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  1. Mixed emotions. 

    He wrote some catchy songs.  Politics.  He said some stupid things.  I'm sure he gave money to charity.  I can almost talk myself into forgiving the ousux thing.  He grew up in Moore (which is what, 30 minutes from Norman) watching Darrell Royal beat sooner ass.  Who was he supposed to cheer for?  

    I land on "any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind."   

     

     

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  2. I don't understand why more of these ladies don't end up with wealthy husbands to buy the Mercedes and pay the pool boy to "clean the pool."

    It would seem to me like there have to be at least as many 60-80 year old fat lonely dudes with jobs and cash as there are porn starlets that refuse to pursue any course of self-sustenance.

    Instead, they never get there, and end up in some trailer in Moore snorting fentanyl with some guy that probably is more like Lester Diamond from Casino than anything else.

    Tragic.

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  3. 13 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

    Here's a long description of what happens when a bunch of skydivers jump out of a hot air balloon.   You can see that this has the potential to go very wrong.  Here the "parachute" is the valve at the top that lets hot air out.

    https://www.balloonadventures.it/record-breaking-parachute-jump-balloon/

     

    Does a balloon have a terminal velocity?  I would think horizontal wind speed would always be zero. Wind blows you blow with it - feels like no wind.

    But vertical - thermal rising… if you go up too quickly the think inverts or collapses or something sporty like that?

    what is terminal V?

  4. Aha!  Informative.

    Is there an upper limit in ballon ascent velocity?  As I understand it - dropping all the skydiver weight causes so much positive ascent that may exceed balloon’s limits.  So they start off in rapid descent to ameliorate that, and then start dumping lift as soon as it gets light?

    More dangerous than I initially thought.

  5. Maybe I can find solace in the fact that some of those Washington fans we saw in NO spent a lot of $$ to get there, and then turned around and did it again, just to taste defeat.

    I'm guessing a W fan that went to both games spent minimum $6,000 for the experience.  

    Now, you Huskies go back to your desks and get to work like the rest of us.

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  6. The play that was called was three receivers left side to clear out, running back goes out into the flat, and ADM alone on the right.

    That play is designed (I think) to get a 1 on 1 for Mitchell.  It looks like he is the first read.

    Ewers go/no go is probably "if Mitchell is 1 on 1 throw it - if there are two purple shirts there, look left and crank it to the open guy."

    Seems like it was very effective because he was... 1 on 1.

    Seems like Ewers did his job because the ball was in Mitchell's catch radius.  Maybe not perfect - 2 feet lower would have been nice - but not a wild miss.  After all the batted balls, I could see the qb throwing everything a little high.

    What is success rate of that play for 13 yards?  50%?

    Maybe some football expert can help with this - why is that play to the right/short side of the field and not left/wide side of the field?  Shorter pass?

     

  7. Somewhere there is a spreadsheet that includes number of scores and possessions per game, average yard line of recovered onside kicks, and quantifies the risk and benefit.  You give up 40-50 yards of field position if you don't recover, but you gain a possession near midfield if you do recover.  How do you value that in a football game?  Does it matter if you're a high scoring team or grind it out team?

    Seems like a team with a finomenal defense would risk less than a porous defense.

  8. The 4th down play/last play of the game - wide open playbook, right?  Run/pass/option/reverse whatever, right?  Clock doesn't matter, getting tackled in bounds doesn't matter.  Run 1 play to get 13 yards?

    What play do you call?  Something with QE rolling out looking for receivers and a chance to make it happen?  I know we had some misdirection plays where we roll right and throw back left to running back.  Do you run that?  

    It is clear to me that Sark thought J Whitt and AD were the best options in that situation.  They were the first reads for those 4, right?

    In 2005 the play on 4th down was to give VY a zone read, right?  That was about 8 yards but I bet that same play would have gone for 15?  Oh, and rewatching it, Selvin was open.  Somebody named Young was going to score on that play.

     

  9. Having a cruise terminal in your city pretty much screws up the culture.

    New Orleans is special, but waiting in long line at cafe du monde, and having long line stare at you while you eat, just makes it feel a little cafeteria-ish.

    Get in the herd, stand in line, get your little taste of _________, and then get on/off the ship.  Oh, and don't forget your Marriott points - you can use those to buy a Big Captain platter at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. next time you travel with us.

     

  10. 1 minute ago, elguapo said:

    Yeah per the college pff team, do you really believe those numbers? I can recall about 3 times we had a legit shot at sacking him.

    I for one would like another shot at that game.  I feel like our A game against what I saw in the superdome, we would whip their asses.  I understand that's not how it works.

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  11. 10 minutes ago, marriedup said:

    wife and daughter also were in 328c and that description matches exactly what they experienced. they couldnt stop talking about the coked up asshole in acid washed jeans sitting in front of them.

    The wife and daughter sitting next to us were as cool as could be.  If it's your crew, your wife gave us "Quinning" buttons and your daughter has a pretty cool pair of boots.  They were the best neighbors we could have asked for - good people.

    I'm the guy with the 11 year old from east Texas.  Cocaine Washington guy got lippy with my kid.  I missed it but your wife didn't, she was pissed off and got the burnt orange suite/section behind us on the bandwagon.  Then your daughter started calling the guy names including "bald guy."  

    I thought it was pretty funny that husband/dad bought tickets in a Washington section and then made wife/daughter go sit there.  I like your style.

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  12. 12 hours ago, Lat22 said:

    I’m just sad the season is over. We looked like a team that hadn’t played in a month and their QB was fucking amazing. We sat in 333 which was majority Washington fans. They were loud and somewhat lippy. I took some solace in the fact that everyone of them was shitty diamonds for the last minute of the game. 

    Me too.  Sad. You form bonds with the players - really liked Sweat, Worthy and Bert.  They become part of the discussions I have with my kids, not quite family but important to us.

    Now, some of that is gone.  I really hope these guys go on to the NFL and get paid but I'm not going to watch some random game between the Raiders and the Chargers to see if a receiver gets 100 yards.

    Now, a few months of cold and then spring, and we can start over.

    We got a little lippiness in our section 328C but they didn't really want any smoke.  Arkansas 2021 - crowd was rowdy.  A&M next year - I predict bad blood.  These W fans were just drunk and a little too football obsessed.

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  13. A photoessay of my day.

    1.  Beignets at cafe du monde

    2.  Made it to Lafayette many hours later after a stupid traffic jam in BR and a minor jam on the Atcha bridge.  Pulled up to my sammich place and W car was already there.  Kids wanted to steal the flag but cooler heads prevailed.

    3.  Shrimp poboy for the road.

    Awesome weekend with my family and longhorn friends.  I wish they had won but even with the loss - great memories.

    Thanks to all that volunteered or worked toward masking sure Texas travels well and in style.

    Hook ‘em y’all!

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