Your Bag of Nothing for Monday, September 16, 2024

  • These high school football commentators are fantastic, but I can’t oversell them enough. The whole thing is worth listening to, but here’s a random starting point.
  • This was pretty cool. A North Texas card shop teased a special guest to appear on Saturday. You see these marketing gimmicks all the time. How good of a special guest can this be? One of our local athletes? A washed-up has-been that no one really remembers? Well, when Tom Brady is the surprise special guest at your local card shop, that’s what you call over-delivering on the surprise. From what I hear, there was no special prior announcement. The crowd formed by word of mouth. In my day, when I was a kid, this sort of thing wouldn’t have happened. But thanks to our mobile devices and social media, word can spread fast and people will catch the word and show up. What a great moment for those kids. I’m happy for them.
  • Florida sheriff fed up with prank school threats; vows to ‘perp walk’ both parents and students
    • “Parents, you don’t want to raise your kids, I’m going to start raising them. Every time we make an arrest, your kid’s photo is going to be put out there. And if I could do it, I’m going to perp walk your kid so that everybody can see what your kid’s up to,” said Sheriff Chitwood.“The second point of this is, if I can in anyway find out that a parent knew what was going on and wasn’t doing anything, your (expletive) is getting perp-walked with them,” he said.
  • On Friday, Drew Brees told Jon Gruden, “There’s never a week I expended more mental energy than going against a Mike Zimmer defense.” I wish we would have seen that sort of defense yesterday.
  • Same here, it’s a bonehead decision by Coach Prime
  • A lot of my Conservative Christian friends aren’t going to like this sort of liberalism creeping into the Evangelical church. I’m surprised such a church can exist in Odessa. – At this West Texas church, “the Lord’s work” is helping the poor, not rewriting state law
    • Led by co-pastors Joe and Dawn Weaks, Connection Christian Church, a 118-year-old congregation in Odessa, has transformed while keeping true to its legacy of helping the community.
  • A lot of my Evangelical Christian friends dislike Neil deGrass Tyson because they say he often picks on or insults Christianity. I don’t expect to change their minds, but I think they would be impressed by his thoughts, actually, his defense, of the Apollo 8 crew reading the first ten chapters of Genesis in December 1968 as they circled around the moon. It’s towards the very end of this video, and I have it cued for you.

     

  • The University of Texas puts on a great drone show when the Longhorns play in Austin at night. Some folks were complaining that not everyone in the stadium can see it, and that’s because of FAA rules.

  • A lot of folks were impressed with Arch Manning’s play at QB after Quinn Ewers got hurt, especially how fast he ran. Well, to compare it to one of the fastest players in the NFL. As for how most Longhorn fans felt about their Heisman candidate QB leaving the game to injury and being replaced by Arch Manning, this sums it up. No matter how the season ends, it’s going to be a memorable season – First year in the SEC, a big win at Michigan, #1 ranking, Heisman hopeful QB, NFL QB royalty as your backup QB, and the rivalry game with little brother Texas A&M starting back up. It can all go downhill fast, and they can lose to both Oklahoma and little brother A&M, but I’m enjoying it so far. Regarding Manning, I was surprised to find that he has a brother who plays on the offensive line.

  • I bet a lot of folks missed this great college football play. Everyone loves it when a lineman scores.

  • Serisously, JANE! Why didn’t you say, “TOM and Jerry!”

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