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UGA photo. That’s James.

I’m with you. Do you use the paid subscription version? I do. The world is remarkably changed and only now revealing itself.

Tampa, Florida for nearly 30 years. Chicken Wings and Fried Bologna, home made. Franks, Webers, etc. I’m working on LaBatt Blue. I am also working on a fib for my cardiologist. He thinks Buffalo is Hell, home of the devil.

One (more) and done. Best wishes.

You made a point of saying it was a lower division, not like Ohio State, where no scholarships were available and said “or whatever.” All of that diminishes. I’m not able to view that differently. If you don’t believe it does, whether deliberate or inadvertent, I don’t know what to say. Best wishes.

Of course you were.

No, he isn’t. He’s acknowledging an accomplishment few achieve. It’s absurd to ignore the accomplishment or to diminish it with “or whatever.” A doctor rearranged arteries around my heart in December, or whatever. It’s not like he cured cancer.

The parsing of what a D1 football player is a bit absurd. He made it as a “coach” may fall into the “he made the squad despite being a lesser talent” territory, true. But, he made the squad. I’m no fan as a head coach, but McDaniel was a D1 walk on. That’s impressive. As far as player respect for football accomplishment goes, it exceeds that of most coaches.

Bingo across the board and in order!

Thruway Exit 56 Motel. On the sidelines and playing keep away with OJ Simpson after practice. I ran into him at the sports bar at the Hyatt downtown on a Friday before a Raiders playoff game in 1993. He was in town and having a drink with the Raiders equipment manager. It was early and the bar was empty. I broke a personal rule and went up to his table and told him I was a “keep away” kid from Exit 56 so many years ago. He laughed a charming OJ belly laugh and asked me to sit down. We had a beer, together ….. and in a year, the trajectory of his life story changed dramatically. Hero of my youth. Hero of everyone’s youth. Oh, what a story.

There are few goulashes of disjoint ingredients richer in taste than men criticizing views of others in a sexual assault conversation on a sports message board.

Life’s funny. I saw this last night, before you posted it here. The same two things occurred to me. Word for word.

As important as the availability is, I’m thinking or roster construction and the draft. It changes those plans.

Forgive me, I wrote cortisone instead of cortisol. I’ve been telling that story wrong for months! Oooops. Further, after suffering undiagnosed for years, and getting a CPAP in October, I underwent a double bypass in December. Everything’s related. I’m grateful for an oral surgeon’s power of perception and his willingness to speak up.

Ha, I’m inspired and will post again. I was diagnosed in the most unusual fashion. I had a jaw issue and my dentist sent me to an oral surgeon for analysis. I’d never met him. We talked about my jaw (nothing needed) and as I was leaving, he asked, “have you been gaining weight?” I said “yes, it’s crazy, one pound a month for two years no matter what I do.” Total stranger, looked at me, and said “you have sleep apnea.” He saw it in my teeth (grinding) and my jaw (displaced) and my response to weight gain (all night fight means your body is pumping steroids into your blood). Thirty minutes with an oral surgeon and he figured it out. Of course, it had to be diagnosed by my regular physician and a pulmonary doctor … but I am so grateful to the one in a million interaction with someone who noticed and cared. My regular doctor was just telling me “stop eating, fatso!” And my WIFE - suffered in silence with snoring and gasping. She didn’t want to complain!