UConn James

A) Wish they’d introduced Darth Plagieus earlier and not given quite soooo much time to establishing the backstory with Jedi who were just going to be offed. 2) The writing wasn’t great in a lot of parts and the acting among the leads Osha/Mae and Sol left a lot to be desired. The Force witch coven has been done much better e.g. the Night Sisters. Wish it hadn’t been so vague & been earlier / more substantial about the Force vergence that created the twins. 🥉) Should have given the series to Bryce Dallas Howard who has rocked directing of her Mando episodes, rather than someone who admitted to never having seen Star Wars before this project. ::) We’ve gotten comparatively little about the inner workings of the Sith / Rule of Two. For a show called the Acolyte, it needed to be more focused on Sith than Jedi. V) The Osha / Sol dynamic could have played out faster if they needed that, and could have been more overt about Sol wanting a padawan, as he said, and seeing the twins and being like WANT! which… he essentially did this by entering the witches’ fortress by scaling the wall rather than stopping the younger Jedi and bringing him back to Indara. Ambition, self-righteousness, coveting did him in. Didn’t need inner turmoil of the Jedi politics (internal & external) and moral relativism / ‘everybody’s dirty & out for themselves’ trope that they hit us over the head with in the TLJ’s Canto Bight scenes that they spent 30 minutes on instead of Luke training Rey e.g. the third lesson is in the deleted scenes on the BluRay.

Some of McGovern’s snaps in TC video and in first ps game looked low / Josh had to reach for them. Would be more comfortable putting SVP there and just making the one change on the line. He anchored the OLine for Georgia through two Nattys and that’s not nothing in the SEC.

Biggest canard from the anti-roof / retractable side. You can engineer and computer-model anything these days. They could have melting systems and drainage in the metal framework. It’s just having the will to pay for it. That a 24-year-old stadium is “deteriorating rapidly”, along with our own stadium’s 2013 concrete work and repairs that are cracked and falling apart do not bode well for the lifetime expectancy of the new Bills stadium. The elements of Buffalo wears stuff out FAST. The best way to protect most anything is to fully enclose / put a roof over it. The half-measure of putting a canopy over a percentage of seats is going to do f—-all about weather deterioration. Rain does not fall perpendicularly and snow will get everywhere. The acidity of rain in the former Rust Belt / northeast and maintenance chemicals eat concrete. The NFL season is going to expand by two weeks and last into mid-late-February. Climate change is pushing weather more and more to the extremes. We will come to rue choosing an open-air stadium for Buffalo. Anyway. With the Rock’N’Roll HOF right next to the stadium in Cleveland, I would hope the site could be used for some kind of music festival, such as having induction ceremonies IN Cleveland in spring / late summer / fall rather than wherever a band may be touring at a certain time. After a long time of the Grammys viewership dwindling, this year’s show was absolutely fire. So… it absolutely CAN be done. Cleveland has to accentuate and add to what they have.

The outfits on these women’s beach volleyball gals… 😍.

Anybody wanna correct the date in the thread title?

I’m reading that “Skeleton Crew” is going to be about four children who make a discovery on their home planet which sets them off on an adventure. Takes place after ROTJ in roughly the same time period as “The Mandalorian.” Debuts on Disney+ on 3 December. The add files thing isn’t allowing me to insert a picture of the SW FB promo with a few screen caps. File size is 100kb. Hmm

There probably isn’t video of Teddy Roosevelt taking one to the chest and then still giving his speech to applause, but there’s probably a photo.

Flagged for patting his own teammate. IIRC, the penalty stuck. They didn’t pick the flag up. True BS. But, yes, after JH’s altercation with the ref in the tunnel postgame that time, he was a marked man. The refs union hated him with a passion. Following, we didn’t get much consideration for any little thing on D or on O unless fouls against us were egregious. We were punished for him still being on the team, and I think there’s still animus against McD from the zebras for keeping JH around. You will not convince me otherwise.

And one of the three was the phantom one with no time left vs. the Giants. Every team with single digit PI calls per year but it was too much for the refs to review, right?! F them AND the league that allowed the refs to give a huge 🖕to any questioning of their ‘judgment calls.’ One of the biggest ways scores & outcomes can be influenced to either make games more watchable (ad $) or to please Vegas & gambling.

And if he doesn’t end up using it, it can be carried over into next season’s cap number. As this is a mini-rebuild year, it might be good to see what we have in the cupboards before doing more shopping. Then 2025 the window should be fully open again.

This hits right in the feels 🥺

Yes, I guess I was the “actuaalllllyyyyy” guy in this instance. I’ve followed the UniWatch page for a long time. There was a story awhile back about a quarterback who wanted his particular helmet that was no longer being manufactured iirc and when he was signed by another team, he had to buy the helmet from that team for ~$1500 iirc and the new team had it painted, did decals, etc. And yeah, I’m on the autism spectrum where we know and share details. I thought it might add something / some understanding to the topic & conversation. That it’s not “free sh-t that the team pays for.” Do you want make it a thing? 👍. Some of us “cheer for the laundry” as Seinfeld says.

Jerseys, footballs, helmets, etc. are not free for the players to take personally. They pay the team for them / it comes out of their check. And the on-field uni stuff is more expensive than even fan “authentic” items. I’m not sure how it works for colleges. ESPN: Derrick Henry holds off on jersey swaps because of cost | November 2023

Best choice for him & UConn & the Lakers probably. I don’t watch / follow NBA but the Lakers have gone through coaches like crazy. He’d last two years there before getting fired for things that are systemic. Or he could stay at UConn and be a legend. Hmmmm. Going to be tougher this year with four starters going pro. But when you’ve won two champs and have the facilities and legacy of UConn, recruiting gets easier. Clingan should’ve stayed another year to season some more. He’s going to rue it when he’s playing in the development league and then falls into obscurity. He could’ve made as much $ in NIL as he’ll make there.

Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C79lolYuOQL/?igsh=aWNrOW44c3lhaHVt They’re starting some pre-cast concrete installation. About 1,400 pre-cast pieces forming the bowl and to the upper decks that will support the canopy. Awesome! Pre-cast is like big Lego. It should start getting more of a stadium shape. (I don’t know how to or if Insta can be embedded.)

The demand is there for the Bills, given the nostalgia for the Kelly era unis and the reaction when Josh wore a red helmet in training camp (albeit with the same striping that’s on the white helmets. You use what you’ve got, I guess). It’s very weird how we haven’t rolled them out yet. Since it’s past time for the uni reveals and there’s been zero leaks or even rumors for us this year, my guess is that we’re going to wait until the 2025 season that will be the final year at Rich / Ralph / Highmark stadium to see it out with a tribute. That’s what I’m really hoping for, anyway. ——— As for these Vikings threads, this ‘whiteout uni’ trend is already tired. Not quite as terrible as all-black jerseys, but…. Could the spacing between the numbers on the 33 jersey in the thread-starting post picture BE any larger? But then the spacing on the number 18 picture is a very normal ~3/4”. I don’t understand what’s going on there, other than the Vikings having a very weird typeface on the 3 and 8 iirc when it’s used as a ones digit after a tens digit, even with the same 3 or 8, that is normal.

Posted yesterday on a FB fan page:

Dark chocolate. Less sugar, more cocoa flavor.

@JÂy RÛßeÒ’s fault.

The three shades of green candy-coated dark chocolate mint M&Ms seem to have been discontinued. They were my favorite.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the drafts in recent memory (since they’ve been roving) haven’t been held at the football stadiums, but in an arena or outdoors venue in a downtown area. So… waiting for the new stadium to be completed isn’t really a requirement. But it would be completed before a possible 2027 announcement. Although it will have been in Detroit, Green Bay, & Pittsburgh by then, so unless they’re doing all of the Rust Belt in a row….

I think all of Bills Mafia knows this is a reloading year, with a ‘Hey, you never know!’ attitude mixed in. As long as Josh is out there and some guys step up / develop and if we’re luckier wrt injuries, we’ve got a very good chance of making the playoffs. We’ll see if Josh can elevate the WR play akin to how Tom Brady would always make chicken salad of chicken sh— that was his WR room as Belichick spent the resources and 💰 on their defense. But really, 2025 is going to be the high expectation year as the window opens much wider. And it looks, from the view of things right now, that the schedule will be a little more favorable.

Star Wars ‘Black Series’ 6” action figures

I lean more toward “everyone has a voice and everyone’s opinions DON’T matter. But that’s me. Just the latest “idiot kicker.”