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Paul Wesley

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  1. This reminds me of a story: A few years back, my nephew was getting his pilot's license. He was taking lessons down in Kerrville (I don't know which airport). During his first-ever solo flight, he radios something to the tower about landing, and he's told, "No, you're not clear. There's another plane ahead of you." The other pilot hears this and says, basically, "No. It's okay. He can land first." So my nephew lands. A short time he's at the hangar, getting some congratulations from the old-timers who hang around the airport all day (my late father was one of these guys, but not in Kerrville). Then the other pilot who had given him the go-ahead walks by. He smiles and nods in approval to my nephew. "Nice landing, kid." It was Gene Cernan.
  2. Listened to this, and when I heard him deliver the line, "at a wedding reception in 1972," I thought, "Hmm, that voice sounds just like the dude in that song they use as the theme for the podcast 'Heavyweight.'" Looked it up, and yep... Side note: I am the fucking nerdy guy in that commercial telling everyone about a podcast that I heard.
  3. My thoughts exactly. I mean, it's already turning into a clown show. Wrestling belts? Trying to hype up a "Bluebonnet Rivalry" as a cornerstone rivalry game in your new league... a game that will draw 200K TV viewers if it's not relegated to streaming. I've said it in other threads: These teams don't even give a shit about each other, as witnessed by abysmal attendance, abysmal TV numbers in nearly every game that doesn't involve Texas our OU.
  4. I want to win the next two. If we beat OSU in championship game, we can say "scoreboard forever" to Yormark and Wiesner and the whole league. If we beat OU in championship game, we can say "avenged their only loss," which would be a huge thing if we're in a beauty contest of 1-loss teams for the 4th playoff spot.
  5. And I'll never look at entire season's worth of home conference games and think, "College football fans across the country don't give a tiny shit about playing a single one of these teams."
  6. Fuck "bleeding clock." In college football, 6-play TD drives that take 90 seconds happen ALL the time. You do not "bleed clock" in a 1-score game where each team is gonna get two or three more possessions. edit: score, score, score
  7. I’d love to hear the talk in the booth during commercials. There’s just no way they don’t see the the uncalled PI vs Mitchell in the end zone, the uncalled OPI on ISU to start this half, the uncalled two linemen 8 yards downfield on their “screen” that went for 33 yards, the uncalled hold on Murphy that kept their QB clean on the TD throw… And you look up and we’re in 4Q and ISU has 0 penalty yards. 0
  8. You gotta try an onsides kick there.
  9. Brian Jones slowly turning into a Jolly Mr. Claus.
  10. Yeah, this whole second half had an incompetent, Keystone cops, both-teams-trying-to-lose vibe. Looks like BYU is going to win (lose) that contest.
  11. It's even better (worse) without the music:
  12. I mean, the fact that we're coming off the worst decade in Texas football history, and yet we're THE team that lives in Iowa State's head - you know what that tells me? It tells me that the rest of this left-behind league is profoundly lacking in name-brand schools that ANYONE gives a shit about. Hell, our own conference mates don't even give a shit about playing each other, as witnessed by the abysmal TV numbers when there's no OU or Texas on the field, and instead it's just Baylor, UH, Cincinnati, KSU Iowa State, etc. See how this Iowa State guy doesn't give a shit about the rest of this also-ran teams in flyover country? See how he's going to be without a SINGLE Big 12 home game next year that he's super excited to be a part of? That's how OU and Texas have felt for the past decade.
  13. A fan of the team with players betting on their own games, a douchebag coach trying to fight fans in the parking lot, and a JAG lineman yapping (wrongly) to the media while a couple of 3-star Texas D tackles who are day 1 NFL picks - and who are about to give him a 5-star prison rape… For you to come here and lecture us about fixing our broken “culture” … Fuck off.
  14. Yeah, we are losing the best DT tandem in football and a salty, proven linebacker behind them. Nobody can consistently run between the tackles against 2023 Texas. Also losing our best player (by a lot) in the secondary, a ton of playmakers on offense, our best TE of the past 15+ years, probably our starting QB (and possibly the backup to the portal), etc., etc. We have a little window here to get a conference championship, and we're still alive for a top-shelf bowl and maybe even more.
  15. I'm just struck by the almost comical difference between: Calm, composed, analytical 1st-half Dvoracek who heaps praise on Texas vs Final-drive, game-on-the-line Dvoracek, "LATE HIT! LATE HIT! YOU HAVE TO CALL THAT! THAT WAS BRUTAL!" Just constant lobbying for any kind of a flag against Texas on every snap down the stretch.
  16. Announcers have abandoned all pretense of being impartial
  17. total phantom call that was not a hold
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