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  1. 12 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

    I meant celebrating the 1970 team in all-whites. Is that what we're celebrating? I'm sure it will upset the social justice warriors in the locker room. I could be wrong. Don't really care anymore about his team except Sam and Ossai. 

    I started with De Maguey Vida mescal - try it. It's freaking awesome. Then moved to a nice Argentinian cabernet called Mascota Vineyards. Very nice. Anyway, isn't this the Daily Mail message boards? I hate Tom Herman. I like Inna Moll. https://www.instagram.com/innamoll/?hl=en and use her to raise the cultural standards here.  

    Inna's is a real smoke job. (See Instagram link) So is my wife. 

    Thanks to Tom, I hate Saturdays.   

     

    Please neg me.

     

    Inna-Fight.jpg Inna being Inna. 

     

    Are you seriously making some sort of equivalence between the white uniforms and white skin color?  Please tell me you're not that dumb.  Please tell me I'm misunderstanding this.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Bill Lumbergh said:

    Special uniforms for a home game against Baylor that we've had two weeks to prepare for while sitting at 2-2 and losing in dramatic fashion to tcu and ou the last two outings just makes so much sense for this team.

       

    1 hour ago, wood said:

    Hype turned up to 11 !1!1!!1! For a shitty 2-2 team that should be 1-3. JFC.

    Win? Then wear whatever the fuck you want. Lose? STFU.

     

    Jfc, some people will bitch about anything.

    Just because the team is struggling doesn't mean you pass on an opportunity to celebrate the past.

  3. 1 minute ago, oSuJeff97 said:

    I was at an OSU-Texas game at DKR in the late 90s.... early 2000s?  Can't remember what year but it was when we were still super shitty and you guys curb-stomped us.... but the one thing I remember about that trip was a B-1 doing a flyover at the game and I thought my ear drums were going to explode.

    UT generally has a flyover at the game closest to Veteran's Day.

  4. 1 minute ago, Napoleon said:

    Perhaps you missed the part about there being practically no people in the stadium.

    I don't recall a pandemic during the Obama/Biden presidency, but I was out of the country for about 5 1/2  to 6 years of it, so I may have missed it.

    I'm thinking that they felt that the cost of the flyover could have been put to better use during a pandemic.

    And I'm thinking that they are right.

    Perhaps you missed the part about the flyovers being part of training flights.  The pilots are training anyway, so what's the big deal?  It makes good television even if the stands are empty, so complaining about them is just complaining to be complaining.

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  5. 56 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Lulz

    The broadcast booth, like the press box, is always located in an elevated area of an arena or stadium.

     
     
     

    And on Sunday, it allowed FOX’s Joe Buck and Troy Aikman the perfect vantage point to see just how ridiculous the NFL’s continued faux patriotism is, just weeks from Election Day.

    There was a pregame military flyover before the Tampa Bay-Green Bay game, as if fighter pilots and football go together like baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie.

    Aikman: That’s a lot of jet fuel just to do a little flyover.

    Buck: That’s your hard-earned money and your tax dollars at work!

    Aikman: That stuff ain’t happening with [a] Kamala-Biden ticket. I’ll tell you that right now, partner.

    The comments were caught on a hot mic, and the off-the-cuff remarks point to a lie that the NFL has been trying to push down the throats of Americans for years. Because if the NFL was so patriotic, then they wouldn’t have accepted cash from the Defense Department to disperse to teams for the purpose of waving the stars and stripes around.

    Besides 9/11 and the Super Bowl, teams weren’t even mandated to be on the field for the national anthem until 2009. But then, there was an initiative that included at least 14 NFL teams getting paid to put on “elaborate patriotic salutes” between 2011 and 2014.

    Check this out from a 2017 article from ThinkProgress.com.

    “Overall, the Defense Department spent at least $10.4 million on ‘marketing and advertising contracts with professional sports teams’ across the board between 2012 and 2015, although, the report noted, the department ‘[could not] accurately account’ for the full number of contracts and payouts it had awarded. ‘It only reported 62 percent (76 of 122) of its contracts and 70 percent ($7.3 million) of its spending in its response to our inquiry,” wrote Arizona Senators Jeff Flake(R) and John McCain (R).

    And they add this.

    “Even with that disclosure, it is hard to understand how a team accepting taxpayer funds to sponsor a military appreciation game, or to recognize wounded warriors or returning troops, can be construed as anything other than paid patriotism.”

    And according to CNN, the Department of Defense spent $6.8 million on “paid patriotism” between 2012 and 2015 amongst 50 teams from the NBA, NFL, MLB, MLS, and NASCAR.

    In 2016 – the year of Colin Kaepernick and Trump – it was reported that the NFL would pay back taxpayers more than $720,000 for the “paid patriotism” that the teams took from the military. At the time, Roger Goodell admitted that an audit discovered that $723,734 “may have been mistakenly applied to appreciation activities rather than recruitment efforts” in a four-season span.

    “This amount will be promptly returned in full to the taxpayers,” Goodell told McCain and Flake.

    “These recruitment efforts are intended to be separate and apart from the NFL’s long standing support of the service members and families who have dedicated their lives to serving this great country.”

    Before his passing, McCain called out the other leagues that took money from the government, suggesting that they cut a refund check, too.

    “I applaud the NFL’s audit in response to our oversight investigation into ‘paid patriotism.’ Returning the $723,000 is the right thing to do. But the NFL is only one of several sports leagues we identified that accepted money from the Pentagon in return for honoring our troops. The other organizations – Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, National Basketball Association and Major League Soccer – should also conduct an audit and return the money or donate it to service members, veterans and their families. We’ll be working to once again include language in the defense authorization bill that would fully ensure the Defense Department never again spends American tax dollars to honor our troops.”

    Over the last few years, there has been an ongoing conversation about the need for the national anthem to be played before athletic contests. And situations like this are why the age old tradition needs to be put to rest.

    Real even-handed commentary in the write-up there.  Did you get this straight off the Biden-Harris campaign website?

  6. 1 hour ago, reneg_2 said:

    Could be wrong. But Urban won’t be as expensive as we think. And, again, I could be embarrassingly wrong. Just have a hunch...

    How awesome would it be to sign Urban for $7.4m/yr UNguaranteed and watch him kick aggy's ass in recruiting every year?

    1 hour ago, MIkeHoncho said:

    well, if anyone watched the Cowboys tonight you know Urban's price just went up.  CDC - Get that shit locked down before he decides to try his luck in the NFL. 

    Wtf does what is happening with Dallas have to do with Urban's availability?

  7. 49 minutes ago, satyanash said:

    Franklin would be a horrible hire. He's expensive, his offense doesn't fit the Big 12 at all, his Gameday management skills make Andy Reid look like a savant, and you probably don't want to look too deeply into what went on under his watch at Vandy. If we don't land Urban and Bellmont picks Franklin they've learned absolutely nothing. Conduct a proper search. At least try and go after Cristobal, Dan Mullen, or the other far superior candidates before settling for Franklin. Fuck, I'd take Matt Campbell over Franklin. He would be a disaster here.

    Hiring Cristobal might make Phil Knight's head explode.  That would be the second coach we poach from the Ducks.

  8. 1 hour ago, Bluemoon3287 said:

    Has Herman had a mental break ?  What the fuck, over ?

    Apparently Bluemoon3287 thinks he's on his kid's walkie talkies.

     

    1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:

    But if we don't fire him then Strong's former players will say we are racist for not holding Tom to the same standards we held Chuck. So no big deal.

    16-21, 2 losing seasons, 0-1 in bowl games

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    27-17, no losing seasons (yet), 3-0 in bowl games

    No, we are in a different territory here.  Still not acceptable, but Charlie earned his early exit.

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  9. 21 minutes ago, horn_of_the_morning said:

    What evidence do we even have at this point that Urban is interested? Id say that the only evidence we have is that we haven't heard outright that he isn't.

    We have a couple of fuzzy photos of somebody who may or may not be Urban at what looks like a backyard cookout over the weekeend, or maybe the phots were from a year ago.

    What more do you want???  Jeez.

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  10. 46 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    Absolutely.  If there's a $7mm prom-night handjob/Big XII title/CFP berth in here somewhere...I'll buy the wine coolers.  

    It's been 10+ years of burnt orange balls for $6mm/year and it's getting fucking tiresome.  The really insulting part is that we keep celebrating how far we've come and close we are to our goals.  When it couldn't be further from the truth.  

    Nobody is celebrating shit.  People may try to look at things optimistically at times, but there isn't anybody celebrating where we are.

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