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  1. 12 minutes ago, Longhorn Al said:

    I always see lots of love for Matt.  I've never really had anything against him and he does good work.  But he completely ignores me on twitter and forums.  Not sure why.  Maybe it's coincidence?  Maybe he hates FanstandATX, which I'm associated with?  I don't know.

    I could get in contact with him I think if you would like. It has been a long time, but he would remember me.

  2. 1 hour ago, blacklab said:

    Yep, Lampasas is going to need to score almost every time they have the ball. 

    All I'm hearing is how much bigger stronger and faster they are, yet last year Liberty Hill beat them 44-41. Lampasas will need to score at least that much to win. I think they can do it. 

    I've been to 4 games this year and seen 2 punts. This offense is legit.

    Are you going to this one? I hope so because you might be my high school's good luck charm...lol.

     

  3. 9 hours ago, Helobious said:

    He’s always shown the valley a lot of love, seems to go to a handful of games down there every year. I also learned he was one of the original posters on 956 sports forum like 10 years ago, and still posts there sporadically. The guy just loves HSFB.

    I used to post on a website called 3Adownlow many, many years ago. It is now called Texasdownlow I believe. I first ran across Matt there. Great guy who is such a positive human being. 

  4. 15 minutes ago, Longhorn Al said:

    There were a ton of fans there on Saturday from Burnet, Marble Falls, Gatesville, etc.  All sitting on the Lampasas side.

    Don't jinx the run. Stay home and watch online. ;)

    Carthage is legit.  Their OLine is huge.  We'll see how they move and their stamina.  QB is big 6'4 guy.  Defense is big and fast.  Lampasas will look small in comparison.  But so did Liberty Hill last season.  Have to just come out and outsmart and out-execute them.  Whitehead is good on the run.  I think we'll see a lot of designed roll-outs.  All those Go routes Lampasas has been running lately may not work as well vs. Carthage.  I think we'll see more complex routes this week. 

    I do not wish to jinx them...lol. 

    I also remember LBJ's offensive line outweighing the front seven for the Badgers in 94. We won that 20-14 by stopping a Statue of Liberty play on 3rd down inside the 20. Troy Rogers seems to be a younger version of Rod Hess from what I gather. That was his head coach. Hess was innovative in throwing the ball 30 years ago. 

    I have seen two Carthage title teams in person in 2008 and 2010. They are absolutely intimidating to see in-person. The size for high school athletes is ridiculous. Lampasas has speed from what I have been told and this is not a typical David-Goliath match-up. I would love to see this if I can make it from Manhattan. 

     

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  5. On 12/8/2019 at 4:56 PM, blacklab said:

    Lampasas is playing Carthage in New Caney Tx,

    2.5 hours from Carthage, 3.5 from Lampasas. Lampasas wanted to play in McLane in Waco but Carthage said no. Stadium in New Caney only seats 8000, Lampasas had over 6,000 against Liberty Hill yesterday. Not bad for a town of 10,000. First time since 87 they made the state semifinal.

     

    I can understand why Carthage would not want to play there. The whole town would show up. I think Lampasas has a little less than 8000 residents, but that does not include Kempner residents in the East end of Lampasas County. 

    I can say this. I still vividly remember the 93 run when they filled up the home side of Bobcat Stadium in San Marcos with locals and people who wanted to see a team throwing the ball around the yard. A Permian fan showed up to the game. I was a freshman who suited up for that huge 94 upset win against LBJ and the whole town came to Temple. They will travel to Houston and I would not be shocked if school is cancelled. They absolutely love football there and they love what Troy Rogers has done. They may not win against this juggernaut from Carthage, who is the gold standard for winning in Texas, but it will not be because of lack of support. 

  6. On 12/8/2019 at 1:28 PM, Beau Vine said:

    They played it about a 100 times during the game I went to a couple of weeks ago.  Wife and I were singing it all the way home.  That is one catchy little song.  

     I'm a Badger is a modified version of I'm a Jayhawk. I loved hearing it as a kid. Been a long time since I last heard it. Good memories though. 

    The drumline has this really good cadence that they would play when I was in school. I believe they still play the whole thing and it's good. It's the only non-HBCU or inner city high school cadence I have ever liked. 

  7. 2 minutes ago, Rustic Horn said:

    Good luck to you guys this week, I would love to see y’all take down Carthage.  Can’t wait to watch this one.

    I am thinking about possibly flying to Houston to get to see this one. It's been 33 years since the last and only other state semi-final appearance in school history in 1986. 

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  8. My brother just texted me and said that Lampasas WR Jaylon Porter was just on the MNF segment called "You got Mossed" for a TD catch he made against Liberty Hill. I saw the catch yesterday. Thought it was pretty impressive. I didn't see the segment, but man that's gotta be a pretty cool thing to wind up on MNF. 

  9. 7 hours ago, blacklab said:

    Rushing 
    Lampasas 7-42
    Liberty hill 28-250


    Passing 
    Lampasas 17/22 350yards
    Liberty hill 0-0

    Thank you so much for your updates while I was at work. I smiled when I saw them. I just cannot believe the Battlin' Badgers are into the Final Four. My hometown has been really bad at foosball for the most part, but Troy Rogers has done the impossible. From a 12-2 State quarter run in 1993 to this. He has to feel a fair amount of pride in what he has done for our hometown.

    I have no explanation for how he engineered this turnaround. I just think it is a pretty darn good ride for the town to get to witness it. I texted a friend I graduated with and he said they are on point every week and he finds it amazing as well. He has never seen them look like this either. Hope the band plays "I'm a Badger" a dozen times or so next week in New Caney. 

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  10. 21 minutes ago, achooloco said:

    Eh... I like her and think she has done fine this year (aside from the choice of bar earlier this year) but almost all Credit (not just largest portion)  goes to the locals. I personally Don’t really care for the story of how it looks but I do get your meaning. The news needs to seek a story in order to sell ads.

    but “We” could have done it without her so she did help but she was tangential. Forcing her into the story is A Fox News agenda; and fuck them or buying into anything they say. she said it sucked, great, but This really has nothing to do with her, regardless of good or bad outcomes for lic/ASTORIA/sunnyside 

    I absolutely believe this adds to the Fox narrative against her. Fox is a horrifically evil news organization. What I like about her is that she just stands up for what she believes and does not back down when her party tells her to. She sticks to her guns. 

    I live off of Ditmars. Even if her help was just .0001 in the effort to stop the city from handing Amazon billions I am thankful. I am thankful to every local, politician or citizen, who stopped that payment. It is better to just embrace everyone who is trying to do good vs. parsing out credit for victories on issues. 

    And yes her bar choice could have been better. I do her job for a living, albeit in mid-town, but yes not the best choice by her. 

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  11. 29 minutes ago, achooloco said:

    How exactly did she help? That shit was way local. Her help was really only fox fixated on her, She has no say on whether amazon comes or doesn’t to LIC.  
     

    edit: for the record, fuck the lic amazon deal. We all hated it. I called my reps, as did my friends/gf, and told them we were against the deal. No one here looked to aoc for shit. Attributing any part of the deal, good or bad, to aoc is just misinformed. 

    She has no say, but she was vocal about the stupidity of it being located here and she did what she could to undermine financial incentives to Amazon. I applaud that. I would say the largest portion of credit goes to local politicians and people behind the scenes, but that does not make for a story anyone will read. She helped and that's good. 

  12. 6 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

     

    I love her :):)

    Background Info:

    Amazon wanted $3B in subsidies to build an HQ in NYC. AOC helped shut down the effort to provide those subsidies.

    Amazon is building there anyway.

    NYC does not want that HQ, but at least she, in small part, helped stop the handing out of free money to the company. That competition to decide who got them was just awful. She's my representative and I am proud of how she has handled herself her first year. Washington needs more young firebrands just like her.

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  13. 16 hours ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

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    I feel alright about that. The game was the absolute best college or pro game I have ever seen and likely will ever see. Vince's run for the corner will live on through the ages.

    Outside of that it did nothing to better our country and being that it was a game I did not expect it to. Great entertainment though. 

  14. On 12/2/2019 at 11:20 PM, blacklab said:

    I think Lampasas wins as well.

    I went to the regular season game against LH and Lampasas destroyed them. Lampasas figured out the T and other than a few big runs completely shut them down. LH qb has a hard time throwing it 20 yards. LHS offense was the LHS offense we saw all year. Throw or run, doesn't matter. Great athletes at RB and WR and a QB that throws a better spiral than Sam. 

    Game is in Cedar Park, if you love small town high school football you should come out.

    I hope they win. Lampus, "How they are referred to in the fight song which is the fight song for Kansas", has a rare chance to win a title. When I was a kid Kirk Parker was the athlete we looked up to. Went to Tech to play RB and it did not work out. Ace Whitehead has a great chance to do something special. I saw the last name Cuffie on the roster as a RB I think. I know that family. Great people. One of them played against Ladainian Tomlinson in basketball. Saw the name Brookreson. I am guessing that is Larry Brookreson's kid. He was a WR on the 93 team. Helluva competitor. 

    I really want to come down from NYC to see them. I am glad they are winning and I hope Curtis Thrift's youngest son is a Horn in 2022. My mother remembers him when he was the big redhead in elementary school. Now he's 6'6" 320 as a 16 year old. 

    Whitehead does throw a better spiral. Helluva competitor. Such a rare athlete for Lampasas. I would not hesitate to say almost as rare as Lam Jones, but not quite in that statosphere. Win a gold medal in the Olympics at 18 and then he enters that conversation...lol. 

  15. On 11/30/2019 at 5:41 PM, Longhorn Al said:

    Lampasas offense is incredible. Won 66-44. 370 passing on 17/21 and 277 rushing on 43 carries.

    Lampasas vs. Liberty Hill for Region IV.

    This is my hometown. I vividly remember going to Lampasas-Sweeny in 1993 in the 2nd round in Lockhart. I remember this because my father had three older Mercedes. He was from Germany. We took the 1970 and it had some issues near Briggs. So we go back and get another vehicle. We still make it on time. We see a team led by Cedric Woodard lose to the Badgers due to an INT at the end of the game. Sweeney was #2 in the state coming in. Lampasas beat Pearsall 33-0 the next week (coached by Kiff Hardin who won the 2000 state title at Gatesville and was turned down to be the Lampasas head coach in 1995 in favor of Shawn Bell's dad Mark Bell who came from Clifton) before losing 43-16 to Clint Finley and Cuero in the regional final. Mickey Finley was the HC and they lost to Southlake in the last 3A game in Southlake's history in the title game. Believe it was 14-6. Clint went onto play safety for Nebraska and was a star there. 

    Troy Rogers is the head coach now for Lampasas. Troy's first season to start as a QB in HS he went 2-8 in 1991. He then went 5-5 before going 12-2 his senior year in 1993. His last game was against Cuero. Lampasas was one of the first teams in Texas to throw the ball. We ran the old Mouse Davis run-n-shoot. Troy threw for almost 3500 yards that year. Unheard of numbers in 1993. His best receiver was a guy named Rob Borchardt. Rob had never played 11 man football because he had played six man for Lometa. He had 65 catches his only year of 11 man for 1400 plus yards. He also beat Cuero in the basketball playoffs by hitting 8 3's and was a helluva pitcher. His mother was a teacher for me in Junior high.

    Troy came home in 2016 after being the OC for North Shore and winning state. He won 1 game his first year. Two his 2nd year, 8 last year I believe and then this year. I think what he is doing from afar is pretty cool because my hometown is not good at sports for the most part. He came back knowing that, but they went all in with him. A fun quote I heard as a kid is that Lampasas is small, but they're slow...lol. A guy I graduated with was on the school board who approved Rogers hire. I am glad they are winning and setting every record in the book. Never thought Lampasas would be averaging 52 a game and 512 yards or have a QB who is responsible for 65 of their 91 TD's. They could go more than two years without scoring that many TD's, much less in 13 games. I think Johnny Lam would be proud of this team. I think they beat LH again. Carthage is a damn machine to face in the semis, but I remember being in attendance when Burnet beat Jasper in 2003 at Kyle by 25 so anything is possible. I am a southpaw so I'll support Whitehead finding a way to win if they play the Bulldogs. There is an article where he told Lam 7 years ago that he wants to play in the NFL just like him. I like that confidence.

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  16. 26 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    Hey lawyers, will this cocksucker have to stand up and acknowledge his fucking crimes in court, or is this just a paper-shuffling deal?

    You know the answer. I could post the Stephen A. Smith response to the question in 2008 on ESPN of whether the Lakers gave up too much to get Pau Gasol if you want the point driven home.

  17. 23 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    i feel like we're wading into usc vs the greatest armies in history territory.

    it's hard to tell what is real anymore.

    narrator - it's all real.

    This simulation is not a good time. At least the USC-Texas football game did not matter in terms of the actual altering of lives in a way that mattered.

  18. 9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Stupid people think correlation equals causation. Don’t try to correct them with logic. It just discombobulates them.

    I remember we had a brief text conversation a few months back that included him saying "Killary." Now I know where that comes from as do you. I just ignored that. I am no Hillary fan, but I just had to not push too much.

    His daughter has really changed him. He lives back in the town we grew up in. I really respect his work ethic and I respect the sacrifice he made to move back home when our mother had her first bout with cancer a few years back. She was diagnosed with a different cancer last September and he is still there being good to her. I really hope his daughter changed his view of things. 

  19. 11 hours ago, GRHorn said:

    How does your brother having a daughter change things? I’m guessing he still hates Hillary and the last 3 years he’s heard about people trying to remove the President he helped vote into office. All while there’s a good chance his standard of living has improved. I’m guessing he’s voting for Trump again. 

    Dotard being president was not a net gain for him monetarily. 

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