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Richard Kimball

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  1. These twitter & press department press releases are a joke. Before computers, nobody had the time to look up bullshit like the longest kick return to start the second half in a domed stadium west of the Mississippi since 1987.
  2. Live is worse than TV, especially when you are broke and spend all the money and then get heartbroken.
  3. When I was young, sports seemed a lot more important. I was a huge Cowboys fan. They'd lost to Green Bay in 66 and 67 on the last play of the championship game. In 1968, Green Bay was done, and the Cowboys finished the regular season 12-2. I was thirteen, and thought for sure they were going to win the Super Bowl. Cleveland beat the shit out of them in the divisional round. It was horrible. I don't think anything sports related ever hurt worse than that loss. It was like losing my first love (which I hadn't had, yet.) Yeah, I may get disappointed over a loss now, but when I was a kid, it seemed like life and death. When I was writing this and reflecting back on my youth, it reminded me of why I hated Notre Dame so bad. Couldn't see the Longhorns in Texas, but EVERY SUNDAY MORNING the local station showed NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL HIGHLIGHTS. Frikkin hour of the Saturday Notre Dame game, with every good play by the opponent taken out.
  4. You mean Morton? I always felt bad for Morton. He had a great arm, and could have been as well known as Staubach, but he played just about that entire season with a separated right shoulder. He played that season with less than half of his normal throwing strength, and with a hip pointer, several concussions and a knee injury. He was not a particularly mobile QB, and in that era, they beat the shit out of QBs.
  5. Saw an interview with John Madden years ago. They asked him why he got out of coaching so young. He told a story about breakfast one morning with the family, and it was a game week, so he was preoccupied. His wife told him that he'd promised to get their oldest son a car when he turned sixteen. He said he snapped at her, asking her why she was bugging him about that when it was game week and there was plenty of time. She told him the boy was turning sixteen the next week. He said he knew something wasn't right when he didn't know within two years how old his son was.
  6. I'm gonna take a wild guess that the ratings were horribad, bad enough they'll have to refund a bunch of advertiser dollars, and they'r trying to figure out how to spin it, or hoping if they stonewall long enough, people will quit asking. Since all the networks, news outlets, and the NFL have common financial interests, they'll do everything they can to cover up for each other.
  7. Russell's first year in the NBA, 1956, there were a total of eight NBA teams. The NBA didn't hit ten teams until the 1966 season. Half the teams were in about a three hundred mile loop of Boston, New York, Syracuse, and Philadelphia. Yeah, the Celtics won eleven titles in thirteen years, but the Celtics were the only stable NBA franchise in the fifties. Think of them as the Harlem Globetrotters and all the other teams as the Washington Generals. The Celtics are the only NBA franchise from 1956 that's still located in the same city. Every other franchise moved, some multiple times. I don't want to diss the old records, but it was just different. These were guys that had to get jobs in the off season, and the quality of play would probably be JUCO level today.
  8. I have difficulty seeing Belichick make it to another Super Bowl. He's 68, and while he's a good X and O coach, he's also a horse's ass. Brady kept the Patriots together. Belichick, as a coach, needed someone to provide the heart for the team, cause he didn't have one. I almost felt sorry for Cam Newton trying to replace Brady. The fact that Belichick lowballed Brady and thought Newton would be an adequate replacement tells you he did not understand what Brady brought to the team. It also tells you he didn't realize how corrosive a personality he has, or didn't care. Without Brady to unify the locker room, Belichick will be the same guy everybody knew and loathed when he was with Cleveland.
  9. Exactly where I am. Part of it is the regime, and part of it is a product of my age. The 70s Cowboys were older than me, and seemed bigger than life. They probably still did a bunch jack wagon stuff, but without social media to amplify it and 24 hour news cycles, we didn't know. It's still hard for me to imagine Staubach, Pearson, Landry, Pugh, Lilly, Billy Jo Dupree, Bob Hayes or any of the others sitting up at a podium talking about glory hole days. Course, there was was Lance Rentzel. Seeing Drew get into the HOF is a throw back to a time when sports probably wasn't much cleaner, but I was more naive about how it really worked. Great to see him get there.
  10. Best possible outcome is the guy was talking out his ass with bad information. If he got actual medical info and released it, there was a HIPAA violation. The reporter has no legal obligation to maintain confidentiality once he knows the information. Whoever was the custodian of the information is the one legally responsible, and that could cause problems for the entire University.
  11. Lots of different thoughts on this. First, hope the kid comes out all right. You know all the NFL money guys are sitting around a table right now going, "Well, shit." Steer the teams through this insane season, get Super Bowl set up, great story lines on Brady-Mahomes, terrific publicity from giving away Super Bowl tickets to health care workers, and here comes BRITT REID. Seriously, could he have done anything to cause more damage a couple of days before the game?
  12. Damn. Reid had another son die of a heroin overdose. That family has some substance abuse problems.
  13. Bet she keeps bringing up penalties from two years ago.
  14. tampa and tom brady Trivia of the day. Bill Belichick has coached 26 years. Eighteen of those years, Tom. Brady was his quarterback. His winning percentage in those years was .760. In the eight years he coached and Brady wasn't his quarterback, his winning percentage was .460. Without Brady, Belichick has a worse record than Jeff Fischer.
  15. You kinda threw me off on a tangent about boxing. When I was a late teen/early twenties guy, Foreman, Norton, Frazier and Ali were all at or near their peaks, and there's never been an era where boxing was better.
  16. I dunno. Losing half the team to COVID was a winning strategy for Cleveland.
  17. Amended. IMHO, just about any undefeated P5 will get in. One loss teams, it really comes back to conference reputation, and, of course, long term team reputation.
  18. You could be right. I gave up on the Cowboys when Jerry hired Wade Phillips. I saw about ten minutes of them this year, as a game was on while I was at a party. Weirdly enough, it was the third quarter of the Giants game when Prescott broke his leg. I thought McCarthy took the job cause it was a big paycheck, and didn't have that much invested in the team. It's possible I'm wrong.
  19. College ball is different from the NFL, cause the Eagles winning the Super Bowl doesn't affect seeding the next year. Course, ESPN keeps their thumbs, both hands, their feet and their butts on the scale, so the SEC will always be over represented. For colleges, next year the PAC 12 will be in an almost impossible position, as far as getting teams in the playoffs (I mean, aside from the fact that none of the teams are good.) Their conference champion got smoked by the Big 12 runner up. Those five B12 victories will boost rankings at the start of next year. Back when I cared about the NFL (thanks Jerry, for freeing up my Sundays) I wanted the Eagles to lose every game they played, and wanted Andy Reid to get his butt stuck in the bathtub and have to call the fire department. Yesterday, if Dallas had won early, people who still give a flip about the Cowboys would have been rooting for the Eagles to win, cause it would have put Dallas in the playoffs. I don't like OU, BUT them beating Florida helped the Big 12 image, and it will help with bowl seeding next year.
  20. Doesn't matter who he hires. Switzer, Phillips, Garrett, fill in the blank. The requirement to be the Cowboys HC is to sit back while Jerry struts. Garrett hung on for so long because he was able to do that better than anyone else. The Cowboys have had two competent coaches while Jerry owned the team, Johnson and Parcells. Both left because of Jerry's interference. Expecting Jerry not to interfere is like expecting a dog to stay out of the cat food. It will be this way as long as Jerry lives. No idea what it will be like after he dies, but the Cowboys are doomed as long as he's the owner.
  21. You can say that again. The biggest tell to me that this is a good hire is that he's staying with Alabama for the title game. If he was irrelevant to Bama, Saban would tell him to head on down to Texas. In a lot of instances, guys who are moving on to other opportunities get politely told to GTFO because they're just being a distraction.
  22. Yeah, I've never negrepped anyone here, but this page has convinced me of what I've suspected forever, but tried not to see cause I stay out of the cloak room. You guys are fucked in the head. I have no business being here.
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