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Tex Long

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  1. What's impressive is falling into the Sarchasm head-first while calling Texas "they".
  2. Win, and control your own destiny; lose, and depend on others. Advantage, uhhhh...
  3. Or, who knows, maybe someone's headset comms lines or frequencies got crossed when they were fucking with them at the start of the game, when Kirby complained about them?
  4. I take that as referring to drops by the defenders, fumbles that weren't lost... stuff that makes you say "whewwww".
  5. You've spelt "hi__" incorrectly.
  6. This is the sort of thing that happens when Luigi and Fingers join you on the sideline and inform you that the Boss needs you to score 'cause you ain't covered yet.
  7. If only there were some way we could study their Defense's tells...
  8. Thanks for posting this. It's substantially the same information I found at the time (other than possible new life in Old Country). It also appears that it was not just Sandusky under investigation, but the entire Second Mile (? I think that was the organization's name) group that was allegedly heavily involved in child abuse. I believe Second Mile "sold" itself to a similar outfit, in Dallas, and when subpoenas of Second Mile records were sought, the new group couldn't find them. Darn.
  9. In the midst of some post-Georgia clip, I heard a UGa player say that they had studied our tells and basically knew where every call was going. Kirby wouldn't pass that along to Lea, would he?
  10. Bet they pronounce it as "leader" hosen, too. Germans laugh their asses off when some dumb American mentions "singing pants". Advantage, aggy?
  11. Don't forget the Good Hair...
  12. Yes. But no. He wasn't, but he is. Does he recover? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself.
  13. Tex Long

    High

    You know Willie said that finding pot saved his life, right? Sure as hell worked for him so far.
  14. She? I always thought the Tooth Fairy looked like he was related to Liberace.
  15. Took him wayyyyy too long to throw it, no doubt.
  16. Probably a stoopid kweschun, but did we ever see Ewers taking a hit or other action that caused the oblique injury?
  17. Yeah, I was gonna do the 3 Wheeler, but it just seemed wrong. I shoulda thrown a water bottle.
  18. RENT FREE
  19. Ultimately, "un-paid" refs are getting jollies one way or another - prestige, freebies, whatever. Theoretically, they could be "fired" for failures, which is a fairly small threat. But not even that seems to be done, at least not openly and with reporting. To me, besides the idea of "pro" reffing, there is an element of criminality that would not necessarily be addressed with full-time refs... Gambling rears its head, subsumed under the general term "Vegas". Big sports books try to even out their bets and live on the vig. That's not always possible, and it seems to be a near certainty that when the bets fall heavily one way, a crooked ref will be required to make sure the outcome goes the "right" way. I don't know about NFL refs being professionals, but anyone who has watched NFL games more than a couple of times has seen calls that are obviously wrong and either aren't or just can't be reviewed or are reviewed and not corrected. I don't see full-time refereeing keeping that from happening. I suspect the DPI call in the Georgia-Texas game was a result of exactly that sort of thing. The guy who made the call was way late throwing his hanky, probably because he thought he needed to prevent Texas from scoring. Between the announcers carrying on about the totally shit call and the fans going nuts, the word came down from wherever to not push the issue. Meanwhile... how much would it actually cost the SEC to have full-time refs for football?
  20. One of the major complaints about football officiating is accountability. A proposal in this area has been to utilize officials who actually are professionals, and who would be held accountable for "bad" calls, with possible loss of pay or even position as a potential result of failure. The usual rejection of this proposal is that it would just be too darned expensive to pay full-time refs, so we gave to rely on part-time "hobbyist" officials. Since this thread's (current) title mentions SEC refs, let's keep it to that conference. How much do SEC refs get paid currently? I would guess that there are a few positions for administrative or supervisory personnel already, and that refs receive some sort of travel & living expense payments as well. We can assume that these amounts would necessarily continue, but any sort of "honoraria" are involved, we can probably ignore those costs. What would it take to hire and manage those 14+ refs for every game?
  21. Everyone who has a little brother knows exactly what's going on here...
  22. We may well hope.
  23. Yeah, that's more like the clip she was watching. Someone must've already edited the sound - It was either Sunday or Monday morning.
  24. I only had a glance at the screen, and that isn't it. The one I saw had him sitting in front of a Georgia/SEC backdrop, similar to what we see in Sark's pressers.
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