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Francisco 2.0

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  1. Related: I've been to Cooperstown twice, the College Football Hall of Fame twice (both times in South Bend), the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Basketball Hall of Fame. I'd rank them as: Cooperstown (large gap) Pro Football College Football (another large gap) Basketball.
  2. Once a year, my wife has a woman's trip. The number of attendees ranges from 5 to 20. They all work in the same profession, and from all parts of the US, and age from early 30's to 50's. They decide on a locale (Napa valley, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Vegas, you get the idea) and all fly in and stay at a Vrbo or something similar for 3 days or so. I refer to it as scissorfest.
  3. In a stuck Cybertruck would be absolutely sublime.
  4. It would have been more of a massive accomplishment had Sanders did it with last years CU team. Look, I'm not denying the NIL and the portal changed things. To compare this CU team to what was put on the field in 2022...well, you just can't. Deion brought in a bunch of mercenaries who have one job to do: play well enough that they don't get replaced by a different group of mercenaries in the offseason. It worked yesterday. It probably will work next week against Nebraska, and in Week 3. After that, the world will have a better idea of what exactly is going on.
  5. And if this year's Colorado was facing last year's TCU bunch, they lose this game. Yeah, it was an accomplishment for Colorado...but not one for the record books. They are more than likely going to start 3-0...then have to go to Eugene on the 23rd, then host USC the next week. That will give everyone a better idea of just how good they actually are.
  6. I'd tap the brakes just a bit here. TCU isn't what they were a year ago. And they still put up 42 in 3 quarters on this Colorado defense. Colorado is going to score points; and that maybe all that Deion wants to do---win shootouts. But they are going to have to stop people, eventually. Maybe he gets the kind of kids that can do that in time, but he doesn't have them yet.
  7. Gundy probably thinks he doesn't have a QB worth a shit
  8. They weren't trailing. At any rate, it's 20-7 OSU now.
  9. Catching up on this thread gave me pause. I've said here and there I re-married in my early 40's to a woman who was 29 with no kids. She wanted children, and I agreed; however, the nature of her job meant the children would be with me far more than her, which I was good with. However, it does have a cost in that I simply don't have the time to do this or that; I'm watching the kids, or taking them to soccer or school, or whatnot. They are still too young to leave alone, but in the next 3 years or so, I could start thinking of doing that. I'm not bitter over it, and with the hours my wife has there's literally no opportunity to do things I would like to do...with men. I have a country club membership, but I've not played a round in 5 years. She's encouraged me to go play, but when she tells me I have a few hours...well, I really can't squeeze in 18 with the people I would play with because that's gonna take 4-5 hours minimum, so that's out. To her credit, she does recognize that I need to do more male bonding things, but she also recognizes all of the things that I do for the kids, for the house, etc that something to go, and it has. Having said all of this, it does make me think, as I'm in my mid-50's now...just how much I've fallen behind in male bonding stuff. I have all of you mouthbreathers for entertainment, so I'm not totally isolated from society...in a sense. Not many male co-workers that I'd care to associate with away from work, either. I'll be able to retire in the next 7 years, and the kids by that time will be in college---I'll have plenty of time then, but I look at it like starting to date late in life after not doing it for decades---how do I start? And again, I have no resentment at all. Having kids later in life has been a great joy. I loved the old couple in a McDonald's a few years back on a Saturday morning asking me if taking my grandkids out to breakfast was fun; the look on their faces when I told them that no, they were mine. That sort of thing plus I love the time that I get to spend with them. Something had to give, however, and it was "me" time. I'll go back to lurking.
  10. Apparently, F1 demand isn't what the casinos were hoping for:
  11. While most of America was sleeping, Donnie was airing his feelings at 2 am:
  12. Yep. Have the logo all over the place.
  13. I've used Youtube TV for four years now. Yeah, it was $35 a month when it started, and it's $73 now (and still around $50 less per month than my last month with a regular cable tv provider) , but it just works for me.
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