RollTide1987

re: Is Netflix Hannibal of Carthage movie canceled?

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/9/26 at 5:24 pm to sgallo3

I love me some Denzel but he's much too old to play Hannibal Barca. He's going to be 72 this year and Hannibal was likely not even 65 when he died.

re: Thoughts on Hamnet

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/9/26 at 7:35 am to athenslife101

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Her reaction seems over the top for the time this was set.

I mean...the kid's name was Hamnet and the play Shakespeare premiered two or three years after his death was called Hamlet. The spelling of Hamnet and Hamlet was interchangeable in those days. The fact that he wrote a play with the first name of his recently deceased child tells me that, at the very least, HE experienced some sort of grief over his loss.

re: How is Roger Craig just now getting in the Hall of Fame?

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/8/26 at 12:54 pm to TechDawg2007

Many saw him as a system player.

re: NFL HOF ceremony attendees.

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/8/26 at 12:52 pm to SOBmustpay

I don’t think it’s a conspiracy. I’ve been to Canton and absolutely loved the experience. I’d go back and visit for an induction ceremony.

re: Most gut wrenching loss you were in attendance for

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/7/26 at 2:17 pm to JamalMurry27

The 2010 Iron Bowl and 2011 LSU game.

re: "The Odyssey" Discussion Thread: Reviews, Box Office, News. $1.1 Bil WW

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/7/26 at 12:55 pm to RLDSC FAN

Inflation or no, I find it absolutely impressive that this film has done so well at the box office considering it's R-rated and based on a Greek epic poem that's almost 3,000 years old.

re: MAGA Queen Sydney Sweeney Spotted in Spokane Handing Out Free Meals To WA Fire Victims....

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/7/26 at 12:48 pm to Landoftherisingsun

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It's hilarious how you maga fools try an anoint Sydney and Sophie as part of your group.
Both deny being maga, and yet you try to claim them.

1. You can be right-leaning without being MAGA. The fact that Sydney Sweeny is a registered Republican is proof that the former is true about her.

2. Do you honestly think any celebrity who halfway cares about the upward trajectory of their career is going to come out in support of the #MAGA movement?

Political Talk

A lot of casting news for The Legend of Zelda is breaking...

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/7/26 at 12:42 pm

The production of the film was shrouded in absolute secrecy, with only the film's two leads actually having been officially announced. Now that production has wrapped, more and more casting news is starting to break. While names of actors who had parts in the film have been released or leaked to Deadline, not everyone's role has been revealed. Here is a list of confirmed cast members and their roles (if available):

Link - Benjamin Evan Ainsworth
Zelda - Bo Bragason
Ganondorf (main antagonist) - Uli Latukefu
Impa - Dichen Lachman

Known castings but unknown roles:

Sam Neill (RIP)
Yvonne Strahovski
Lydia Peckham

Deadline

re: Industry insiders expect that CBS will let Tony Romo go

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/7/26 at 12:00 pm to facher08

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I don't get people that complain about booth guys. They have to be REALLY bad to matter me, like Aqib Talib.

It adds to the moment for me if the commentator is really emotional vis just going through the motions.

Compare:

Michigan State blocked punt against Michigan (2015)

vs.

Derrick Henry's 99-yard TD run against the Jaguars (2018)

-2

re: Has there ever been a better story arc for a character other than Riddick?

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/6/26 at 6:55 pm to mattchewbocca

I mean...if you ignore the vast majority of the history of story telling? No. Definitely not.

The World Wide Web turns 35 years old today....

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/6/26 at 6:22 pm

August 6, 1991

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On August 6, 1991, in a little-known newsgroup–an early-days, primitive version of an internet forum–called alt.hypertext, a soon-to-be-famous computer scientist posted something that would change the technology landscape—and the world—as we knew it. It was a response to a query from one of his fellow newsgroup nerds, who asked if anyone knew of development efforts in the form of “hypertext links enabling retrieval from multiple heterogeneous sources of information?” In other words, could the early Internet become easier to join and navigate?

Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), used that forum to announce to the world his new initiative, writing, “The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to be made to any information anywhere. The address format includes an access method (=namespace), and for most name spaces a hostname and some sort of path.” Before Berners-Lee’s novel idea, to navigate the internet required knowing specific protocols like Telnet or FTP to connect to other servers, which did not have friendly names like popsci.com, but rather arcane computer names that could not easily be discovered. Online discussions involved participating in message-based bulletin board systems enabled by services like Usenet or CompuServe.

O-T Lounge

While box office numbers are up in 2026, overall audience attendance is down...

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/6/26 at 6:16 pm

The U.S. box office is seeing its highest returns since 2019, however audience attendance is still very much down from the pre-Covid era. Higher ticket prices have driven the revenue of this year's tentpole films:

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Theaters sold an estimated 470.9 million tickets through the first 30 weeks of 2026, compared ?with 747.3 million ?during the same stretch of 2019, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

"Revenue growth for exhibitors for a long ?while now has been mostly driven by increases in average ticket price along with increases in concession prices," said S&P Global Market Intelligence analyst Wade Holden.

Data from research firm Placer.ai, which tracks foot traffic, shows a similar pattern. When measured through July, U.S. theater attendance is up 8.1% this year compared with 2025, but down 27% against 2019 levels.

LINK

re: Missouri moves one step closer to claiming the 1960 national championship

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/6/26 at 3:53 pm to GetPiggywithIt

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congrats on your total national championships in school history growing to 3

If I'm an Arkansas fan I wouldn't be laughing about the number of national championships my football program can brag about...

re: Coaches with the most conference wins in each of the P4 conferences

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/6/26 at 3:23 pm to faraway

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will prove how pointless this is

Absolutely not.

How many coaches have the longevity of a Kirk Ferentz?

Soccer player killed instantly in Thailand by lightning strike, 12 others injured...

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/6/26 at 3:17 pm

SIAP.

O-T Lounge

re: ESPN ranks their Top 10 Greatest Supervillains in CFB History...

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/6/26 at 2:02 pm to Bryno1960

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Why is Tim Tebow listed as a villain? He's the antithesis of that IMHO.

As a person and a competitor, I don't think there is a single person in college football who disliked Tim Tebow. However, the media made us despise the idea of him because they would not shut up about him. They'd even be talking about him in games that Florida wasn't playing in.

The Cult of Tebow was very real inside the organizations of CBS and ESPN. It go so freaking annoying. When we destroyed Florida in the 2009 SEC Championship Game, and they cut to that now famous shot of Tebow crying while taking a knee on the sideline, I pointed at the TV screen and laughed maniacally. Not because I disliked him personally, but because the media made me dislike the idea of him. I did the same when they showed Tebow's parents looking despondent in the stands. And I'm sure I wasn't alone.

I think that's why he's on the list.

re: Coaches with the most conference wins in each of the P4 conferences

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/6/26 at 1:51 pm to WG_Dawg

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Dabo has made his whole entire legacy/career on the back of 2 "generational", transcendent, #1 overall QB draft picks. Granted, he did recruit them and get them to clemson. I'm not taking that away from him. My point is that all of the truly great elite coaches throughout history have shown that they can win in multiple ways or without relying one one guy.

I mean...Bowden won his two national championships with two QBs that won Heismans (Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke). That's really no different than Dabo Swinney winning national championships with the likes of Deshaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence, neither of whom ever won a Heisman Trophy.

Without the national championships he won in 1993 and 1999, Bobby Bowden would be remembered far differently than he is today.

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these are largely irrelevant when you consider the different landscape they've played in. For the vast majority of bowden's career you jsut had to pray that you got slotted into a bowl game that would allow voters to call you champion if you happened to win it.

Meh. Not so much by the time he got to the ACC. The Bowl Coalition began in 1992, the very first year the Seminoles were playing in a conference, and that system was going out of its way trying to match #1 vs. #2 in the postseason. He was the beneficiary of it in its second year when his top-ranked Seminoles defeated second-ranked Nebraska in the Orange Bowl to clinch his first national championship.

re: Coaches with the most conference wins in each of the P4 conferences

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/6/26 at 1:16 pm to Bestbank Tiger

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Maybe they're not counting the Big Eight under the Big XII?

I don't think they are.

If you look at his head coaching record on Wikipedia, he easily beats Bob Stoops in all-time conference wins (153 vs. 128).

re: ESPN ranks their Top 10 Greatest Supervillains in CFB History...

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/6/26 at 1:13 pm to UTATX

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This isnt ESPN...

ESPN article

Happy?

re: Coaches with the most conference wins in each of the P4 conferences

Posted by RollTide1987 on 8/6/26 at 1:08 pm to WG_Dawg

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Bowden's career has been monumentally more impressive than dabo's regardless of these numbers.

I wouldn't say "monumentally more impressive," though I would agree he has had the better career and greater legacy. If we're judging strictly by performance in the ACC, Dabo is closer to Bowden than you would think:

Conference championships:

Bowden - 12
Dabo - 9

National championships:

Bowden - 2
Dabo - 2

National championship appearances:

Bowden - 5
Dabo - 4