Art Sandusky

All this EU talk also makes me restate something I said earlier in this thread somewhere (probably), and that's that Star Wars really starts sucking when reading summaries of EU plotlines resemble reading comic book descriptions. Star Wars is meant to be a fairly simple legend/myth kind of story, and when technicalities and one-upsmanship get involved it cheapens the entire concept for me. So yeah, again, except for Shadows of the Empire, the EU blows.

October, thanks to baseball playoffs and both college and pro football seasons getting into full swing.

He was Vince Young, not anyone else. Nothing he did was comparable to the sorts of plays we've seen Bush make all year. The only jaw-dropping part of his performance was the numbers that he ended up having. Otherwise it was a series of untouched runs into the endzone with only the first actually being hindered by the defense. The other supposed great play was when his knee was already down, so I don't really count it towards signs of being better than Bush. They're playing different positions anyway.

I haven't done much myself, but I'll rate 'em anyway. #1: Marijuana (in a walk) #2: Mushrooms (pleasant when dosage is small) #3: Alcohol (yes, it's a drug) #4(t): DXM #4(t): Acid (both #4's and I don't mix well)

Three sequels in a group of trailers? Yikes.

"Psh, you silly working class people wanted unions first, and now you want robots?! Think of us, the employers! We can't make cushy profits if we spend all of our time worrying about YOU."

Yes, a very long time ago. This whole season Texas went through the same stuff USC did, with each team giving them their best shot. I'm sure Young saw enough shit thrown at him during the season to be able to pick up on things, plus whatever he extrapolated from watching film. By the way, this is in no way trying to blow the guy like virtually everyone in the world is doing now. He's very, very good, but any starting quarterback in a game at that level of play knows what they're doing and can handle that kind of stuff.

But... that doesn't explain why the other networks do it. 'sides, I think it's useful when they do it, since the other areas on the video wall are usually showing the location of the story/report, as well as some kind of other video pertaining to the story or telling you who the person filing the report itself is.

He'll probably use the same defense that popped into my head when I heard that the place was rife with infractions, that being "they're in a mine with millions of tons of rock above them that could unexpectedly collapse any moment, plus the noxious gases in the shafts themselves. They knew what they were getting into." I can kinda sympathize with that, as I feel that way about any sort of extremely dangerous job. BUT: If he wasn't keeping the place up according to legal requirements, then he's totally at fault. That's when I don't buy the company line.

That isn't turning. It was more than deserving of that dishonor. What a dumbassed play. And the corners and safeties weren't confusing Young one bit. He'd just toss the ball over their heads to his waiting (and very open) receivers or run away from the overpursuing defense like any good quarterback would do.

"Miners defeat Mine"

I hate those talks. They always used to happen with quiz bowl teammates right as I was about to go to bed, leading invariably to me lying awake for hours due to the pure horror the concept of death fills me with.

Uncle Jesse could take Chuck Norris, because Chuck would realize that Uncle Jesse is totally sweet.

How can you put weed at #5 without being a raging addict of some other drug.

I've watched Raw with guys totally fried out of their mind and none of them even approached that level of stupidity... Just saying, don't blame the weed. Look at that dude. Tell me he isn't going to be a complete tool when he's high. Wasn't it November 9th, 1997 anyway?

After watching all the video, I pray I don't sound/act like that.

I don't get this.

Hahaha, c'mon, they're all fried. You expect them to be anywhere approaching respectable?

Terrible. Post good ones if you're gonna post these.

Why am I trying to reason with a person whose journalistic model is Bill O'Reilly? Now I'm the dumb one.

Even given that, that's only four matches out of what will probably be ten or so, based off of recent Wrestlemanias.

Liberal Hollywood, blah blah blah.

Because, again, the stuff you talk about hasn't happened for almost a full generation. The NCAA cracks down on shit like that VERY quickly these days. Also, especially at the major conference schools and with the ever-widening eye of the media, any transgression is spotted pretty quickly, whether by an official or a supporter of another school. Even coaches rat out other schools if they hear about or see something wrong. The competition is too intense and the money involved is too great to allow your student-athletes to be the stereotypical muscleheads who never breathe the air inside a classroom. Professors aren't spineless either. They'll let a coach know if one of their players is cutting, and then he'll have not only the professor to answer to, but today's coaches don't let that kind of stuff slide. It hurts their image, and the image of their school, which upsets alumni, which leads to lower contributions, and so on. The way you put it, saying these athletes "can throw a ball or collide into people" shows you really have no fucking clue and are just going off of inborn dislike of these players. Your first post on the matter was enough to show how little you really knew about the subject: I'll ignore the obvious conclusions that can be drawn from the name choices, but you manage to pull all of your irrational beefs with athletes into one sentence. Free sex? What?! Free education? Like any scholarship, they have to maintain it. You also ignore the walk-ons that every team has. Carte blanche to do illegal shit? Dude, schools that haven't done anything wrong in years still have taints on them from previous transgressions, which might make a recruit think twice about going there. It's not only frowned upon, it leads to problems with boosters, who are really worse than the players. Look at Maurice Clarett's spins on the "Luxury SUV of the Week" wheel. And all this, "because they didn't have a father and need Coach to act as a surrogate daddy." Okay, fuck kids without fathers too. Why can't we all have perfectly functional families? Nah, let's just try and break down people who make an attempt at bettering themselves through a healthy avenue like sports instead of commending them for straightening their lives out. Wait, their names are "DeShawntoine" and "D'Awntwain." Those types are never worth supporting. And finally, "while there are actual deserving students who struggle to pay their tuition." They don't just grab young guys who can run fast and hit hard off the street. They went to high school also, they're students just as much as you are. And have you actually looked at how many scholarships athletes get compared to normal students? For a fairly small investment (allowing a few dozen football players to go to school on the house on a campus of THOUSANDS), the university can get millions and millions of dollars (one big reason why college presidents prefer bowls to a playoff), plus all the advertising for each college that goes on during any given game, advertising which is seen more and more as the team is more successful. The university can now raise tuition rates because applications are going up while room for all those students is obviously limited. Why do I bend over backwards to apologize for them? It isn't apologizing for them, it's the same act I give any dumbass who tries to make what I call the "why don't they rip down the goalposts when I get an A on a paper" argument.

Oh hells no. You must be foo' to think the Vols won't be back next year. The SEC East is going to be fucking loaded in 2006.

Dama, they're replaying all of the BCS bowls this weekend on ESPN Classic. ... I'm still not convinced that Dama isn't just an overenthusiastic seven year old.