Josie Maran
Footballguy
Thanks, Krista. You're a barrel o' laughs tonight. 
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Notorious T.R.E.
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10-10 on CFB picks. I blame jeeplvr.
I went 12-2 yesterrday. was awesome
dharmapunk
Footballguy
Amen to this. I'm staying away from all pregame stuff on TV today too. The NFL is guaranteed to amp the cheese factor by a gazillion. It's painful enough watching the Bills play.'Bogart said:
dharmapunk
Footballguy
A mad sinus headache & congestion had me hopped up on meds on the couch yesterday.
It got worse during the ND-Michigan game, so even though I was crazy yelling happy as ND went up 14-0, I popped two benedryl and settled in for a more mellow experience. The last thing I remember was ND being up 24-21 and Michigan trying to make a game of it, despite ND dominating them on both sides of the ball. Then I passed out.
I pretty sure I won here. ME = WINNING.
It got worse during the ND-Michigan game, so even though I was crazy yelling happy as ND went up 14-0, I popped two benedryl and settled in for a more mellow experience. The last thing I remember was ND being up 24-21 and Michigan trying to make a game of it, despite ND dominating them on both sides of the ball. Then I passed out.
I pretty sure I won here. ME = WINNING.
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St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Sorry, that's terrible Krista. :(
SofaKings
Footballguy
If he brings beer, grab a seat on the couch and ####. If he is empty handed, hit the road jack.'krista4 said:'Tecumseh said:I like it.My stepmother's most crazy of sisters posts two Jesus-related Facebook statuses every morning. This morning's:
All day I've had to suppress my urge to post "I'd tell Jesus I hope he likes college football, and could he please clean out the litterboxes?"
dharmapunk
Footballguy
at the FB shtick.Also, Ham's one paragraph 9/11 thread is a hot naked Meghan Fox on ruffies. You know you want to, it's damn near irresistible, but the jail time would be LIFE + 99 years.
dharmapunk
Footballguy
This put an epic image in my head. A painting of Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad sitting on a couch on game day with some random slob, drinking beers, eating chips and guacamole, etc. Buddha is laughing (with a bong?), Jesus is tanked with 10 empty bottles in front of him, and Muhammad is bitter and disgruntled with a Diet Pepsi. Oh Yes! is a painter, right? Make it happen. This is a seller concept if I ever heard one. The football equivalent of Dogs Playing Poker.
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Josie Maran
Footballguy
Rated G here, fella. Take your pottymouth elsewhere.
YSR
Footballguy
Saw this last night. Mr. YSR is a big MMA nut, so I thought I was taking one for the team by going with him. But, it was actually really good. There's no nudity of any kind, don't worry.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Took the whole family to the Oregon game yesterday. Got off to a late start as I had to coach my sons' soccer game at 9am. We lost 3-1. I think the head coach needs to be fired. Traffic heading down to Eugene was brutal. It was stop and go at one point near a little hell-hole called "Albany". The reason it was backed up? People were slowing down/stopping to look at a boat show in the middle of a field. A 90 minute drive turned into 120 minutes of torture.
Parking for the games is a real pain in the butt. If you don't come early, you must fend for yourself and park somewhere remotely close to the stadium. This gave us a nice 2 mile/20 minute walk with one pissed off 7 year old because he forgot a change of shoes despite us telling him multiple times to bring a pair to change into after the soccer game. His forgetfulness forced me to buy him a cheap pair of shoes at Fred Meyer where I guestimated his shoe size at 3. He's a 1. And he let us freaking know it every step of the miserable walk from the car to the stadium where we were missing most of the 1st quarter of action.
Meanwhile, the go-getting rah rah rah 8 year old was hell bent on getting to our seats, so I had to try to keep up with him while motivating petulant Pete the entire way. Oh, and it was the hottest day of the year yesterday and easily the hottest game I've ever been to in 11 years of going to Ducks games. As we were getting close to the game, a group of girls were leaving, complaining about the heat. I laughed at them, thinking 'my god, what would these poor girls do if they went to school in the south?"
And then we got to our seats. And baked in the 1pm sun with 55,000 people jam packed into a metal stadium. It. Was. MISERABLE. Did I mention I left my sun block in the car? Thank god my wife got our boys earlier in the day. My neck looks like a gosh damn stop sign. My pasty white thighs have red patches of nasty sun burn. The second quarter took forever, with the clock stopping every time the Ducks scored, which was quite a bit in Q2. With 4 minutes to go in the half, I begged my 8 year old to go with me for a cold drink. Daddy needed a beer and so we marched to the beer garden in hopes of beating the rest of the crowd. Whoops. As bad as it was inside the stadium, the beer garden was worse. It was like standing in line for beer in Kuwait. Hundreds of fans jam packed on top of one another, eager to fork out 8 dollars for a Coors. My son was parked right outside, waiting for me. As time ticked on, I could see two ladies talking to him. I was terrified that they were going to alert authorities about an abandoned child whose dad was in line for alcohol. But thankfully, they were incredibly nice, totally understood and said how well mannered and grown up my son was. Phew....
We endured about 1 more quarter of action in the stands and that was all we could take. When they reached 62 points, I told the crew we were going to hit Track Town Pizza, sit in A/C and enjoy some food and drinks. Best call of the day as this time, we did beat the crowd.
Cannot believe as a native Texan I'm complaining about a 95 degree day to watch college football. I need my own butt kicked.
Parking for the games is a real pain in the butt. If you don't come early, you must fend for yourself and park somewhere remotely close to the stadium. This gave us a nice 2 mile/20 minute walk with one pissed off 7 year old because he forgot a change of shoes despite us telling him multiple times to bring a pair to change into after the soccer game. His forgetfulness forced me to buy him a cheap pair of shoes at Fred Meyer where I guestimated his shoe size at 3. He's a 1. And he let us freaking know it every step of the miserable walk from the car to the stadium where we were missing most of the 1st quarter of action.
Meanwhile, the go-getting rah rah rah 8 year old was hell bent on getting to our seats, so I had to try to keep up with him while motivating petulant Pete the entire way. Oh, and it was the hottest day of the year yesterday and easily the hottest game I've ever been to in 11 years of going to Ducks games. As we were getting close to the game, a group of girls were leaving, complaining about the heat. I laughed at them, thinking 'my god, what would these poor girls do if they went to school in the south?"
And then we got to our seats. And baked in the 1pm sun with 55,000 people jam packed into a metal stadium. It. Was. MISERABLE. Did I mention I left my sun block in the car? Thank god my wife got our boys earlier in the day. My neck looks like a gosh damn stop sign. My pasty white thighs have red patches of nasty sun burn. The second quarter took forever, with the clock stopping every time the Ducks scored, which was quite a bit in Q2. With 4 minutes to go in the half, I begged my 8 year old to go with me for a cold drink. Daddy needed a beer and so we marched to the beer garden in hopes of beating the rest of the crowd. Whoops. As bad as it was inside the stadium, the beer garden was worse. It was like standing in line for beer in Kuwait. Hundreds of fans jam packed on top of one another, eager to fork out 8 dollars for a Coors. My son was parked right outside, waiting for me. As time ticked on, I could see two ladies talking to him. I was terrified that they were going to alert authorities about an abandoned child whose dad was in line for alcohol. But thankfully, they were incredibly nice, totally understood and said how well mannered and grown up my son was. Phew....
We endured about 1 more quarter of action in the stands and that was all we could take. When they reached 62 points, I told the crew we were going to hit Track Town Pizza, sit in A/C and enjoy some food and drinks. Best call of the day as this time, we did beat the crowd.
Cannot believe as a native Texan I'm complaining about a 95 degree day to watch college football. I need my own butt kicked.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
GM - What's Fred Meyer like?
I remember back in the 80s when I went to Europe a couple times and discovered that hypermarkets (grocery + general merch) are big over there. And I was all like, sheeeet, been doing that in my home town since the end of WWII. You've been to Michigan, so now you know about Meijers. Anyway, I was pretty freaked out when I came back to the states and realized that the other successful U.S. hypermarket is a publicly traded company in the pacific northwest.
I just always thought it was crazy that all these big companies who tried the model - Kroger, Walmart, Target, whatever - never quite got it right, at least not like the two small regional chains. The two who were wildly successful and did it better than anyone were Fred Meijer in Greenville, Michigan (Meijers = IL, IN, KY, MI & OH) and Fred Meyer in Portland, Oregon (AK, ID, OR & WA). Gotta admit, that is one helluva coincidence.
Oh, and I don't know the Fred Meyer story or how they expanded...but Fred Meijer had terrible luck with fires, and great insurance policies. The Greenville store burned down three times while I was growing up. Every time it burned down, they rebuilt two stores (one in my hometown, one elsewhere). In west Michigan - which is kind of a world unto itself - Fred Meijer ranks with **** DeVos/Jay Van Andel as the biggest success story and largest philanthropologists.
I remember back in the 80s when I went to Europe a couple times and discovered that hypermarkets (grocery + general merch) are big over there. And I was all like, sheeeet, been doing that in my home town since the end of WWII. You've been to Michigan, so now you know about Meijers. Anyway, I was pretty freaked out when I came back to the states and realized that the other successful U.S. hypermarket is a publicly traded company in the pacific northwest.
I just always thought it was crazy that all these big companies who tried the model - Kroger, Walmart, Target, whatever - never quite got it right, at least not like the two small regional chains. The two who were wildly successful and did it better than anyone were Fred Meijer in Greenville, Michigan (Meijers = IL, IN, KY, MI & OH) and Fred Meyer in Portland, Oregon (AK, ID, OR & WA). Gotta admit, that is one helluva coincidence.
Oh, and I don't know the Fred Meyer story or how they expanded...but Fred Meijer had terrible luck with fires, and great insurance policies. The Greenville store burned down three times while I was growing up. Every time it burned down, they rebuilt two stores (one in my hometown, one elsewhere). In west Michigan - which is kind of a world unto itself - Fred Meijer ranks with **** DeVos/Jay Van Andel as the biggest success story and largest philanthropologists.
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McJose
Footballguy
And here in typically hot as hell Bakersfield they had to cancel the JuCo game due to lightning.Took the whole family to the Oregon game yesterday. Got off to a late start as I had to coach my sons' soccer game at 9am. We lost 3-1. I think the head coach needs to be fired. Traffic heading down to Eugene was brutal. It was stop and go at one point near a little hell-hole called "Albany". The reason it was backed up? People were slowing down/stopping to look at a boat show in the middle of a field. A 90 minute drive turned into 120 minutes of torture.Parking for the games is a real pain in the butt. If you don't come early, you must fend for yourself and park somewhere remotely close to the stadium. This gave us a nice 2 mile/20 minute walk with one pissed off 7 year old because he forgot a change of shoes despite us telling him multiple times to bring a pair to change into after the soccer game. His forgetfulness forced me to buy him a cheap pair of shoes at Fred Meyer where I guestimated his shoe size at 3. He's a 1. And he let us freaking know it every step of the miserable walk from the car to the stadium where we were missing most of the 1st quarter of action.Meanwhile, the go-getting rah rah rah 8 year old was hell bent on getting to our seats, so I had to try to keep up with him while motivating petulant Pete the entire way. Oh, and it was the hottest day of the year yesterday and easily the hottest game I've ever been to in 11 years of going to Ducks games. As we were getting close to the game, a group of girls were leaving, complaining about the heat. I laughed at them, thinking 'my god, what would these poor girls do if they went to school in the south?" And then we got to our seats. And baked in the 1pm sun with 55,000 people jam packed into a metal stadium. It. Was. MISERABLE. Did I mention I left my sun block in the car? Thank god my wife got our boys earlier in the day. My neck looks like a gosh damn stop sign. My pasty white thighs have red patches of nasty sun burn. The second quarter took forever, with the clock stopping every time the Ducks scored, which was quite a bit in Q2. With 4 minutes to go in the half, I begged my 8 year old to go with me for a cold drink. Daddy needed a beer and so we marched to the beer garden in hopes of beating the rest of the crowd. Whoops. As bad as it was inside the stadium, the beer garden was worse. It was like standing in line for beer in Kuwait. Hundreds of fans jam packed on top of one another, eager to fork out 8 dollars for a Coors. My son was parked right outside, waiting for me. As time ticked on, I could see two ladies talking to him. I was terrified that they were going to alert authorities about an abandoned child whose dad was in line for alcohol. But thankfully, they were incredibly nice, totally understood and said how well mannered and grown up my son was. Phew....We endured about 1 more quarter of action in the stands and that was all we could take. When they reached 62 points, I told the crew we were going to hit Track Town Pizza, sit in A/C and enjoy some food and drinks. Best call of the day as this time, we did beat the crowd.
Notorious T.R.E.
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Wow'Tiger Fan said:
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Sarnoff
Footballguy
Did I really just watch the Budweiser Clydesdales trot out to Ground Zero?####.
Josie Maran
Footballguy
NFL Red Zone channel is friggin MONEY. 
mr. furley
Footballguy
hate this channel. the whole idea of it really.NFL Red Zone channel is friggin MONEY.
Osaurus
Footballguy
Big fan..of course I live in a perma-blackout market.hate this channel. the whole idea of it really.NFL Red Zone channel is friggin MONEY.
McJose
Footballguy
I thought I heard that that spot was actually from 2001 but Bud only aired a couple of times.Did I really just watch the Budweiser Clydesdales trot out to Ground Zero?####.
mr. furley
Footballguy
CBS' halftime show is just freaking atrocious
krista4
Footballguy
:( I would also like to thank Josh Freeman for his 4.2 points whilst I have Joe Flacco and his 23.2 on my bench.Sorry to turn the thread momentarily into the Shark Pool.
gamera
Footballguy
Steven Jackson.
Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
If any of you nerds are sad about your FF teams already, The Gator is starting a UEFA Champions Fantasy League.
Osaurus
Footballguy
Megaflop
jplvr
Footballguy
Don't worry about TRE. He feels he can be a rap snob because he used to bowl with black people.
jplvr
Footballguy
My sickness is finally ending. Sneezing, to sinus congestion, to sore throat. It finally moved to my lungs and I coughed up some interesting stuff this morning. Should be good to go by morning.
I'll stop hippling now. 
Kind of a crazy story Krista. I've worked a lot of kitchens and waited tables and ever seen anything like that.GM> troof about games in the South. I gave my tickets away for the first two home games this season. Day games in the East stands = getting baked and not in a good way. The Penn State game was the same weekend (this one) last year and at night. It was like a sauna. I'm hoping some crazy cold front moves through in two weeks, because Arkansas is likely to be a 2:30 game on CBS.
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Good Posting Judge
Footballguy
Largely successful so far at having a 9/11-free September 11th.
YSR
Footballguy
Ended up -3. Pretty psyched about my chances this year.ETA: would also like to go ahead and publicly put ACP on suicide watch. Sending T&P his way.
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jplvr
Footballguy
Oh, I was forced to go to church today: Grandparents' Day. Some new crap they started and my grandmother/mother's church. It's a Methodist church and I got to see my first female preacher. I was interested in her choice of words during a prayer about 9/11, hoping our troops would come home soon "because of this war we caused." Considering it's a little, country church and the particular day for this prayer, I was surprised.
I love my grandmother, but she's never been the most likeable person. When the lady compared grandparents to god, I started to put together why I might not be religious.
I love my grandmother, but she's never been the most likeable person. When the lady compared grandparents to god, I started to put together why I might not be religious.
krista4
Footballguy
I accidentally saw the Budweiser Clydesdale commercial once and 1/2 of the State Farm ad twice. I consider this a moderate success.Please add Mr. krista to the suicide watch list. He decided to go to the grocery when it was 14-7 and the Ravens were about to score again, and he has yet to return home.jplvr, what I can't believe is that I've seen something like this three times in about a year, and always when I'm with my friend Jane. I'm not sure which one of us in the kiss of death. How is your friend with the broken back doing? (Don't worry, I won't invite him to dinner.)Largely successful so far at having a 9/11-free September 11th.
krista4
Footballguy
I actually am in a good position, largely thanks to Matt "26.8" Forte and LeSean "27.7, #####es" McCoy.I swear I won't post about my league again. It's the first week and I'm kind of giddy.If any of you nerds are sad about your FF teams already, The Gator is starting a UEFA Champions Fantasy League.
Notorious T.R.E.
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jplvr
Footballguy
Broke-neck-buddy is doing better, which is good. He actually got to take his neck brace of last Friday for about an hour, until the doctor realized a mistake, telling him to put it back on for a week or two more. IOW, he was about a month ahead of schedule... almost. This is good because his first baby boy is probably going to be early as well.
krista4
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