Saunders

I watched it.  You forget about the French being involved over there way before the US sent over troops.  It seemed the war changed from 1965-1970 to 1970-1975.   Liked how he discussed the war at home as well.  The closing song was spot on for each episode in my opinion.

I don’t understand why they had to retake hills twice?   

My father, who joined the USMC in 1974 said the presentation was slanted some towards a liberal point of view.  He says that the politicians would not let them win.

Looking at it now the fear of communism spreading was overblown.

@OH HSKR FAN it's easy to say now that the commie threat was overblown but it was a very real and disturbing thing prior to the wall coming down. Heck I can still remember the duck and cover drills in grade school because any day the reds we're going to start dropping nukes on us.

Mutually Assured Destruction was a big deterrent.  Nobody would have won the day there.   Guess I would have had to been alive then.

Different perspective compared to someone who entered the world in 1976.

Ouch... while the preview isn't there yet, the order of the Big Ten is there. Has us 11th.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTwom2QQiEPs9QzcKB0B86zQIWVkSmadVxK2IlQ8VLdhcaMF0jWF3J5QNKsNttc-uvfvCFVsb29Pk4A/pubhtml

@Dilly Dilly those are last seasons S&P+ numbers. He’ll crunch new ones in August.

Thanks, @Saunders - hopefully a better outlook with the new analysis.

Can't wait!

Do it! Who's going to stop you?

Didja?

He downplayed that as best he could

@4skers89 Yeah, took rope to the nuts!

Cross species sympathy. 

@Dewiz  What am I, chopped liver?

@Comfortably Numb haha no he asked first 

Thanks @Dewiz keep me in the loop!

^^ And THAT is the life of a fan.  We'll get 'em next year!  (At least, that's what I say.  lol)

Bill Connelly said he starts on February 5th, so I'll start setting up the preview threads that week!

@NUance Yeah, "hope springs eternal," and all that. I'll still get my tickets, and I'll be among the first to buy Spring Game tickets.  Maybe this time we'll get better.

It's funny - I'm just hoping we lose three or less games once in the next two years.  Tough schedule, new coaches, roster turnover, all the stuff that comes with a coaching change.  But we'll see what happens. Maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.

I wasn't claiming they would, or that it is.

@MacNCheeze but it is literally everything you can ask a team to do to qualify then for the playoffs

If there were a 8 seed playoff no way they should of not gotten in.  And they should be ranked way higher then they are.

Classic!

Love it 

Welcome to the party, pal!

#winning!

GF keeps asking what Christmas movie we should watch tonight, but everytime I say Diehard she says I'm dumb... I thought it was only the greatest Christmas movie of all time?

Unfortunately, yes

No words

Great minds think alike. 

The dreaded trap game. Classic!

Sweet! A game worth watching that day.

Are you going to the game @Saunders ?

I'd like to, but I'm not sure we can go because of family being in town.

Sounds like we have Purdue right where we want em!

I am going to this game.  I sort of wish it was 2:30

Give up 55 points again??

The Great Pumpkin shows up for a big fat 0 on our scoreboard?

Yikes...I will say that I think back to back night games turn some people off but at the same time...yes this is a sign.

Makes me wish I was free this weekend. I'd snatch a few up!

Something, something...sellout streak.

Too amazing, right?

Terrible news. I think it was something to do with  his lungs? Thought I seen that mentioned on Twitter.

He said he had blood clots on his lungs, which is super unusual, but the way he was talking as recently as yesterday, he wasn't too concerned about it.  Terrible, shocking news to find out this morning that he had passed. 

My father had a quadruple bypass, tried to take time off to rest (though his bosses at his job kept pestering him and made him even come in a week or so after he went to the hospital), and sure enough, a blood clot found its way to his aorta, and he was gone in a few minutes (I think they call this a Widowmaker Heart Attack).

It's a real blow to the stomach when the prognosis looks rather good, and then something like this happens. But it sounds Mr. Towle was also working from the hospital bed, and sometimes the best thing one can do is know when to lay low and rest up...but for some personalities, that's almost asking the impossible.