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.
“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
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 graduated high school thirty years ago and heavily considered going to Mineral Wells for homecoming. Then, I found out it was last night. I’m not used to Thursday night varsity games. And while I don’t know the circumstances, why the heck would a school choose to hold its homecoming game on a Thursday night? I checked the schedule, and all remaining games are on a Friday.
There are a lot of Trump Hotels. A lot of Bibles are found in hotels. There are a lot of Trump Bibles. I wonder if one day you can find a Trump Bible in every Trump Hotel room.
A lot of people know that Michael J. Fox wasn’t the initial choice to play Marty McFly. But, I didn’t know there was footage of Ben Stiller reading for the part.
When I first read this headline the other day, I thought it was referring to something that happened over a decade ago.
One overlooked fact of why U.S. soldiers did so well in WWII was that they didn’t put them in boot camps and send them right over. In this short clip, avet talks about all the different and many, many months of training he went through, even though he was eager to get over there and fight.
The Hardline was talking about Monday Night Football and said they don’t know anyone who watch’s the Manning Cast. I thought that was odd because the day before I was telling my friends at trivia I wish Joe and Troy didn’t do MNF because I only watch the Manning Cast. After a weekend of “traditional” announcing I enjoy watching something different and like the insights the brothers bring from playing QB.
I know it’s now where near the first of April, but here’s an old April Fool’s video of MLB adopting the use of aluminum bats for a season. For you Rangers fans, our old manager Buddy V makes an appearance. I always consider him “my manager” as he’s the first one I remember and grew up with.
The title card of last night’s Daily Show cracked me up: The First Presidential Debate, Again – Now With 50% Old Man.
Jon Stewart said something I think most conservatives (and liberals) would agree with, but maybe I’m wrong. “We generate so much wealth, why do we distribute so inefficiently?“
Stewart had Steve Balmer on as a guest who was promoting a fact-based statistical website. Balmer really put his foot in his mouth, and Stewart playfully called him out on it when he innocently used a Twin Towers analogy literally a few minutes before the date changed to September 11th.
She chummed the water, and he took the bait. Many times, instead of directly answering a question, all she did was say something to bait him. And, he was hungry. Biden gave one of the worst debate performances in history. Trump: Hold my beer.
The worst thing he could do post-debate is to walk into the spin room. Wait a sec, he did what? Well, at least Taylor Swift hasn’t endorsed anyone yet. Whoa, wait?
@Kenny_Mayne – I get the folks who got conned and stay conned. I get the racists… I get the money only Republicans who want their tax cuts. I don’t get the uncommitted who are none of the above who can’t see him for what he is.
I made a post yesterday, but many of you may have missed it. I mistakenly scheduled it to post later in the day instead of my usual one-minute after midnight. Sorry about that.
Democrats, be sure to thank President Biden for doing the right thing and dropping out. But you know what, I’m still scared Trump is going to pull this one out.
I heard on the radio yesterday that it was Joe Perry’s birthday. Joe Perry is the well-known guitarist of Aerosmith. But I always confuse him with Journey’s original lead singer, Steve Perry. I think I do this because Steve Perry is the lead singer of Aerosmith. Thankfully, I don’t confuse these male musicians with Rick Perry.
I saw a cologne named Creed. That made me think of Apollo Creed, and I wondered if the fictional character had his own line of cologne, would he name it Creed or Apollo because both are great names?
I was researching various things about the framing of our Constitution, and one thing I’ve read numerous times stood out this particular time for some reason. It was the “Three-Fifths Compromise” at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. This agreement allowed Southern states to count three-fifths of their enslaved population for the purposes of apportioning seats in the House of Representatives and Electoral College votes, giving the South greater political power without extending rights or suffrage to the enslaved people. So, the North had a larger voting population because of its free citizens, but the South wanted to use its enslaved population to bolster its political representation, even though those people were not allowed to vote. It just bolstered my thinking of wanting to get rid of or modify the Electoral College system. I like something like Ranked Choice Voting (RTC). RCV contests feature a ballot on which each voter ranks the candidates according to their preference. Once all votes have been collected, election officials apply established tabulation rules to identify the winner or winners.
This is probably my favorite scene of James Earl Jones as Vader. It’s the first time in the trilogy you can hear the human being behind the monster come out and Jones nailed it
Y’all know I love presidential history, and I’ve stated before how it’s a goal of mine to visit all the presidential libraries. I think I even made a post about wanting to work in one and a recent job search. Anyway, I’m getting to know a girl through one of the dating apps. I didn’t put anything about my love of presidential history in my profile, but we broached the topic, and then she said this. Keep in mind that my comments are in the dark bubble. I know they aren’t, but I can’t help but think my friends are behind this, trying to prank me with a fake profile. After all, he profile was deleted the next day.
I respect the Michigan band; they could have totally welched on that bet.
