Richard Kimball

True story from before I was this old, when I was about fifty. So, I'm running a fire academy, and had a pretty bad respiratory infection. Coughed, and gave myself an inguinal hernia. Have to go to surgery. Have the surgery, no lifting anything over twenty pounds for ten days, etc. We go to the metroplex for live fire training six days after the surgery. One guy in the class is a full blown pussy, every time he gets a booboo, he's laying on the ground pissing and moaning. We've made it through three days of training, and are on the last drill of the last day. I'm leaning on a railing, watching the last drill, about 3:30 PM, feeling like shit, and thinking, "all we have to do is finish this drill, and we can pack up and head home." So, pussy boy and another guy are doing a rescue, and they're carrying a 165 pound dummy down an exterior stairwell. Pussy boy is on the bottom, trips, falls down about eight feet of concrete stairs and lands on his back with the rescue dummy and the other trainee on top of him. I'm watching this, thinking, "get up, get up," and he goes, "Oh, my back!" This tells you what a selfish SOB I am, cause the first thought that went through my head was, "Everything happens to me." So, spinal immobilization, ambulance, metroplex hospital ER, which is like a combination of a minimum security prison and a line to get into a ZZ Top concert in 1978. We're in there about two hours, and he tells me, "Chief, I think my back's okay. I think I can go." "You shut up! You shut the hell up! You jumped on this log ride and we're taking it to the end!" You know how an ER is. As soon as they figure out you're not dying, they ignore you for hours. Finally got out about 2 AM and made it back home about 5 AM. tl;dr: hernias suck.

A lot of versions of Dragnet have been made, including the original radio show, the original tv show, the reboot with Webb and Morgan, the movie with Hanks and Akroyd, and the tv reboot with Ed O'Neil, but everybody knows you're talking about the Webb/Morgan version when you say Dragnet. Amazing how much less money was spent on production in those days. Webb and Morgan wore the same suits in every episode, except Webb wore a red sweater in one, where he was taking a college class. They used to splice all the transition scenes across multiple seasons, like them walking to the car, getting out of the car, leaving their desks, etc. Wearing the same suits in every episode let them splice all those scenes in seamlessly. Both wore dark ties, Webb the gray jacket and black pants, and Morgan the gray suit. I remember an interview with Morgan when they shut down MASH. He said he told them not to shut the show down, cause everyone was pitching all these projects to them, and that a lot of people didn't realize the show was the star. He said he'd been fortunate enough to be in three legitimate hits (December Bride, Dragnet and MASH,) and while the series were running, everyone wanted him to star in something, and the day the show ended, nobody wanted to know him. According to him, after both December Bride and Dragnet, there were times he became convinced he'd never work again. Weird thing about some shows is that they become iconic, and you can't really put a finger on why, except they were memorable. Gilligan's Island, the Munsters, Dragnet, the first five seasons of Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, the Beverly Hillbillies and Bewitched are memorable. Some of them were good, some awful, but all are memorable.

It's his schtick. Remember when Ali said, "I don't care if they pay to see me win or if they pay to see me get whupped, as long as they pay to see me." That's Skip. He doesn't care if you read him cause you think he's smart, or to make fun of him cause he's a dumb ass, as long as you read him.

At the half, Baylor's leading by five more points than Houston has scored.

Your post popped up right under the picture of Aunt Bea. And she looks ready.

OTOH, driving through a small town at night with his lights off and a bunch of weed in the car indicates he's a dumb ass. Small town cops are bored as shit. They'll pull you over for having a license plate light be too dim. He's the kind of guy who dates a hairdresser named Tiffany and expects her not to steal his wallet.

Desktop Macs have a rechargeable mouse. Apparently, they don't want you using the mouse while it's charging, so they put the charging connection on the bottom, and the computer doesn't tell you the mouse battery is low until there's about fifteen minutes left. Apple died as an innovative company with Steve Jobs.

Two shows that never worked in color were Andy Griffith and The Munsters. On Andy Griffith, when they went color, they never thought about a color palette. The khaki uniforms, the drab green walls, everything in the outside scenes was a drab brown. Course the fact that Barney left and they tried the stupid fukkin Warren as a deputy didn't help. Huh? yeah. Huh? yeah. I'd forgotten about the toaster fixing bastard. Never seen a show replace so many stellar cast members with so many duds. In the early shows, even the bit characters were great. Parley Bear as the mayor, the Darlings, Will Wright as the cranky old Ben Weaver, just about all of them were perfect for their parts.

It's always fun to see what people find unrealistic in movies. It depends on the area of interest. Guys who are gun aficionados get annoyed when a movie is set in the 1870s and people are using guns that weren't developed until the 1890s. Car guys get annoyed about stuff like this. I got annoyed when Bruce Wayne, a billionaire in great physical shape, had the unrequited hots for Maggie Gyllenhaal, a six on her best day. I mean, he goes to a restaurant with Natasha, and starts simping over Maggie?

Or handjobbed.

I didn't say anything about the schools paying the players. I said BOOSTERS. The example I used was Phil Knight offering endorsement deals to players who commit to Oregon.

That's possible, but unless a state adopts, through the legislative process, NCAA rules as state law, the NCAA rulings carry no legal weight. All they can do is limit scholarships, etc, and if a school says "No, we're not following your rulings," all the NCAA can do is kick them out and threaten member NCAA schools if they play them. Depending on the ruling, this could end up creating "Prestige Worldwide." There's only so many schools with boosters that care enough and have deep enough pockets to pay players. If it turns into a bidding war, even some traditionally solid schools could have trouble keeping up. Imagine Oregon offering a guaranteed contract with Nike for everyone that signs with the Ducks. Nationwide, there are probably only about 25 schools that could keep up if it goes full wild west. Right now, probably 20% of schools are making money off athletics, and the rest are dumping money into athletics trying to turn a profit.

May be a side point, but the NCAA doesn't make laws. They have no legal authority, and are strictly an association. The maximum thing they can do is kick someone out of the NCAA. They can't issue subpoenas or require someone to testify. Nobody is breaking a law if they violate NCAA rules about player compensation. The only way a player could get in legal trouble is if they don't declare it on their taxes.

First of all, nice job on grabbing all the tweets. Barrett brings up the thing that's going to be the next round of lawsuits, Title IX. There are currently two college sports that actually produce revenue, football and men's basketball. Whatever is decided, it will probably take about a week for there to be Title IX lawsuits over female basketball players getting less money than the men.

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Different coaches work better in different situations. Schnellenberger took Miami from being a small, non-descript program and built it up. He likely saw the same type of opportunity at Louisville. Some guys are good at building a program where they're initially out of the spotlight and sneak up on people. Others are better at feeding the beast of an established program.

There's always been people who got offended by everything, but they never had the social power they do now. There's an old saying that every phone call or letter to your company represents the thoughts of a hundred people who didn't call or write. That's not true, anymore. A small organized group can flood a station with calls. So, a station that gets, normally, a couple of calls a week about content suddenly gets fifty calls in one day. OMG! EVERYONE IS UPSET! Apologize! South Park and Family Guy avoided getting cancelled cause (A) the people who watch them weren't going to be offended by their content, as they were going for a specific audience, not the general audience a weathercast is going for. (B) they basically said "fuck off" to the people who complained, their ratings didn't drop, and the corporate suits shrugged.

Patterson has a real talent for making a game ugly and sloppy, then slipping out a win late. One thing to watch out for is the return of Doug Meacham to TCU as an offensive coach. In his last stint there as offensive coordinator (2014-2016) they won eleven games twice. Patterson has dropped off the last few years, but the Frogs have, under him, been schizophrenic, going from 10+ wins to losing seasons with regularity. Even in their bad years, though, they tend to pull off a few upsets and lose close games. They don't get blown out a lot. And yeah, they have Patterson's personality, perpetually butt hurt and feeling disrespected. And they use it for motivation.

Off topic: Re: Burnt Orange Royal changed the school color. It used to be just a slightly darker shade of orange than Tennessee. Royal changed the orange to more closely match the football. It was a subtle change, but it made it harder for opposing teams to spot the player with the ball when the Horns were running the triple option. There was an old saying that Royal never broke any NCAA rules, but he was responsible for a lot of new ones being written. He was an absolute master at exploiting the system. Check the history of the tearaway jersey, another Royal development. As others have noted, Texas no longer uses the true burnt orange from the Royal era. I've often wondered if there's a secret "Texas rule" that the UT color has to be at least slightly different from the color of the football.

Florida man arrested for marijuana possession after telling cop "That's what she said," after being questioned about bulge in his pants.

What's the difference between a four year old and a bag of cocaine?

Commercials on the car radio that play the sound of a car crash or a siren. Totally destroys my chill. Gravel trucks that have a sign on the back that says "Stay back 200 feet. Not responsible for accidents." Makes me want to get a pellet gun, go to their yard at night, after doing the damage, put a note on the gate that says, "I'm not responsible for your windshields either, motherfucker." No, I haven't done it.