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  1. 18 minutes ago, QuesoEspecial said:

    The blank white rectangle on the front of Mahomes’ helmet is a trivial thing that makes me surly

     

    11 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Same

     

    There's three NFL teams that have blank nosebumpers.  The Chiefs are one of them.

     

    Saints and the Redskins are the other two.  

  2. About a year or two ago or so, I read an article someplace how room rates had spiked for a week in April 2020...rumored to be for the NFL draft.  Then, the announcement came and Vegas had landed the draft.

     Now, this.  It's going to be wild.  Completely closing down the strip for vehicles from TI to Aria for 3 days:

     

    https://www.reviewjournal.com/?p=1938095?itm_source=parsely-api

     

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    The 2020 NFL draft is set to be one of the biggest events in Las Vegas’ rich history and is expected to produce the most significant closure of Las Vegas Boulevard to date.

    The Las Vegas Strip would be shut down to vehicle traffic the three days of the draft, April 23-25, to accommodate an expected 400,000 or more attendees, according to a source with direct knowledge of the draft plan.

    The exact stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard that would be closed is still being decided, but in 1,500 pages of documents obtained earlier by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, event organizers discussed a closure reaching from Spring Mountain Road to Harmon Avenue.

     

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    Las Vegas Boulevard near Flamingo Road would be the most impacted area, with the Fountains of Bellagio being touted as the “showpiece” of the draft, according to the source.

    Locating the draft’s stage at the Bellagio was the “dream scenario” proposed by draft organizers, and it appears it will become a reality, two sources said, pending approval Tuesday by the Clark County Commission.

    NFL representatives are scheduled to give the commission an in-depth presentation Tuesday that will break down road closures and draft venues.

    “At the Tuesday (Clark) County Commission meeting, all will be known,” Steve Hill, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, said Friday.

    The LVCVA has been working for months with the NFL to plan the three-day event. Hill said much of the preparation centers on safety and security, and NFL officials were in Las Vegas every other month in 2019 for preparatory meetings.

     

    Spoiler

    Staging the draft in front of the Bellagio would result in rolling closures of the Strip over roughly 20 days while the NFL is setting up and tearing down the draft stage.

    To accommodate the Bellagio plan, Las Vegas Boulevard would be reduced to two lanes in front of the fountains for a significant period surrounding the draft, the source with direct knowledge said.

    Officials from the NFL and Bellagio owner MGM Resorts International declined to comment on the draft plan.

    “No comment,” said Raiders President Marc Badain when asked Friday about the plan. “See you Tuesday.”

    Hill and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who was in Las Vegas Friday for the Vegas Chamber’s annual Preview Las Vegas networking and forecasting event, indicated multiple Vegas icons would be showcased.

    “We are going to try and incorporate all the iconic features of this city,” Goodell said. “We are going to do what we can to show the tremendous entertainment and hospitality that goes on in this city.”

    The source with direct knowledge said the Caesars Forum convention center, which opens in March, will serve as a focal point. A second source said the NFL Fan Zone could be located near the Westin Las Vegas at Flamingo near Koval Lane.

    Hill said he expects more than 600,000 people to jam the city for the draft, which will likely produce the strongest April visitation in history.

    “The only thing that’s going to hold back attendance at this event is just the sheer size of the lots that are available for the draft itself,” he said.

    In July 2018, MGM Resorts executives gave two NFL executives a tour of the fountains, the Park Theater and the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. The festival grounds were part of the initial list of potential sites but were removed before the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.

    Other possible sites

    The documents reviewed by the Review-Journal also identified 33 possible sites and celebrities associated with them that could be incorporated into announcements of draft picks. Those celebrities include:

    ■ Celine Dion and Elton John at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

    ■ Vegas Golden Knights players.

    ■ The Backstreet Boys, Pitbull or Jennifer Lopez at Planet Hollywood Resort.

    ■ Cirque Du Soleil characters.

    ■ The stars of the TV show “Pawn Stars.”

    Also proposed were unique ways to unveil some draft picks, including skyjumping from The Strat, displaying a pick on the Wynn Las Vegas marquee and having a presenter step out of a High Roller pod with a pick.

    For it all to work, a logistics plan must be in place to ensure vital employees can get to and from their job sites on the Strip.

    Roadwork on the north end of the Strip would be suspended during the draft timeframe, the source with direct knowledge said.

    Hosting the draft is another piece in the city’s bid to dominate sports and entertainment.

    “We may not quite be the sports and entertainment capital yet, but we are certainly the sports interest capital of the world right now,” Hill said. “Everybody is interested in coming to Vegas. Every league and every team and every type of event wants to be in Vegas. They know what being in Vegas can mean to them, and it’s great for us.”

    Goodell hopes the draft leaves a positive impression on the city, since the event will usher in the NFL era in Las Vegas.

    “I think what will come out of that is that you all will be done with that and then say, ‘Wow that was special,’ ” he said. “Hopefully (it will) leave a lasting legacy here in the community that people look back and say the draft was a great event here and we would want it back.”

     

     

  3. 5 minutes ago, Landomatic said:

    Can you still change it?  I went over there just to check it out when we stayed at Aria one time.  Can’t really put my finger on it, but it just didn’t feel at all like Vegas.  Along with no casino (we don’t really gamble so didn’t really care about that so much), it just had a completely different feel.  Way too bright and cheery and not nearly enough dark and debaucherous.  Plus their restaurant/bar choices pretty much suck, at least compared to other places.  I don’t see you digging that place at all.

     

    It's probably just going to be a fuckpad.  

    But I concur with the rest of your sentiment.  You could plop Vdara down in Chicago and it would fit right in.

  4. 11 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    To put it a different way: they're not afraid of trump. They're afraid of his cult

    It's going to be interesting.  Trump is going to die, and what then?  Jr doesn't have the gift of showmanship that the old man has, and quite frankly, that's what got him elected.  The other kids don't have it either.  Trump could anoint someone as his successor in a sense, and that would be good enough.  However, he's far too vain to ever do something like that.  Anointing someone would imply he in his own mind knows he is going to be out of the office someday one way or another.

    Someone will bring out the cray in an attempt to keep the #MAGA folks corralled, since it's not really a traditional coalition of Republicans.  They will stoop even lower than Trump dreamed of, since it's going to take a new level to keep the interest up.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, hornhorn said:

    Right, so if Pentagon kills Soleimani in 2020, Trump did it. But if Pentagon drops depleted Uranium in 2015, its Pentagon and not Obama. 

    Since hornhorn wasn't in the room he has no proof. Got him!!!

    That's some astounding trailer park logic you have there.  You win the Internets today.

     

     

  6. 1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Yeah, I subscribed a while back, along with the NYT.  Liberal birdcage liners both, but hey.

    (Thanks for posting, I didn't have it in me to go through and strip out all but the text.)

    My wife is a fed, and she gets a free sub to the Post.  Otherwise, I wouldn't "have" one myself.  But it does come in handy.

  7. So, on his desk today during his thing in the Oval?  

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    Looks like the voting map from the 2016 election.

    This stupid fucker just can't quit.

     

    EDIT:  Sure as shit was:

     

     

     

  8. On 1/15/2020 at 12:16 PM, Zepol87 said:

    Absinthe and Zumanity it is. Thanks everyone

    Late to the thread.  Seen the following in Vegas:

    Absinthe (2x)

    Zumanity

    Ka

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    Whatever the show was at Aria---not the Elvis show, the Cirque show that closed after a year or two

    Jersey Boys (no longer around)

    Beatles Love (2x)

    Penn & Teller (2x)

    Absinthe is my favorite of all, with Love a close second.  Zumanity is fine; if you get one of the couches that is stageside, and your significant other becomes slightly aroused, you may get some mild crotch grabbing during the show.  Or so I've heard.  But aside from that, Absinthe is vile enough I've seen people get offended and walk out.  Not suggesting for a moment here you are of that category (hell, you post here) but know your girl before you walk in.  Oh, and if you are on the front row, there's a strong chance you are going to get picked on.  I was the "republican" at the show I attended last July (the photographer told my wife and I afterwards when we were purchasing the pics that they thought I was going to get chosen for the lap dance, but alas---I just got glory hole jokes aimed at my direction for the entire show).  Those of you here who have seen Absinthe know what I am talking of.

     I took a few pics at that show of Melody Sweets and The Gazillionaire, but honestly, I was laughing so hard I thought I couldn't breath or remember to take more pics (as I was the first time I went):

    Melody Sweets (not as hot as the last one, but she retired):

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    She just wouldn't bend over all the way in front of me, dammit:

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    Got a few pics of the lap dance contest:

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  9. 6 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

    it could be the main reason republicans are acting the fool. they know pence is in on it and therefore president pelosi. 

    god we live on weird times. pence could easily resign and some cleaner dude come in a la agnew. but whatever. 

    At this point, who in the GOP is clean?

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  10. 2 hours ago, Matuka said:

    Cap'n Crunch and it ain't even close.

    While I do concur, it just tears my mouth up.

    But, I do have a suitable alternative, and it isn't even marketed as a breakfast cereal:

     

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    I harbor no thoughts or feelings that I'm the first person on this planet to use these as cereal.  But I shit you not; they are gooooooood.

     

     

     

     

  11. Not sure if this is in the other Leach thread, and they are from last summer, and it's paywalled on The Athletic (not gonna copy the entire thing here, go subscribe if you haven't already) but there were two Leach stories---one is about what goes on in his QB room, and the other was about his first team at Tech.  Great, great articles:

    https://theathletic.com/1138379/2019/08/15/what-the-is-going-on-right-now-inside-mike-leachs-qb-meetings/

     

    Spoiler

    Austin Apodaca, 2012-13: It’s something you can’t really fabricate. All this stuff is true. You can ask any of us who have been in the room with him.

    Connor Halliday, 2012-14: His first meeting, he had just gotten there and I was expecting him to install the offense. Everybody had their notebooks out ready to go. I think we got there at like 6 o’clock at night and were there until 9:30. He didn’t speak one word about football.

    Jesse Brown, 2012-13: I had heard stories that he was this pirate guy when he first came, and he really wasn’t into pirates as much as I thought he was going to be. He wasn’t what I was expecting. But I don’t really know what I was expecting, either. I guess I didn’t expect him to be, uh, so weird.

    Halliday: On his way in from Spokane, he almost got in a car crash. There was a snowstorm that day and a semi truck had rolled, and he was talking about how dangerous it is for semis to drive in the snow…I was already a huge Leach fan, so I knew a little bit about his formations and a few plays, so I wrote down a few things in my notebook. I was excited to get the meeting started. But the only thing I wrote down in big, bold letters was, “What the fuck is going on right now?”

    Christian Jorgensen, 2015: I’ll never forget the first meeting. It was fall camp, and I remember we were slotted for a two or two-and-a-half-hour meeting. It ended up running like five-plus, and it was insane. I remember at that point being like, “OK, we’re in this …”

    Apodaca: Every single day there was some shit that popped off that you were like, “What in the world?”

    Casey Brink, 2016-18: It’s crazy.

    Jorgensen: It was crazy.

    Brink: Did you see our Christmas card photos we took as a quarterback group this year when we were holding Leach up? Other programs don’t have stuff like that. Nobody is having that much fun.

     

    Here is your Coug QB Group Christmas Card (featuring our fearless leader)! Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!

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    Brink: Everything with Leach at first glance is crazy, right? But then you’ve got to unpack it and be like, “OK, but is it that crazy?”

     

     

    Brink: Our No. 1 rule was: Never say or ask or do anything that would get him talking about anything besides the film.

    Apodaca: We would get pissed at people in the meeting room if they asked a question toward the end of the meeting. We would have these fall camp meetings that went until 9:30 at night and if there was a young freshman in there asking questions, we were all looking at him like, “Oh my God, dude, shut up because we will be in here for an hour and a half more on this subject alone. Stop asking questions, damn it.”

    Brink: We’d have people sit in our meetings all the time, and it got to the point that our quarterbacks would say to the guys coming to the meeting, “Look, we’re glad to have you here. But don’t. Say. Anything. Because the second you do, that’s going to be the focus of this meeting, and then we’ll all be here all night.”

    Tyler Bruggman, 2013: There was one time Connor, a veteran, made a rookie mistake. Sundays are typically long days, and we had finished the film from the game before. We were ready to head off to dinner. And then Connor made a rookie mistake and asked about the economy crash. I just remember Coach Leach putting the film clicker down and saying, “You know, it’s kind of a long answer, but it’s worth talking about.” So at that point, I knew we were going to be stuck in there for a while.

    Jorgensen: There were definitely games going on within the quarterbacks. Leach would cycle through stories and then you’d get guys trying to trigger certain stories. They knew what to say in order to get him to go off on a tangent.

    Brink: One of the great stories on that was early on my first year. Luke (Falk) was getting so perfect at his craft, and Luke loved making sure he got out to the practice field early enough to get his full warm-up in. So we would be in there waiting for Leach, and Luke would put on this serious face and be like, “I don’t care what you guys do, no matter what, nobody say shit, nobody ask anything, just let him come in and do his thing because I need to get on the practice field.” Classic Tyler Hilinski, he would wait until there would be maybe five or 10 minutes left in film and he would just be like, “So, Coach, what do you think about …”

    Connor Neville, 2017-18: You could see Luke losing his shit in the corner. Just like, “Come on, I just want to get the fuck out of here.”

    Brink: Luke would be staring daggers across the table, and Tyler would be covering his mouth because he would be cracking up.

    Isaac Dotson, 2013: I was playing QB at the time, and we had our first position meeting, and 90 percent of the meeting had nothing to do with football. Maybe five plays into watching film, something happened that sparked a classic Mike Leach tangent. For at least an hour, he sat there rewinding and playing the same play over and over while he talked about everything from growing up in Wyoming to having a pet raccoon, getting paddled by the principal at his junior high, the origins of football and eventually just a full-blown Native American history lesson. The one-hour meeting lasted probably three hours. I remember looking at the veteran QBs in the room with a ‘what is happening right now?’ look on my face, but I could tell by their reactions that this was just a normal thing.

    Brink: Sometimes they’re literally out of nowhere. We’ll be watching film and he’ll be like, “Throw it to this guy here. On this play, we could have checked to this play. And you know what? That reminds me …” And now we’re on some story that happened in Key West and some guy with one eye and a peg leg that he met at whatever bar.

    Erik Anderson, 2014-16: My first year, I was really just a scout-team quarterback, and a lot of the stuff didn’t really pertain to me because we were watching film of other guys. I definitely found myself after a long day dozing off in those meetings. He’d go on some side story and you’d get lost in it.

    Apodaca: I remember one story in particular. I can’t remember where he was at, but a neighborhood dog kept going up to him and barking at him or something when he was a small kid. To get this dog to stop barking, he apparently went up to it and peed around it or something so the dog wouldn’t bother him. Since that story, I was like, “This dude is another level of different.” He was just so happy to tell that story.

    Bruggman: One of the quarterbacks at Texas Tech took notes on Leach’s stories, and he would quote Leach but he wouldn’t say the F word and he wouldn’t write the F word. He left his notebook behind one day and somehow Leach got a hold of it and was looking at it, so the next day in the meeting he said, “I want you to get up on the board and write the word ‘fuck.’”

     

     

     

     

    https://theathletic.com/1194109/2019/09/11/a-crazy-cradle-of-coaches-mike-leachs-original-texas-tech-staff-and-team/

     

     

    Spoiler

    For his new players and for his new staff, adapting to life in Leachland was quite the change. Lord knows, it was never dull.

    Harris: It could be Sunday, Monday or whenever, he’d have his cup of coffee and come over to your office and he’d stay there for 30 minutes and he’d just talk a lot about things other than football, whether it was politics or movies or who knows. He made you feel very relaxed.

    Dykes: I’ll never forget this: I took to him to the state track meet in Austin. We walk out of a late-night taco place at 2 in the morning. Mike runs into some homeless guy and starts talking to him. I’m sitting in the car, it’s running, and two hours later, he’s still talking to the guy. I’m just like, “What the fuck?!” That’s just Mike.

    Bedenbaugh: I knew him since I was 17. He was my coach. He recruited me. It was crazy. I’m not a big talker. We’d be on the phone for an hour, and he’d be the one doing all the talking — heck, I didn’t have a clue what he was talking about half the time. He’d be driving somewhere or sitting somewhere and just call and start talking — “What’s this like?” and “What’s this town like?”, all of that stuff.

    B.J. Symons, banker, JPM Chase in Houston, Leach’s second starting QB at Tech: His quarterback meetings were so different. He might go on and on about what was on Howard Stern last night and shit that wasn’t even football-related. And then it’d be, “This guy’s covered. This guy is covered. Throw it to this guy.” It’s not like, “They’re in Cover 2 or they’re in Cover 3.” It was, “This guy is open. Throw it here.”

    Kingsbury: He’s gonna get his knowledge across to you on a wide array of topics in those quarterback meetings. As a young quarterback, you learned not to ask too many questions other than on football.

    Symons: You’re trying to learn the new offense, but there’s no playbook. They would just install plays and we would watch film and they would have each play was on tape. Then, we would take notes on the play. So it was, “Hey, we have no playbook. We’re gonna start with our quick game. Today, we’re gonna learn 6, which is four verticals, and we’re gonna learn 66, 617 and 619, and we’re gonna learn 8 and 618.”

    They would put in a few plays at a time on a whiteboard and then each play had a videotape, and it was old-school VHS tape and we’d pop it in after the team meeting on offense, where we’d talk about the play. We’d break up for our position meetings and we’d watch, “OK, this is 6,” and we’d watch for 15 or 20 minutes or 30 minutes on that one play. The beauty of Mike Leach’s system is there’s not like 500 plays. There’s less than 50. Maybe not even that many. What he teaches is repetition. There’s like maybe 30 plays, and you’re gonna practice each one like 25 times, so by the time you’re on the field, nobody’s thinking about what they’re doing. You know where everyone’s gonna be.

    Kingsbury: I think we were all excited. It was definitely a unique style with his approach to coaching and how simplistic he makes it. The thing that really jumped out to me was how he instills confidence in you with giving you free rein. From day one he lets you check stuff at the line of scrimmage.

    It was different. I’d played in a spread in high school but never had that type of freedom to where you’re literally looking at the defense and if there’s a better play that you like, you’re able to check to it — just have a reason for doing it. Nobody was doing that at the time in our league, and probably not too many cats in the country were either.

    Ross: Kliff’s great. He was really quiet at first. He was always there watching film. Then he started coming out of his shell, showing more personality.

     

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  12. 12 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    I thought that was all classified? At least the notification was. Gah, he probably only classified it so he could spill it all during the interview.

    Classified information is just gossip material to Trump.

    The higher the classification, the more willing he is to spread it wide and far.

    If our natsec folks could get by with it they probably shouldn't bother stamping anything Top Secret or Eyes Only, to ensure he wouldn't be tempted to dial up everybody and tell them what he learned today.

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