That's No Moon

I'm going to guess not because it will still check your IP address. A VPN is a work around. There is another solution that I can't remember. I redd it here somewhere....

That's true, but you can slow the accelerations. Mine isn't allowed to play football either. Hockey is bad enough.

Home team chooses.

Uhm, no. No helmet is concussion proof but many of the newer one are FAR superior to the old ones. Hockey helmets are getting better too.

Yes, but teams play games with this also. The Eagles like to choose white at home when they play Dallas to make Dallas wear their crappy blue jerseys that they lose in frequently even though they usually wear green or black at home. With the blue facemask also. They only wore that with the red helmet 1 year. We wore blue at home during the SB years. We started wearing blue at home in 1987 IIRC.

Kelly as a rookie. You can recognize Rich Stadium by the red wall in the background Joe Ferguson ~1981, same deal with the wall in the background. If you go further back it goes back to blue. And I hate the blue pants.

The Vicis has. There are NFL guys that wear it including Russell Wilson. I realize it's marketing also but when you drop one helmet on a tile floor and it pings and bounces up like a golf ball and the other thuds and barely bounces at all it leaves a pretty big impression Independent testing puts that helmet as #2 available FWIW. https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/varsity-football-helmet-ratings.html

IIRC we used to wear white at home all the time. No? Late 70's to mid 80's?

Wonder what helmet he's using these days. I saw a presentation by Vicis. Those are pretty impressive in terms of energy dissipation. If my kid played football he'd wear one of those.

Rolling Rock isn't brewed in Latrobe anymore, it's brewed in Newark, NJ. Iron City is now brewed in the previous Rolling Rock brewery. Yuengling is the other side of the state. Pottsville, PA. It's about 90 miles NE of Philly. Sort of in between Harrisburg and Allentown. I don't buy that beer anymore. Also, a lot of it is brewed in Tampa, FL. https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/2016/10/26/yuengling-brewery-wants-trump-to-win-which-is-weird-unless-you-know-aything-about-them

Seriously, there have been several big injuries this week already. No need to invite bad juju.

Personally? I think a kid needs to be able to print reasonably legibly and sign their name. Reading, Math, Civics and Problem Solving (not just math) take big priority. Reading and Math skills take priority because without those you can't access the other subjects even if you want to. Civics because too many people don't understand how the country and world actually function and more knowledge of that will be better for everyone. Problem solving as a skill because I see SO MANY kids that really struggle with this and it will hurt them as adults. I have had some kids who have long histories of high achievement and super high expectations that really struggle to figure out how to do things on their own. I have a constant battle with them and sometimes their parents when I give them a project to do and then don't tell them how to specifically do all of the steps to get it accomplished. I want them to try to figure it out. I want them to try and fail and then try again. That is a BIG hurdle for some of them but IMO that's one of the biggest things you can teach a kid to do and we don't reward that enough as a society. We reward the kid that can regurgitate the textbook or get their parents to do half the work for them but punish the kid who tries to do something on their own, fails, but can explain to you why they failed and what they learned from the failure. I do things that that in my classroom and I assure you it's extraordinarily hard to grade things like that without causing a crapstorm. Every time I tell a class something like "Please do X, here is an example of one way to do it, here is one example of what you shouldn't do, I can give you suggestions but you have to ask me specific questions". I know I'm going to have 45 emails the next morning from frustrated parents who tried to do the assignment for the kid to make sure they got the grade they wanted but couldn't do it either because there weren't 5 pages of step by step instructions. I do it anyway because by the end of the year they are better at doing it but Fall of every year is interesting to say the least. Saying "I need help" and throwing up your hands doesn't fly in my class. I'm not going to come to your desk and do it for you. I need you to think about what you don't understand and ask me a question. Even if it's just the directions, I need you to think about that and understand that that is the part you don't know and ask for clarification on that. You wouldn't be put on a project at work and then e-mail your boss and say "I don't know what to do" and expect that problem to be solved for you. You would try to figure it out and if you really needed help you would ask a specific question about the specific parameter you were struggling with. You'd probably consult with some co-workers before you got to the point of asking your boss too. I'm sure some of you have employees who struggle with this and my wife has complained about it multiple times with her associates over the years. I have co-workers who struggle with it. They can't function without a super specific curriculum that says what to do and when to do it. I don't want that. Show me where the goalposts are, I'll figure out how to get there each year based on the students I have. There will be some trial and error involved every year because every class is different and I might need to do different types of stuff this year compared to last or in period 1 as opposed to period 4. This is a long conversation honestly. I'm not the biggest fan of the way we do high school in this country either. We jam too many kids into college prep programs and make it too difficult for kids that don't want to go that route. There's nothing wrong with being a plumber or a carpenter and you can make a good living doing that and we have a need of skilled tradespeople that is going to increase as the current generation retires. I think K-8 is the time for the solid basic skills for everyone then you can start to branch out from there. I might even split high school into 9-10 and 11-12 where in 9-10 you pick a track and essentially get the basic requirements of that then choose a specialty for 11-12. When you're done with 12 you either move to college with a really good foundation for your chosen pathway or you move into a trade with a good foundational knowledge of that. Vo-tech works that way more or less (at least it does here) but there aren't nearly enough sports in Vo-tech schools for the number of kids that want them. College track could move in that direction as well. It does already to an extent wherein you can take AP classes, etc as an upperclassman but we could do a better job there also. Long story short, I think teaching penmanship in school is a giant waste of time. Learn to print, learn to sign your name. If you want to learn more do it at home the way people learn calligraphy now.

Don't worry. We don't have wood shop anymore either.

I agree with you that following the agrarian calendar is stupid. Teachers don't make the calendar. The school board does and they are able to change it as they see fit. The school board is elected by the community. If the community wants to do away with summer break they can do it. Your complaints sound more like a complaint about your family members. I like my job and I chose my profession. I don't need you to kiss my rear end to do it just don't crap on me for doing it. My overall point from my first post hasn't been answered. You want me to teach penmanship I will. The community sets the curriculum, not the teachers. What DON'T you want me to teach to make time for that?

You think it's easy you're welcome to come in and try it.

A whopping 5 yard average tonight.

And they already have a QB that was better than anything the AAF put out there. The play in the AAF wasn't bad but the QB play was putrid.

When a defense doesn't gameplan for you or throw a bunch of exotic looks at you and you are playing against grocery baggers it's a bit of a different game.

A. My students all have Chromebooks to do their work on. B. Teaching penmanship takes significant instructional time, particularly for many students with disabilities. C. I only have x amount of time per day to work on a student's goals. Please prioritize for me. Reading, Math, Science, Social Studies/History, being a decent human being, penmanship. D. I, as an employed fully functioning adult in 2019 with a family and a mortgage only handwrite my name in my actual daily life. E. Those who wish to hold schools accountable do not test penmanship, therefore, instructional time is not devoted to penmanship. I'm sorry if this comes off as overly snarky but I've had this conversation many times. There are skills that increase and decrease in importance as time passes. Right now, the importance of good penmanship is as close to zero as it has been since the Middle Ages. We could teach the kids blacksmithing or make them fluent in Sanskrit too but it's unlikely they will use it much. If all I do now is write my name, what are kids going to be doing 30 years from now when they are my age?

Well, if a Sugar Daddy wants to pay my way I wouldn't decline but my son's hockey schedule is a major problem. I'll be lucky to see more than a handful of games on TV this year let alone in person. You'll notice I've been pretty selective in the games I've picked to drive up to. Notice who is missing. That's not accidental and it helps my win percentage. I've come up with my parents and my wife most of the time which means nothing later than the 2nd week of November generally and when you know you're only doing one game in a year, that you are buying tickets for in July, that's 7 hours away you want to try to pick one they will win. I know that makes me lesser, but I'm not putting down the money and the time to watch Brady kick them in the balls for the 18th time. Yes it means I missed the one time we beat them. I'll get over it. I've seen better wins. In fact, God Bless YouTube. I was showing my son some games from 1990 on YouTube. He's 13 and he's never seen the Bills be good. He's heard the names of Kelly and Thomas et al but until then he never saw them play so it was cool to be able to share cool moments with him that way. Last night we watched the Bills/Broncos game from 1990 where they scored 3 TDs in 77 seconds and we watched Bills/Jets MNF when Thomas ran for 218 yards on 18 carries (yet somehow didn't score a TD).

Ha! A couple more than that but my win percentage is pretty strong given their record over that time. I think they've lost 5 games I've been to since I moved away. Seattle, Tennessee, Cleveland, Kansas City and Cincinnati. I've seen them beat Miami x3, Jets x2, Kansas City, Seattle and San Diego.

You fingered it all night just to go to bed disappointed?

Man, that whole website is full of things that really just make you want to have a giant meteor crash into the planet.

Here's my question, will that company insure Johnny? If they will I don't want them as my insurance company.

Silent auctions also don't operate with some dude walking in and boldly announcing he's going to win the silent auction. So there's that.