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Imagine all the people Living for today

I've got sunshine On a cloudy day When it's cold outside I've got the month of May I guess you'd say What can make me feel this way My girl, my girl, my girl

So now I'm praying for the end of time To hurry up and arrive 'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you I don't think that I can really survive

That climate breeds more Antonio Browns than it does Josh Allens. My brother was also a teacher, and he stressed that student-athletes are students first, and then athletes. As a teacher, he had coaches and principals who asked him to let someone slide on grades because they were needed for the upcoming game; he refused. As a coach, if a player - even the team's superstar - skipped practice without an excuse or engaged in some other "entitled" behavior, he didn't play the next game. Being a great athlete doesn't absolve one from the responsibility of being a decent citizen. Fostering that mentality produces great athletes who recognize that they're part of something bigger - whether it's the team itself or society as a whole. That benefits us sports fans even more.

My brother coached Little League, Babe Ruth, and HS baseball and he quit all three for the same reasons. He still had the itch to coach, so he ended up coaching girls' HS softball until he retired. He said that they, and their parents, were better behaved than the boys' sports. Somewhere upthread someone mentioned the push to get kids into college sports programs. I think there's some truth to that. Parents are living vicariously through their kids. As you wrote, the kids are the ones who suffer.

I sit here on the stairs 'Cause I'd rather be alone If I can't have you right now, I'll wait dear

And daddy doesn't understand it He always said she was good as gold And he can see no reasons 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need to be shown?

They didn't even trade him to Minnesota. He retired and asked them to release him so he could officially retire as a Packer. They did, and soon after, he un-retired (again) and signed with the Vikes.

Good post, Virgil. I agree with most of it, but I'm hoping they find a way to keep Edmunds the same way they kept Milano when we were all pretty sure he'd get more on the market. Edmunds may not come up with a lot of flashy plays, but I think his role on the defense would be hard to fill.

Get me out of this small-time Texas town I'll be runnin' as soon as my feet hit the ground You can't bust me 'Cause you don't know what you found

Cuz if you want my heart, you best walk away Cuz all I wanna do is F-U-N-K F-U

The head coach tries to ensure that every game ends happily.

Anyone think he'll pull a Michael Jordan and play for the Rays or the BoSox? 😉

Oh, babe Don't leave me now How can you treat me this way?

Even if we assume that this is McD's defense and not Frazier's (which McD himself flatly denied, even when the D was in top form), the "scapegoating to avoid accountability" thing would be to fire Frazier. We can debate whether McD is too loyal to fire an underperforming coordinator, but he's shown no sign of deflecting blame onto a scapegoat. It's more likely that he looked at the injuries and realized that no DC could get more out of a bunch of 2nd and 3rd stringers in key positions.

Ditto. I think we could have handled the Ravens, but I suspect we'd have faced the same fate against KC as the Bengals did.

Well said, Shaw. The whole post is spot on, with the two quotes above standing out the most.

Whiskey's too rough Champagne costs too much Vodka puts my mouth in gear This little refrain Should help me explain As a matter of fact, I like beer

He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track Oh, the engineers would see him sitting in the shade Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made

Assuming he sticks with it this time, this is his final jab at Giselle. He wouldn't retire for her, but he will for his new girlfriend.

Drinking by the lighthouse, smoking on the pier Still we saw the magic was fading every year Lakeside Park, willows in the breeze Lakeside Park, so many memories Laughing rides, midway lights Shining stars on summer nights

Fitz is a family man; I'm not sure he wants to take on the schedule of a coach, especially when he's making good money with a cushy TV gig. I do agree, however, that he'd be a good QB coach if he chose to become one.

https://www.engineering.com/story/texas-power-grid-failure-a-lesson-in-priorities

A train horn was the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title. Personally, I've developed an aversion to the guy yelling "Thiiiiiiirrrrrd doooooooooowwwwwn!"