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A fifty million dollar contract is a lot of money, twice what his predecessor was given (and he did know college FB)

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The contract allows for a salary of $10 million each year, a colossal, but far from unprecedented, amount for college football. Only seven college football coaches made more than $10 million in 2024.


If BB is befuddled now, just wait until year five starts.
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There would be looting


After all the big TVs were taken and the whatever boom boxes are gone they'd notice that the stolen cell phones weren't working. The panic that there were no batteries to steal would be palpable.

Manual can openers would be traded for Mercedes. ''

Toilet paper would be iffy as water for flushing became non-existant and cholera would rule the neighborhoods.
For internet, will you hop on your bike and generate enough electricity to open your internet hot spot?
Water availability can't be overestimated. Even if you drill a well, how deep will it have to be? How will you power the pump?

If you have a problem with fire, you almost have to have an underground safe area, which also works for tornadoes.

Hanta Virus. Etc.

re: Helicopter crash update

Posted by real turf fan on 4/27/25 at 3:52 pm
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Only reason that airport is still open is so politicians can get home to load up on cash quicker.


Politicians have gotten free parking right next to the entrance for decades. That might have changed, but did a politician ever give up a free anything?
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Yeah but they aren't the right KIND of black


ask Russell Wilson about his problems in Seattle with fellow bro Seahawks.
He was told he wasn't the right kind of black from talking too much like a white, to being too educated to (some other sh*t I didn't bother to remember.
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Thought no Cold teams?


The Haslams have a petrochemical based business, all they need to do is heat up the adjacent Great Lake.
Who hates who more? the front office or the owners?

It's not as if Cleveland didn't learn some lessons from LeBron and his wandering.
None of them hung around for the burial because it wasn't at St. Peters. It's at another church several miles away and limited to an invited few.
Look where Hunter landed: #2
Quietly, competently, #2
Colorado college jersey retired #2.

And ignored by the sky screaming media #2.
Wyoming: no personal tax in state.

Back to Mississippi: what about Mineral rights?

Timber: what kind and how many years until harvest?

And before someone else says it, I know if I have to ask these questions, I can't afford it.

re: Weird Shedeur Sanders stat

Posted by real turf fan on 4/25/25 at 3:40 pm
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We all know this shouldn’t have happened”

“We didn’t expect this”

“We feel this happened for know reason”


Only the Regent of England is entitled to use the royal "we" as a single person.

Possible exception: siamese twins.

S Sanders is neither
While the lawyers are making money off of these two, neutering both of them should happen now.
For the aggressor, easy decision. For the Mother of the eleven year old, why didn't she move to protect her daughter?
I like to think of them taking down the coyotes.
I'd go for Senator Schumer, except the pool of Democrats in New York is so polluted, no telling which weirdness would float to the surface next.
I was working in Trondheim Norway and went to lunch with co-workers, who drove. The whole drive was inches from being a bumper cars amusement ride. We got to the restaurant and they asked if I was so pale because I was car sick. Ans.: no, it was the other drivers. They all laughed and said, "This was an uneventful drive."
Right!
We would have had one of my husband's aunts fitting that description, but his Uncle, her brother, moved her back to their home town and made sure she had a place to live and food to eat and medicine to take.

re: Musk right on point as usual...

Posted by real turf fan on 4/24/25 at 11:03 am
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Heavy government funding got us to the moon in the 60s.


That and a group of scientists and engineers hired for their skills and minds and can do attitudes.
But with higher fuel prices, can't California collect more state taxes?

When he says, "Let's drill, again" then we'll know they are serious.
Get ready to dig a well and find a cooper to make buckets out of wood.to carry down the streets to each house.

No petrochemicals would be involved in the retrieval of pure water as nature let it accumulate from rainfall through the pristine air of Massachusetts.