mad dog

Or when we have an injured player down on the field...

I like this.

Where's Green Guy Bass in all of this?

Simultaneously funny and depressing. Like a plane crash that makes you sad until you realize it was full of Nazis. Just to clarify: Standing up for your beliefs = good. Being a douche = bad.

I think he brings a lunchpail. I think he studies a lot of film, comes early, stays late, and never takes a play off. He's a real blue-collar guy with a great work ethic.

This.

(cross posted to correct thread) Whatever he chooses after his recovery, I think Nathan Tune is the kind of player, teammate and human being everyone on the squad should look up to. He did everything right: worked hard, waited patiently, and was ready when he was called upon. It really makes me think of Job, in a way. An extremely pios and successful man just gets hammered by bad luck and tragedies - proof that doing things the right way doesn't prevent life's woes from reaching you. But, like Job, I think Nathan will continue to be who he always was. And that is why he will be ultimately successful in life. Wishing a speedy and complete recovery.

Whatever he chooses after his recovery, I think Nathan Tune is the kind of player, teammate and human being everyone on the squad should look up to. He did everything right: worked hard, waited patiently, and was ready when he was called upon. It really makes me think of Job, in a way. An extremely pios and successful man just gets hammered by bad luck and tragedies - proof that doing things the right way doesn't prevent life's woes from reaching you. But, like Job, I think Nathan will continue to be who he always was. And that is why he will be ultimately successful in life. Wishing a speedy and complete recovery.

I'm in for 20 if you show up in this outfit:

Is it wrong that my first reaction to this was wondering how I missed that Corky Nelson posts on our board?

I'm in for $50.

This thread? I thought we already dealt with you... Oh wait... different topic. Carry on.

+1 There was also a drill they did in the Dickey/Deloach days where they threw two guys in a circle of players and the first one to "tackle" the other won. It inevitably ended up with both players pretty much beating the crap out of each other. No one ever got seriously injured, and you could see that "bulldog" attitude, plain as day, on each and every down.

Ghostwriter'd

Hang in there, Rick. Thoughts and prayers to you and yours in this difficult time.

No funeral.

When the bogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Neinas.

Breaking news... we have just learned that George Steinbrenner is dead at 80.

Gagree.

Is he sorry? Absolutely. We'll probably hear from the "just a business" people here soon, who'll say that he has to take care of number one. It'll be impossible to argue with, since I guess I still mentally exist in that land where our sports stars, particularly those who are billed as "the chosen one," actually have some sense of maturity, decency, or loyalty. This bizzare charade of undeserved self-importantance and leading on of a team who completely laid out for their hometown hero is the stuff of bad action movies, not the "King" of a basketball generation. I'm with Junior Miller on this - I hope he never wins a title, and that the Heat falls apart year after year to injuries, first round exits, and contract disputes. Not since T.O. was dancing on the Texas Stadium star have I so wished for an athlete's failure.

I just want to know what your significant other thought of the slovenes. I know she isn't particularly fond of slovaks, and, to my self-important western mind, all of southeastern Europe kinda blends together.

I'm steering well clear of the socialism topic. I have yet to see a debate where socialism is brought up and argued through to mutual understanding. I personally favor a return to the days where neither politics nor religion was brought up in polite company, but that is probably just me. As someone who was at one point planning to be a teacher, I can say that salary was a secondary consideration. Their salaries top out a little low for my tastes (it'd be a lot more attractive if successful, tenured teachers of 20+ years could sniff 70 or 80k, especially if they held advanced degrees and certifications), but that wasn't the reason I bailed on teaching. I bailed because, in dozens of conversations with existing practitioners from 2003-2005, every single teacher I spoke to said that the creativity of teaching was being drained from the profession. In the absence of truly fair compensation, I could have at least could fallen back upon my love of education. A job that would provide a creative outlet to teach in new and innovative ways, to improve on the teaching methods that I saw when I was in school, was the big draw for me. But the number one complaint I heard was that "teaching to the test" turned a rewarding career into a machine. Since your entire value as a teacher is determined by how children perform on a test, there's no reason to hammer on anything but the core curriculum you're handed from Austin. They said (and keep saying) that you can't have teachable moments anymore. You can't step outside of the curriculum and you certainly don't have time for innovative and fun projects because the clock is ticking on your mandatory performance levels. In a way, I find it ironic that the conservative legislature of Texas is in favor of the government staying out of people's lives, and simultaneously legislating every lesson plan in Texas. I'd have thought they'd be in favor of less regulation, and more personal and professional freedom. Let your best teachers take risks, go out on limbs to reach students with challenging material. Test all you want, but make sure that you leave wiggle room for your best to truly reach out and be great. And maybe pay them a little more, too.

Don't you have some some pan-hellenic revolution you should be fomenting?

Ticket ticker = official?

I'm the most proud of my country when I see us taking a leadership role in helping others. Maybe its just the idealist in me, but there's something profoundly moving when you see such a huge domestic and international response to a disaster like this. It restores a measure of hope that we have some capacity for good, no matter how small. That, just for a moment, we could all be brothers and sisters before we go back to posturing, exploiting, and de-humanizing each other. Just a breath of fresh air.