mattfromnj

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He would have never done that in NY.

Sometimes they need a change of scenery, new team/coaches, etc.

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After seeing Saquon and McKinney leave and produce elsewhere this was somewhat expected with Jones.

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Big time soccer teams have huge sponsorship ads on their uniforms and it’s not terrible.

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I agree but soccer also shows way fewer ads during games. It's annoying to be watching a game that's got 2 and a half hours of commercials and now you'll have ads on the jerseys, helmets, field, etc. on top of that. It's like a football game breaks up the commercials now and not the other way around.

They have nowhere to run. There's a perception- not entirely incorrect- that Israel keeps them hemmed in with few places to go and then bombs them relentlessly. This isn't like southern Lebanon where all the civilians could flee, the only safe areas are the "safe zones" Israel tells them to evacuate to and often enough those areas have gotten bombed too.

It's a sad situation that will hopefully end with a deal soon, because if not Israel said they're going in again and plan on occupying the entire strip indefinitely.

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Didn’t this happen a few years ago as well?

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In France they had a similar attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg and then they had years before that the Nice truck attack that was also similar to this. There are really too many to count at this point though.

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More just commenting on how people in the US revere this dude, yet he constantly lobbies against the interests of the american public and it's frankly unreasonable to believe the Israeli government, which he heads, was not aware of 10/7 before it happened.

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Netanyahu actually might be more popular in the US than in Israel. Most Israelis seem to see him as a "least bad option" currently and he is as hated by the left there as Trump is by our left here. Think of the protest movement against him prior to 10/7, it was the largest such movement in Israel's history.

I've read that the Israelis were, like 73, just lulled into complacency before 10/7. they feared a similar attack from Hezbollah in the north but even hearing chatter from Gaza they never thought Hamas was capable of doing something like that. After 2006 their focus was almost entirely on the north. It's why they could pull of the pager attacks and kill Nasrallah but even now they just lucked into killing Sinwar and can't find their hostages. Their intel on Gaza is actually pretty awful compared to what they have on Lebanon.

Hamas also did a good job of fooling the Israeli government into thinking they were going the way of the PA and becoming more interested in money and governance as opposed to terrorism, all while secretly planning 10/7. The Israelis thought they'd been successfully bought off and they were wrong.

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Because of their small population, sustainment is an issue. The economic costs of fighting a long war are also very serious. You can't pull this many men out of the civilian economy without causing issues.

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That's in part what killed Rhodesia. A never ending war that caused the male population to need to do 3-4 years active duty and then up to 6 months at a time on reserve duty until age 50 or so. That and sanctions crippled their economy though they won the war in the tactical sense easily.

The armchair warlord guy (though a weird guy who writes anime fantasy books) is right too. Even Israeli media is reporting about how there are neighborhoods now being cleared for the 4th or 5th time, like Jabalia in the north of Gaza. They've conducted the war as a series of raids basically. Go in, clear the area of Hamas, then leave. The civilians (and Hamas) then come back and build themselves up until the Israeli army needs to go back in again a few months later. This, combined with lots and lots of air strikes.

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Nah, you'll still be wishing for 21.

I turn 40 next month and it really hit me like a ton of bricks out of nowhere the other night. I kept thinking that if I live to be my grandfather's age (81), my life is halfway over. And that's like best case scenario. I've been dwelling on that for the past couple days and I'm really having a tough time right now wrapping my head around the end.

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I'm in the same boat. Turn 40 pretty soon and it's been rougher than I thought it would be. Really taking stock of everything I have, have been through, what future may hold, etc. more than usual.

Seeing my parents get old and crippled with various ailments has also been worse than I ever imagined.

I do wish I could afford to have a cliche mid-life crisis where I buy a sports car or meet a younger woman, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards.

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So how do you square your assertion with the millions of Italians that came in around 1900 -1910 and had their own celebrations like San Gennaro and the like.

Tony , Angelo and Dom all ultimately blended into the mainstream despite having tribal and cultural celebrations that were also celebrated in the countries they came from.

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I'm not entirely anti immigrant but the Italians were not always welcomed because it was feared they'd bring two major issues from the home country. One, organized crime and two, public sector corruption. And honestly...they did. They brought both of those things with them. So yes they assimilated but a lot of that assimilation was due to white flight in the 60s breaking up their urban enclaves in Chicago and the Northeast. It was not an entirely painless assimilation process. Now think of the levels of organized crime and public sector corruption in Latin America and what the Mexicans, central Americans and Venezuelans will bring with them.

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Donovan McNabb. Dwight Freeney.

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Marvin Harrison too.

Apparently the new hire at Syracuse is a great recruiter so maybe he'll have them getting back to at least being a respected team again. It's a tough job though, they're in a recruiting dead zone, not a huge school with a massive alumni base (though they have a lot of media alumni because of the communications school), and their fans actually have pretty high expectations because of some of the success they had in the past.

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I would think the state of the Florida program has more to do with bad coaching/bad recruiting/late to the NIL table and other such issues that normally plague once great programs than one player throwing a shoe for a penalty.

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yeah but none of those things are as funny as a guy throwing a shoe.