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RomaVicta

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  1. Nicely fashioned argument. You're special.
  2. Yes, they should be even-tempered like Surly!
  3. Well, Napoleon found the crown in the gutter. Trump is dragging his down to the gutter.
  4. Looks like a fuckin' Participation Medal awards ceremony at a Special Olympics. Except actual participants are generally kind by nature and good human beings.
  5. SEC Mike and a few others know how to keep a floor to their ratings: Tell Aggies what they want to hear. Tapping into their desire to find a way to say they actually beat Texas even after losing to them is the smart business move. Stoking their fantasy about being elite is another smart move. We know what's next.
  6. All of sports are meaningless exhibition. People like the immediate drama of not knowing who will win a game. If all someone cares about is the season, why watch anything other than a championship game? It actually nicely links to what watching a game offers: small victories like first downs, larger victories like scoring or smothering the other team, and all the way to the final victory. The result of the game becomes a small victory that's part of a season. Players like to play. I'm sure anybody on this board who played would be ecstatic to play another meaningless exhibition. Who cares about a bloodless calculation made by some fan who whines at anything less than total victory? If I had the privilege of being a player, I'd be all about "Let's suit up and play Michigan. Sounds like fun to me." I don't even understand what pleasure there is in following the sport any other way. Of course, some seem to watch the Longhorns to feed some sort of weird displeasure jones. Players bound for the NFL in a few months may want to sit out, but they know they will play again.
  7. The Notre Dame special deal needs to end. They're no more important to college football than Alabama, USC, Texas, or any number of other teams who people feel are good for college football. It's not the job of college football to keep ND independent and relevant. What leverage other than nostalgia do they have to demand their deal?
  8. I'd say the important factor is getting the top 8 correct. Get out much lower than that and you get endless bickering about who had superior losses. If you're microscoping three losses, you don't belong among the elite. Sorry. Shoulda won more games than 9.
  9. It occurred to me yesterday that the bye week gives conference championship game winners the same time off that non-championship game contenders get before their first playoff game. Seems fair. I'm not sure if that was the intention or not, but Georgia deserves the same three weeks that A&M is getting. I think 8 teams sounds about right, too.
  10. Just recall that this got started because we decided to accommodate the number five teams. That should do it, that should be enough! Nope. Now we're down to accommodating teams not even in the top ten. When we go to 16, look for another round of the same thing. Please make it stop there. Whining from number 13 is enough. Fuck you if you can't get into the top 16. I'm also fine with the reasoning for us not getting in. Beating Florida is not a tall order and we failed. We were not good offensively for half the season. It would have kept us out of the top ten any season. Please don't bother regurgitating yet again the rationale for us being in. I've read it. It's not totally unreasonable, but get over it.
  11. Almost sorry I opened this. Absolutely revolting. The USN made into blood thirsty pirates. The president jacking off to it. His followers cheering. Yep, there were terrorists at work that night. No doubt.
  12. This thread is going full Aggie. Tech looks good. They won their conference. They've got a bye in the playoff. Stop with the declarations about how we'd beat them. We'll never know. Might have had a chance in the playoff had the Longhorns got it together sooner, but that's youth. Next year looks veddy veddy promising.
  13. Yes it does. Everybody knows and claims that success at a small school leads to huge success at bigger schools WITHOUT FAIL!
  14. The cartoons Traitor Incredulity aren't even that honest. The premise always a lie in what he quotes. I think they get traction with the intended zombies audience because they are projection. In the Obama as beloved hero because of the drone attacks cartoon, the premise is wrong. There was much criticism about the rate of usage and anger (me) about the number of innocents we were killing. Obama didn't share every great explosion on the internet as a indication of how manly he was. The adoration is a projection of how they back their leaders. Incredulity is the model of this. "I'd back Dotard or any number of Bushes when they use military force no matter how many innocent people die. I'll cheer it! I'll defend without even weighing whether the action is wrong." He/they assume we're just as hoopleheaded. It's sort of the same in his Manifesto cartoon. "How can people possibly dedicate themselves to pure self-interest by adopting communism?" They're not. Those people are your bros, Incredulous. I'm sure you have a rationale about why the free stuff absorbers in this country occupy heavily red counties and states. I honestly can't imagine the intellectual vacuity pasting any of the cartoons on board without a second or even first analysis. It's shit. We deal in shit. Let's get all the shit we can on the walls! The White House takes the lead. When they get challenged it's silly jabs like Incredulity uses (vacuity doesn't deign to argue) or just calling lies truth and truth lies. We certainly don't want these traitors to face the fate of traitors.
  15. Yes! We should use the process that always works! Add that to the strategy of getting players that are good from the portal, and we have a juggernaut!
  16. Lies are more believable in a humorless, witless cartoon from the right.
  17. No. Spurrier sent Tennessee to the Citrus Bowl repeatedly. We'd have to go there a couple of years in a row for that to be apt. I see that the TexAggys are using this lame tongue to lick their wounds after the beating last week. Plus, this is a solid bowl matchup that I'm interested in watching. Since it's another marquee game due to the helmets, we will probably pull more viewers than the Aggie playoff game unless they get a big-name opponent. Seriously, who will watch A&M vs Virginia? I'd rather be in the playoff, but outdrawing them would be amusing against their claims of having arrived.
  18. That coach must be 90 years old by now. I think they were running that pos commercial the year Vince got gipped out of the Heisman. From the first viewing, my feeling:
  19. If she's correct: Maybe we need to rethink our position on Mike Johnson.
  20. I was going to opine earlier that the carousel has not really been that crazy except for the money. I would have been wrong. It's just that all the crazy got focused on Penn State. I suspect that a lot of players on the current team may look to the portal instead of staying on that sunken ship. No recruits. No coach. No winning. Penn State may have imposed the death suicide penalty on themselves. They should never have emerged from the Sandusky/Paterno scandal with so little damage. They're making up for it now. I think you can see hell from here, ol' buddy!
  21. It's my understanding that football players like to play football. NFL guys won't want to risk injury unless they're auditioning. I'd think anyone wanting to play next year or ever at Texas will be happy to play Michigan. Also, it's a team sport. Guys like playing for/with their fellow teammates. The whole it's-all-about-money perspective is tiresome and not accurate. If it were, I'd stop watching.
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