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  1. @Stoney reached out to Mario Cristobal and said that he, @RETIREDFAN1, @KirtFalcon, @MavGrad99, @LOL, @trueblue82, @Crawford, @WETSU, @JohnnyFootballwould play both ways along with a lottery pick of SDC members but they turned us down. Said it would be embarrassing for a group of overweight, past their prime Washington Cougars to get beat by us.
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  2. It got me where I live, at least. (Washington Post) A man strung Christmas lights from his home to his neighbor's to support her. The whole community followed. Sydney Page Fri, December 24, 2021, 12:05 PM 1 / 2 A man strung Christmas lights from his home to his neighbor's to support her. The whole community followed. It started last November with a single string of Christmas lights on a Baltimore County street. Kim Morton was home watching a movie with her daughter when she received a text from her neighbor who lives directly across the road. He told her to peek outside. Matt Riggs had hung a string of white Christmas lights, stretching from his home to hers in the Rodgers Forge neighborhood, just north of the Baltimore city line. He also left a tin of homemade cookies on her doorstep. The lights, he told her, were meant to reinforce that they were always connected despite their pandemic isolation. "I was reaching out to Kim to literally brighten her world," said Riggs, 48. He knew his neighbor was facing a dark time. Morton had shared that she was dealing with depression and anxiety. She was also grieving the loss of a loved one and struggling with work-related stress. The mounting pressure led to panic attacks. Riggs could relate. Guiding his two teenagers through remote school was draining, financial angst was consuming, and "by the end of the year I was just beside myself, 2020 was difficult for a lot of us," he said. A bit of brightness was in order, he decided, but he certainly did not expect that his one strand of Christmas lights would somehow spark a neighborhood-wide movement. In the days that followed Riggs's light-hanging gesture, neighbor after neighbor followed suit, stretching lines of Christmas lights from one side of the street to the other. When Leabe Commisso, who lives on the other end of the block, saw what Riggs had done, she wanted in. "I said to my neighbor: 'Let's do it, too,' " she recalled. "Before we knew it, we were cleaning out Home Depot of all the lights." Quickly, other neighbors caught on. "Little by little, the whole neighborhood started doing it," said Morton, 49, who has lived in Rodgers Forge for 17 years. "The lights were a physical sign of connection and love." She and Riggs were stunned to see neighbors with drills and ladders, up on their rooftops and tangled in trees, doing whatever they had to do to hang the lights horizontally. They were mostly masked and at a distance, but for the first time in a long time, a feeling of togetherness - and light - had returned. "What blows my mind is that it was all organic," Riggs said. "It just happened. There was no planning. It just grew out of everybody's desire for beauty and joy and connection." Seeing his neighbors adopt his idea, "genuinely brought tears to my eyes," Riggs continued. "From such a humble beginning, a tiny little act, it became this event." Even though he was initially seeking to support Morton, "it turns out, we all needed this," he said. Melissa DiMuzio, who lives on the same block with her wife and two children, was due for a pick-me-up. "It was a tough time. We were all struggling in our own way," she said. When she saw what Riggs had done, "I really wanted to participate." DiMuzio took her contribution a step further. She decided that, on her string of lights, she would include a fitting message: "Love lives here." "I'm a go-big-or-go-home kind of person," she said. "I stayed up all night bending dry cleaning coat hangers. It was crazy, but it worked." Before the pandemic, DiMuzio and her wife were contemplating moving to a new area, hoping for a house with more space and a bigger yard. But once they saw how the neighborhood came together to support one of their own, the couple decided to stay. "You're not going to find this community just anywhere," DiMuzio said, estimating that of the hundreds of red-brick rowhouses that make up the neighborhood, at least 75% of residents participated in the entirely unplanned light display. Although it started on Dunkirk Road, other streets in the area were soon lined with lights, too, and each block had its own character. While some showcased classic white lights, others opted for colorful or twinkly bulbs. Megan Wilberton, a middle school teacher who lives on Murdock Road with her husband and two children, quickly got on board. "It was unbelievable," said Wilberton, who recently shared the story in a Facebook post. "It just blossomed into this amazing community effort." "It's the best neighborhood," she added. "Everybody is friendly and helpful and loving and kind." For Riggs, the sea of light symbolizes exactly that. "It really does represent a connection that we are feeling," he said. "This is a very special neighborhood, and this is a physical manifestation of that." The collective display resonated so deeply that the neighborhood agreed to do it again this year, and every year to come, pandemic or otherwise. On Nov. 21, Rodgers Forge residents hung their lights together. "We made a party of it," Riggs said. To emphasize their commitment to the project, and ease the process going forward, neighbors drilled anchors into the brick of their homes and attached the light strands to metal cable wires to make them more secure. They also added more signs to go along with the original "love lives here" motto, including one that says "dream" and another that says "believe." "It's been a bright spot, truly," Riggs said. But the impromptu effort has perhaps had the most profound impact on the person for whom it was originally intended. "It made me look up, literally and figuratively, above all the things that were dragging me down," Morton said. "It was light pushing back the darkness."
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  3. Most points scored by a Dallas Cowboys team in single game......59 twice. 1980 vs SF: 59-14. 1968 vs Detroit: 59-13.
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  4. The rest don't give two poops about you and wouldn't understand why they should or where to start. They know it's enough to go hard right and have zero concern about real issues like this described or the grid or our uninsured.
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  5. 42 points in the first half by the Boyz.......the most EVER in their history in the first half.
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  6. Maybe.......just maybe this season they are finally coming together at the right time of the season. They look pretty darn good right now to me.
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  7. By being a Benedict Arnold. If Trump would have wanted to start a war with China he would have. He didn't so there was no need for him to call China. He should be court martialed.
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  8. I'm putting my name in that lottery. Played 2a ball both ways + special teams back in the day.
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  9. I agree with you. I'm sure many use the same medicines for the Wuhan that they use for the flu. What else are people supposed to use ? I've read that they have two Wuhan capsules to possibly battle the symptoms, but I don't think they are for sale yet. I think some drugs should be sold OTC instead of going to a doctor. Pain medicines are completely different. Dr.'s are prescribing Tamiflu for the Wuhan. The 'Tamiflu' Approach to Treating COVID-19 | MedPage Today
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  10. Redshirt days are gone for most elite teams. If you’re not good enough to leave in year 3 or 4 you’re gonna get passed by someone who is. You rarely see any 5 year difference makers on title contenders anymore.
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  11. I don't doubt that for a minute ... it's probably very effective against the China virus symptoms ...
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  12. You are comparing apples and oranges .... this backlog is not due to people hoarding .... it's due to supply chain issues caused bad polices ..... You really believe the Chiina virus is mostly responsible for the supply chain backlog and not liberal anti business and trade policies? .....
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  13. He acted in the best interest of our country as a patriot against a wannabe twister of our Constitution to his own devices.
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  14. Not just football. This dude doesn’t understand how college athletics make money, nor does he understand TRS. Which is funny because he thought he had another gotcha moment that blew up in his face.
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  15. I agree, but the blame needs to be on the ncaa and Covid restrictions. Blaming coaches for pulling out of games because they are scared or games being cancelled due to internal team issues is just stupid. This could all be fixed if we stopped treating Covid like the plague and started letting these kids play. Covid is honestly easier on the body than the flu for these athletes. Having entire position groups sit out for a minimum number of days simply because a guy or two tested positive with no symptoms is ridiculous.
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  16. I'm just sick of all these games being canceled. I think it's all absolutely stupid.
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  17. Why doesn’t Virginia just borrow some players from the woman’s lacrosse team? I mean how hard can it be to field a team to play ball. You only need 11 players to field a team. You can have 280 pound DEs play safety is you need to. It’s pretty much the same position… And I mean if he needs a breather, we will just say how ridiculous that is because people played two ways 50 years ago. Matter of fact, let’s just stop recruiting to the 85 man limit and just bring in 5-6 really versatile players a year and give them 5x the NIL money. You only need 22 to field a team anyway so that works out better.
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  18. Country, you are spot on. 100%. The couple of Aggie homers on this board do the same thing over and over when you don't agree with their maroon narrative. They resort to ridicule and name calling. You would think they are maybe high school kids, but have been doing it the 10+ years i have been on here. They won't answer your questions and will attack you personally when you don't bow down to the almighty championship winning Aggies. Smh...
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  19. Its just Barry grasping at the proverbial straw again
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  20. The government has sadly pulled the wool over a lot of people's eyes with the China virus replacing the flu, pneumonia and the common cold ....
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  21. If this helps my daughter works at a hospital and emergency room. No cases of flu yet.
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  22. Its called damage control. Attack anyone that questions what going on and twist their words to fit your argument. Lots of politicians use the same tactic along with corporations and even Hitler did so to gain control. Who made the ultimate decision not to play? How many players were out due to flu?
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  23. A&M has multiple preferred walkons(treated like scholarship players) and walkons who work out with the team every day……they could field 53 if they wanted I understand not wanting to play without a quarterback though
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  24. 1. No. Players are bigger and faster. And they're more specialized. That kills the talk of any random student playing in a game, since you're talking about 12th Man. A student isn't the same as an athlete that's been training for years. And one athlete training to play one position isn't the same as them playing another position. 2. Yes, "back in the day" substitutions weren't allowed so guys played both ways. Hence me saying, "It's not 1957 any more", genius. 3. Players do it "all the time"? You named 3 guys, none who have played a down of football in the last 8 years. If it happens all the time, you wouldn't need to dig back to the 80s and 90s to find players who have done it. You'd be asking half of A&M's team to do that, not a player here or there. 3. b. Those were all defensive back/receiver players. No linemen have played both sides, nor have linebackers in a very long time. 4. A&M has the #1 class in recruiting by far. You think they need to "game the system" by skipping a bowl game, something that multiple teams have now done? Also, Jimbo skipping the bowl game makes him miss out on $100k. Which is funny because you were claiming that he was trying to game the system to MAKE more money. Hilarious. 5. The NCAA said we can't play, not A&M. Hope that helps.
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  25. So players are now smaller and weaker than they were in 1957, okay gotcha. I'm sure kids have already played multiple positions in the past. Players do it all the time. Some play positions in college and then switch positions even today. You even see it on the NFL level with some players. Back in the day, substitutions were rarely allowed, and many players would play both sides of the ball. Two notable modern day football players that I can remember in recent history are Champ Bailey and Charles Woodson. In the NFL Deion Sanders. It sounds like an excuse to me. He did lose out on a $100,000 bonus for not making a bowl appearance. I just looked up his contract details, but finishing in the top 25 does give A&M more prominence in recruiting.
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  26. Anyone remember Audie Murphy's situation? Prime example.
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  27. For anybody watching Yellowstone 1883, just remember that ol' Tim McGraw is a raging leftist who HATES the 2nd Amendment but is more than happy to sling a gun if it puts money in his pocket. He ain't no Indian Outlaw, just a Hollywood Hypocrite.
    1 point
  28. When have I EVER trashed the military, other than the woke, political yes men brass appointed by libtard Commanders in Chief?
    1 point
  29. One of the worst pieces of legislation ever passed. Period!!!!
    1 point
  30. Still amazed that folks believe anything from msm in light of all the lies we have seen lately.
    1 point
  31. The opt-out trend and players hitting the transfer portal is having a huge impact on bowl game attendance.
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  32. You did it for a reason, now you don’t want to admit why.
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  33. Or maybe the same covid mitigation efforts in place last year (social distancing, masking, shutdowns) greatly reduced the spread of the flu and pneumonia. We have moved away from those mitigation efforts (rightfully so imo) and now are returning to seasonally normal spread of those diseases.
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  34. I’ve learned all I need to. Some of you of football IQs worse than JV cheerleaders and will literally slander and lie to make you feel better about your own pathetic programs.
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  35. Think he has done a great job under adverse conditions and ZERO help from Republicans. He would get my vote a million times in a million Biden versus Trump matchups.
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  36. 1. It only takes 11 to play a game if guys play both ways, but you clearly don't know the modern game of college football (as if THAT was in question...) if you think a team with 13 defensive players (and not even enough to field a four-man defensive line) is legit going to play a game and not risk serious injury. This isn't NCAA Football on playstation where we can just throw a defensive back at defensive end. Other teams have had similar issues. Sorry to burst your little bubble. 2. The NCAA won’t let us play what A&M “wants” (or whatever you’re making up in your head that we want) is irrelevant 3. Do you not see how recruiting leads to more wins/losses? Again, you're looking at a very simple world view if you're looking strictly at wins/losses in one season where A&M had several guys out due to injury throughout the season. If you want to look at wins/losses in a vacuum for some big gotcha moment, and say "$1.25 million per win!" then go for it. Whatever helps you sleep at night. Just shows the state of our program that haters have to search so much for the slightest thing to claim victory over. 4. Coaches get hired/fired based on wins and losses, but also the trajectory of their program, recruiting, and so many other things. Athletic Directors don't have the simplistic view you do. If you don't understand this, then there really isn't any point in trying to convince you. Most A&M fans aren't satisfied with this season in after all the injuries and such (especially after the Orange Bowl winning season last year), but are very satisfied with the direction our program is going. Again, if you wanna cite your little "$1.25 million per win" talking point to try and make us feel bad about Jimbo (as if any of us paid the $9 milloin for him), go for it. People with critical thinking skills know better.
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