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  1. Good move to post your resolution and give follow-ups. There are probably a few folks scoffing at what seems like a small daily number, but anything is big when persistence over the long term is the way. Keep it up. Got my right knee replaced Dec. 4, so I'm curious as to when I'll be able to do a single damn pushup. Did my left knee the previous year at the same time and I started doing pushups again around May if I remember correctly. The pain in my knee was substantial at the time but not unbearable -- and a good reminder as to how much of your body you use on a pushup. Five weeks in as of yesterday and can drive short distances without issue, walk a half-mile to work, take stairs if needed. Lots of seemingly trivial and repetitive exercises, mostly laying down, in that time. They get tiresome. Did my first squats (assisted by straps on the wall) with no issue at PT today. Probably should have been doing them sooner. I'm ahead of the curve, especially considering the state both of both knees when replaced. Fell two degrees short of the goal of 120-degree bend on Tuesday and took a perverse pleasure in having my therapist push down on my knee to bring it to complete flatness during inclined leg presses the same day. Hurts when she does it (no pics, rules I know mumble mumble), but when it makes the day-long stiffness and soreness noticeably diminish later on, it's a lot easier to take. Ran across this piece yesterday and it's got me thinking that pushups, sit-ups and other floor exercises need to be on my agenda sooner rather than later, but it may still be weeks rather than days. Just getting onto and off of the floor will be major accomplishments with reconstructed knees and disproportionately long legs. https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/knees-over-toes-guy-legit/
  2. Then there was that little game in Columbus in 2005, and that trip to the Big House just a couple of months ago.
  3. I'll do 20, 25. But I reserve the right to do like immamac and put a zero, at the end. The rest of the year, punctuation upkeep will be my priority.
  4. Can't seem to find the "No CR" emoticon. Can somebody help me with this?
  5. Bottom line on the aggy stuff is that the U. of Arizona is the land-grant school anyway. UA doesn't feel like an ag campus in the way others do, which may be part of why we want to saddle ASU with that load. Arizona is an exception to the general rule that the land-grants are "State U." and the traditional liberal-arts colleges are the "University of" in most of the states where there are two major universities (Kansas, Iowa, Okie, Washington, Oregon, North Carolina, New Mexico, Mississippi, etc.). Florida is a another exception. And then you've got the states where the land-grant goes by another name altogether (Clemson, Auburn). And, of course, the A&M anomaly. An all-time great road trip song. I just learned that was his first hit after always thinking it was Copperhead Road. But to keep it in the realm of football, I also learned that, at least according to the AI, he has never played a football halftime show. I suspect that may be a good thing, regardless of how great a show that could be.
  6. Still. Too. Soon. Even if the Pokes aren't on our schedule any more and we're in the playoff, the thought of that penalty makes me ragey.
  7. Yep ... after watching those last two failed fourth-down conversions, I'm leaning toward dubbing OU as führer of the Axis of Stupid.
  8. Good point. But aren't we more of a confederation?
  9. Something that has become a concern for me as the regular season and recruiting season have progressed -- probably unduly -- is that Texas has unlocked all the cheat codes. Maybe to the extent that 12-team playoff football becomes a little less competitive than it ideally ought to be. Especially when it comes to Oklahoma, I wonder what happens to the entertainment value of future seasons if they start to suck too much. But at least for today, regardless of who we "should" root for in each contest, it's a fine day of football. If the entire Axis falls, great. If the assholes all win, the "Longhorn schedule sucks" argument gets even more tenuous and we won't have to listen to it as much. Hard to go wrong today.
  10. Props to @Rimbo for recognizing the significance of this convergence. But I do think "Axis of Evil" grants these assholes an air of gravitas they don't deserve right now. I therefore propose that they be at least temporarily referred to as that: a mere Axis of Assholes. Perhaps with an additional modifier or two thrown in. Amateurish? Bungling? Axis of Assholes does have a succinct, crisp accuracy to it. And as pre-kickoff argument for the historically inclined, let me just throw out there the idea that the original Axis eventually included Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, Finland, and even Thailand. One or more of those are probably better parallels for our numbnuts football neighbors.
  11. From the discomfort of my guestroom bed, where I am doing my day-2 rehab exercises after knee replacement and cackling between curses because of the Justus Terry news ... FIGHT!
  12. I can see Looch, Brandy 13-0 and Spider Ag collaborating to rewrite "Three Men and a Baby" as "Three Ags and a Baby Blogger," with themselves as stars. And only Spidey gets it.
  13. Pretty simple, really. Anyone who's the last one standing deserves to be known as champ, because that will be a remarkable accomplishment. Was that team "the best?" Its argument is going to be at least as good as anyone else's and likely better. Somebody is going to get at least four solid wins ... maybe some great ones. Postseason grousing is just part of the fun.
  14. Taaffe looks like the kind of guy who always knows when to listen and, conversely, when the criticisms don't make a shit.
  15. We can always fuckstomp the enemy while maintaining character. Not being able to do so would mean a pretty dystopian world -- along with nothing but dreary movies.
  16. Lived there 14 years and have no great love for the area, but personally, I would not have relished having to work so hard to find a good place to eat. Still have family and a few good friends there. Most are probably 2 percenters, and they always made it more bearable. I definitely sang Mac Davis with a B-CS twist when I drove out of there with our U-Haul back in 2002 -- even if I was moving to Manhattan.
  17. I thought I was going to find it a lot more entertaining, but our absence from it has kept me from watching much. Probably has more to do with where my head is with life in general right now -- sometimes there's too much going on and the bandwidth has to go somewhere else. But I would have loved road trips to Colorado, Arizona and Utah. That's a hell of a Plains/Near West conference with tremendous historic and geographical appeal. And a Texas-Colorado matchup with Neon Deion would be epic.
  18. There were more subplots than a soap opera back then. Everybody hated everybody and almost nobody but Rice escaped the ban hammer. SMU and A&M were the worst, and I still contend that the main reason A&M didn't get the death penalty as well was because it would have slammed Bryan-College Station's economy. I still have a copy of that NCAA report laying around somewhere -- was working at A&M at the time and we got the report. But Houston and TCU were right up there, and those guys would have killed the conference even if the new TV alliances weren't already pulling things apart. When Texas got probation for Marcus Dupree's who's-to-blame boots and Eric Metcalf's ride across campus (among other piddly stuff), that may have sealed the deal. Still, it made for some epic football. Miss those days for the playing environment, but I think I'll miss the old Big XII more.
  19. Lil ol' private school in the heart of fancy Dallas whose best years were based on throwing illegal money around to ED and CJK5H? Salty about the big state school just down the road, the poors who suddenly became new money because of oil discoveries on PUF land 100 years ago? Who since, under everyone else's watchful eyes, have built a campus and football program with a history and promise second to none? That's a real head-scratcher. You'd think those Dallas high-society types would be pleased that a little investment and hard work paid off for their no-longer-country cousins. Not our fault we had to move to a bigger neighborhood to maintain our business and social ties.
  20. That was a well-timed post. Listeater would have that mess straightened out in a heartbeat.
  21. Gather round, all, whether yet beardless or bewhiskered, as we pass down the lore that is shared in the greatest song of all time about a disaster. I'll start, and others can hop in. The legend lives on from the old football boards Of the large one they call The Listeater When it’s time to get tix with a bunch of dumb hicks They all know that no one can beat 'er That thing, it is said, eats long lists as if bread When the skies of November turn ashen And around Kyle Field, the late fall will not yield Much better to serve as distraction
  22. Report back to us on that one. Xe seems spirited. But with xem, does one need consent or a more modern version, like c_nsynt? I'm no longer up on the protocol.
  23. Yep. No more reactions for me today, so I'll agree here.
  24. That was a bad one, but not horribly far off from what we've been seeing frequently. I was more amazed that they waved off a couple of penalties against us, including the pass interference and the kick-catch interference. Good wave-offs on both of those, even though first looks did make both seem reasonable. Figured they'd never get turned over on the road -- maybe the refs are now afraid of our fans. 😁
  25. End of last season (well, up until Washington) was pretty cathartic. Roared with joy in the living room multiple times ... more fun than I've had watching football in a long, long while. Tech game and Big XII championship were damned enjoyable.
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