Posted on 12/31/2015 10:37:15 AM PST by Perdogg
4pm EST - Orange Bowl Miami FL: Oklahoma v Clemson (+4) o/u 64.5. TV ESPN; WatchESPN App, DT 206. Weather 83 degrees - RF 88.
8pm EST - Cotton Bowl Arlington TX: Michigan St v Alabama (-9.5) o/u 45. TV ESPN; WatchESPN App, DT 206. Weather - Indoors.
He shrugged.
Vince Lombardi, after winning the Super Bowl, was asked if the Packers had removed all doubt as to who was the best football team in the worrld. Lombardi replied, “Well, I don’t know. We haven’t played Alabama yet!!”
ASU is a hippie mountain school
Extremely liberal
You don’t know the school
But they did beat Michigan once in the biggest upset past 50 years
Don’t get me wrong I agree about the SEC
I was at the old Orange Bowl back in I think 89 when the Canes destroyed Notre Dame
Na na na na hey hey hey goodbye
Trashy team no question but it was still sweet
The Orange Bowl back then where the Marlins new digs are was a great place to see a game
You towered out over the field
The old Sugar bowl ...Tulane stadium was similar
New stadiums are comfy and foodie but not the same view and proximity
Bama will beat Clemson
After TN beats Chicago junior college we’ll have the get back to Q the SEC denier
Vols up 10
Yes I know Appy State....too well. I navigate just fine between Boone, Mountain City, Wilkesboro and North Wilkesboro. 421 is fun with black ice and a hot rodded 1988 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe. The trip of a lifetime! (Almost the end of one, too, LOL)
Classic
Ratings down 40% from last year.
Who is the numbnut that thought having these games on New Years’ Eve was a good idea?
THANK you so much for your take on the upcoming Clemson-Alabama game! I really enjoyed hearing from you on that.
Hubby and I were just talking about it this morning. I mean we’re still shell shocked. I’m not over being so gob smacked by that mean CLEMSON defense, against my Sooners! Honestly, they seemed ten feet tall!
So, the OKLAHOMA offensive team was not even in their league (CLEMSON) opening that third quarter! So, yes, I don’t know how your game can be anything, if not a TITANTIC battle!
EVERYONE WILL BE TUNED IN! And, good luck!
It is still hard to understand what happened during half time! I mean we got out of that first half LEADING, on a wing and a prayer, but POOF(!), we got vaporized, lost our receivers, with one out and one barely standing, and our quarterback dinged in the head, again!
Don’t mind me, it’s the coma I’m in. I’m sure ALABAMA has a serious offense.
Another thing, it’s weird about the top four teams. How did MI State perform like that???? A shut out is a weird event for a #3 ranked team! And, with OKLAHOMA all but shut out in the second half, by the #1 team. One could presume the games would be close, couldn’t we think?
I think it tells us something, I just can’t figure out what!
LOL!!!
Can’t wait for your face off. I will be watching with baited breath for those amazons to see some competition.
Also, the announcers had plenty to say about the CLEMSON team and coaches causing quite the row between the two teams. I think it didn’t really work, but they do dig the cheap shot route, which is pretty foreign to OU’s team and coaches. I’ve never heard of such petty crap, but we gave back as good as we got, also. And got penalized for it. They got only a bench warning! Oh well. Damn thugs.
Heck of a game. Stay in touch if you think about it and let me know how it’s going. I’ll be watching, and.....
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Happy New Year to you and yours, Rita!
Hey, HAPPY NEW YEAR to you, too, Jim! Thx, Rita
We used to have a mountaintop home at Hound Ears between Boone and Sugar
My little brother went to Lees McRae in Banner Elk
Got friends all over Watauga and Avery and Ashe counties
Boone is actually a bit less hippie on King st than the 80s/90s
Asheville on the otherhand is a lost cause
Hipsters and freaks and of course Dykes galore
Pretty town though
My cousin and wife live in Kernersville
I was born at Seymour Johnson long long ago
Problem in your lovely state is all the newcomers
Middle TN has the same issue sadly
North Carolina has more relative peak prominence footage wise than does Oregon
Factoid few believe
Seems like very bowl game has been a lopsided affair. Whatever criteria the selection committees are using stinks. If I ran into my Oregon freshman dorm-mate Tom Jernstedt, a member of the CFP selection committee, that’s what I would tell him.
Huh? I have conference but I do have a favored and that team plays in a conference with a championship game.
Asheville was ruined by the Vanderbilts, a long time ago.
Never thought that way
Any second thoughts?
- Roll Tide -
I'm watching Stanford...hoy moly.
I use to fly nurses from Finland up to the top of the Cherangani Hills in Kenya to do medical clinics. These "hills" rise to only 11,578 ft. and are more like a long ridgeline on the northern end.
There were grassy areas and Merino sheep, waterfalls and orchids in the trees.
Your mention of Peak Prominence (new term to me, old idea) caused me to check out the Peak Prominence for Cherangani Hills. Because I'd also flown out of a mission station at the northern base of the Cheranganis and had driven through Marich Pass, I had a rough idea of the elevation of the northern toe. Google Earth shows it to be 3346 ft, giving a Prominence of 8232 ft. Due east it drops to about 3500 ft in 7.5 miles and 3050 in 12 miles. Awesome views!
This would be second highest in Colorado!
Still be there...
Apalachia has been ruined by many organizations. First came the crony capitalist carpetbaggers after the civil war, initially the Carnegies and Vanderbilts, later supplanted by the Kennedys and the J.M. Huber corporation/Koppers Land Company, et al.
What they started, the US govt. finished by either flooding the river valleys or forming national parks. TVA in particular confiscated lands far in excess of what was flooded and took over mineral rights wherever it could.
Go a bit west of Boone. Welcome to the future of America. Southern apalachia has been living it for 100 years now. 80% of the land owned by absentee landlords or some facet of the State. The excess land confiscated by TVA around its reservoirs has been slowly sold to a new generation of carpetbaggers for their McMansions.
I could go on, but what happened to my home area, much of it far before my time, is about to be repeated on a national scale. Different methods will be used, but the results will be identical, outright appropriation and confiscation of resources. It may be the EPA. It may be the Park Service. It may be the State Ag Commission. Probably all of them plus!
I will confess it’s a narrative I’m unfamiliar with though it can tell the Piedmont tech academia triangle is under siege by mostly liberal Yankee invaders...again 150 years later after the first go around
Course NW North Carolina gets the huge south Florida Jewish summer crowd for the southern Catskills in Blowing Rock and Grandfather mt environs
SW North Carolina around Highlands and Cashiers draws a more traditionally southern crowd
Atlanta and Birmingham etc
I’m 7th generation Mississippi....aside from the coast we get no influx really
Oxford draws libs I guess....
Nashville metro where I live does though
Huge Michigan was first wave twenty years ago
Then northeastern droves
Now it’s Kali Kali Kali....
Man don’t they stand out ....cool and vain middle aged
But quite a few are right wing refugees
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