Your Bag of Nothing for Monday, October 14, 2024

  • There was a lot of build-up to the Red River Rivalry since it’s the first year it was played in the SEC. While I’m pleased with the outcome, it was a rather dull game. I’ve seen blowouts more entertaining. Oklahoma had early opportunities to control the game, and I thought Texas was done for. But the Sooners couldn’t make anything off those two early turnovers.
  • The Texas Longhorn quarterback started his college career at The Ohio State University. It must be neat to tell others you got to experience two of the greatest college football rivalries as a player, even if he didn’t play in the game. For those who don’t know, The Ohio State University plays Michigan every year, and it’s considered a big deal. Though, we know it’s not as cool as the Red River Rivalry since it has a neutral field and is played during the State Fair of Texas.
  • As long as I’ve been a fan of the Texas Longhorns and Red River Rivalry played near my residence at the neutral site of the Cotton Bowl during the State Fair of Texas, you’d have thunk I would have at least attended the event one time. I hope to change that next year, though I’m not looking forward to things like this. I don’t take advantage of the opportunities laid before me, which is something else I hope to change.
  • Steve Sarkisian started his post-game press conference eating a Fletcher’s corn dog from the State Fair. Talk about a man who has really turned his life around. I thought there was no recovering from getting fired as a head football coach for being drunk at meetings. He gives me hope my life can look better, and I really appreciate how upbeat and positive he is or appears to be.
  • Dua Lipa puts on a Longhorns football jersey performing in Austin this weekend to the pleasure of the crowd. She seemed to enjoy her week in Austin, even country dancing with an older gentleman in a bar. I wonder if he had any idea who she was.
  • Something that is easily overlooked, but a detail I appreciate is that the 50-yard line has opposing team colors.
  • A center hikes the ball and catches a touchdown pass. Here’s a better angle that shows how impressive the catch was.

  • Duncanville beat Desoto 42-20. But what made the game so interesting is that of the 44 starters who played, at least 27 will go on to play Division I football. The talent on the field tonight is absurd. How do you acquire all that talent at two schools?
  • The Cowboys sure did stink, but the good news is I hear they are looking at this new receiver during the bye week.

     

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    But it looks like the Chiefs have already picked her up.

  • Texas middle school cheerleaders suffer first and second-degree burns after ‘punishment’ from coach
    • The girls were told to do the bear crawls and crab walks for a mile, but most weren’t able to continue after two laps due to the pain, some even got physically sick from it. The girls said the punishment happened on Wednesday afternoon at around 2 p.m. One of the parents went to the track to check the temperature that afternoon and said it was at least 125 degrees.
  • Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, Bill Clinton walks into a McDonald’s. I’m sure he didn’t order anything for himself. After open-heart surgery he vastly changed his eating habits and I believe is totally vegan. He said the change was hard, but he wanted to interact with his grandchildren one day.

  • Shaq recently asked Mark Cuban why he  sold the Mavs, and this is the most detailed answer I’ve heard Cuban give. As famous and public as he is, you hear and see nothing about his wife and kids. I admire how he protects them. However, I am curious about where the 18—and 21-year-olds are going to college and what they plan to do as adults.
  • TikToker buys $5,000 worth of coupons to eat and drink at the State Fair of Texas
  • For the first time in its 147-year history, Wimbledon will be removing line judges from all of its courts during the tournament. The All England Club announced last week that from the 2025 championships onward, electronic line calling (ELC) will be used after it was successfully tested in 2024. ELC will replace the line judges who call “out” or “fault” during a match.
  • SNL’s first skit from commercial break was about an unfaithful wife named Kelsey. They hit a little too close to home. Not only was I watching it as it aired, cracking up at the coincidence, but I immediately received texts and Twitter DMs instructing me to tune in.
  • Secret tomb found under ‘Indiana Jones’ filming location in Petra

    At the heart of the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, carved into pink sandstone cliffs, lies an elaborate monument known as the Khaznah, or the Treasury. And buried beneath that edifice, archaeologists recently discovered, is a tomb with at least 12 human skeletons and artifacts that are estimated to be at least 2,000 years old.

    If you are a fan of the movie, as am I,  you may appreciate this image and its description.

    Within the tomb beneath the Treasury, archaeologists found a ceramic vessel resembling the Holy Grail.

    If you ask me, it looks like the cup a carpenter would use.

  • CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota recently lost her husband of 23 years to pancreatic cancer, and wrote this article: 5 things not to say to a grieving friend. I disagree with so much of what she wrote, but I also understand everyone deals with grief differently.
  • He’s a mentally unstable genius. This feat is truly amazing. “A skyscraper went into space, returned to Earth, and parallel parked” I like this recording of the event better, but there’s cursing.

  • This is some very impressive camera work.

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Your Bag of Nothing for Friday, October 11, 2024

  • Here’s something I forgot to mention earlier this week about Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia’s on-field interview after upsetting No. 1 Alabama. After thanking God and his team, he talked about how the NIL made something like that possible. It’s just interesting to hear an athlete credit an off-the-field business function after such an inspiring win. But he’s not wrong.
  • When voters say they are concerned about the economy, I think they really mean the cost of living. Those are two different things, but I suppose they’re related, but I’m all about the specifics.
  • The TICKET won the Marconi award for best major market station or something like that. I want to be happy for them, but it seems like it’s justification for getting rid of Dan and Jake. Speaking of Jake, here he is talking about his stint in rehab.
  • Oliver Stone’s Dallas – Plenty of films have been shot in Dallas, but no director chose the city as often as Oscar winner Oliver Stone. Earlier this month, he returned.
  • Last night, the 49ers played the Seahawks in Seattle. That made me think of a BagOfNothing reader who moved from this area and lived there for a while before his family was able to make the move. I bet that was a tough thing to do, to live in a new city without knowing anyone, and your family is half a country away. Heck, adjusting to the time zone would be torture enough. But I’ve always admired the love he has for his family and how he was able to keep them together. This is how good of a dude he is. When I had one of my back surgeries, he brought me lunch from my favorite BBQ place and dropped it off. He must have spent an hour driving alone just to do that.
  • “Weird Al” Yankovic Wants to Host ‘SNL’, Says He’s Never Been Asked
  • Teachers, parents defend Boulder teacher accused of drawing penises on papers, yearbooks
  • Officers seize bag with ‘Definitely not a bag full of drugs’ printed on it – and it was full of drugs, Police Bureau says
  • Ethel Kennedy, human rights activist and widow of Robert F. Kennedy, dies at 96

    My goodness, she’s suffered through a lot of very unfortunate family deather, and she’s a Kennedy by marriage, not by blood. So, including both her husband and brother-in-law, who died by an assassin’s bullet to the head, she endured these tragedies:

    • Her father, George Skakel, a wealthy coal magnate, and mother, Ann Skakel, were killed in an airplane accident in 1955. Her brother died in a plane crash in 1966. Her son David died in 1984 from an accidental drug overdose, and another son Michael died in a skiing accident in 1997. Her granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill died of an accidental overdose in 2019, and another granddaughter, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, drowned with her 8-year old son in a canoe accident in 2020.
  • A personal invite for Collin Allred via TikTok to Wichita County. I don’t see how he can’t turn this invitation down unless he’s out of state for work reasons.
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Your Bag of Nothing for Thursday, October 10, 2024

 

  • I was watching the greatest movie sequel of all time as it aired on television last night, Top Gun: Maverick, and thought it would have been neat if Captain Pete Mitchell was chewing out one of his pilots and he used either the “you’re writing checks your body can’t cash” or “you’ll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber poo-poo” line, then awkwardly pause and tilt his head slightly in a way you can tell he just told himself, “I can’t believe I just said that to someone.”
  • The Hardline interviewed had a fantastic interview with Eric Dickerson yesterday. They asked him about the Trans Am that Texas A&M gave him to go to school and play football there, which he kept and drove around SMU. He said he didn’t find out how it was actually paid for until around 1984 (he was drafted in 1983). In short, his extended family, his grandparents, I believe, literally wrote a check for the car. So, his family bought him the car, but Texas A&M reimbursed his family almost immediately.
  • Writing about Eric Dickerson made me think about Craig James. As a teen and a young adult, he was the studio face of ABC college football. I used to get sick and tired of seeing him. Then, there was that issue of his son being responsible for Mike Leach’s firing at Texas Tech and his failed run for the Senate 12 years ago. After that, it seems like he fell off the face of the Earth. A quick Google search tells me James now operates his own broadcasting school, the Craig James School of Broadcasting. But I think that’s now defunct. What’s not defunct is his campaign website; surprisingly, it’s still up and running: TexansForCraigJames.com.
  • Someone else who was the face of ABC college football, at least for on-the-field reporting, was Lynn Swann. He also had a failed run for the Senate as a Republican, and you don’t hear much from him anymore. He was briefly interviewed for last Sunday’s Cowboys and Steelers game.
  • Comet likely last seen when Neanderthals walked Earth could soon dazzle in the night sky
  • This girl had front-row seats to a Justin Timberlake concert, which probably cost thousands of dollars, and she was too busy looking at her phone to see him literally singing to her.

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Your Bag of Nothing for Wednesday, October 9, 2024

  • I don’t know if I can call myself an Elvis fan, but I’m the mystique pulls me. You won’t catch me listening to much of his music, but you will find me inquiring about his history. So, it will be no surprise that last night’s Oprah special interview with his granddaughter Riley Keough was a must-see for me. And yes, I will buy the book, Lisa Marie’s autobiography, which she finished writing for her mother. I guess since Riley finished the book, it technically isn’t an autobiography. Here are the two most shocking things in the book, and it deals with Lisa Marie grieving her son who died by suicide. She kept him inside her house for two months before finally being able to bury him.
    • And I know that I’ve mentioned this plenty of times. However, Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson were married. They very much could have had a child together. Not only would that child have the blood of the King of Rock and Roll and the King of Pop, but would be the heir to both estates. Man, that would be a lot of wealth and history. That would also have included the Beatles catalog, which Jackson oddly owned. It would be something to own just one of those catalogs, but all three, that’s insane!
  • Just a reminder, there’s a difference between a mammoth and a mastodon.
    • Mastodons had flatter heads, and mammoths had a bulging bone knob on top of their skulls. The Columbian mammoth was also much larger than its distant cousin—fully-grown males weighed nearly 10 tons and stood about 13 feet tall—while male American mastodons reached heights of 10 feet and weighed in around 6 tons.
    • The molars of mastodons featured cone-shaped cusps suited for crushing twigs and other kinds of vegetation. The name mastodon literally means “breast tooth,” referring to the the “nipple”-shaped bumps along the top edges of these animals’ teeth. Mammoths, on the other hand, had ridged teeth—ideal for grazing and grinding tough grasses into small bits, like modern elephants.
  • Gateway Church members file class-action suit against North Texas church
  • A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start.

    • Like the Koch brothers, the Mercer family and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule. “It’s hard to think of other megafunders in the country as big on the theocratic end of the spectrum,” says Peter Montgomery, who oversees the Right Wing Watch project at People for the American Way, a progressive advocacy group.

  • I had to click on the photo to get a better look at how he secured his house to the ground.

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