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Do we have any east Texas check-ins? Are people inching over to Shreveport where it seems like hotels are normal? Or are the roads just impossible? I'm getting an early days of Katrina vibe, like we know this is bad but the specifics won't be revealed for a couple days at least. It's pretty terrifying.

Shot Caller was surprisingly entertaining, mainly because Jamie Lannister is a damn good actor. Pretty routine story of normal guy finds himself in prison and does what's necessary to survive, even after his release. They don't make you wait long for violent advances to the plot.

She's amazing not in the Scary Movie series . Back-to-back SNLs where the hosts commit to the sketches, after Krasinski surprisingly just kind of showed up. Makes a huge difference.

Thunder, what is the downside to letting some of these small/medium things go off at 50% capacity, especially outdoors? Assuming COVID conditions are much better than now, but maybe not all the way gone. I don't think anyone has sued any of the SEC football venues or indoor restaurants, etc. It's just impossible to prove where an outbreak starts, especially since we don't contact trace. Is it just a matter of costs for PPE and safety on site? I agree it will vary by location, and maybe some national acts don't want to skip California, the northeast and other major cities.

Might you have heard of...Ohio? (Actually not sure capacity but looks to be well into the thousands)

Maybe Baylor should allow more fans close to the court to shout encouragement at them

I wish...that cabana would cost about what I usually spend on a trip. I was surprised how good the screens look in the sunlight. I guess if they crank the brightness up enough it works out. As for why no one does it, just look at the typical crowd that hangs out in the sports book, and imagine them (us) shirtless outdoors

I haven't set foot downtown in probably 10 years, but Circa is in my wheelhouse. So many bars and screens. The giant swimming sports book looks amazing, but personally I don't want to sweat and get dehydrated watching games. Would be fun for like 30-60 minutes. Prepare to be distracted by the PR girl leading this tour, and a couple of pool waitresses:

I took my mother for her first dose at U. of Penn. They had been snowed out the two previous days and were trying to cram all the appointments in on Wednesday, and doing a great job managing the crowd safely. I'm sure that happened all over the northeast, so keep that in mind when you see record numbers for Feb. 3.

Johnson& Johnson (one shot) has finally applied for FDA vaccine approval. So I guess we go into the "Yeah, maybe...when we get around to it" phase before they actually ship it around and start injecting people.

Offsides enforcement is totally drunk this year. City played a ball that looked offsides to the naked eye, but of course the assistant waited like 5 full seconds to raise the flag. WBA saw the flag and stood around while City passed around and shot it in. I guess there was no whistle, so VAR was able to review and lo and behold, onsides and goal counted.

This whole thread is good:

I remember siding with & repping BradATX in some of the early cloak room COVID threads. I got a temp ban from posting (like 12 hours) for making some sort of indirect anti-Trump reference on this thread. I know 2020 was an American disaster story. The Tuscaloosa postgame superspreader-celebration is nauseating. But overall, sports are one of the few COVID bright spots, and that has been my main point. Again, highlighting major schools was to show if we make the investment, we can navigate this crisis and preserve some normalcy. And quite a few posters in this thread deserved the ball spiked in their face...anytime a team canceled practice in September they'd come in with "This is fine" and "Another domino falls" bullshit. Well the last domino was Ohio State on this was fine for a historically good Alabama team.

Fuck outta here with that. I said from when I started posting the percentages it was only between two Power 5 teams. I acknowledged the lesser funded G5 teams would have more problems, and they did, all the way through to the bowls. A quick glance shows 13 bowls (inc. CFP) between P5 teams were played and four were canceled. So 4 out of 17 is nowhere near "half of them were canceled" if we're being "intellectually honest". As far as focusing on power teams...I posted a lot on this subject regarding pandemic sports in general. The theme was always: spend the money, do adequate testing and play the fucking games. That's what continues to happen today as the NHL drops the puck and NFL marches into the playoffs. NBA will be OK too. Sports have been a leader in showing society at large how this can work: if you spend the money and test widely, you don't have to shut down. There is obviously a larger cloak room conversation to be had on how that could have applied to the public in general, and I really wish the USA was capable of that discussion but we're not.

I didn't update the stats for bowls because so many of there was so much mixing & matching, and some schools opting out despite not having COVID issues. We all know the New Year's 6 plus the championship went off fine. Guess we should start the "College Football in 2021 in Danger?" thread...people will be freaking out soon enough about schools scrapping their spring games

Daniel Dale said the crying patriot in the airport video was mad about being forced to wear a mask, not being on the no-fly list. Said the original Tik Tok post was about a mask. Probably true because I don't think he'd be all the way to the gate and still walking around freely if he was on a no-fly list.

And by "legs waxed" they mean...

Holly Rowe is off the broadcast with COVID. Said she's having some symptoms but doing OK. Cancer survivor, hope she gets through this without incident

Bama should agree to the delay if OSU agrees Fields won't play

LOL I posted about this in the Amazon Prime thread like an idiot. And I also got the town name wrong like an idiot which is why I missed this thread. Anyway, we watched three episodes and it's OK but not really that compelling. I suspect they are hoping the 6-man concept grabs viewers due to the novelty, but the games just look like regular football when they show highlights. It's also notable for Craig Way posing as their radio PBP which is obviously impossible for those of us who know. But of course he does a great job describing the action.

It wouldn't be 2020 without this news

OK now the SMU women's team has decided to cancel their season. You know, the squad that's 0-6 and tried hard to get their coach fired last year for being blatantly abusive? (But we did love Travis in the BMW days) Sorry, but when I see women's teams having player votes to cancel that tells me they don't see any upside in getting screamed at by shitty coaches while having to quarantine for four months. Men's teams have TV exposure and so many players who think they can get pro deals so they stick it out. I mainly think college athletes REALLY want to play their sports, and most know it's safer to follow the protocols within the team structure. We haven't read about COVID outbreaks stemming from games themselves, though it is more likely than football. It's worth watching whether more women's teams have player votes to shut down as we move forward.

I never listen to enough full albums, but did grab & enjoy these in 2020: Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death Bartees Strange - Live Forever Boy Harsher - Careful Orville Peck - Show Pony (EP) Frank Ene - No Longer (EP) I trust the buzz on Taylor Swift and Sturgill, just haven't gotten to them yet

This might be in FB or recruiting, but The Texas 6 is an all-access type show on the Strahm Greyhounds (halfway between Fort Worth and Abilene). Two episodes in, it's mildly entertaining. I can't help compare it to Last Chance U, which has way better characters to choose from given people's ages. The main weird thing to me is Craig Way calling the games, which I assume was taped after the fact. I always wonder if Last Chance U recorded the radio stuff in post, some of the commentary is just too on-the-nose with the off field narrative. In this case, it's more like it's impossible for Craig to do this

I agree Pederson's play calling took a side turn at 14-3 and never recovered. But Dallas did a good job on Hurts, not letting him escape up the middle of the pocket as he has the last couple weeks. Eagles are just decimated with injuries on both sides. Fletcher Cox leaving early pretty much ended this one. (Not that it matters but the kicker Elliott has been ass, that played into not taking the FG on 4th-15) For the future, who knows what they'll do but it will be hard not to make Hurts the starter in the summer. Wentz trade value is putrid, like maybe a 5th rounder and we still have a huge cap hit (though Hurts youth evens it out). The general feeling up here is Pederson will get fired but the GM will stay. Good news/bad news for Cowboys fans, I don't see the Eagles managing to beat WAS next week even if they try. The banged up guys won't dress which probably includes CB Slay who played today (and Cox the best defender on the team). The good news being you're not stuck at No. 19 in the draft.