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  1. 20 hours ago, Helobious said:

    I don't think the refs usually screw over Texas any more or less than any other team. Reading the football board you'd never know Texas' opponent has been flagged for more penalties & yardage than the Longhorns in 5 of the 8 conference games. 

    Sports Fan Psychology 101. In every game thread, for every team, win or lose, there will be at least one person complaining that the refs are biased against them. 

  2. On November 24, 2018 at 8:59 PM, Chooky said:

    Around the time when Karl Rove successfully convinced South Carolina that John McCain sired an illegitimate negro child, the GOP saw a huge incentive to begin courting deranged morons into their party. They have finally flooded themselves with angry, emotionally fragile lunatics and the dipshit dildo levee has broken. They are now floating around in that human sewage, helpless to the oily currents of fringe idiocy -- can't win cesspools without 'em, can't get smart conservatives like George Will on board with them. Frankenstein with bumper stickers and loud exhaust pipes is loose and he's not wearing pants.

    Eventually they'll learn that intelligent, fiscal conservatism without the screeching flatulence is still in vogue and can win elections. Just stop handing they keys to fat loons selling fear and dick pills. 

    It started with Reagan inviting the evangelicals into the party and giving the Mystics a voice. Science is out, magical thinking is in. 

  3. 26 minutes ago, After irth said:

    Yep. Look up “WKRP - The Complete Series” on Amazon (or wherever). Was released in 2014, I believe. Wife gave it to me 2 Christmases ago. Pure Gold, Daddy-O!

    I did. According to the customer reviews, not all the original music is there. Is Dogs? Is Hot Blooded? I'd need to know an exact breakdown before Id want to make the purchase. (I'm not asking you for that, of course.) But I appreciate the tip. I was unaware that they'd released anything after that awful first season release I got suckered into buying before. I'll have to do further research. 

  4. I watched the Turkeys Away episode of WKRP in Cincinnati last week (twice, actually). Early in the episode, Mr. Carlson walks into the booth where Dr. Johnny Fever is zoned out playing Dogs by Pink Floyd. At the time, copyright law was such that the producers didn't have to pay royalties to the rights owners of the music if the show was shot on video. So they shot the show on video. Consequently, there was a lot of great music on the show. 

    They released the first season of WKRP on DVD but couldn't afford to pay the royalties for all the music. So they recorded new music and dubbed it in. It was awful. The scene where Les Nessman dons a wig as he prepares for a date with Jennifer just doesn't work without Foreigner's Hot Blooded as the soundtrack. 

    They never played more than just short excerpts of any songs. The rights owners should've sold the rights cheap or just given them away so they could release the show on DVD without having to replace the music. I would think the exposure alone would be worth it. They're not gaining anything as it is. 

  5. 34 minutes ago, CoTex said:

    You watch it too I see.

    I would wreck shop in Hallmark world.

    Wreck. Shop.

    I haven't watched it in a long time. I can't abide censorship of an episode of Cheers being shown late at night when it wasn't censored on prime time network television. Fucking Puritans.

  6. 11 hours ago, CoTex said:

    I like the Hallmark Channel.  It took a while but I now realize that the scenes presented in the HC shows are pretty much my dreamworld. 

    All the women are hot, the dudes are soft, simple and non-competitive, and I would rule the land.  If I lived in HC world I would be a combination of Steve Jobs, Wilt Chamberlain and Little Bill from Unforgiven.  It aint the Coen brothers and I usually fall asleep, but with the right perspective, I'm in.

    Now that I can see the Hallmark Channell clearly, yes Mrs. CoTex, I would like to watch this show with you.

    Their censorship is ridiculous. They censor the word "butt."

  7. On November 25, 2018 at 1:03 PM, BigOrange1 said:

    happy for fleck.  i remember watching a 4 part documentary type thing about him before the beginning of his first season at minnesota and one of the alumni told him that he didn't care if he went 1-11 every year so long as the 1 win was against wisconsin.  

    That mini-series was called Being PJ Fleck. In one episode there was a scene where he was meeting with a room full of alumni/boosters and he brought up the question someone asked him about if he could go 11-1 with only a loss to Wisconsin or 1-11 with the only win being against Wisconsin and, before he could finish, the audience erupted in favor of beating Wisconsin. He joked about how nice it was that he could have job security with a one win season. That's a longstanding attitude among Buckeye fans regarding Michigan. I didn't know that Minnesota fans felt that strongly about the Wisconsin rivalry. That win should get him a raise and a contract extension, and help with recruiting.

    I take issue with people comparing him to a used car salesman. Used car salesman are dishonest and untrustworthy. There's nothing dishonest about Fleck. What you see is what you get. He's the embodiment of the maxim, "They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." He has a philosophy of using football to better the lives of young men and he applies it consistently.

    He has a lot of sayings and catchphrases that can come across as a little sappy but they're all consistent with his philosophy. Consider the acronym F.A.M.I.L.Y. which stands for "Forget about me, I love you." Yeah, it's kind of cheesy, but it expresses the essence of team and placing their best interests before your own. He talks about making the young men in his charge elite in every facet of their lives, "athletically, academically, and spiritually" and he means it. I'll be surprised if he's not there for all of his players for the rest of their lives regardless of where life takes them. 

    He's over-the-top energetic and that turns some people off. He's relentlessly positive and kind of sappy and cheesy and we made fun of him when he first came out with that Row The Boat gimmick at WMU, and proceeded to go 1-11. Then we learned he came up with that "gimmick" in response to his young son's tragic death as a way to keep moving. And we watched him go from 1-11 to 12-0 in four years and win a championship. 

    In the Being PJ Fleck series he talked about how one of his mentors, I can't recall which one, told him to be himself. He's nailed that. He's quirky and different and not for every player. But he's charting his own course. I can see why his players would run through a wall for him.

    And I'd trust him to sell me a used car without cheating me.

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  8. 41 minutes ago, cochamps said:

    Does seem like it’s time for another “heart attack”.

    It's like Urban's name is a bell and every Pavlovian dog starts drooling the same old drool when they hear it.

    Urban Meyer...*ding*...'Duhhh...FAKE HEART ATTACK!...derrr...'

    I get it. Once a meme propagates through the memeplex it's hard to uproot it. You still see Big Ten fans tossing out "Sparty being Sparty" anytime they lose a game despite the fact that it dates back to the John L. Smith years before Mark Dantonio brought them back to respectability. It referred to their tendency to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Sometimes they just get beat by a better team. But you still see it. 

    Michigan State is losing...*ding*...'Duhhh...SPARTY BEING SPARTY!...derrr...'

  9. 29 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    This is why I could never understand Trump's fascination with them.  (Well, I think I understand it but that's another thread.)  Their GDP is roughly that of Spain (depending on the price of oil) and they rank a stunning #110 in life expectancy between North Korea and Kazakstan.  They're basically a borderline second world country with nukes.

    I've seen Putin's net worth estimated at $200 Billion. Leaders of the free world can't make that kind of bank. 

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