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Ignatius

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  1. 10 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Bah, in the 80s and early 90s we showed up in droves for shitty football.  And drank a lot.  We didn't wear orange much, but we made a lotta fuckin noise if there was something worthwhile going on.

    Showed up in the 2nd quarter, left in the 4th and spent the entire game sitting down and socializing in a 70% full stadium that was doing the same.  With the notable exceptions of ACL weekends and Thanksgiving games, the students who go to games these days are light years better than the 80s and early 90s...

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  2. 5 minutes ago, DaggerHorns said:

    Many people love him. I have never been impressed. Why is important that you answer fucking twitter? The carnival and silent disco shit if fucking pointless. 

    Win, that’s fucking it. Hire people that get you a shot at a title.

    Shaka has been shit too. This is the last year I will give him.

    Serious question - do you attend home games or watch them on TV?

  3. 5 hours ago, texashorne said:

    He wasn't even a starter on a mediocre team. This has nothing to do with aggy. The Texans drafted a guy who wasn't good enough to start for a college football team. 

     

    Well shit Peter, you don’t have to have a million dollars to do nothin’....

  4. 16 hours ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    Lulz my buddy just texted me "Raiders released wack ass Conley, thank god" 

    So apparently Raiders fans were happy with the idea of him being released, he'll be ecstatic when he finds out they are part of the BoB fleecing... 

    Was he happy when they traded for Antonio Brown?

  5. 5 hours ago, TexArcher said:

    No, no, no.

    If the team in the field wants to use a pitcher and put the other 8 guys in a circle around 2nd base, or in any other configuration, that's their prerogative.

    A better solution is to teach bat-to-ball skills, including bunting, again.  Pure hitters would bat .500 against the shift.  Hell, Henry Aaron would bat 1.000 on bunt singles.  It's embarrassing that so many professional hitters can't beat the shift.  You don't make a rule to prevent it; you make hitters work on their craft to force teams to stop using it.

    This, this, and this....

  6. 5 minutes ago, Zavala said:

    Completely shitty division and STILL gonna gimp into a wildcard or miss playoffs lol

    The Colts aren’t shitty, they’ve built a really good roster.  Their O-Line is one of the best in the league, they’ve got a deep, balanced roster, and I’m pretty sure 100 out of 100 Texans fans would trade head coaches with them....

  7. 17 hours ago, GTX Horn said:

    My personal favorite was when Kansas kicked it out of bounds and Brooks suggested they were doing it on purpose. I mean, it’s not like we have Devin Hester back there returning kicks.

    More like we have Devin the Dude back there returning kicks....or maybe Hester Prynne...

  8. 49 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said:

    In most cases you are right but 29 seconds is way too much to let come of the clock. calling the timeouts before the 2 minute warning forces them  to run their plays before the 2 minute warning with the clock stopped...if you stop them and force the punt , you will get the ball back with more time left on the clock . I know we are talking about BoB here, but if you have the ball you control the pace of play and hopefully way less than 40 seconds run off between plays, and you can run out of bounds, incomplete pass etc to manage the clock. Also there was only 1:41 and we had no timeouts for the last possession. If you don't stop them you will lose anyways, and in this scenario calling the timeouts ahead the of 2 minute warning gives Houston the ball with about 2:15 left and obviously the 2 minute warning  .

          

    The Colts punted with 1:49 left in the clock:  if Houston uses its two TOs after 1st and 2nd down, AND holds on 3rd down, they’d had punted with 2:00 left, so you’d have gained a total of 11 seconds, and that’s if Indy gets conservative on 3rd down.

     

    My point is that by making them run that 3rd down play at the (say) 2:21 mark, you’re giving them way less incentive to not be aggressive and throw for the first down. From their point of view, if they throw an incomplete pass, they’re punting with like 2:12 left, vs being conservative and punting  with 2:00.  If I’m them, I’ll totally take that 12-second trade off for a chance to ice the game.  

    Essentially, in exchange for giving up 11 seconds the Texans created a higher probability that they would get the ball back.

     

     

  9. 1 hour ago, Dennis Taylor said:

    Call timeout with 2:29 you fucking moron! You save way more time than calling it after the 2 minute warning 

    Calling it before the 2 minute warning saves you 29 seconds; calling it afterward saves you 40.  Also have to look at 3rd down options that gives Indy:

    Scenario 1: 3rd and 10, Texans out of timeouts, 2:10 on the clock

    Scenario 2: 3rd and 10, Texans with one timeout, 1:54 on the clock (what actually happened)

     

    Under Scenario 1, throwing the ball deep/over the middle is a pretty risk-free option for the Colts; whether you complete it or not,  the clock is going to stop with 2:00, and you give yourself a legit shot at picking up the first down and Houston never getting the ball back.  As it was, doing anything but handing off or running an incredibly conservative pass play (which they did) would have been extremely risky.  By surrendering 16 seconds of gametime, you greatly increase the odds that you get the ball back.  Obviously the fuckup was needing to call a timeout to take a safety.

     

    Taking the safety was the right call there, but I've always wondered in that situation why teams even bother putting their punter back there.  If he's trying to catch the ball it might bounce off his hands, hit him in the face mask, etc, and you have a chance at giving up a TD there instead of a safety.  As long as your long snapper doesn't completely shit the bed snapping the ball, it seems a lot safer to have the punter stay the fuck out of the way...

  10. 5 hours ago, Johnny Sack said:

    That stadium would have been obsolete in 5 years.  You can’t do basketball and football in the same venue.  See the Alamodome. So it would have been another couple hundred million pissed away.  From your article, bud blackmailed the city into renovating the astrodome by threatening the Jacksonville move. When the renovated astrodome opened in 1989, Bud called it the best stadium in the NFL.  4 years later he’s blackmailing again.  

    I like the part where that dickhead didn’t even consult Alexander about the joint stadium.  Fans were pissed Bud tore apart the 93 team. They were mad we were 2-14 when Bud started threatening to move the team just 4 years after we renovated. 

    Fuck Bud Adams and his shitty hair piece

    Granted, that stadium was never going to be built for a million reasons.  The architects did have a great design though; essentially the lowest two (of three levels) in one end zone would be on tracks, where they could slide all the way to the other end of the football field to serve as sldeline seating for a basketball configuration.  A false ceiling would then drop down to completely hide the upper deck, so that essentially from the floor it would look more or less like a typical 2-tier basketball arena with no empty upper deck, big-ass curtain, etc.

     

    As far as the blackmail part, as badass as the old scoreboard was it was barely economically feasible for an NFL team to play in a 45K-seat stadium in 1987, especially when the team got no money from parking or concessions.  Whether it was Bud Adams or any other owner, the days of the Dome were numbered already...

  11. 5 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    I sure as hell don't recall that cheap ass fuck offering to pay for a third of anything.  I knew from the day that he started demanding a new stadium that the Oilers were gone.  Fuck him now and forever.

    And he offered to put up $75 million for the estimated $235 million stadium. That’s a great deal looking back at it now, especially seeing as how Houston and Harris County have built brand-new venues for the Astros, Texans, Rockets and Dynamo.

     


    https://www.houstonpress.com/news/it-was-bud-adams-not-the-fans-who-caused-the-oilers-move-to-nashville-9175804

     

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