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  1. Also, Eric Hall from Clarksville, TN. Seems like he was supposed to be a great punter and tight end if I recall correctly. Think he was mostly a career backup at LB who had almost the same kind of expectations because of his athleticism as did Jason Burleson (hadn't thought of that guy in a long while).
  2. This is a fascinating topic and I would love to wrack my brain trying to remember all the flameouts from a mostly trying period of Longhorn football. But I just got back from work -- a place where I have filed a whistleblower complaint -- and am in too good of a mood to to let schadenfreude drive my memory. Instead, I'm going to go stand barefoot in the two-foot snow until tonight's low of -11 arrives, occupying my mind with thoughts of every bat-shit crazy date I ever had, which makes 25 years of marriage that much more tolerable. Then I'll come inside to drink warm castor oil and probably write @TreatyOak a thank-you note for coming up with what would otherwise have been an excellent distraction. Oh, and thanks to the rest of y'all, too. I've got plenty of castor oil to go around if you want to join me in the yard.
  3. Didn't see this posted after a quick review of a couple of boards. But even if it is already posted, worth doing again: https://twitter.com/i/status/1891578363019469264 Apologies for the linkage, but I couldn't find any quick way to directly link the video of KD's emotional response to a question about the impact of basketball and the Olympics on his life.
  4. That is true. But beer is among the main food groups. Just like cheese curds.
  5. From today's neighborhood happy hour: started with an Old Rasputin Russian imperial stout, which I chose over a local imperial because, y'know, charismatic/lunatic guy (depending on where you stand) affecting history and all. Also hadn't had it in a while. Maybe my congestion kept me from enjoying it as much, but I found it less flavorful than I recalled. Still, an imperial stout seemed like a good fortification against the temps that were supposed to arrive tonight -- reported to be -18, although now they're saying only about -6. Also had a few ounces of each of the IPAs in the second picture, as we'll tend to split beers among ourselves. I've had them all before and liked them OK, but with the exception of Welcome to the End, they struck me today as a little too thin. Again, probably some congestion, but the Drekker held up best. The other two are from Young Blood (Madison) and a collaboration between Black Stack (St. Paul) and Second Harvest Heartland (a St. Paul food bank).
  6. I thought the thumbprint was only on their limited releases, but we've already established that my perceptions can be off. Moon Man is good stuff. Just read today that their beer garden and hilltop facility in New Glarus is closed until fall of '26 while they do an extensive brewery renovation/addition. Glad I got there this past spring. Sounds good for next weekend. Not sure my wife, who has had flu all week and will want to go out next week, would be thrilled about me going off to drink beer with someone I'm sure she'd see as a random sports fan from Iowa, but that's probably for one of the "Wives" threads ... New Glarus beer garden on a slow day and the NG Belgian Red, which was a very fine cherry beer and great after a day of hiking:
  7. First time I ever had a bourbon-barrel stout was from Central Waters about 15 years ago. Thought it was crap and swore I'd never have one again. My taste has since evolved and this is one of my favorites -- today's post-shoveling reward. Took a couple over to my neighbor after he brought out the snowblower and I used the heavy steel-bladed shovel to scrape off the icy stuff left by the blower. I generally find shoveling kind of therapeutic after a week at the office, so the beer was really a double reward. Cassian Sunset. Coffee, vanilla bean, cinnamon. Today I thought it was more chocolate than those flavors, but Central Waters doesn't overdo their BBS and the flavors stay subtle enough, but still distinct, to make them seem a little different each time.
  8. That is one great picture. Sums up the unfairness of youth. But I guess there are probably advantages to it as well ... if I could just remember them.
  9. Makes sense. I recall it was a regional beer, but Titonka does seem a little small and far away to be in a Sioux Falls-area restaurant. That's why I like Untappd -- it helps the old memory mechanism, although I haven't mastered searching it beyond the name of beers. Might do that next. Send a message next weekend if your plans get firmed up enough and you want to shoot the breeze about Big XII ball over an O'So. I enjoy reading your takes and probably have similar views about the direction of collegiate sports. Would have to see if I can get away but would definitely make the effort. I'll post my after-shoveling beer later. Snow still coming down and have a little more to go. Which New Glarus is that? Couple of buddies and I went to the beer garden there last May. That's a fine setting there, too, and hard to beat the beer.
  10. Yep, @Al_4_ISU. Nordic ought to be in really good shape next weekend. Powdery stuff right now and earlier this week. Here's the view off the back deck this morning. Have you been to O'So in Plover? They've got a nice space there. But there might be one or two other places to choose from in Wisconsin. I was looking at your Titonka pictures and trying to remember if that's what I had at a BBQ place over in Tea, SD -- near Sioux Falls -- in late 2023. I may be getting it confused with the Tatonka stout from BJ's, though.
  11. I'm impressed that you can find a beer picture from 2014. That's dedication to good beer. Why "kind of depressing?" Seems like there's more story there worth telling. I don't have enough coffee in me yet to remember an anecdote worth posting, but I'll probably be thinking about beer while out shoveling snow later on today. Still trying to remember why our Sunday beer happy hour was talking about both Pliny the beer and Pliny the Roman not too long ago; it may have been while looking up something else on UnTappd. Not sure any of us had tried the beer but we were talking about Russian River and Lagunitas as potential pilgrimage destinations.
  12. I'm still an IPA guy above all, so I'd line up for it. Not sure I could line up very often with that ABV. Thanks to @mdleast for posting those pics. I was drinking the beer below when I realized Surly most surely would have an ongoing beer thread. Nice maltiness and a little roasty, but still light. Can't beat an inexpensive but tasty new offering from one of our regional stalwarts. Thanks to @HenryJames for kicking off this thread, @sith_horn for leading the charge, @Al_4_ISU and everybody else who's posting all these good-looking beers. I'll be a regular.
  13. To be fair to Johntay, when I get around the Oklahoma border, I am also a little unclear as to which country I am in.
  14. Guys, are we talking about a vile, sickness-inducing abomination here, or are we gonna talk about aggy? Oh, wait.
  15. That list is a four-year graduation rate, so I'm guessing Wheeling has just done something to hyper-focus on achieving that stat for the attention it would garner. That would happen when you compare favorably to the wealthier schools (whose students will, on the whole, be better supported from various sources). That table bottoms out with schools at 2 and 3 percent rates for four years. A bunch of those schools in the single digits and teens probably will be closed within five or six years, because they're fixin' to fall off the enrollment cliff, too.
  16. Sad to see. Had an athlete -- now former athlete -- from my school send me a scathing, profane email yesterday because I didn't do the things he wanted me to do for him regarding the educational part of his career. It seemed clear from the outset that he needed to start doing things on his own that he hadn't at this previous two schools, and I told him as much, although a little more indirectly. I told him how I'd help him after he took care of some basics that he wanted me to do. He didn't like that. Heard from his head coach recently that "things didn't work out" with the team. The young man tried to register but apparently had some other registration blocks and couldn't get into classes. Never contacted me except after the fact. Now he's on his fourth school and is probably out of his sport, too. Guessing he's at a local tech college, which would be good. Maybe he can learn a trade, but I wouldn't be surprised if his tendency to avoid responsibility continues to bite him. Obviously not quite the same boat as Johntay, but it's always a downer to watch people sink themselves like this.
  17. Well, sorta. Recovering from Dec. 4 knee replacement, which I mentioned earlier on this thread. Reading it all got me thinking I needed to push myself a little harder than I did after my previous knee replacement (left in 2023, right last year). Did my first pushups since December this afternoon -- two sets of 12 while I was doing my other stuff. Been down on the floor stretching for about 10 days now and finally got the gumption to do the pushups, which I remember hurting my left knee a lot more when I first started back on them last spring. Felt briefly like my quad might seize up a bit but no real issues. I was surprised not to have lost as much strength in my upper body as I thought I would over the last couple of months.
  18. Playing high school ball? Hell, I only weighed 120 as a senior and our team was state-ranked, so I didn't even bother. Band nerd and 13th chair baritone (out of 14 -- we also had a very large and great band, but I sucked except at marching). So I would have gotten maybe two quarter-note stickers the whole time, and mostly for doing a good job putting coolers on the bus. But I did go to the prom with a cheerleader captain and also got a couple of these:
  19. It is always good to hear a unifying voice in these divisive times, Senator.
  20. Well, over the internet, that would probably have to be in stream-of-consciousness writing rather than spoken, so ... nah. My internet tough guy days are over. Carpal tunnel, trigger finger, arthritis. I mean, I can fill up space every now and then, but those are my excuses. I just talk a lot sometimes, but I'm not claiming to actually be any good at it.
  21. Agree in principle, but at the front of the classroom, I'm that guy -- the antithesis of brevity. I survive by mocking myself for talking too damn much and remind students that I'm a writer because only then am I able to follow brevity guidelines.
  22. Still teaching PR up in Big 10 country (though not a BIG school). First teaching gig was an assistantship in UT's journalism department and have done grad work/taught at a couple of other Big XII schools. Also still do some minor freelance journalism on the side on occasion. I get the impatience with reporters (especially TV folks -- and even more so as an admittedly biased former newspaper reporter 😁).
  23. Agreed on all counts. I've practiced and taught both journalism and PR. A reporter who doesn't ask questions isn't much of a reporter at all. Not trying to go CR here, but our system depends on as much independent journalism as we can get. The PR end needs to be ready for that, and it sounds like Jahdae was.
  24. Why I made my own damn icing for the cinnamon rolls, and was perfectly happy to have my daughter steal the last one.
  25. You were probably a little subtle on that one, and your handle probably didn't help (although "BeerSwiller69" probably wouldn't do it either). If a single beer does the job, you're more resilient than most of us on this one. Bourbon sales are probably strong in Texas today. My initial response was gonna be to invite you over to the "Wives and the stupid shit they say/do" thread in Lulz, where I would hold court regarding homemade cinnamon rolls with no damn icing on 'em.
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