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Park Gothic

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  1. Reddit: Everyone overrates the SEC! Also Reddit: Ranks 10 SEC teams.
  2. Did anyone got to the OTF happy hour in Houston yesterday?
  3. I don't understand the impulse to turn Buccee's into a cultural football or to cede it to the Aggies. Everyone likes clean bathrooms. Everyone likes brisket sandwiches. And I know who owns Buccee's but I don't think that's dispositive. I'm not going to stop listening to REK or Lyle Lovett either.
  4. I like his analysis but it's hard for me to listen to him for long stretches. He talks like every frat dude turned sports betting addict that I've ever met.
  5. Okay, but how long ago was that. Curriculums change.
  6. So neither of the recent updates mentioned Parker Livingstone.
  7. I remember we were playing OSU one season where we were unranked and they were ranked 6th nationally. We won, and everyone took that as evidence that OSU was overrated rather than evidence that we might actually be good. There was literally zero upside to playing 90% of our conference games. Worthy got a nice shot in on a DB as well. Skinny dudes from Fresno love contact.
  8. Anyone get their ass kicked or lose a footrace?
  9. https://knowrivalry.com/team/longhorns-texas-97/ The only team whose hate we reciprocate equally is OU. The only other team that comes close is A&M. All the other teams hate us and we don't think about them at all.
  10. He was a much older lawyer when I was a young lawyer, so I didn't get to know him that well. He had a pretty good rant about gay marriage one time that I always appreciated, especially coming from a guy his age. Reminded me of that old school Austinite style of libertarian, who just aggressively defended people's right to do whatever they want as long as they weren't hurting anyone. Late in his career he took a case that I happened to have a personal interest in and it never sat right with me. Kind of soured my memory of him. I really can't blame him for defending someone, but I also can't shake my personal feelings about it. But he was definitely a character who epitomized a by-gone era in the city.
  11. Roy Minton was an interesting guy. Kind of an elder statesman in the Travis County criminal court world. I ran into him at the courthouse one time and he was kind of muttering to himself. I stopped him to say hi and see what had him pissed off. Apparently his client (arrested for a DUI) had a great video, made the client look completely sober. The client had refused to blow, however, and the DA wouldn't dismiss the charges. But what really pissed him off was she hadn't watched the video and didn't think she would any time soon. He was like "This DA is an unreasonable child. She's younger than my son and dumber to boot. I am not going to work with her." And I thought, good luck with that old man. Defense attorney don't get any say in which DA handles which case. Sure enough, a few days later she was off the case and the charges got reduced to "blocking a public way". I was always impressed by that degree of pull. Made me realize that if I ever got in minor criminal trouble, I am hiring the oldest, meanest, most storied defense attorney in the county and just pay whatever it costs.
  12. Is that some kind of Eastern thing?
  13. You have already given that exchange more thought than I have. Your welcome?
  14. Honestly, I'm a little shocked at how average looking she is. Not an unattractive woman, but still.
  15. That's not even a hot take, just straight up bait for engagement. The Athletic has really nosedived since the NYT bought them. I don't really care to defend Bear Grylls, but what I remember from that whole situation was that he never claimed that he slept in the wild or actually put himself in danger. His show was about showing people how to survive in certain situations (while being entertaining TV) rather than actually surviving them. I mean, dude had a film crew with him the whole time, it's not like he was hiding the fact that stuff was staged. The other big show doing the same thing at the time, Survivor Man, was about a guy actually putting himself in danger by himself and filming it. Which, for me, was way more interesting, but it was also a lot harder on the host. I think the guy eventually had to quit the show because of the toll it took on his body.
  16. I understand that's the CW, but it seems like Sark does a good job of getting the team up for road games. Most of our big losses are at home. Actually, "most" is the wrong way to put it. Since 2023, our only losses are either at home (UGA last season) or neutral sites. We haven't lost a true road game since OSU in 2022.
  17. Kadyn Proctor and Jaeden Roberts are extremely talented, with Proctor projecting to be on the top OL in the 2026 draft. But more than either of them, I think Parker Brailsford is an excellent center. He came over with DeBoer from UW, and he was calling protections for Penix in 2023. That unit pass blocked pretty well. At Bama this season, you've got DeBoer, Grubb, and Ty Simpson at QB, so I think their offense is going to look a lot more like it did at Washington with less focus on the run game. Pass pro is going to matter more, and I think with Proctor at LT and Brailsford at C they will have an elite unit.
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