Richard Kimball

It's not a playoff unless the rules for entry are determined before the season starts. There shouldn't be committees deciding, "Well, LSU didn't win their half of the conference, but they're really good," or "Well, Georgia lost in the SEC championship, but they deserve a mulligan." If all the P5 champions are included, the P5 championships become playoff games. That means ten of the 65 teams in the P5 would already be in the playoffs. None of the losers of the conference championship games should get in. Let the G5s & Independents compete for the other three slots. On the P5 championship weekends, the G5s could play each other and the highest ranked team that isn't already playing. That would leave a total of eight teams still in contention, and give the independents an opportunity. It would create Cinderella stories, underdog stories, and most important, it would be a real playoff, where at the start of the season, you could get to the playoffs by winning. It won't ever happen because the P5s will never let a system exist where a G5 could advance in the playoffs.

I don't think the NCAA has the power to control this, and they're scared to touch it. There was never any law that prohibited college players from making money. It was always the NCAA rules that prohibited athletes from profiting off their college careers. These new laws being passed aren't aimed as much at making paying players legal as they are letting the NCAA know who's really the boss. Schools will not want to limit the practice, because it will put them at a competitive disadvantage. We're heading for an arms race.

On the sideline going to the 20s, as a photographer, that removes another ten yards of real estate on either side of the field. I expect most schools will have to do some adjustments. Big money donors, photographers, cheerleaders, security and video crews all currently have sideline access. It already gets crowded. I'm betting they remove some of the photographer sideline passes. BMD is a BMD, but I've been to several games where BMD, trophy wife, and a couple of tween girls are on the sidelines. BMD is glad handing, trophy wife and tweens texting on their phones and none of them paying attention to the game. Always worries me that a play's going to come out of bounds and nail one of them and put them in the hospital. Taunting and uniform violations, meh, they were already enforcing those enough in my opinion. Coaches leaving the sidelines will get interesting when they penalize one of the hot head coaches. Penalizing faking injuries has to be a priority, but doing it is going to be tough. Referees can't be expected to make a decision about whether or not someone's faking an injury. Only solution I could see is charging a time out anytime an injury stops play. If a team is out of time outs, it could be a delay of game. It's not fair, but neither is expecting a referee to be a diagnostic physician.

TCU has natural turf, and it adds to their home field advantage. I know Patterson watered the shit out of it when Baylor had fast teams. Wouldn't have surprised me to see him standing out there with the hose. With the new turf (not at UT, at some other colleges I've covered,) I've heard players complain about blowing those granules out of their noses days after the game.

Troof. Also, like Maryanne, she didn't seem high maintenance, and could probably cook. For further research, check out Jan Smithers and Loni Anderson.

Oh, watching something on someone else's phone is a beating. Your post reminded me of "That guy who thinks he can tell a joke." He goes all "John Henry Faulk" and strings it out into a ten minute tale, and tries to be folksy. Worst part is when he finally delivers the punch line, and you phased out four minutes ago, didn't realize it was time to laugh, and he either gets all butt hurt or starts telling it again.

Archer.

It took me five years to get this pun.

You're just gonna have to wait until she's old enough to get her learner's permit.

Comedy has trouble standing up over time, cause what we find funny is constantly changing, and comedy timing is also changing. When I was a kid, everybody talked about how fast paced Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was. Watch one now, and it feels really slow. Steve Martin's movies, The Jerk and The Man With Two Brains can feel kinda cringy, but they still have their moments. I can still watch them anytime, cause Kathleen Turner and Bernadette Peters in their primes. Also, a caution. This is why you don't marry for looks alone...

I was gonna make a joke about sodium, but then I was like, "Na."

Ahem, speaking as a person who has made many emergency medical calls on citizens, I can state categorically that every time I went on a call where someone had something stuck up their ass, alcohol was involved.

Maybe the wife was a cougar?

The guy who acts like you're stupid because you don't understand his special area of expertise. Just went through this installing some propane powered equipment. I don't know dick about propane beyond hooking up the cylinders for grills and stuff. The equipment got delivered except for the propane hook up, and the guy was coming down to do training, so this was all over the phone. He told me to order two hundred pound tanks. I do that, then he told me to get the equipment to hook the tanks together and run them into the common connection. "Oh, hell yes you need to get a regulator. Also you need a gauge. Just get a common hookup." So I start asking questions about the regulator. How much pressure does it need to be able to handle? Dittos for the gauge. What thread do these systems use? I tell him I don't know anything about these types of hookups and that's why we're paying them $67,000 for this equipment is because they're supposed to be the experts. Do the large tanks have a different type connection from the small tanks? What diameter pipe do I need? Should I teflon tape the connections? Guy acted like I was stupid cause I didn't come out of my mother's womb understanding how to build a propane manifold out of parts from Home Depot. Oh, and when he shows up, he's like, "these tanks are too small." "You said two hundred pound tanks." "Oh, I meant two hundred gallon tanks." I tell him, "Propane's sold by the pound and the gallon. There's a lot of difference between a pound and a gallon."

The "Karen" theme song, 1960s sitcom, was done by the Beach Boys

Entire Jetsons theme song: Meet George Jetson. His boy, Elroy. Daughter Judy. Jane, his wife. Somewhere, someone is still getting paid royalties for that.

Did you just get vaxxed or did you get COVID. I got COVID in January, and my pulse ox is just now getting back to normal range. Still a little below normal. Could do four miles non-stop (I'm 66, not a fast four) but now, maybe 1 1/2 miles. It's getting better, but it takes time.

Yeah, it's kinda like shooting a dog at that point. The animals no longer have any fear, and will just stand there. It's more like target practice than hunting. OTOH, I have a few friends that are bow hunters, and the big thing with them right now is going out at night and shooting feral hogs with a bow. That, to me, is a different proposition.

Championship parade on Austin Avenue

On #4, naked guy, only bothers me if there are like thirty open lockers and he grabs the one right next to me. On the "I'm gonna impress the boss at a meeting guy," he's got a twin brother called, "I'm not gonna shut the fuck up and let this meeting end" guy.

Probably should go in the "getting old" thread, but I've never understood wearing a player's jersey. When I was in school, the only other person that wore your jersey was your girl, and it better be serious. Most annoying guy to me is "Topper" guy. You can be telling a story about seeing five people get shot in a drive by, and he'll say, "That's nothing! I remember this one time..."

You're right. I remembered Spielberg had some trouble, as Belushi started spiraling shortly after Animal House, and juxtaposed the movies.

I think the original plan was for River Phoenix to do a series of movies as young Indiana Jones. That was why he did the intro in one of them. Spielberg started getting a lot more careful about casting people with drug problems in his movies after he had to prop up John Belushi for some of the Blues Brothers scenes and Phoenix overdosed.