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Richard Kimball

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  1. There's always been people who got offended by everything, but they never had the social power they do now. There's an old saying that every phone call or letter to your company represents the thoughts of a hundred people who didn't call or write. That's not true, anymore. A small organized group can flood a station with calls. So, a station that gets, normally, a couple of calls a week about content suddenly gets fifty calls in one day. OMG! EVERYONE IS UPSET! Apologize! South Park and Family Guy avoided getting cancelled cause (A) the people who watch them weren't going to be offended by their content, as they were going for a specific audience, not the general audience a weathercast is going for. (B) they basically said "fuck off" to the people who complained, their ratings didn't drop, and the corporate suits shrugged.
  2. Patterson has a real talent for making a game ugly and sloppy, then slipping out a win late. One thing to watch out for is the return of Doug Meacham to TCU as an offensive coach. In his last stint there as offensive coordinator (2014-2016) they won eleven games twice. Patterson has dropped off the last few years, but the Frogs have, under him, been schizophrenic, going from 10+ wins to losing seasons with regularity. Even in their bad years, though, they tend to pull off a few upsets and lose close games. They don't get blown out a lot. And yeah, they have Patterson's personality, perpetually butt hurt and feeling disrespected. And they use it for motivation.
  3. Off topic: Re: Burnt Orange Royal changed the school color. It used to be just a slightly darker shade of orange than Tennessee. Royal changed the orange to more closely match the football. It was a subtle change, but it made it harder for opposing teams to spot the player with the ball when the Horns were running the triple option. There was an old saying that Royal never broke any NCAA rules, but he was responsible for a lot of new ones being written. He was an absolute master at exploiting the system. Check the history of the tearaway jersey, another Royal development. As others have noted, Texas no longer uses the true burnt orange from the Royal era. I've often wondered if there's a secret "Texas rule" that the UT color has to be at least slightly different from the color of the football.
  4. Florida man arrested for marijuana possession after telling cop "That's what she said," after being questioned about bulge in his pants.
  5. What's the difference between a four year old and a bag of cocaine?
  6. Commercials on the car radio that play the sound of a car crash or a siren. Totally destroys my chill. Gravel trucks that have a sign on the back that says "Stay back 200 feet. Not responsible for accidents." Makes me want to get a pellet gun, go to their yard at night, after doing the damage, put a note on the gate that says, "I'm not responsible for your windshields either, motherfucker." No, I haven't done it.
  7. Apologies for drifting off topic, but I remember on the NFL network, when the Vick dog fighting thing was going on, Emmitt Smith was on one of those "athletes on bar stools shooting the shit" shows, and started talking about how dog fighting was a lot more common than people thought, and it wasn't a big deal. They almost immediately cut to a break, and when they came back Emmitt looked like he'd been smacked in the face and didn't say five words the rest of the broadcast. Personally, I've always believed the dog fighting ring involved other pro athletes (some of those dogs were $10,000 or more, who has that kind of disposable income for that kind of hobby?) and the NFL sat hard on it to keep it from coming out. Sports journalism is a schizophrenic mix of people who will do ANYTHING to keep team access and be one of the "in crowd" and people who want to expose anything they can to get a scoop. Anyway, back to Watson, this one is weird, in that none of the talking heads know any more than the rest of us. Both parties are only talking through their lawyers. Your point about people getting fired is spot on. Smith and Bayless are probably bullet proof, cause they've made a lot of money by making dumbass comments, but almost anyone else can get cancelled in a minute.
  8. We know, Deshaun.
  9. Here I sit Broken hearted Shaka shit the bed and farted
  10. Camelback80 sleeps with the fishes.
  11. 60s song lyrics are serious bidness.
  12. I'm bumping this thread in 48 years.
  13. If it's anything like the football portal, it will be like dating after thirty or going to a garage sale. You're trying to find the least damaged item that you might get some use out of.
  14. I decided I'd never get a massage after I saw what happened to Moe Greene.
  15. Cases like this are Rorschach tests. Some people will believe her, some him, without any knowledge of the situation. I'll say two things, though. Any woman who runs a massage service out of her house and advertises on Instagram cannot be surprised if some of her customers expect more than a massage. Hell, I'm just on Facebook, and probably half of my "friend" requests are thots looking for johns, and my Facebook is about as clean as it gets. I never have anything remotely sexual on it. I'd also guess that most NFL franchises have people on staff for massages and physical therapy.
  16. Richards involvement was minimal. David Sibley and Bob Bullock were the movers on that. Both got their law degrees from Baylor, Sibley was the Waco area rep, and when Bullock retired, he left all his papers from his time as Lt. Governor to the Baylor library. Richards went to Baylor for her teaching degree, but wasn't that attached to the school and only taught for one year. That "Grandma teacher from Baylor" was mostly campaign rhetoric.
  17. Rice and SMU didn't bring anything to the table. Rice, in their entire history, has never made a serious commitment to football. SMU was still in their wandering in the wilderness phase. When the Southwest Conference was formed, television wasn't an issue. For the most part, travel distance between the schools was the biggest deal. Rice and SMU were inside an easy travel path for just about everyone. The Big 12 was about television footprint. Texas and aggy delivered Houston. Rice brought nothing to the table. The metroplex TV interests were Texas, aggy and Oklahoma. SMU and TCU brought essentially zero to metroplex ratings.
  18. Conference realignment talk not going away. The B12 needed one of Rice, SMU, TCU or Baylor in the conference. Having a private institution exempts the conference from having to open up their books like they do if all the colleges are public (government funded) institutions. For the most part, they're loss leaders, and don't do much except provide wins to the big boys and keep the conference from having to open their books. Northwestern is the one for the B1G, Vanderbilt for the SEC, Baylor for B12, USC and Stanford for PAC, and the ACC has several private schools. Course, not all of them are just patsies, but there's a reason the discussion was over keeping Baylor or TCU, and Houston didn't enter into the mix. As to Arkansas, financially they might be better off in the SEC, but they lost all their old recruiting grounds and picked up precious little in the SEC. There were rumors that the reason Arky jumped was because they heard they'd be left out of the B8-SWC merger, but who knows?
  19. Not to defend Nebraska, but they did have one legitimate complaint. Their biggest game of the year in the old Big 8 was Oklahoma. When the conferences merged, Oklahoma went in the south with Texas. The Sooners objected to an annual "rivalry" game with Nebraska because at the time, the three toughest programs were Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. Conference championships were a bigger deal back then. Oklahoma didn't mind playing both when a loss to Texas wouldn't affect conference standings, but they didn't want to have the toughest conference schedule every year. From a recruiting standpoint, the Texas game was a lot more important to the Sooners than the Nebraska game, cause Cotton Bowl in the metroplex. The inherent problem, IMHO, with the Big 12 when it formed was there were only three "name" teams. Nebraska wanted Oklahoma to stay in the north, and have Nebraska/Oklahoma anchor the northern schools, and Texas-aggy anchor the south. aggy wasn't up to doing the heavy lifting for that to work, the Oklahoma legislature wasn't going to let Okie lite and OU be in a different division, and Oklahoma REALLY needed that game in the metroplex for recruiting. It really affected Nebraska's ego when the Sooners pushed to be in the south, but...
  20. Been a long time since I thought of Yukon Cornelius. Wondered what he'd been up to.
  21. Really random, but anyone remember getting your car inspected in the 60s/70s? The state regulated the price of inspection, but the dealer could charge a dollar to adjust each headlight. Usually, the guy would walk out, scrape the old sticker off, put the new sticker on, charge $2.00 for the inspection, another $2.00 for adjusting the headlights if you had two headlights, and $4.00 if you had four headlights. Never had an inspection where they actually looked at the car until the state started running stings on the inspection stations I guess in the early nineties.
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