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Mittens

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  1. 🤮🤮🤮
  2. It wasn't until recently that I understood him to be an actual person not writing satire. I never read his stuff because I don't particularly give a shit what aggy thinks and the 12 pics of him followed by funky formatting isn't particularly inviting. But just glancing as I scrolled and seeing the highlights, for a brief moment I thought it was Beau Vine just posting funny creative writing to poke fun at aggy, then I thought it was an Onion-like satire from someone outside surly.
  3. I was 8yrs old when the Iranian hostage situation occurred, and the failed rescue attempt very much hit close to home. My father was an Army helicopter pilot so the crash and lost pilots kinda shook me - I had an understanding of loss as I knew about Vietnam but this was real and tangible and I knew boys like me were learning their fathers would not come home. Those injured Marines ended up at Brooke Army Medical Center, where my mother was the Chief Nurse of the world renowned burn unit. President Carter visited those Marines while at BAMC and shook my mother's hand, thanking her for her care of those men. I remember thinking how incredible it was that my mom had met the President of the United States. Unfortunately, she met President Reagan in a very similar situation a year or so later, although I can't recall the specifics (I want to say it also involved Marines, but it was a long time ago and I smoke a lot of weed). President Carter was the very best of America, and we'd all be well served to effort living our lives in his manner. This is kind of funny:
  4. What a world we live in. Pitt coach has to be punching air right now.
  5. Mittens

    USMNT 2024

  6. Little surprised this didn't make the thread: https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/austin-police-investigating-homicide-near-east-oltorf/ By all accounts, victim was a good dude who wouldn't be involved in something nefarious, so it's a random killing w/ reasoning as far as we know today.
  7. Mittens

    USMNT 2024

  8. I would LOVE to see Deion in Norman. Hell, I'll convert and start praying for that.
  9. Billy Liucci's 35 yr old sophomore cousin.
  10. Mittens

    USMNT 2024

  11. $100K seems excessive.
  12. Not sure why you're referencing his playing days. Seems irrelevant to his coaching career. I disagree w/ the notion that he's a "good coach" when all he does is trade on his NIL to get kids to play for him, while acknowledging that recruiting is the majority of coaching. He'll never have that other piece that makes him a truly good coach - the kind that wins a conference championship, or greater.
  13. Run Ricky Run vs aggy - Ricky's recruitment is where my Longhorn fandom began and I had moved to Austin the year before. Loudest and longest cheer I've ever heard in DKR. VY in the Rose Bowl - the Longhorn Messiah delivers Glory unto his long suffering people. Roll Left - knocking off the Nebraska dynasty in the most epic of upsets was so unreal. Literal fever dream. Bonus that it started the run vs Corn that ended w/ them running away to the B1G. Shipley's return in 2008 - Spent the night before in the drunk tank and it was a challenge getting to the 11am game. Walked in and got to my seats probably 5 minutes before that happened. 2004 OKST - Never been around a comeback like that. Was in the TD Club (?? 2nd tier donor club that was a tent below the LBJ Fountain) for beers at halftime and discussing not going back inside, which I don't think I've ever done at any game in my life. So glad we went back in. HonMen: 98 Cotton Bowl - GF got me tix for Xmas, 2nd row in the end zone where Ricky threw the Heisman pose, and literally every other big play in that game happened. Was on the aisle across from the MSU fan section and all their cowbells, and I talked plenty of shit about how quiet they were after the 1Q.
  14. By recruiting superior talent on his name, not by actually coaching Xs and Os. I say that as someone who thinks recruiting is 80% of CFB coaching. Jimmies and Joes over Xs and Os will do exactly what it has done for CU - put some Ws on the board and butts in the seats. What it won't do is win games that matter.
  15. Crashing out in the middle of a game is wild. Would love to know what the fan said first though...
  16. ESPN's story on the BYU win:
  17. It's not like they were lighting it up on the ground outside of him.
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