Favorite team:Harvard 
Location:Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Biography:I Am Born
Interests:Southern Food and Fans
Occupation:Polyphasic Sleeper
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Registered on:4/10/2012
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my vegan wife looks on with disgust.


Guess that means no more licking the kitty for her then, tell her you have gone vegetarian.
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having sex when the car is moving


Exactly, if I am getting a good highway BJ, that is my private thing (unless a trucker is passing by).
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also fun to use for creating limericks.


Heavy drinking at a bar is the best way to create a limerick, especially if you grew up with "The Chinaman" song.
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Tater logs




Can you show me a pic?
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What is your favorite thing to use AI for?


Nothing

lunch is taters, greens, and sausage soup

(with a leetle gah leak, on yon, and some kai yanne pepper)


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Pio did not kill himself (allegedly)



FIFY
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I'm just an old famer, so what do I really know.


Willing to bet he is the smartest SoB in the room.

Sadly we are losing our farming class and replacing them with a trolling class.
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Companies and rich people want to be there for the event. The casual fan is almost just as happy now at home



Therein lies the rub

Take college baseball

Not the fastest paced or most exciting, it drew loyalty from the on site event and the passing of interpersonal moments from one generation to another. You went with maybe your grandfather and all the people sitting around you were like you in they were average people who showed up good or bad because, aside from the game on the field, you had a true community of local people in the stands to witness the event.

To this day nothing feels like the World Series on TV if I am not serving hot dogs, Cracker Jacks, and ice cream or the game on the TV falls flat. Live events enable all 5 senses while TV just focus on sight and sound. TV also gives you their view in a commercially oriented format while a live game means conversing with long time fans around you with no product to hawk.

The more they pander to the big money now, the more they kill off the next generation of devoted fans that sustain you through both the good times and bad. I for one was much happier to have the Cocks in the SEC than the Taters as my youth has a common DNA with coming even when you are not winning. This is why I think you have 2 options as one encourages excess at the top and the other implies an implosion to restart at the bottom and build again.
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Tesla, is light years ahead of Lucid, and nearly every other EV auto manufactuer with technology.


That car spies on you, apparently it can tell when you are have sex in the car. Too much Big Brother technology to make me a buyer.
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penus band would probably be purple, not gold.


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Depends on where you think we are going ...

Over a century ago we had

Super Conferences
Injury
Student Athlete
Paying Players
Gambling
Media Rights (granted it was radio then)
etc.


Things were getting so out of hand the POTUS and Congress had to step in and we got the NCAA (Vanderbilt was a leader and interesting documents in their archives if you are on campus). 2 Division (B1G and SEC) with longer meaningless seasons and lots of playoffs.

This can go 2 ways

#1 College sports, especially the ones making the most money, will become semi pro feeders for the NFL and NBA and lose interest of their fans (donors) and distances to travel for rank and file fans to attend events.

#2 We will return to a century ago when local / regional rivalries and actual academics hold sway and the price of the average fan drops greatly and renews their passion and interest.

Hopefully it is #2 and not #1 as both Cocks and Cats had Top 25 attendance numbers in the nation when neither was good on the gridiron.
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The funny thing is I do it in obvious satire


I may be on the spectrum for Aspergers, satire is not usually obvious to me.

:banghead: :banghead:

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Ya know the ones who make every single excuse known to mankind, and blame everything and everyone else.


I belive Merica is great because we historically make answers, not excuses. That has been going in the wrong direction since 1980 (more or less).




:usa: :usa:
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who the frick else on this board calls random people " brother."



:casty:


Turn in your Southern card.

Not uncommon in the South to call folks brother and sister. In my youth it was even more common to say Brother Ted or Sister Alice when neither were in the Catholic faith and just people.

Heck even Jimmy Buffet called a bear brother (when drinking apparently)

Too much porn, not enough live lassies!
From the Kentucky coal mine to the California sun
The correct term is hotdog down a hallway



I think the mustard bottle is for the butt chuggers in Knoxville