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Foo Fighters or The Killers?
There are probably 20 Foo songs I like better than My Hero.
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Is this the end of shitty bowl games?
The solution is to make players employees, and make bowl participation part of their enforceable contract. Or instead of giving players trinkets, give them half of the money the school/conference gets from being in it. That would immediately solve the problem. Bowls have always been meaningless exhibitions. The difference is that 40 years ago, the media told you how much they mattered, so everyone bought into that. For the last 20 years we've beaten over the head with the message that there's too many, they don't matter, and the only thing that matters is being the national champion. Eventually (players first, then fans) enough people bought into that messaging and here we are. Bowls are something to have on in the background in a slow time of year. They get excellent ratings as a result, and it's more football. On top of that, it makes college football one of the few sports where someone other than the champion has an opportunity to end the season on a high note. Having my team opt out of a bowl game this year has made me realize how much I did actually care about the last part.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Their coach left, and the AD didn’t hire the guy they wanted. This isn’t a Big 12 thing, and more a “there are literally no rules in college football thing”. My guess is we end up with a shitload of Washington State’s guys.
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Foo Fighters or The Killers?
I absolutely love the Doll>Monkey Wrench sequence to start. The end run starting at February Stars is stunning. New Way Home is an absolutely elite album closer. Even the throwaway stuff like See You is great.
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Foo Fighters or The Killers?
There are moments of Killers songs that I absolutely love (the back half of "All These Things I've Done" is perfect), and I feel like I should love Sam's Town - but I just have never gotten it to take root. But Colour & The Shape is a nearly perfect rock album. It's better than a lot of other bands I like's best work. And there have been plenty of shitty Foo Fighter songs since (and plenty fucking great ones too), but that album is an incredible mix of all of it's influences. There's punk. There's 70's arena rock. There's wistful singer/songwriter folk. There's grunge. Sometimes it's all in the same song. It's a staggering record. My hottest musical take is that it's the best record Dave Grohl ever participated in making. Certainly not the most important. Certainly not the most popular. Certainly not the most influential. It doesn't get it's due credit, in large part because Grohl never really pushed the envelope stylistically, and because he never topped it. It's just so god damn good.
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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
-30 is my record. I was getting up every 3-4 hours in the middle of the night to start our vehicles and let them run.
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Popular comedians that are not funny. I’ll start : Bert Kreischer
Tom Segura. He used to be funny. His head is so far up his own ass nowadays.
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Al_4_ISU started following 2025 Hawai'i Bowl - California vs. Hawai'i
- 2025 Hawai'i Bowl - California vs. Hawai'i
- 2025 Hawai'i Bowl - California vs. Hawai'i
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Beer 2025: Merry Christmas Everyone, Including the Haters and Losers
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Surly Dad Thread
You can’t see into my soulful eyes though
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Surly Dad Thread
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Beer 2025: Merry Christmas Everyone, Including the Haters and Losers
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do you ever yearn?
I didn’t want you to know I was out of work.
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Where'd you get that tenement on wheels?