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As a matter of fact ... Super Bowl QB Colin Kaepernick, and holder of the all-time NFL record for most rushing yards in a game by a quarterback, took a knee during the playing of “The Star Spangled Banner” in 2016 to bring attention to systemic oppressions — specifically police terrorism — against Black and Brown people. For his stance, he has been denied employment by the league to this day. Since 2016, he has founded and helped to fund three organizations—Know Your Rights Camp, Ra Vision Media, and Kaepernick Publishing—that together advance the liberation of Black and Brown people through storytelling, systems change, and political education. Kaepernick sits on Medium's Board and is the winner of numerous prestigious honors including Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope honor, GQ magazine’s “Citizen of the Year,” the NFL’s Len Eshmont Award, the Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award, the ACLU’s Eason Monroe Courageous Advocate Award, and the Puffin/Nation Institute’s Prize for Creative Citizenship. In 2019, Kaepernick helped Nike win an Emmy for its “Dream Crazy'' commercial. In 2021, he released Colin in Black & White, a 6-episode limited series on Netflix exploring his high school years. The show won two NAACP Image Awards. In 2022, he became a New York Times bestselling author for his acclaimed children's picture book, I Color Myself Different. https://kaepernick7.com/pages/mission

McDermott’s mom could be in hospice and he’d say she was day to day.

Guy can never finish a sentence when he talks. This should be fun to watch unfold.

I was waiting for someone to bring up the Beatles! I actually think that Rubber Soul was the beginning of what was the best to come from them. As a child, I learned about the Beatles through sharing a room with my older brother. The only Beatles albums he had were the red and blue compilation albums. I was probably 8 or 9 when I started listening to them (around 1979). I totally gravitated toward the Rubber Soul/Revolver tunes on the red album and LOVED everything on the blue album. The earlier stuff was great in its own way, but I am with you that the later recordings take the cake and those represent a solid 95% of what I listen to when I listen to the Beatles.

This is why I love that the Police (one of my favorite bands) hung it up after their 5th studio album (in five-year career). Synchronicity was definitely heavier on the radio-friendly stuff than the previous four albums; but it still had some kick-ass old-school Police tunes and was, overall, a great album. They stopped at the perfect time. I'll also add that, while the circumstances surrounding Led Zeppelin (another favorite) hanging it up were very sad, I am REALLY glad they didn't (couldn't) make any more studio albums after In Through the Out Door. Easily my least favorite Zep album primarily due to JPJs' heavy synthesizer usage. I shudder when I think about what future albums would have sounded like.

I absolutely think this is a possibility.

Piggy-backing onto the other "one song," thread (which is fantastic). Looking at some of the responses in that thread got me thinking about how many artists/bands stuck around a long time (perhaps too long, which is one of the points of this thread) and changed over time. I think it would be fun to get others' opinions about bands that they like, but only certain eras of said bands. First one the pops into my head is Pink Floyd. I enjoy the albums with Syd Barrett. I LOVE the albums post-Barrett, but only those which include both Waters and Gilmour. I (again ... this is purely opinion) think anything post-Waters is garbage. One more and I'll bow out for a while so others can chime in. Rush. Rush is one of those band who, to me, stuck around too long (as far as continuing to make new studio albums is concerned). I am a huge early Rush fan. After "Signals," (1982), they lost me. I think they went on to record another ten studio albums over 20+ years and I honestly thought they were all crap. But again ... that's just me! Who you got?!?!

Very cool topic/thread. I'm sure I'm not the only one fighting the urge to say, "but you're wrong!!!" to some people. But that's the beauty of music. It sounds and means something different to each individual and there is no right or wrong. Unless someone posts a Yoko Ono song ... then you're painfully wrong.

HFBD, Promo!!!

Four years ago, the Bills faced the Vikings as a 17-point underdog and kicked the piss out of them. I think we have a chance.

Are you talking about the RBs who carried the ball a total of 12 times yesterday? It's hard to do anything when you don't get the ball.

Every week for years, three other TBD Pricks and I have been guessing the final score and keeping track of who is closest each week. I keep a whiteboard on my fridge and every week, sometime prior to game time, I write all of our predictions down, take a picture and send it to the group. For no good reason at all, I did not do that this week. This is why the Bills lost.

The Bills also lost the one seed yesterday.

No.

The one and only George Thorogood song I can stomach is his cover of “Who Do You Love?”

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I never really stopped and thought about my life in 2009 (when I joined here, like you) vs. my life in 2022 ... until I read your post just now. While I've not moved at all, I've gone through multiple job changes, divorced, raised my son practically alone since 2017, and met someone great. Shooting the sh!t with all the pricks here on TBD helped keep me sane through all of that, to be honest. Glad to hear things are looking up for you! Cheers!

The delayed surgery is the only thing that makes me go hmmmm. But that was a couple years ago, so I don't know. It's just sad, because he's such a talented receiver.

Is he just another diva WR who only wants to play if his team is a legitimate contender? I just found this article that makes it look like that be the case. https://thesportsrush.com/nfl-news-they-tried-to-damage-your-reputation-you-saved-theirs-michael-thomas-embraces-the-diva-within-him-with-a-cryptic-tweet-blasting-new-orleans-saints/ Maybe he's taking too much advice from Uncle Keyshawn.

I feel like once Brees was toast, then subsequently retired, Thomas just doesn't want to play for the Saints. This kid was on track to be the best WR in the NFL.

Why you no likey?

LOL, I'm sure you are! I'd love another game like last night's for game 6, but with Philly coming out on top. Game 7 would be a lot of fun to watch. At this point (this happens every year with me), I'm happy for whichever team wins. Both have played great baseball with sportsmanship.

I was thinking the same last night. As a Mets fan, I'm sure you remember the horrid defense (primarily Daniel Murphy at 2B) that plagued the Mets in the 2015 World Series. I loved last night's game. Proved that it's not always about the long ball. It still comes down to manufacturing runs and playing solid defense when it's all said and done. This World Series has a little bit of everything. Home Runs, great pitching (a no f*cking hitter!!), contact hitting, great defense ... it's been a great World Series and I hope it gets stretched to seven games.

Well ... they're soccer players! 🤷‍♂️