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Richard Kimball

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  1. Dammit, Rimbo. That article was so interesting I burned quite a bit of time reading it.
  2. Troof, and it's also a self-fulfilling thing. The SEC gets a significant recruiting advantage because the table is tilted towards them. It's also a reason they don't want G5s having legit access to the playoffs. Take UCF, two seasons undefeated, and no way they get in. Even if they got waxed in their first playoff game, recruiting would jump up, just because they were there. The blue bloods don't want that. None of the P5s ever want a four star to see a G5 as a legitimate option.
  3. But are you forty?
  4. Adding on, guys who make the throw the flag gesture after getting defensed on a pass, and guys who celebrate like they won the Super Bowl after a first down play. Oh, and Oklahoma and USC having their band play their fanfare after every frikkin play. Teams that ring a bell whenever the other team has a third down.
  5. So many great scenes... "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli." "Tom, can you get me off the hook? For old time's sake?" "Can't do it, Sal." "You come here on my daughter's wedding day..." But I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along."
  6. You're probably right. Hard to find color photos from the 50s. Here's the inaugural Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine cover with a Longhorn on the front. 1960. The orange is still pretty bright.
  7. Yeppir. This photo is from the fifties, before they started wearing burnt orange. The burnt orange was a DKR thing, and just happened to be the same color as the football, which made it more difficult for other teams to find the football when the Horns were running the wishbone. There have been a lot of color tricks in football, and not just by Texas. O linemen used to wear long sleeve undershirts the same color as the other team's jerseys until that was outlawed. I think some of them still wear white ones for home games. Boise State wears all blue on the smurf turf to make it more difficult for QBs to spot D backs, etc.
  8. Sorry to hear that. I had one about five years ago. Completely recovered now, but it wasn't a picnic. Take care of yourself and prayers for a full recovery.
  9. The entire theme song to the Jetsons is: Meet George Jetson His boy Elroy Daughter Judy Jane, his wife. Somewhere, someone is still getting residuals for that.
  10. I like the showgirls in the background.
  11. ASU QB had been holding onto the ball way too long. You pizza when you should french fry you're gonna have a bad time.
  12. Have to disagree with this one for two reasons. First, it discourages tough OOC games. Second, it puts a "selection committee" back in play. I don't trust them not to put their thumb on the scale. Disagree for one of the same reasons: thumb on the scale. As long as some committee has a say in who gets in, we'll keep hearing about the "thirteenth data point," "quality of loss," etc. There are ~120 schools competing for the playoffs. If you make the conference championship game, at most, you have to be better than the six other teams in your division. If you don't make the game or lose there, then as far as I'm concerned, it's all there, black and white, clear as crystal. You stole fizzy lifting drinks, you bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You LOSE! Good day, sir!
  13. Just watched my favorite Christmas movie, Die Hard, and want to add just about the entire cast. Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber Hart Bochner as the coke sniffing sleazy salesman that gets blown away. James Shigeta as Joseph Takagi Reginald VelJohnson as Sgt Al Powell Paul Gleason as the totally incompetent and annoying police chief Bonnie Bedelia as the remarkably hot MILF, Holly McLane. You know how hard it is to be a memorable character as the wife in one of these shows? Every one of them totally owned their screen time, and got out of the way when it was another character's time to shine. Especially true for Willis, who had individual interactions with all of them. Honorable mention to Argyle and most of the terrorists.
  14. You want to get away with this kind of shit, you'd better win a conference title.
  15. Both these teams have made some good plays. Enjoyable game.
  16. You made me think of the original movie. It always got me that the scientist thought he would impress the girl by killing the fish and turning them into skeletons. Why not just electrocute a cat?
  17. At least he doesn't have to decide whether to sit out a bowl game.
  18. Troof. Girl I dated for a while did her grad work at OU in that era. She said when she hit campus, the first thing she was told was NEVER go into the athletic dorm. EVER. Don't let anyone talk you into going in there for any reason. "You don't get out until you put out."
  19. They're still talking about the Boise State hook and ladder play against Oklahoma. Nobody's talking about the Alabama-LSU rematch a few years ago, other than as an example of what is wrong with college football. That game was worse than Rocky II.
  20. Just want to start off by saying good discussion. You and Ladiesman make some good points. In the NFL, back in the nineties, the Cowboys played the 49ers in the NFC championship several times. In each of those games, the winner went on to destroy the AFC opponent in the Super Bowl. Everyone knew they were the two best teams in pro football, but they met before the actual title game. I'm open to just about any system, as long as there is a clear path (and honestly, Rice ain't ever making the playoffs) but a path where IF Rice met a certain criteria, laid out BEFORE the first kickoff of the season, they would be included in the playoffs.
  21. In terms of destroying his career, going after Mike Leach is what did it. A lot of people saw it for what it was, and he's now the equivalent of Booster.
  22. Bet you thought love would keep us together.
  23. That's a valid point. I guess the thing about the NFL is all the tiebreakers are known before the season starts. Also, the NFL doesn't allow teams to game the system by selecting their non-divisional opponents, although it would be hilarious to see Green Bay play the Edmonton Eskimos to get a tiebreaker over the Bears. The primary absurdity is that over half the college football teams have no chance of making the playoffs, no matter what they do, and the "chosen ones" get extra chances. A lot of systems could work, but the current system of deciding what the requirements are to make the playoffs are determined AFTER the games are played is inherently corrupt.
  24. Carlin was great when he was younger. His personality changed after his first heart attack. If you watch his earlier stuff, there are a lot of great observations of the human condition. In his later stuff, he just bitches a lot.
  25. Yeah, the loser is eliminated because the conference championships would be playoff games. As to non conference being rendered inconsequential, you could make that argument, but in high school football, it's been that way for years, and if Lake Travis plays South Lake Carroll in a non-con, it's going to be a big deal. What I don't get is why people think a team (Georgia) that loses in the conference championship, or another team (Alabama) that doesn't win their half of their conference should get a mulligan.
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