
AbuTheMonkey
Favorite team: | Notre Dame ![]() |
Location: | Chicago, IL |
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Number of Posts: | 8326 |
Registered on: | 5/22/2014 |
Online Status: | Online |
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re: USAID packages found among Hezbollah weapons cache in Lebanon
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 2/10/25 at 4:47 pm
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Why are they just now bringing this up? You seriously think this is the first time something like this was found?
Conveniently when controversy about USAID is making a big stink politically in the U.S.
I am sure they were as legitimate as the "TNT" labels on Bugs Bunny cartoons.
re: I am not a huge fan of the NFL…were those the 2 best teams?
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 2/10/25 at 10:31 am
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I know Philly had been on a nice run…but come on
The Eagles clearly were. The Chiefs probably weren't. They were fortunate that the Ravens were -3 on turnovers on the road in the snow in Buffalo.
re: Chiefs didn’t belong in this game
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 2/9/25 at 9:09 pm
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Really would've preferred to see Bills or ravens represent the afc
Ravens were the AFC’s equivalent of the Eagles. Ravens / Eagles would’ve been a great game.
re: Everybody remember when the Eagles were rumored to want to fire Sirianni?
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 2/9/25 at 8:43 pm
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His coordinators keep getting head coaching jobs and he keeps winning. What a stupid take Last year he got a bad batch of coordinators and they collapsed. This year they got good ones and they're back up. Pretty Roseman handpicked Moore and Fangs too.
They’ve completely rotated ove
re: I would be in favor of Trump pulling us out of NATO. What are your thoughts?
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 2/7/25 at 11:15 am
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He can however cut US funding and we can watch it crumble into oblivion.
Direct U.S. funding for NATO as an organization is effectively peanuts (about $600M this year). We contribute about a sixth of the overall operating budget of $4.0B - Germany matches us dollar for dollar.
re: LIV Golf off-season thread
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/30/25 at 11:01 pm
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Common sense,
In other words, pure speculation. Got it.
No
re: Louisville, KY apparently had the third highest murder rate last year
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/30/25 at 12:11 pm
Louisville is an interesting and unique case on this. The demographics of the city are much different than all the others at or near the top of the list: the city proper is less than a quarter African-American and almost 2/3rds white.
It was on the safer end of the scale for large cities for mos
It was on the safer end of the scale for large cities for mos
re: LIV Golf off-season thread
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/29/25 at 8:57 am
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The Amazon comparison is asinine.
I simply pointed to another business that was losing hundreds of millions. Lots of tech companies were in the same boat.
Sure, and there was the potential of tens and hundreds of billions of revenue and 13 figure valuations. Not a cou
re: TGL viewership falls of a cliff for Week 3
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/29/25 at 8:52 am
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These numbers don’t seem bad to me. It comes on a Monday / Tuesday night.
I don’t think anyone is expecting it to rival any of the big sports league ratings. I have no idea what espn typically does on a Tuesday night but I would guess this is a decent bump.
Probably depends on
re: TheAthletic's 2025 CFB early outlook (paywall)
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/28/25 at 1:51 pm
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dont think many, if any at all, see them catching lightning in a bottle twice
I think they'll still be solid, but they lose 13 starters, including Rourke. I don't think that team was smoke and mirrors; they beat the shite out of everyone they played except Michigan, Notre Dame, a
re: Daniel Jeremiah's 2025 NFL mock draft 1.0
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/27/25 at 5:08 pm
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Warren at 7 seems extremely early
I think he may have been the single best player we played all year, including the freaks OSU has.
He’s a Hall of Famer barring health issues.
re: Man pardoned over Jan 6 is killed by police while "resisting"
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/27/25 at 3:53 pm
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This guy very well could have been a complete terror but you just want to give him a pass because he is on the right team in this instance?
For a point of reference on the type of people these morons are indirectly defending, this POS spent two years in prison for beating the shite
re: The Mount Rushmore of Medieval Heroes
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/27/25 at 1:22 pm
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Can’t believe nobody mentioned Belisarius.
I guess technically Middle Ages, but there were people alive during his heyday who were also alive when the Western Roman Empire was still mostly intact. Not sure I’d consider him medieval, so to speak.
He himself viewed his campaigns
re: Buffalo 29 @ Kansas City 32 Final
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/26/25 at 5:58 pm
Did I hear a KC fan with a whistle?
re: The Battle of Khasham 2018, Russian troops get annihilated by the US Marines
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/25/25 at 11:52 pm
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I mean, when the Iranians shot down the airliner leaving from Tehran, that could be chalked up to sheer incompetence. But Prigozhin?
I mean, the Russians were (and still are, to some degree, but certainly less so) incompetent as frick. I wouldn't rule out at all that they were ju
re: The Battle of Khasham 2018, Russian troops get annihilated by the US Marines
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/25/25 at 10:46 pm
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Jesus Christ, we threw the kitchen sink at a bunch of contractors
Yeah, this is like bragging about Grenada. We threw 3 aircraft carriers, 2 Amphibs, a division of Marines, the Rangers and the 82nd Airborne at a few Cuban infantrymen with a half dozen APC’s. Of Course you won.[/q
Jesus Christ, we threw the kitchen sink at a bunch of contractors
Yeah, this is like bragging about Grenada. We threw 3 aircraft carriers, 2 Amphibs, a division of Marines, the Rangers and the 82nd Airborne at a few Cuban infantrymen with a half dozen APC’s. Of Course you won.[/q
re: What does your team lose or gain for next year? What are your early predictions?
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/22/25 at 4:01 pm
ND loses five guys on defense and three on offense.
Offense:
- Lose QB Riley Leonard, TE Mitch Evans, WR Beaux Collins
- Top 8 OL return assuming Schrauth and Craig don't have lingering injury issues (both were starters and had season-ending injuries against Purdue in September)
- All RB's ret
Offense:
- Lose QB Riley Leonard, TE Mitch Evans, WR Beaux Collins
- Top 8 OL return assuming Schrauth and Craig don't have lingering injury issues (both were starters and had season-ending injuries against Purdue in September)
- All RB's ret
re: This is insane in slow motion ...
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/18/25 at 5:14 pm
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As I mentioned, I would never fault #11 in a film review…there’s a little bit of body control coaching, but wouldn’t change anything about the way he played that
That’s top 5 overall draft pick Abdul Carter.
Playing with a clearly hurt shoulder and that was one of the few times
re: Cheapest tix for national title game in Atlanta is $1,382...most expensive is $103,206
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/17/25 at 3:13 pm
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The get-in price was $3899, which in today’s dollars, thanks to inflation, would be the equivalent of $5,437.
That was for a ticket on the 50, not get-in. Average was closer to $1,100.
re: Cheapest tix for national title game in Atlanta is $1,382...most expensive is $103,206
Posted by AbuTheMonkey on 1/17/25 at 3:09 pm
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If so, does anyone know the range of the original face prices?
Upper deck in the Notre Dame section face was $450. Best seats in the lower bowl were either ~$800 or ~$1600 depending on the seat.
Upper deck is going for ~4 - 5X face right now. Lower bowl is going for about 3 -
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