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Maybe that has changed, but that was not the case in the Holiday Bowl years. The article was pretty explicit about how all that stuff I mentioned was being paid for by the team and thus resulting in a net loss for the teams.
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Unless it's changed, it's also insane how much and what they spend money on. I remember one of our Holiday Bowls an article broke it down. One of the main line items was buying a PS2 and 5 or 10 games for every player. Another was leather jackets with the Holiday Bowl logo on them (would they even wear those after the game?) All sorts of stuff like that. I get that it was a way to essentially pay players, but then don't go complaining how you lost money on it.
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I understand why teams that have coaching changes are dropping bowl bids, but I don't get why any of those are.
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CFP didn't ruin college football. It's not perfect, but the last two seasons have been exciting to the last game. In the BCS and 4 team era, it was just maybe 1 or 2 teams arguing about if they should be in, and we all complained about seasons like 2003 when an undefeated major conference team got left out. By the mid teens, you had situations like we had in 2019. A break out season (at least we thought), but not good enough for the playoff, so we go to the Sugar Bowl! We're excited.... and a large chunk of both our and Georgia's starters opt out. For the FUCKING SUGAR BOWL! Yeah, teams and players are opting out of bowl games still, but 12 teams are going in full force into the CFP (well maybe 11, not sure how Ole Miss is looking these days). We've had excitement through the season and a lone loss didn't suddenly make your season a failure. The CFP needs tweaks, but this is a vast improvement overall.
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True. My father was a thief, but firmly believes possession is 9/10ths of the law. Spoiler though, I drank those bottles too!
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Apparantely she was a raging bitch on set. One of the actors who played the son told the actor taking over from him to avoid her at all costs.
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I had a similar. When my older brother was headed back to UT one thanksgiving, my dad went ot check my brothers car for air in the tires, fluids, etc. Came back in with a bottle of vodka under each arm (that cheap crap in the plastic bottle, McCormicks or something?) Brother was pissed. Dad was grinning. I was scheming. A few months later parents were gone and I had a big party. Took a screw driver, popped those caps off without breaking the safety seal and poured the vodka into milk jugs. Filled the bottles with water and put them back. My parents drank a reasonable amount, but it was alwasy scotch or bourbon, so in the next 4-5 years, they didn't finish the bottle of decent vodka they had much less get into my brother's stash. Day finally comes and my dad is getting ready to make something with vodka for everyone at Christmas. I ask him if I can see the bottle, he hands it to me, and I proceed to chug down like that scene in Animal House. My parents just stare at me in horror. I didn't drink the whole thing, but I slammed it back down and said "Thanks, I really needed that!" Then my brother starts laughing, I start laughing and my parents are realize something is up. Brother had taught me that trick about popping tops without breaking the seal. He says "You son of a bitch, you drank my vodka years ago, didn't you?" I say "yes, and it was a hell of a party!" Then we explained what I'd done. Mom thought it was hilarious. Dad was impressed but then made me get in the car and go buy him two new bottles!
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Took my dad to see it day after Thanksgiving. Like Sbbruin, no new info, but it was entertaining. I thought Russell Crowe did a phenominal job.
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Most annoying Christmas Movies
Hellraiser97 replied to NotActuallyALonghorn's topic in Movies and TV
Didn't he flee the country? Not sure he's allowed back in yet. I enjoyed that movie, though there were a few parts that seemed overly dramatisized. -
Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragons of Autumn Twilight First tried to read it when I was in elementary school (4th grade maybe?) but I was too young I think. Picked it up again in middle school and proceeded to blow throw the books as fast as they could publish them for about the next decade. My first introduction to D&D and since I never got to play the tabletop games, only D&D until I played Baldur's Gate in 1998.
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Most annoying Christmas Movies
Hellraiser97 replied to NotActuallyALonghorn's topic in Movies and TV
And this qualifies because they are all the EXACT SAME MOVIE I used to get stuck watching these with my ex and her family. My FIL and I would crack jokes like "Is this the one where one of them returns to a small town, discovers their true love, has a big misunderstanding and then they get back together at the end?" The looks my ex and MIL would give us were something. I would also nominate White Christmas. I actually enjoyed it the first time, maybe the second time, but it was a family tradition for my ex to watch it EVERY Christmas Eve. Even hearing the damn song now is triggering to me. -
Reveillie is nothing but a BITCH
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Release date for Book 8 is official! May 26th https://www.amazon.com/Parade-Horribles-Dungeon-Crawler-Carl/dp/B0FXY2JG27
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Posting on the football board as this directly affects watching CFB. Many of us, particularly older folks (and cheap bastards like me), rely on OTA boardcasts to watch a large numbers of games. Whether that's because boardcast channels aren't available (looking at you Sling) or just looking to cut costs (with the Sling daypass, I've been able to keep my costs this year under $50 total). Stole this from a reddit post in r/cordcutters: The FCC has reopened comments (deadline early 2026) on letting stations encrypt primary ATSC 3.0 channels — the exact thing that is already forcing CBS in some markets to fall back to lower-quality 1.0 or BLOCKING recording/playback entirely on HDHomeRun, Plex, Tablo, etc. If encryption wins without strong rules, we lose: • The ability to watch/record on the device we choose • Fair-use recording and ad-skipping • Truly free, open over-the-air TV on the public airwaves Public comments have stopped this before — they can again. Filing takes literally one minute here: → https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express Proceeding: 16-142 (no space before the number) Copy/paste examples (or write your own): Shorter version- Proceeding 16-142 The FCC charter for public broadcast TV provides that those radio frequencies are for the use by the public. ANY encryption at all on those frequencies violates that charter. Please ban encryption/DRM on primary ATSC 3.0 channels OR require permanent unencrypted ATSC 1.0 simulcasts. Free OTA should stay open to any antenna and any tuner — no paywall on public airwaves. Longer version- Proceeding 16-142 The FCC charter for public broadcast TV provides that those radio frequencies are for the use by the public. ANY encryption at all on those frequencies has been a violation of that charter. Any company that considers their content too valuable to broadcast unencrypted should not be granted a license to use the public airwaves. Encryption on primary broadcast channels would destroy over-the-air TV for millions who use HDHomeRun, Plex, Tablo, etc. I urge the FCC to prohibit redistribution-control descriptors on the main program stream OR make full-quality 1.0 simulcasts permanent for any station that encrypts its 3.0 signal. Every single comment submitted to the FCC gets read. Let’s not lose free OTA to DRM.
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Ken Burns: The American Revolution 11/16
Hellraiser97 replied to GhostOfTomJoad's topic in Movies and TV
Would it? The UK effectively bought every slave in the empire and didn't pay the debt off for a 150 years. Had they made the same offer to the US South, would there still have been so much desire to hang onto slavery?
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