW, I covered a bowl game at that stadium a few years ago, and everyone affiliated with the stadium was a prick. Checked the field turf before the game, and it was like walking in a Louisiana swamp. Utterly overwatered. It was like walking on sections of grass that had just been laid out and watered that afternoon. It's a stupid ass big tray that they roll in and out. My guess is the people that manage the turf there are as big a pricks as everyone else associated with the stadium, and told the old man, "Hey, this is different. We know what we're doing, you just don't understand how this works." Then they ignored him and fucked up the field. He's in his nineties, and said, "screw this."
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Yeah, I'm five years late, but it's still obligatory...
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Richard Kimball replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
Not sure the B12 would still be around if they hadn't added the four schools. BYU, UCF, UH and Cincy were the perfect combination of good enough to win some games and not big enough to expect an SEC/B1G invite. I think OU/UT thought either the PAC would grab one of the irate 8 or WVU would jump to the ACC or KU would snag a B1G off their basketball history, and the conference would dissolve. ESPN wanted to kill off one of the conferences, and would have done some "projections" that would have sweetened the pot to get someone to grab a B12 leftover, and the conference would have dissolved, meaning the GOR would be moot and OU/UT could walk out for nothing. Aggy, by springing the info early, gave the B12 leftovers time to get a real commissioner and put together a viable future. Once the B12 got a commissioner, the P12 became the next target for destruction, and outsmarting the P12 is like beating Christopher Reeve at hopscotch. The P12 could have killed the B12 by making an offer to Tech/OkieLite, but they didn't, cause flyover country. If they had done it, it would have been to kill the B12, not add value, but they didn't see that they were the next ones in the cross hairs. Agree. The B1G has OSU, Michigan, maybe Penn State, and a bunch of mediocre teams with big fan bases. It would be wishful thinking, but if the B12 got Oregon, Washington, Clemson and FSU, they could rename the conference, "Coast to Coast, Up All Night." Art Bell would have been proud. -
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Eight of Baylor's free throws were after deliberate fouls by Texas in the last minute. Texas also missed the front end of several one and ones. Fouls were pretty even until about six minutes left. Baylor got up by fourteen and the Horns went to a full court press and took chances on defense. It worked, some. The Horns got several turnovers and took it down to a seven point deficit in the final minute.
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They might add on screen branding, but they won't reduce the amount of commercials unless they can't sell all the ads. Too much money is never enough. When cable TV first came in, one of the arguments was that if people paid for TV, the networks wouldn't have to sell ads. As soon as cable became the norm, the networks said..."Why shouldn't we sell ads AND charge a monthly fee?" The official soft drink of the Longhorns. The official proctologist of the Longhorns. The official chiropractor of the Longhorns. $10 soft drinks. $75 polo shirts. How much do companies pay to get their ads on the Godzillatron? How many ads run on the ribbon boards? How much does a tailgate spot cost for the season? These are all revenue streams that didn't used to exist, and we all know what would happen if someone said, "Hey, we're making all this money from advertising and branding. Why don't we lower season ticket prices?" They'd get kicked out of the meeting. When our big SECSECSEC paycheck comes in, they're gonna stick the money in their pockets and look for the next revenue stream.
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Alabama Basketball Player, Darius Miles charged with murder.
Richard Kimball replied to naija's topic in Basketball
Remember our motto: "Any kid who averages fifteen points a game deserves a second chance." -
They won't, but replay ruins the game. Covering high school, it's great, cause a team scores a touchdown, no flag, everybody goes nuts cause it's a touchdown. College or pros, score a touchdown, wait for four minutes, then celebrate. The icing the kicker rule is less about actually shortening the game, but about the perception of the game being longer. Kickers usually get iced on big kicks at the end of the game. It annoys people because they think they're going to see the play, and then, wham, wait a few minutes. It would be like watching a movie, and right at the climax, the movie stops for two minutes, and you just have to wait to see the end, for no particular reason. Having the clock run on passing plays would tilt the game and change strategy dramatically. Currently, if the team with the lead has the ball, they have to strategically decide to run or pass. If the clock continues to run on passes, that important decision no longer matters.
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Especially when they dick around for five minutes determining whether it's third and five or third and six.
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Troof. A lot of potentially good QBs got destroyed. We'll never know how good Archie Manning could have been. Elway and Eli Manning both refused to play for the teams that wanted them (Baltimore Colts and San Diego.) Their NFL careers were far better because of it, BUT, you have to have REAL swag coming out of college to pull off forcing the team that drafted you to trade you.
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When you look at the original B12, it could have been something special, but being run by Commandant Lassard, it didn't happen. The B12 and the PAC were both run by old school guys who thought the money train was fine, and viewed the college football landscape as a lake, and all the conferences were in their own little canoes, and the idea was to keep the lake as smooth as possible, not upsetting anyone else's canoe. The SEC recognized the coming storms and acted accordingly. The PAC12 still lives in a world where they think the Rose Bowl matters. In the PAC, Berkley and Stanford see football as being kind of icky, and view people who like football in the same light as they view people who go to monster truck races. I wouldn't discount UCF. They have a large enrollment and are in a recruiting hotbed.
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If Clark Hunt had any vision, he'd do what a REAL owner does, and fire Andy Reid for hogging all the attention and bring in Barry Switzer to start coaching. Course, if Lamar Hunt had any vision, he would have named his son Mike.
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Random TV shows/thoughts that don’t warrant their own thread.
Richard Kimball replied to GoPokes83's topic in Movies and TV
Dittos. Random thoughts on Laugh-In. The pace of humor has increased since then. Jokes that seemed rapid fire in 1969 now seem slow. Modern audiences have a shorter attention span and don't need as much time to acclimate themselves to a tv or movie scene. What were quick cuts back then are painfully slow now. It was also a borscht belt burlesque show dressed up with dayglo paint. Put the girls in bikinis instead of showgirl outfits, and they didn't even change a lot of the comedy routines or jokes. The Dick Van Dyke Show used to use a lot of the old borscht belt comedy skits, also. -
Yeth?
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Tobacco and masturbation...
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Name a time that a TV show made you cry
Richard Kimball replied to shadow_operative's topic in Movies and TV
"Bawled." Spelling is important. -
You know how you know you’re not cool anymore?
Richard Kimball replied to Im_smarter_then_you's topic in Lulz
Dude, I've read your posts. You're cooler than Billy D. Williams pitching Colt 45 and Ricardo Montalban pitching rich Corinthian leather put together. -
The founding families of the NFL WERE the big money gambling complex. Art Rooney and Tim Mara were bookmakers. Rooney also ran slots, while Mara was involved in horse racing. George Halas and Bill Bidwell (Bears and Cardinals) were financed by the Chicago mob. Carroll Rosenbloom (Colts, later Rams) was casinos, as was the DeBartolo family (49ers,) who also used to own horse racing interests. In the 1990s, Eddie DeBartolo Jr. had to divest from the 49ers after he got caught bribing Louisiana officials $400,000 for a riverboat gambling license.
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I've definitely seen that scenario play out in high school and college games. Last week, at a JUCO game, I saw a ref shout at a coach, "You asked for it! You want another one?"
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There are comments on the Chiefs-Bengals thread about the officiating. There are also comments on the Conference realignment and left behind threads. I'll throw my thoughts out. I don't think it's rigged to the point that professional wrestling is rigged, but yes, leagues guide the narrative. I've seen numerous references to the NFL being legally an "entertainment" league, and being in the same category as wrestling. If this is true, fixing games isn't illegal, as wrestling matches are usually fixed. I haven't found a definitive source on this, simply references to the law passed in 1961 after the NFL lost a Supreme Court anti-trust case in 1957. I haven't found, except on message boards, the claim that the NFL is entertainment, not sports. The Sports-Media complex has no interest in exposing the darker side of sports. They functionally own the leagues. They protect some players, crucify others, dittos for teams. NBA, definitely. It's a star driven league, and finals ratings are greatly influenced by which teams are playing for the title. My "AHA!" moment in the NBA was watching a Lakers game in the 80s. Magic Johnson had five fouls, two minutes left. He hacked an opposing player. The ref blew the whistle and started to point at Johnson, realized who it was, and swerved to put the foul on another Lakers player who was about eight feet away. There were no traveling calls on Jordan, ever. He could start at half court and drive all the way to the basket without dribbling. NFL, yeah. Tuck rule game, Saints being allowed to murder Vikings QB Brett Favre in the title game when the league wanted the Saints to win the Super Bowl after Katrina, Steelers never having a call go against them in the 1970s, Earl Morrall throwing three interceptions in the first half of Colts-Jets, when the NFL desperately needed an AFL win for the merger to go through. College, yeah, but there are so many entities that it's not a unified narrative like the NBA and NFL. Conferences will put their thumb on the scale for a team that has a chance for the playoffs, cause the conference gets a share of the playoff money. Right now, Texas and Oklahoma won't get a break because the B12 doesn't want them winning the conference on the way out the door. Anyway, your thoughts? True fixing, or just losing team sour grapes? We know there are SOME sour grapes, but is there a basis for some of those claims? Remember Tim Donaghy.
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