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	  God help me, I have to spend a night in Fayetteville!Hayduke replied to locodos's topic in Food and Travel 
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	  God help me, I have to spend a night in Fayetteville!Hayduke replied to locodos's topic in Food and Travel I'll agree that Arkansas is a beautiful state, especially the more hilly and mountainous parts. And folks are spot-on about the growth and development of the Bentonville/Fayetteville area, Hot Springs, and other parts, including Little Rock. Plenty of great stuff to see, do and enjoy. But holy half-swamp ...ever driven to Memphis on I-40? That part of the state is probably why Sarah Huckabee has that perpetual scowl on her face. I wouldn't call a state ugly under most circumstances, just as I wouldn't call Huckabee that. I understand the perspective, though, and would take western Kansas with its big sky and long views over eastern Arkansas at least 363 days out of any given year. TL/DNR version: @locodos, Fayetteville won't be so bad at all. But don't stray too far.
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	This will cement what may be the prevailing opinion on a Texas board regarding Sweet Baby Ray's, but the primary guy who developed the recipe (along with his brother, apparently) did so in Wisconsin. They were native Chicagoans but the main brother, Larry Raymond, was head chef at Sentry Insurance in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, when he created the sauce and placed second in Mike Royko's Ribfest in Chicago in 1985. By all accounts was a down-to-earth guy who started a couple of restaurants in the Wausau area after he sold his sauce businesses. Died in Tomahawk, WI, just four years ago. Had an indirect Texas connection in that he was head chef at Nieman-Marcus' Zodiac Restaurant in Northbrook, IL, before moving to Wisconsin. Big Bears fan, of course. On to Week 1 games. Hope everybody has some good BBQ this season.
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	It is true that your team team's undefeated season looks promising, especially since it has played only top-notch opponents on the road and defeated all. But it has given up a worrisome season-long average of 59 percent possession. Whereas my team has yet to allow even a single possession or completed pass by the opposition, whether at home or on the road.
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	Leverkusen takes an early lead on Hoffenheim at home, but now down 2-1 in the 67th minute. Frankfurt winning its first league game with Jonathan Burkardt, taken away from my 05ers. Bayern München, of course, gets the six-goal opening day win yesterday and heads the table. Again. But at least we're here, and it's one more week until the other football really gets started.
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	Could be, but then he'd have to be at least friends with real-life Graham, who from all indications actually exists. I'd be pleased to find out it's a ruse with that level of complicity. At least it's far more entertaining and unifying than the incessant infighting and name-calling of the final weeks of the pre-season. Man, it's been a beating to read the Fall Camp thread, among others, these past few days. Can't wait for things to get started. And on that note, I realize I'm missing the first full day of Bundesliga play, so I'm out.
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	And that's 4.5 million vs. 1.5 million, of course, according to TV Media Blog.
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	And look at how many games Arkansas and OU have on the chart ... because their games will be more competitive. Texas games with A&M and OU are down in relative competitiveness, and UT's game with Arkansas doesn't even make the top 100 because it's not expected to be close enough. But check the peak viewership scores for Texas-Arkansas and A&M-Arkansas and I bet they're higher for the former, at least during the early part of the game. Average Nielsen viewership for Texas-Arky was 4.5 in 2024 (Week 12), and it was 1.5 for A&M Arkansas (Week 5).
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	I just read his stuff here as a matter of principle, but maybe I ought to contribute traffic to his site so he has a little more encouragement to keep amusing us. You raise an interesting question. Is he really here for their entertainment or ours? Is he just a master at drawing all of us? 5D chess. Maybe he's Surly, making a few extra bucks off of both crowds. Maybe YOU are Graham?
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	@DFW Horn, after puzzling over the KFord site and how he came up with those watchability scores, I've concluded that you're on to a measure better than Ford's. He must have some relatively arbitrary (and probably flexible) weighting number to make that 10-point watchability scale based on the KFord rating and KFord spread. You're right -- everyone loves a train wreck. You should copyright a "Train Wreckiness" score to pull in some clickbait money. Graham and whatever loyal aggy readership he has are probably good for some rabid visits. (His "angry Longhorns" comment was a hoot. As if folks can't identify a good game already.) Obligatory McClennan County "Crash at Crush" photo:
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	That's a fair description ... for critical-thinking-challenged Aggies who buy the implicit argument that there are only two factors involved in "watchability" -- how competitive you are and how likely your opponents are to make it a close game. Then Ags can conveniently ignore factors that also make a team inherently watchable, like All-American players and trophy candidates, being in the playoff picture, or being the blueblood that everyone loves to either hate or love. Good-looking cheerleaders. A fine band. A better setting. History. In a two-factor formula, everyone's local high school will have at least a couple more games that are more "watchable" than, for instance, Texas 8-4's annual November FCS matchup. Except in years when aggy manages to suddenly find itself in a highly watchable fourth-quarter upset. Bluebloods who consistently play head and shoulders above the lesser teams on their schedule will inherently have a couple more games on average that are less watchable than many games on an also-ran's schedule. Oh, but look who has three of the top five most watchable games of the season ... and who has a game that falls all the way to 61 on the scale because its opponent isn't as competitive ...
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	I vote no delete. Not the only link posted more than once, and I think it's a great story that deserves its own thread if for no other reason than the history woven through it.
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	Oak Cliff. Down at the very bottom of that story, which for a really long piece was still worth the read.
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	I found the historical parts more interesting in that story. I posted that link this morning over in the current recruiting thread, but it's worth a repost on the main FB board because of that history. And one of the cool bits of history was the story of what happened to that car. Wonder where it is now. That was a pretty famous car and it wouldn't have been easy to keep it from being noticed after it got stolen unless it was repainted ... which I suspect it was.
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	So the Big 12 broke up? When did that happen? Where did it go? Most of the conferences that Rice has been involved with have also died, "broken up" or reorganized. So have the ones that Texas A&M was involved with, including the old Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and if you're going to go back that far, be sure you include a good look at all 72 teams that have been part of that one, including Presbyterian, Centre College, Johns Hopkins and Morehouse State. Generally I like to be a little more indirect in responses to folks and stick to facts, but I'll venture the opinion that you're really showing your ass here when it comes to an understanding of realignment history.
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	  Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken BagmenHayduke replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫 Guess I should have probably posted this in the NIL thread, but somebody else can cross-post if it's helpful. I was too distracted by the shiny "Boulevard of Broken Bagmen" thread title. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46011014/college-football-texas-car-dealers Late said that since he handed Ewers the keys to that black Corvette, he has signed 27 Texas players to NIL deals including some of the Longhorns' biggest stars like Roschon Johnson, Jaylan Ford, T'Vondre Sweat, Kelvin Banks Jr., Colin Simmons, Anthony Hill Jr., Matthew Golden, Ryan Wingo, Malik Muhammad and DeAndre Moore Jr. He gives the player a price range and asks them what they want, then looks to used car auctions if it's not a model he sells. That includes Ewers, who eventually decided the Corvette was giving him back issues. He couldn't abide that with his QB1, so he asked Ewers what else he'd like. "How about a Porsche Cayenne GTS?" said Ewers. Done.
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	Great pics, @tomahawk dunk. Looks like you finished up. Second one, right? Would love to hear a few highlights and comparisons with the first.
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	Good stuff. Can't say that I've ever paid attention to Kelly but now I have. Enjoyed reading this statement from her Wikipedia bio: "The series chronicled their day-to-day life, portraying a dysfunctional family in which metal music, profanity and other harshness were a daily part of life." Only a couple of decades ago, but an entirely different lifetime. Man, that's three songs with a lot of energy. Was never a huge GNR fan so hadn't heard "Get in the Ring," but that's gotta be one of the only songs ever written that takes on so many music critics by name. Seems almost like an afterthought to the main challenge to everybody else in the world, though.
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	Great find. Best thing posted on Surly in about 10 days. Or more. Probably more.
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	Whaddaya think, @Mittens? Create a new post or keep this four-year-old, barely-four-pages thread going? Supercup with your Stuttgart vs. Bayern in another couple of hours. Pokal is now in full swing and the Bundesliga starts next week, so we've got some action to start filling the gap before Ohio State. Seems your old stomping grounds have their club going just a day after Stuttgart another 10 days from now. Just watched fourth-tier Illertissen beat second-division Nürnberg on PKs in the Pokal. Second division already two weeks in. Bielefeld and Darmstadt are at the top of the table with two other 2-0 teams just behind them.
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	Didn't have that tone at all, IMO -- I enjoyed those stories -- but I also understand why @utee94 pounced on the opportunity. Surly ethos and all. Our son is in the reserves and ROTC with a year of school left. He's had a couple of great internships and has been flown around a bit -- starting with basic training, when it seemed they purposely made the airport experience hellish. But based on the stories he's been telling, even with his internships, it appears the military and military-related agencies are trying to replicate the space available/standby experience as a matter of standard procedure.
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	Appreciate this perspective a lot. I enjoy a more detailed discussion of anything that sparks my curiosity, and the OAG did that because I'd not heard of it. I don't think I'm nostalgic, except maybe for a childhood when I was able to be more easily impressed by things like a "free" meal on a plane. Flew very little when I was young and have only experienced enough of it since to be able to see which parts of the experience have eroded over time, which is probably most of them except the high-end stuff and the presence of things that were only Jetsons material before. Flying is a kick in the nuts if you're not business class or above, or fortunate enough to have a single-leg trip. I'd probably rather drive from NY to LA. Free wifi ain't gonna save the experience for me, but a Kindle book and my own music makes it more bearable. I'm with you there. Can't say I'd rather have a bad free meal on the plane than an acceptable to decent one in the airport. But the entire flying experience seems to have deteriorated. Navigating take-out selections in the jammed, narrow concourses at O'Hare, for instance, is a nightmare that made me pick hunger over the prospect of missing a connection last year. At the same time, I also remember flying to a conference around 1997 or so from Easterwood Regional in College Station. Flight was at 7:35 a.m. and I woke up at 7:10. Even though I was six miles from the airport, I made the plane. If I have to venture an opinion, it's that air travel did strike me as more bearable and even humane when I first flew and wasn't horrible when I was a younger adult and flying on my own. From parking to security to picking up baggage, it's more a trial now, and a decent part of that probably is a function of aging. No question on your final point, though. Except ... pics.
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	Nice shots. You've got a good eye with the camera.
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	Thanks, @Ghost of LL. The guide would have made sense for frequent travelers, especially if they didn't want to rely on travel agents and administrative travel planners. I recall some flights with my family in the '70s when I was too small to pay attention to seat size, but remember better times, especially regarding meals. Some quick AI searches say average coach seat size has shrunk from 20-21 inches wide (about the size of current first-class seats) and legroom from about 35 inches in the '60s to around 31 now and as low as 28 in budget carriers. Before deregulation of the industry, complimentary meals, drinks (including alcoholic beverages) and even some entertainment were the norm and airlines competed with one another on amenities. One thing that popped up said Southwest "offered a bottle of alcohol to passengers who paid the full fare." Anybody remember that? So generally folks were getting what's now first-class experience -- and paying the price. Even my earliest flights, paid by the military when we followed Dad to Europe, were on airlines that I think no longer exist but still seemed slightly luxurious to me and my siblings. Things have just been eroding since, although, as @tigol points out, at least the air on planes has gotten better. Was coming back from Costa Rica via Panama maybe 10 years ago on Copa and was stunned by a free meal and beer in coach. I wonder if they're still holding out, but kinda doubt it.
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	Never heard of it, which surprises me a little because my very long education and work experience are rooted in communication and touch a bit on tourism/recreation. I'm guessing this is is a publication whose primary audience was travel professionals, especially corporate folks and agencies. And folks who had to pay attention to transport logistics for other reasons. Ran a cursory search for more info but didn't get far, so I'm wondering if any of y'all would care to elaborate. Genuinely interested in why this is so meaningful.
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