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  1. I haven't seen the clip in a while, but I feel like I would have remembered Bum Phillips calling the Steelers a bunch of cunts. I'll go get a refresh on YouTube, I guess.
  2. I am fully stocked with toilet paper, and Charmin is a lot cheaper.
  3. I think what you mean is "kick the son of a bitch in, ladies."
  4. I buy any I can find with the exception of Dave Campbell's. I still love reading all of them front to back. Going to go buy the two that are out later today. Phil Steele's is always my favorite. I usually have my own thoughts gathered across the big conferences by the time I start reading these and it is always fun to see the disparity from my perspective versus the writers in each magazine.
  5. Connie Clark? Projecting being marginalized by ESPN, irrespective of opponent that Texas would defeat? This is all after a huge win over the zomg fastest pitcher evar!? You guys could fuck up a soup sandwich.
  6. I’m sorry, but what in the fuck does Dana Barrett’s refrigerator have to do with college athletics?
  7. The idiot threw the change on the first pitch of the AB. She deserved to see that one sail out. Less about timing when that happens, though.
  8. The biggest backer has paid for more shit since 2018 than probably any donor anywhere besides Phil Knight and that is no slight to big NIL people at Texas or elsewhere. Dude is a trader at his core. If he’s not seeing a win in the deal, he’s out fully. I think they’ve hit that kind of wall with the baseball team’s performance and the backing of the football roster.
  9. What a fucking clown that Wright State coach is. Just a dumb motherfucker in every way. You are the last seed in the tournament and your guy is throwing a no-no with a lead and only 76 pitches thrown. Just keep running the guy out there, you piece of shit.
  10. The B1G has all of its talking heads, paid directly or indirectly, out there talking about being the strongest conference and winning the last two titles. "Now that everyone is paying players, power has shifted to the north" implying that the SEC was actively playing bag games that other leagues avoided before. Shit like that. I hate the SEC history and idiotic bravado. Hell, and the schools themselves, outside of UF and Vanderbilt, who I like a little. I'm all for what the B1G is doing. I hope it all causes the SEC to yield to the pleadings for them to play 9 conference games. 8 game conference schedules causing what is effectively a cheat for the SEC and ACC (lol) getting more teams into a playoff is beneath what Texas and its brand stands for, so fuck all of that shit.
  11. My FIL served in the British military for a decade. He then went on to work for a UK conglomerate working in "development" behind the Iron Curtain, in the USSR, the Middle East, Iran and the Far East for various stretches of time. He tells random stories of the same ilk as you do, although often really absurd or disturbing. He does it in the same matter of fact manner. "I was bringing across £50,000 through Ashgabat once via a hidden floor in the soles of my shoes for a mate once ..." or "our friend in Dubai, Ramy, kept buying canaries at the pet shop after he first brought his family over. it took awhile to figure out what was going on ..." or "the bloody problem with Russians is that life is not valued by them. I've run into more sociopaths in my dealings with those dirty bastards than anywhere else in the world outside of Kowloon ..." Now, I'm fairly certain that he actually was part of the British intelligence world. I sometimes wonder if you're not our Surly version of that.
  12. Not miserable. I’d have to be a perpetually wrong buffoon to qualify as miserable. You should know well enough.
  13. Eh, no. If you’re going to attempt to correct someone, don’t be that much of a fuck up. It’s jumping the gun. Jumping the shark is a reference to a popular something or other taking things too far into absurdity and losing its audience/impact. Jesus. Also, no shit softball and baseball are still playing? So are rowing and both gender T&F. 1 national championship for this season will be won.
  14. Your gain is our pain. I fucking knew Tennessee was fixing to choke as that inning was unfolding. Just fucking brutal.
  15. It's time like these in which I'm very thankful to have seats in a loge suite that are never touched by the sunlight at any point in the season. Good luck to everybody, though!
  16. Spoilered is an update on WRs Gibson and Gibson and confirmation, in indirect ways, that neither will be ready by game 1, and it could take awhile. Venables really is just room temperature IQ guy. I read his quotes, like those in this article, and see nothing but a mouthbreathing rube speaking in unsophisticated platitudes. The part where he talks about their rehabs being "right on schedule" is accidental comedy.
  17. Just so we’re clear, if nowhere else, on this board, at least. Texas wasn’t ready for shit in 2020. They weren’t ready on July 1, 2021, either. They didn’t support what NIL has become. They were fucking scared of it. What they weren’t scared of, they were oblivious to or dismissive of in all forms. So was the rest of the CFB landscape outside of Oregon and, well, a small group of us here and Bobby Burton. Small details may not seem important to you and this may seem like a quibble, but to me it is not. We put sweat into creating IP, aligning various skill sets and personalities, and then helping give it all away for the notion of a greater good for Texas and no longer seeing the UT AD be the disconnected, pious, pompous and trodden-upon snob it had become. We didn’t just create IP that was adopted ultimately across all of CFB, we took risk in bringing it to the forefront and then forcing the powers that be at Texas to see it and embrace it. And as to the notion that we’ll ever go back to just letting Bama and others make a mockery of the rules and get over on our fanbase? Not happening. Texas is not only now self-aware, it is assertive. Should that ever falter, we’ll call the banners again and find a way to go to war.
  18. DeNiro and I literally bumped into each other near the cashier at Aria, both looking at our phones. He was doing a junket for Last Vegas and I was in town for an annual trip with my buddies. He was nice enough, but good lord, he was small. I’m guessing 5’7”, 170 pounds.
  19. I actually have a more absurd rock star story regarding my wife than the one told here. Rimbo couldn’t top it without making shit up. Also, when I was at Texas, I partied one night with Gwen Stefani right before she became famous as the lead singer of No Doubt, which tops the other one or whatever Rimbo would try to make up. All fun, but that will be that for the public football board.
  20. He would have had to have a hell of a time if he did, I know that much.
  21. Ha. I wasn’t on the trip. It was more comical than anything. They had to ask him who he was once he made the pass. Must have been deflating.
  22. Okay, got it. I assumed that was just a given. The dude who OD’d from the Foo Fighters pullled the “do you know who I am? let’s go upstairs and fuck.” maneuver on my wife and a friend of hers on a beach in Cabo about a year before he kicked it. It seems like par for the course for a rockstar.
  23. I hate to wade into whatever this is, but can someone provide an honest answer to what happened with Dave Grohl that would trash his reputation as a rock legend?
  24. I know this sounds spoiled, but it kind of sucks that it looks like Texas will only win one national title this season in college sports. A whole bunch of top 4-8 finishes is a nice consolation prize, but here’s to more titles in the 2025/2026 cycle.
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