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I just watched their last game and he was getting extra yards after contact and making guys flat out miss and thought to myself that guy definitely deserves to be on an NFL roster.  He looked really good with what he had to work and with his opportunities when given the ball imo.

I am not sure how much special teams he played at Nebraska, but it helps a guy like him if he can be on coverage teams.  The last few guys on the roster have to be able to contribute on special teams.

@Redux IMO, I don't believe so--one thing that was appealing about the B1G and that we pride ourselves on is that DoNU is pretty good, academically, and we have been looking for some time to improve on that.

We've improved our academics in spades with the B1G, and it's gotten the notice of schools like Oklahoma that are in a similar situation. Unless Oklahoma has a course change in their future goals re: academics, academic improvement via the B1G is why Oklahoma to the B1G down the road will have a very strong likelihood (even though their idiot fans want the SEC ). 

Joining the SEC would have had an adverse effect on our academics--we wouldn't have partnerships with the few Big XII schools that did happen to remember they were a school first, and the SEC doesn't have any sort of academic consortium (or any sort of inter-conference academic programs of note). At best, our academics in the SEC would be moribund. 

Now, IIRC, the Pac-12 (and the Pac-10) did have something similar, but not as encompassing, as the B1G's academic consortium. So to respond to your question, perhaps we could have been moving buddies with Colorado to the Pac-12 instead? 

I don't think the PAC 10 would have been very appealing to Nebraska, geographically speaking it's further than most the B1G trips and they don't really fit into either division very well.  A yearly match with USC may be appealing but still.

With as hot as the SEC was in 2010-2011 an invite would have been pretty hard to turn down.  Joining a footprint where recruiting is almost on cruise control and you get national love in the form of rankings without doing anything.

@Redux I agree, a Pac-10 invite wouldn't have been appealing, but it still would have been better than our current situation in the Big XII (though not by much). And don't forget matches with UCLA, or Oregon, or Washington (all teams that were certainly competent at the time). 

And I bet it would have been hard to turn a SEC invite down...if we had someone other than Dr. Tom at the helm. IMO, folks like Dr. Tom are quick to remember that Nebraska is more than football, and I don't think he cares for the dirty pool the SEC willingly plays in. 

Now, if it's an Eichorst, or maybe even a Moos making the decision back then, I'd agree. But not with Dr. Tom at the helm.

I go with the old big headphones that plug into my record player.  Is it a pain to carry around?  Yes.  Does it make me seem like a hipster douche, they do.  

@ZRod No, that’s “I hate the Hallmark channel” right there. But yeah, I guess I love her enough to let her watch that garbage on MY tv 

@teachercd you need to go old school hipster douche and carry a boom box on your shoulder.

I'll always vote for productivity.... That comes in many forms, of course.

@teachercd bad idea

Do whatever you feel like as long as there isn't something that has to be done!  We all need a little free time to just kind of do 'whatever'.  Signed NOT Dr. Phil or Oprah lol.

No video?

@huKSer We tried to take some but most of the actual fighting was being done behind a bunch of vehicles and down a small berm about 100 feet away so it was tough to see much on video. We thought it was best to stay back until police showed up, and then (to my total surprise ) everything seemed to calm down when they did.

Except for this one chick in a red dress. Her anger was over 9000 until she finally got in her car and left.

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That is why you buy a drone!

Sex ,sometimes I just want to sleep 

Grocery shopping.  By the way, great question!  Oh, and BJ's...I am not as flexible anymore.

Oil change

Yeah, but mistakes are a part of racing, and at a certain point you have to let the race have a natural progression without too much outside influence.

I see both sides of it. If you are an Indy or NASCAR fan the penalty looks dumb and the incident is just a normal part of racing. If you're an F1 guy, the penalty is technically by the book but a little harsh for a no harm no foul incident. He pinched Hamilton, but it wasn't like he was totally out of control. You should still be able to defend your position safely.

I couldn't even watch the race because our local ABC station showed the stupid White Sox game.

@jsneb83 next time that happens, try the ESPN app. Happens all the time in the DFW area when F1 is on the ABC affiliate and they choose to show something else instead because of...reasons. 

As for Vettel, I do have a hard time sympathizing with him when he was on the right end of these decisions a couple of times during his run a few years ago. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, you're going to storm around like a petulant child and switch the place markers in front of the cars around?

This was all because of Vettel's mistake, and I really have a problem with him returning to the racing line when he completely went off the course. He even admitted he saw Hamilton in his mirror on the broadcast, and that admission has to factor in to whether or not one views this as an 'out of control'/racing incident or Vettel trying to get away with something there. 

Well that makes sense. You just don't see much crossover with Vikings, Bears and Packers fans. The ole black and blue division typically stays pretty true to form and usually seems pretty aligned to the city. I've spent some time in Milwaukee and ran into both Packers and Bears fans. There's some pretty strong feelings between those fan bases and I've found Vikings fans to be the third spoke in that wheel. Not sure there's another 3 teams anywhere that all really sort of despise two other franchises seemingly equally. It's kind of a neat and unique phenomenon imo. That's why it seemed odd to me to like 3 Chicago teams and then Minnesota. FWIW, I was a big Green Bay fan as a kid and still have a soft spot for them. But I also loved Fran Tarkenton and Walter Peyton. Sweetness is probably my all time favorite NFL player. But growing up in Nebraska, I kind of had pick a team because none were geographically natural.

Yeah the really tough thing is that as I've gotten older my Vikings fandom has sort of become less. I'm much more of a fan of the NFL in general these days; but, my fandom for other Chicago teams has sort of developed this affinity for the Bears. It now feels complicated because part of me thinks 'well, you like all other Chicago teams, it may as well be the Bears, too' while the other part of me is telling myself 'you've liked the Vikings forever AND Chicago is a divisional foe, you twit.'

I guess how I would describe it now is I hope the Bears do well and I don't actively root against them, and then when the Vikings/Bears play, I sort of pretend it's not happening lol.

DaaaaaaBears

Clever

That took me far longer than I'd like to admit...

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I noticed that too. 

Yeah I've noticed that as well.  Time to go with a different free streaming music service for me.  

@GSG Oh I sat next to them alright!!! Come on though, it's just like the urinal law. You don't take the even numbered urinal if there's an odd number total, and you don't take a urinal next to another guy unless there's no other option.

Cough, gag and blow your nose, as if you have some sort of communicable disease. You will then be able to take a whole section (your chioce of views) and put your feet up! 

Some people just have no concept of personal space and intelligently existing in life to accommodate others.

Another one that gets my goat are people who pull into a big (mostly empty) parking lot and park in the spot right next to you.  WTF???

Yeah thats going to be a problem without storm drains.  The pipe that broke a few years ago that flooded your driveway.....was it a city main water line that burst? If so go back to them and explain the problem.....maybe they can help you bring in new dirt for the places your lot sunk. Cities always have a stash of dirt and they have the loaders to move it.  You might end up planting new grass or sod etc.

Good call! Yes I contacted them yesterday about it but I believe they've been flooded (see what I did there?!) with calls the last few days. Had to leave a message.

I doubt it would happen, but, I wonder if I could convince them to make a culvert opening to my drain pipe since they felt it was necessary to do that for a bunch of other houses except mine. Wishful thinking...

Did the rush of water undercut your driveway making it sink down? If so you have due cause to get the city to fix that as well.

Triggered to the point of having to put the first person on my ignore list.

@Enhance you should anonymously post some fictitious health article in the elevator, about how walking up stairs before smoking and down afterwards negates the bad effects of smoking. That might help get them to quit stopping on the 2nd floor.

I know I will never get a car again, I like sitting up high.  My last two are a Wrangler and Grand Cherokee.

@ZRod I sincerely hope you're being sarcastic but I can't tell for certain so I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt!

@Enhance I'm just playing around. Sorry, sir... 

THANKS MOM

If she was smart, she would have set him up with Tinder or Bumble. 

@VectorVictor maybe she has it all wrong and he needs a grindr account 

I feel so bad for the girls that friend-zoned those guys so bad that they felt guilty and decided to be in that video.

@krc1995 only if you were going Independent. No other conference will touch them now.

Well...okay, maybe the AAC. Or Sun Belt. But that’s it.

Mountain West maybe? Probably too slimy and a touch to east 

@Enhance Normally I would agree with the take that you need to do enough to not let one flubbed call cost you the game. However, this particular non-call was worse than that. Just the fact of how blatant and obvious it was coupled with only 1:41 left in the game. It really was a game changer. They've got every right to bitch and moan for a long long time. But no, legal action to overturn it or re-start the game from that point is ridiculous. Sometimes bad calls have terrible consequences. I still have no idea what that ref, who was staring right at it, thought he saw. It's too bad with all the time they waste on replays that they couldn't have reviewed this one and got it right.

@JJ Husker And I get that viewpoint but, so long as we allow humans to participate in sports (), we are susceptible to these kinds of mistakes. A lot of people seem to want their cake and eat it on this situation - they want to be able to control this specific issue while largely being OK with other elements in their control/out of their control that they perceive to have not had as big of an impact, even if that's not wholly true.

I mean, people vilify players for dropping passes, missing field goals, throwing picks, getting penalties in key moments, etc. You name it. It's all part of the game and they can all cost you a game. But, a referee screws up and that's worthy of saying the Super Bowl is 'tainted' or we need to replay that part of the game. I just don't get that reaction.

Yup, had Parkey not missed that FG against Philly this isn't even a thing.  Change one thing, change everything.  Pandoras Box.

I like to think he's judging his posts before he ever begins typing. Or predicting what my response will be to his posts. 

That's funny AF!!

Did we do a thing?

The gif replies to that are hilarious...

Oh yes she did, from beyond, which illustrates just how obvious it is!   

Woa dude, that was like a triple burn...

That's insane, who believes in that hoopla

@Cdog923 Yes. To me, college sports (particularly basketball and football) have so much tradition and allure associated with their stadiums. They're a huge piece of the sport and eliminating those opportunities to play in corporate environments just feels like an insult to the tradition of the game.

@Enhance I don't disagree. It would be a ton of fun to watch FSU at Death Valley, then LSU return the favor at Doak. 

And calling those 'neural sites' is a stretch.