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Thoughts?

Starting early on OB…

“Lift Every Voice” sighting.

That Brock Purdy was the last one drafted in his NFL draft class and nickname is Mr. Irrelevant?

Sheesh, how many times are they going to say that today?

Same with Kelce beating Jerry Rice's playoff catches record.

Add these to the Trigger list.

Thank you and enjoy the Super Bowl!

Here's a blast from the past!

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Several years ago while I was browsing around the Co-op, I dropped down into the basement and walked through the stacks of textbooks. Just for a little nostalgia, and also to see what the textbooks looked like 20+ years later.

Ended up walking out of there with three used copies of the textbooks from a few of the "101" or "301" level classes that I always wished I had time, money and energy to have taken as electives back then.

Anthropology
Physical Geography
Archaeology

These now sit in a certain bookshelf in a certain room in my house, and I'll occasionally knock off a chapter or two slowly over time.

Anyone else out there ever do this too?

What are the odds!

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Does anyone know what happened to this guy ?
He was a frequent poster and a good contributor to the board .

Lets hear it.

This is wild. Smart play, but disingenuous to say the least:

As a recruit, I would be a bit pissed if this is true.

Ghim, Scheffler, Speith, Hossler and Vegas. Hook’em

Texas - 6
Alabama - 5
Washington - 5
Georgia - 5
Michigan - 4
LSU - 3
Oregon - 3
Penn St. - 3
Florida St. - 2
North Carolina - 2
Miami - 2
Missouri - 2
Ohio St. - 2

16. Byron Murphy - Seattle.

"Mike Macdonald comes from the Ravens, where he molded defensive tackle Justin Madubuiike into an All-Pro-caliber player. Now Macdonald can get another standout 3-technique in Seattle. Murphy was asked to play over the tackle in Texas' 3-3-5 scheme, but his power and burst allowed him to routinely make an impact as a pass-rusher. The 6-foot-1 308-pounder had five sacks in 2023 while rarely being put into true gaps as a pass-rusher. Murphy's ceiling is incredibly high, and he'd be awesome in Macdonald's defense."

32. Xavier Worthy - Kansas City

"The Chiefs' offense was able to adjust in the playoffs, but we can't forget there is a serious lack of speed holding back this unit. Worthy brings plenty of juice down the field. He caught 26 touchdown passes in three seasons at Texas while posting over 60 catches and 750 yards each year. Worthy just might be the fastest player in the draft class, and his ability to get behind defenses and create big plays is exactly what Kansas City has been missing since Tyreek Hill took his talents to South Beach."

38. Adonai Mitchell - Tennessee

"The Titans lack a future WR1; Treylon Burks has struggled to live up to his first-round billing, and veteran DeAndre Hopkins will be 32 years old next season. Mitchell is a 6-foot-4 wideout with really good separating ability that showed on tape to the tune of 11 touchdowns and 41 first-down receptions for the Longhorns in 2023. He is at his best on vertical routes, which matches up well with the arm talent of Titans quarterback Will Levis."

49. Ja'Tavion Sanders - Cincinnati

"The first round predicted addition of Brian Thomas (LSU) would help the potential WR hole in Cincinnati, but don't sleep on the fact that not one tight end is under contract for next season. Sanders is more of a Y tight end than in-line player, and he made a living bursting up seams at Texas. The 6-foot-4, 243-pound junior caught 99 passes for seven touchdowns in the past two seasons and comes to the NFL as a ready-made flex tight end option."

54. T'Vondre Sweat - Cleveland

"Let's fix the Browns' run defense by plugging in the 6-foot-4, 362-pound Outland Trophy winner at nose tackle. Sweat is an immovable force in the middle of the defensive line, but he also has enough quickness to rack up 22 pressures and two sacks in 2023 while consistently collapsing the pocket and chasing down ball carriers. The Browns enter an offseason with three defensive tackles hitting free agency, making this both a need for the team and a great value pick."

58. Jonathan Brooks - Green Bay

"Our first running back off the board, Brooks rushed for 1,139 yards and 10 touchdowns before tearing his ACL in November. A downhill runner with great patience and good runaway speed, he has the size at 6-foot and 207 pounds to be a featured back in the pros. Aaron Jones still has gas left in the tank, but I like the idea of Brooks being a rookie RB2 and future starter."

I have never seen such a variance in projected tournament seeding from two of the best in the business.

Joe Lunardi (ESPN) has Texas as a 7 seed and firmly in the tournament.

Jerry Palm (CBS) has Texas as an 11 seed in the play-in game and one of the Last Four In.

Keep in mind both of these projections were as of Feb 9, before the WVU game yesterday.

So, which is it? And why is there such a disparity?

I’d like to think we are closer to a 7 seed than an 11 seed.

Just this morning, a group of our militaries finest, just a few hundred guys in the ranks, put out a letter saying they've had it with the corruption in the US military. Here's some of it, and I suggest you click the link and read the entire thing (about twice the link of this excerpt below the link):

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24250229-declaration-of-military-accountability (Along with signatures)

In the course of human events, it sometimes becomes necessary to admonish the lawless, encourage the fainthearted, and strengthen the weak. We have reached just such a time in our history. The affairs of our nation are now steeped in avaricious corruption and our once stalwart institutions, including the Dept of Defense, are failing to fulfill the moral obligations upon which they were founded. Standing upon our natural and constitutional rights, we hereby apprise the American people that we have exhausted all internal efforts to rectify recent criminal activity within the Armed Forces.

In the Declaration of Independence our founding fathers sought separation. We seek no separation, but through this letter and the efforts we pledge herein, we pursue restoration through accountability. We intend to rebuild trust and restore the rule of law, particularly within the Armed Forces. Ultimately, we strive to once again become a moral people, restoring our nation, and making it again worthy of the great gift of liberty won by the colonial-era American people.

While implementing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, military leaders broke the law, trampled constitutional rights, denied informed consent, permitted unwilling medical experimentation, and suppressed the free exercise of religion. Service members and families were significantly harmed by these actions. Their suffering continues to be felt financially, emotionally, and physically. Some service members became part of our ever-growing veteran homeless population, some developed debilitating vaccine injuries, and some even lost their lives. In an apparent attempt to avoid accountability, military leaders are continuing to ignore our communications regarding these injuries and the laws that were broken.

For GEN Milley, ADM Grady, GEN McConville, ADM Gilday, ADM Lescher, Gen Brown, Gen Berger, Gen Smith, VADM Kilby, VADM Nowell, VADM Fuller, LTG Martin, Lt Gen Davis, MG Edmonson, GEN Williams, ADM Fagan, VADM Buck, Lt Gen Clark, MG Francis, LTG Dingle, Lt Gen Miller, RADM Gillingham, and numerous others;

As it goes on, it gets pretty interesting:

The flag and general officers are far from the only ones complicit in recent illegal activities, as a significant number of SES leaders and political appointees contributed. Evidence indicates that other executive agencies are engaging in illegal activity. However, as service members and veterans, we feel particularly responsible for the DoD and, in accordance with our oaths, we will make every effort to demonstrate by example, how an institution can put its own house in order.

We the undersigned, on behalf of hundreds of thousands of service members and the American people, while appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for guidance and purity of intention, mutually pledge to each other that we will do everything in our power, through lawful word and action, to hold accountable military leaders who failed to follow the law when their leadership and moral courage was most desperately needed.

In the coming years, thousands within our network will run for Congress and seek appointments to executive branch offices, while those of us still serving on active duty will continue to put fulfilling our oaths ahead of striving for rank or position. For those who achieve the lawful authority to do so, we pledge to recall from retirement the military leaders who broke the law and will convene courts-martial for the crimes they committed. For those of us who attain legislative offices, we pledge to introduce legislation to remove all retirement income for the military leaders who were criminally complicit, and we will ensure none serve in or retire from the Senior Executive Service.


Some additional commentary associated with the article was very legitimate:

Realize that the present-day "clown show" of transgender admirals and high-ranking military personnel in Space Force, Navy, Air Force, etc., is not just seen by the entire world as a clear sign of the imminent collapse of the US empire, it's that for ALL HISTORY YET TO UNFOLD, across all future nations, generations and civilizations, the United States of America circa 2020 - 2025 will be forever seen as a collapsing empire characterized by MASS MENTAL ILLNESS of its citizens, government and military leaders... all of it most likely stemming from the utter lack of behavioral discipline due to limitless currency printing and the abandonment of fiscal sanity. When the US empire's collapse is complete, it will be forever showcased for centuries to come as the inflection point where hundreds of millions of human beings utterly lost their damn minds and went insane, then demanded everybody else embrace their insanity or be censored and rejected.

You are currently living through one of the sickest, most twisted chapters in human history, where REASON became TREASON and mentally ill psychopaths ruled the largest military force on planet Earth while trying to start a global nuclear war as some sort of planetary-scale suicide mission pushed by a cult of lunatics who believe men can have babies, carbon dioxide is bad for plants and that children's mental health challenges can be "fixed" through genitalia mutilation surgeries. Do not make the mistake for a single minute of thinking that what you are witnessing in the world around you today is "normal." It's not. It's so utterly abnormal that it will DEFINE abnormality for centuries to come.

"Life isn't fair, Calvin."
"I know, Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
~~~~~~~~~~ Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

We've all done it, starting way back when we were kids. "That's not fair!" we'd scream. That's when our dads said something clever, like "The Fair is once a year. You should go; it's fun." Well, the truth is that there are times when life just really doesn't seem fair. We don't all have the same experiences, or learn the same set of life lessons.

Those lessons are really important. Say you ride your bike to a friend's house. You go inside, and when you come out a couple of hours later, your bike is gone. Stolen! You've never had that experience before. It's hard to accept. We begin to learn that this whole "trust" thing is not as easy as it looked. On the plus side, we might also learn that when something is stolen from us, it causes us great pain, and we don't want to make someone else feel that pain. Mental note: don't steal stuff.

If we keep an eye on learning, our experiences will teach us what we need to know.

God bless you all on this great Sunday!
NT
Micah 6:8
In loving memory of Allen Jones, who learned to embrace life's lessons.

Through two episodes, pretty solid. Docudrama about Alexander the Great.

Edit: Sorry, did not see @billy badads thread started before mine. Let’s move it over there.


What are you guys cooking and eating and drinking today? Post it here with pics, if you got’em.

Started off with some breakfast tacos with Akaushi beef breakfast sausage, potatoes, egg, cheese.

Early afternoon will be Nashville Hot Chicken Wings, fried in beef tallow.

Dinner will be smoked Akaushi tri-tip.

What will be on your table today?

With the Super Bowl tomorrow, let's get these rolling in earlier than normal.

When you go see a team in a game and they are wearing throwback uniforms, does that diminish your gameday experience?

I read an article this morning about these 3 guys in their 80’s who have attended every Super Bowl! I only attended one but can say that I have watched all the Super Bowlls over the years.