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re: Turkish C-130 goes down with 20 on board
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/11/25 at 9:21 pm to Saintsisit
Are those people tumbling down towards the end?
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1980 Presidential election. Also remember the Rams-Steelers Super Bowl, Darth Vader being Luke Skywalker's father and some other pop culture events from 1980 but I'm not sure that qualifies as "news".
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LSU just made their HC job radioactive to top coaches that have other HC job options.
The administrative culture may be toxic right now, but those talent pipelines are a gold mine. Look how many studs LSU puts the NFL every year, and that's with boobs recruiting and coaching them.
A lot of coaching candidates would love to have that type of roster turnover every year to work with.
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A free kick is a whole different animal. So if you could have a situation where for some reason there is no defensive pressure and get a free kick.
There's a situation that allows for that. If a player fair catches a punt with :00 left on the clock at the end of the half or game then the receiving team gets a free kick with no rush.
But it's very rare. The other team can avoid this scenario by simply having the QB heave the ball out of bounce as the clock expires on 4th down or they can have the punter squib it so theres no fair catch.
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Is it possible Henry has taken more hits as a RB from age 14 to age 30 of anyone in history?
Henry played against pee wee players in high school. He played for the lowest classification in a part of Florida that has no talent, so he didn't get hit often, hence the absurd rushing total. He also was a rotation back for two years at Bama and two years with the Titans, so his mileage isn't bad. That stiff arm has probably saved him some wear and tear too.
But look at Emmit Smith. He had the original national high school rushing record before others, including Henry broke it. And he played in Pensacola against good teams. He was also a beast in High School, and was toting the rock as the primary back at Florida from Day 1.
Emmit had over 5,800 touches in college and NFL (easily #1)
Henry has 3,250 touches in college and NFL which is 30-something on the list.
re: 'Pluribus' Vince Gilligan’s new sci-fi show now streaming. Spoilers Allowed
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/9/25 at 8:17 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
I have a feeling the dozen or so normies are going to figure out a way to individually reverse the effect of the virus somehow. When the English speakers first met in private, one of the first things Carol did was ask if anyone was a doctor or scientist. None of them were apparently, but they can likely translate for the seven we haven't met yet.
Otherwise, I'm not sure you have a multi-season show. 99.9999% of the world just died or became part of a benevolent zombie super computer. Of the few remaining we met, none of them seem particularly interesting as characters apart from maybe the Air Force One dude.
When's the last time you saw Big Ben doing commercials, doing a TV show, hosting a podcast, etc? I'll take the guy with post-playing marketability even if it is largely thanks to his last name.
re: Anyone know someone that lives in a hotel by choice?
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/7/25 at 2:50 pm to hawgfaninc
I worked with a guy who did this for seven years. He started as a contract employee so he didn't want to get an apartment when the job could end any moment. So he did weekly rate at a Candlewood Suites in a nice suburban part of the city. It was a suite so it was a bigger room with a kitchenette and seating lounge.
The job kept going so he just stayed there... for seven years. He said with points rolled in and other discounts it worked out to $1,700 month. That includes cable, wifi, utilities and one maid cleaning a week. He figured that wasn't that much more than an apartment once fees, utilities and all of the furniture and crap you had to buy were factored in. I mean he paid a little more for a smaller space but he had the freedom to pack his bag and walk out the door whenever he wanted. I think that's a big part of the appeal - you're not trapped the way you are with a house or a lease.
re: Items and services that most people pay for today, but not in the 70s and early 80s
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/7/25 at 10:12 am to Topisawtiger
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Air, at a service station.
There's a gas station near me that has free air. All of the others charge $2-3.
There is always a line of crappy cars at the free air station. And guess what? After they get their free air they go into the store and buy a bunch of snacks, tobacco, lottery tickets and $10 on pump four.
The guy who charges for air made two bucks.
The guy who gave it away for free made twenty.
I didn't even know there was such a thing as a "team barber".
Do other schools have this? Does he have a barber chair and counter setup in the lockeroom? Is a hot lather shave in the offering? I'm intrigued.
re: Venezuelan President Maduro is willing to step down if the U.S. guarantees him amnesty
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/7/25 at 8:57 am to SmogkDeizKnutz
He wants the Napoleon deal...without being Napoleon.
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Brees never had the defense the Giants did.
Eli didn't have Sean Peyton coaching him and dialing up the offensive plays. Let's not discount that. Does anybody really think Bo Nix is good enough to win 18 out of 26 games and put up great stats fresh out of college? I don't and I'm a Bo Nix fan.
Having said that, Brees is clearly better. I mean Eli was taller and had a stronger arm but Brees beats him in just about every other metric.
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This is followed by cheating at store checkouts, which 45% of people admit to doing.
There's no way these self-checkout scanners are saving money over hiring some idiot and paying them $11.35/hr to do it.
I think I read somewhere that data indicates Americans are eating a billion tons of bananas every year because people just scan expensive stuff and ring it up as bananas.
re: Auburn and Notre Dame agree to home and home series (2027, 2028)
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/5/25 at 9:11 pm to tigerfan84
Auburn's 2028 Football Schedule:
@ Alabama
@ LSU
@ Florida
@ Georgia
@ Arkansas
Notre Dame
Tennessee
Ole Miss
Vanderbilt
I think all of those teams (except Arky) has been ranked in the top 10 this year.
This will be the all-important "year three" for the new coach they are currently looking for. Good Luck!
re: Trump's Reason For Wanting The Filibuster Removed. Is He Right?
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/5/25 at 10:25 am to CU_Tigers4life
Republicans should NEVER lose control of the Senate. That's where the Framers gave us home field advantage - a bunch of cow kickers in Wyoming have just as much power as the 40 million person engine of California.
There are 30 Red States. Plus, historically the Senate seems to act and embody a more principled, stoic body which would seemingly open the door for polished moderates in purple states like NH, VA, NJ.
Hold serve at home and pour enormous resources into stealing a seat or two and you are potentially looking at a filibuster proof majority of 60. At the very least you shouldn't even have to consider the possibility of dropping to 49.
re: Bear Bryant has only been dead 41 years.
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/5/25 at 9:37 am to whitetiger1234
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Not that old, just need to bring him back to life somehow.
All that rotgut he drank plus five packs of unfiltered Chesterfields a day has probably left him mummified. And if Hollywood and Scooby Doo cartoons have taught us anything it is that mummies can be brought back to life.
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After the first episode or so, word of mouth got around, and then every week all the guys would meet up at one person's pad to watch Miami Vice, THEN go out to the clubs and bars.
I remember my parents telling me when Saturday Night Live hit it big in 1976, people just stopped going out and stayed home to watch it every week which was just unheard of at the time. Bars, restaurants and nightclubs complained about losing business, etc. My Mom had some single friends who complained because Saturday was traditionally the "date night" and now all of the bachelor men were staying home to watch Belushi, Chase and Akroyd do stuff they always wanted to see on TV.
Miami Vice had a similar effect on the next generation. Suddenly it was cool to stay home on a Friday night.
re: UPS plane crashes in Louisville?
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/4/25 at 7:53 pm to TheArrogantCorndog
There's nothing you can do when an engine rips off. Engine failure is bad but survivable. But engine ripoff is catastrophic. Plane loses structural integrity and aerodynamics and is basically a missle at that point. We'll probably never know but I like to think those pilots were just trying to steer it into an open parking lot at that point to prevent ground casualties.
re: UPS plane crashes in Louisville?
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/4/25 at 5:10 pm to forkedintheroad
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What the hell, they tried to climb with an engine ablaze?
Once you hit the point of no return (V1, rotate) it's pretty much try to take off with one engine or crash and die anyway.
Of course we don't know when the engine caught on fire or what they did at that moment so it's possible someone screwed up.
re: Has the NFL ever seen this much parity?
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/4/25 at 4:58 pm to StansberryRules
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With just 17 games, the standings run closer together
And they force the best teams from the previous year to play each other and the worst to play the worst so it's harder to stay on the top or the bottom.
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