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  1. My image of John Madden was shaped differently after I read a Sports Illustrated article, I guess some time in the late 70's or early 80's. After reading that article, I never saw him the same again... and among the change was he wasn't first and foremost a football figure. He became in essence a saint. The article/incident I'm referring to most old-timers will know well... a 1979 preseason game, Oakland vs. New England, and the hit Patriots receiver Darryl Stingley got by Jack Tatum while going for a pass. Although the hit was legal at the time, it was particularly viscous and Stingley ended up compacting his spine and being paralyzed for the rest of his life (which eventually would lead to his death in 2007). Stingley was taken to an Oakland hospital while the entire Patriot team got on a plane home; only a Patriots' staffer stayed behind. Madden went through the postgame rituals and cleanup, and then it dawned on him: "I wonder how that Stingley kid is?" He finds out that indeed he was doing terribly, and was in Castro Valley Hospital. So what does Madden do? Makes a beeline for the hospital, arrives, finds out where he is, finds out that he's about to go into emergency surgery. And then what does he do? Stays with him and comforts him up until he gets wheeled in. Eventualy, Madden realized that he was the only person to visit Stingley at that moment, so what does he do? He calls the airport and demands that the Patriots turn their plane, which was about to taxi to the runway, back to the gate and get to the hospital (several Patriots players did eventually go over). And if that wasn't enough, while Stingley recovered in Oakland over several weeks, Madden went to visit him regularly, when he was back in Oakland after games (he even offered his house for his wife to stay in for free while he recovered, but she graciously declined, wanting to be at the hospital with Stingley... nevertheless, the Maddens had her over to dinner regularly during that time, and Mrs. Madden would frequently join her at the hospital - when John was unable to due to his job. John Madden - sincerely and honestly concerned for the welfare of a player when no one would ever have blinked if he didn't. Stingley never forgot that moment, and it changed his life - he said that he might have come out of the incident a much more bitter man, but for seeing the compassion and care of Madden, it deeply affected him. They remained close friends until Stingley's death. How do I know all of this? Because the article was essentially an interview by Stingley, who, through several bouts of tears, said that he couldn't believe the decency of this man, and how he would always treasure how Madden cared for him, put him first. He never forgot it either, and always spoke so lovingly of Madden it was heartwarming. Like Stingley, that made such an impression on me of the heart of John Madden that football seemed ludicrous by comparison. John Madden was almost, if not quite, my hero from that time. And he also proved that he was much, much bigger than a silly game of football.
    17 points
  2. I walk around with a squirt bottle and spray people in the face while muttering "negged." Spoiler: its piss
    15 points
  3. The plan was to convince morons in the Trump cult to get vaccinated. He definitely underestimated the stupidity of you guys.
    15 points
  4. 14 points
  5. Seems like that politician doesn’t want you to…work with seed. I’ll see myself out.
    14 points
  6. You are really this stupid, aren't you. They don't care if women have sex, do they? The architect of the Texas abortion law had this to say: “Women can ‘control their reproductive lives’ without access to abortion; they can do so by refraining from sexual intercourse,” Mitchell wrote in the brief. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/17/texas-abortion-ban-jonathan-mitchell-supreme-court-brief https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/us/politics/texas-abortion-lawyer-jonathan-mitchell.html Do us all a favor and shut the fuck up about things you obviously are completely ignorant about.
    13 points
  7. Sad. He was so much fun to listen to on TV. But he had a great life! My Madden-adjacent story: About 5-6 years back I was working on a game that required filming actors in front of a green screen. We were in a film studio in Pleasanton. Turns out Madden owned it or at least had partial ownership. The staff was telling me how on Sundays, he would come to the studio (think giant warehouse space), have the games broadcasted against the wall, and invite all his friends to watch the game. Even had a staff on site to cook for them. I imagined it was a lot of fun hanging out with him. Edit: My memory was a bit fuzzy. It wasn’t a projection screen… the warehouse just had tons of tvs as evident from this article: https://www.polygon.com/22857879/john-madden-obituary-nfl-video-games-ea-sports-sales-legacy
    12 points
  8. I don’t feel safe knowing the bad guys can get away from our protector just by going over a curb
    12 points
  9. John Madden has passed at 85. The NFL voice of my formative years. RIP to a great one.
    11 points
  10. He and Summerall will never be equaled as a broadcasting team. RIP
    11 points
  11. You don’t sound married. Got a pressure washer for my wife that she has been wanting. After her first use, it of course end up in the middle of the garage, cords everywhere. So instead of passively aggressively dumping it on her side of the bed, I took the gun off, wound up the hoses, and put it away in the shop. Fast forward a few days and she’s trying to use it again, and she’s yelling at me from outside about not taking the gun off. I asked her, with intentional tone, if she wanted me to put it back on for her real fast. 10 seconds later I handed it to her. “So you have to turn it backwards to put it on?” Me - no. Righty tighty Her - but you were turning it left me - no i turned it right. (Picked up and demonstrated. Her - no that’s backward. me - (now getting pissed because surely she must be trolling me) well google it or ask your dad since you are clearly not going to believe me at this point. next morning I get a text to some stupid link about righty righty and clockwise and how she was right. I happened to be in the shop and sent her back a video of me tightening it and loosening it. She came down and said you are turning it backwards! At this point, it is amazing that no one is in jail. I did it for her again, with her a foot away, also indicating which way a fucking clock goes. Nope, your loosening it now. I had to leave. She’s gas lighting me, right? About an hour later it came up again, and she finally got it. We can laugh now. And I bring it up every chance I get over the last few weeks, but I really think she might have been trying to get me to stroke out so she could collect insurance.
    11 points
  12. So one of my wife's medical assistants has fever and is symptomatic and her husband just tested positive for COVID, but they say she has to stay at work or she wont get her holiday pay at all. This is what happens when corporations take over healthcare. Good work idiots.
    10 points
  13. Uh… there was a federal solution and fuck wits decided to take horse paste instead and complain about wearing masks because they didn’t need the government telling them what to do… And now they wanna bitch about there not being a federal solution. Get fucked. The mental gymnastics it takes to be this obtuse is amazing to me.
    10 points
  14. LOL at the idea this site is "heavily moderated." The mods attempt to keep politics to the CR. That is all. If you report posts to them that blatantly violate that rule, they take action of they find merit in your claim. In spite of this, the right-wingers have managed to shade DT into a forum for conservative farts to harrumph over the collapse of western civilization as they see it. They are frustrated that they can't fully express themselves there, where their cronies hang, without getting moved to CR, where they will get called out. Usually this type's next move is to go to the football board and try to brand their enemies as "CR morons" to the football crowd that doesn't go to either CR or DT. There is no reason other than lacking the courage of your convictions that you post-Trump "conservatives" can't all go make a stand at CR. You don't want to because you know deep down your beliefs are bad, and you should feel bad for having them.
    10 points
  15. I think you are for the most part arguing in good faith. And I agree that studies that look at these things show pro life people give a larger percentage of their income to charities including those who help poor mothers and their children, and are more likely to foster or adopt, especially disabled and minority children. But the truth is all of that private help is woefully inadequate to meet the need. So if you want to be intellectually consistent you must be for a strong government safety net. As far as whether lives are being taken, something like 90% of abortions are first trimester, with most of those in the first 12 weeks. You just cannot argue scientifically that a less than 20 week fetus is a human being. 23 week preemies require hundreds of thousands of dollars and weeks/months in the NICU just to make it home, and most have lifelong problems. Some countries don’t even consider preemies that early to be live births, and offer them only comfort measures for care. Abortions after the point of viability are exceedingly rare and are almost always due to fatal anomalies to the baby or significant risk to the mother to continue the pregnancy. But even if you believe an elective late term abortion ends a human life, and I do, you still have to consider the woman’s right to control her body vs the right of the baby. I would try to talk a loved one out of such a procedure, and I would never perform one. I think it would be reasonable to debate a ban on truly elective abortions past say 32 weeks but I really don’t think any are being done I’m not even going to get into the public health ramifications of widespread back alley abortions that would result with a blanket restriction on abortions tl/dr if you want to reduce the number of abortions, vote for people who are for easy access to birth control, sec education in schools, and expanded social services for single parents and working class families
    9 points
  16. The younger generation will never get it.
    9 points
  17. browned up some boudin from Earl's in Lafayette (good shit), melted a little provolone over the top, then lightly warmed up some leftover beef tenderloin from Christmas Eve in the same skillet, and walla, a burrito to hold me down in the hot tub after snowboarding all morning. may have to do it again, tomorrow.
    9 points
  18. It's almost as if the last 4 years were preparing Sam for this exact moment.
    9 points
  19. LOL. I'd believe this whole 'protecting the unborn' shit if the R party (of today) didn't treat poor colored folk like complete garbage. I'm not sure what circles you run in but there's plenty of people doing quite well in the R world that have zero problem making jokes about poor black people - in front of me, a brown dude. I mean the worst shit you can imagine - BUT they don't say nigger. So welcome to the new R party. Because everyone knows if you don't actually say nigger, you can't be racist. But I digress, you really believe these people care about unborn colored babies, but somehow magically give ZERO fucks about BORN colored babies? WTF drugs are you on?
    9 points
  20. One of the biggest failures of the pandemic imo is the failure to deploy an overwhelming amount of low cost rapid tests. The three letter agencies botched it early and often and have not let up on the gas in finding new and novel ways to fuck up the play. This 5 day guidance seems totally arbitrary. The guidance should be quarantine until symptoms resolve and 2x negative tests, or some similar specification. That may be 3 days for some, 5 for others, or 10 for yet others.
    9 points
  21. Pretty sure that's the same admission process for aggy
    9 points
  22. "Now look right here - you got the hearse coming in down the slot and there's a spectator in the way. Here comes the police escort - boom. Clears the way and lets that convoy get into the end zone."
    8 points
  23. My uncle Bill is still in the hospital but he is awake and he is watching! Hope he gets a good game! I don’t have much hope TT wins but hope my uncle gets a good game. He was finally alert Sunday (after essentially a month) and able to talk.
    8 points
  24. No most of it is just spent on electronically timed 40 yard dashes and measuring hand sizes and man buns....
    8 points
  25. Ya gotta understand-when they win they are intolerable, and when they lose they are intolerable.
    8 points
  26. I don’t get this post. The tweet dates are from 2020. The second from October 2020. Was Steve Herman still a senior administrator at the EPA in October 2020? This makes more sense to me:
    8 points
  27. That is not even close to how that meme works.
    8 points
  28. “It is always the blacks fault.” - Johnny Sack.
    8 points
  29. Oh no, we've entered stage ___, using arbitrary goalposts that will be moved ex-post, and now we have more restrictions that can't be enforced and everyone will ignore anyway.
    7 points
  30. To be fair, his time at UT should have prepared him better than most at playing behind a crap line.
    7 points
  31. Bravo, and bingo. Was amazed by the shit I was privy to in rooms full of Repubs just because I look like a regular gringo. Also, I have offered this deal to every loudmouth "pro-lifer" I know, and I've never had anyone say "I'd support that" -- would you agree to a policy with three elements: 1) no more abortion, 2) real sex education, discussing all aspects of sexual reproduction including birth control, and 3) free access to birth control? Because that policy actually WOULD help reduce the hell out of abortions. I don't even need to get into the next phase of "giving a single fuck about a baby after it's born." We never even get past my proposal. Because....as observed above....it's not about human life, it's about harsh enforcement of gender roles and "consequences" on slutty women who won't close their legs.....with zero consequences for the men who impregnate them.
    7 points
  32. He can’t elaborate because he doesn’t understand what he’s saying, because he’s an idiot.
    7 points
  33. *Wild cat works one game against a shitty K State team* SARK IS AN IDIOT NEW OFFENSE RABBLE RABBLE
    7 points
  34. Ya know, I actually agree. A plan that depends on society as a whole acting in its own collective best interest was always doomed to fail. But, if he had been honest and said, "We could be in a much better place if it wasn't for all of you mouth-breathing 'do your own research' cunts," you would have ridiculed him for that too. So what can ya do?
    7 points
  35. Trumpers blaming Biden for not being able to get Covid under control while they simultaneously go out of their way to prolong it by refusing to get vaccinated purely for political reasons is peak 2021 stupidity. Just no ability to connect the dots whatsoever.
    7 points
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