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My father is still hanging in there. He was a front lines solder in WWII - Rapido River, Monte Cassino, etc. he turns 99 this month.

Three brothers. One already past draft age, one drafted into the Navy, one lied his way into the Marines at 17 to get away from home. The Patriarch was a shoe-maker and the eldest son had a business in custom orthopedic shoes. When each of his younger brothers went off to war he hand made them a leather wrapped handle assault style knife about the same size as the standard issue Navy MK-I. Youngest son disappeared into the PTO and never wrote home. At some point the Dept of the Navy informed the family that he had been wounded in action but they knew nothing beyond that. 2nd son posted to a ship also in the PTO and on one return to Pearl Harbor someone stops him and asks him where he got the unique knife he was wearing because he had just seen another just like it. And that is how my father found his wounded brother half way around the world in the middle of WWII. I still have both my father's MK-1 and the knife my uncle made him, and I'm sure my children will someday have no idea why there will be two old knives in a box at the estate sale.

Not many of them left.

I remember Halter stated that he is a gold glove caliber fielder once to a beat writer. Some players spray painted a glove gold and put it in his locker the next day. Funny stuff.

You’re welcome. Solid backhand there. 😜

Love that quote at the end of the tweet.

I'm as bullish on this regime as anybody but I think there's too many assumptions that the Lions are all of a sudden going to take off to being an NFC power and not look back. I wouldn't lock that in or even lock in them taking the division yet as I feel that Minnesota is being underrated, their offense is still going to be a handful to deal with. The roster looks as good, on paper, as it's looked in years maybe decades (that's how sad their history is) but there's something to be said for learning to deal with expectations when you're no longer the hunter and are now the hunted. I'm not saying that they'll crumble under the weight of expectations but this team has some proving to do that they can handle the pressure. The 8-2 finish was great but it was largely done with a "nothing to lose" mindset, it's going to be a whole different pressure next season now that Holmes put the pieces in place and expectations from everybody really are going to be through the roof.

Does Putin really think he can ramp up the murders to get onto the same plane as Stalin? Really? Putin is garbage, does he really think that tens of thousands of ruthless murders of innocent people will get him up there on the pantheon with Stalin? There's no chance. At his current murder rate Putin would have to live for about 400 years. But we are blessed here to have breathless daily updates from a Putinchik about how the murders are progressing. These are not military exercises. They are murders. War crimes. Punishable by death.

That's why @casimir keeps saying early games should be mostly in domes or warm weather cities

Hooker said one of the first people to reach out to him was Goff. And how much we was looking forward to learning from him. Holmes had said they’ve been upfront with Goff all draft process so this clearly wasn’t a surprise and they are confident it won’t be an issue. Goff isn’t Aaron Rogers or even Ryan Tannehill who won’t help the backup.

I've probably said this before but I saw Richard Jenne doing standup, pretending to announce the names of delegates to a political convention, with their state mottos, and he said "From New Jersey, the 'what the f*** are you lookin at' State,..."

Funny you mention Halter cause I ran into him too years ago. I think I told the story before on the old board but we were at O Tooles in Royal Oak sitting at the bar, it was a relatively quiet night and on the TV they showed highlights of the game. Halter did something big in that game(maybe the game he started all 9 positions) and they were highlighting it and Halter says something to the bartender like "Yeah that guy sucks" and the bartender and him just start laughing so I'm guessing he was a semi regular. He was sitting two spots down from me for like an hour and I had no idea it was him, it wasn't until then me and my buddy put two and two together and realized who it was. Cool guy, ended up playing a few games of pool with us.

Now we have two QBs on prove it deals! And two QBs who can teach each other lessons.

Or he gets an extension because he won’t overreact to a 3rd round pick.

Yes. This is not a path you want to go down.

Nice to see Dingler pick up where he left off in Lakeland...

Salty? What? Saying that the Lakers beating the Grizzlies and the Warriors beating the Kings aren't upsets isn't me being salty and I'm not sure why my post was taken that way. I didn't say that the basketball wasn't enjoyable, there's been some great games even though the ending to the Lakers and Warriors series were disappointing from an entertainment perspective. I'm just saying that I don't consider those upsets. Just an opinion, that's all.

I think the playoffs have been great so far. Without my team playing I just want entertaining basketball. I think we have that so far.

Civility is an ethical statement, not a political one. Any democracy loses the ability to make that distinction at its peril.

I deleted that crap

Nice

lucchesi vs. lorenzen sounds like a mob fight

My point is crystal clear. The Vikings are still a threat to the Lions to win the division IMO while you're acting like it's a foregone conclusion that the Lions got this, I never once said the Vikings are as good as their record last year yet you keep going back to that well. I'm not ready to crown the Lions yet, I'll call it "cautious optimism".

Is it fair to say that outside of government/military that Gordon and Gordie are Canada's biggest names? In terms of national pride?

I think it's ok to be cautiously optimistic while also acknowledging that on paper there are very few excuses out there for the Lions to not succeed this season.

CNN ready to amplify Trump's lies without any push back

they still havent done a ton to fix their main issues on the defensive line and their oline is still subpar. remember that sewell was ok as a rookie, but made a ton of mistakes. bears will be starting a rookie at one tackle and a 5th round pick at the other (last seen being bullrushed into justin fields' legs by james houston). they signed a guard but still have oft injured failed tackle prospect tevin jenkins at the other and failed free agent lucas patrick at center. their oline is still subpar. at dline they have....no one but some mid round draft picks. they signed some off ball linebackers to massive contracts which should be an upgrade over the udfa's they were running out there last year. the secondary has some names of players who were decent (johnson), were once good until they got paid (eddie jackson), and two rookies last seen failing to even try to tackle d'andre swift (brisker and gordon). the rise of the bears is greatly exaggerated, imo. the houston texas took kc and dallas to overtime in the last few weeks of the season. everyone plays close games in the nfl. the fact that the bears did too doesnt mean much to me. their season comes down to fields. is he lamar jackson 2019 or just a more athletic mitch trubisky?

Ohio got kind of a big head there....

I was 5 years old in 1957 and WW2 seemed like yesterday, just because so many of the men who were at church every Sunday with their families had been there, including a tail gunner, and a guy with a prosthetic leg, and so much of programming like "The 20th Century" with Walter Cronkite was so focused on WW2. And a few years later in 1962, playing baseball in an organized league, the league was sponsored by the Legion, I think that you guys call it the VFW. And compared to today there was not much bullying in elementary school in the late 1950's and early 1960's but I can tell you this for sure, there was one kid at the school of recent immigrant German ancestry and he was bullied very severely. So, I am here to say that in the 1950's, in my neighbourhood, the war was still immediate. It was not a distant memory, not at all.

Because a touchdown went right through Swift's hands. Said Tate was stopped short and did not give a damn. And the flag that was picked up by the refs in the Dallas game . . . still remains. Within the same old Lions.

I think The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald is the greatest folk song ever written.

It ain't gonna get better.

Once we hit 2020 I have to do mental gymnastics to figure out what year it was if someone throws out something like “37 years ago….” if you tell me 30 years ago I think 1979. Not…. Freaking college!!!

Is Ugueth Urbina still inside?

Alliteration is the word of the day for Scott Harris.

If any of you wanna come on over and murder me or buddha, this is probably the best place to do it. Although if y'all just wanna murder each other, you can probably get away with it over there, too.

You might be pleased to know that she field for divorce a couple years ago.

I think this is probably right. I think he really wanted to get a big fat run stuffing monster in the middle of the line, and they saw him as one of the few remaining options. He’s probably the kind of player that only goes in on obvious run plays to plug a hole and give Campbell and Anzalone the extra half second to make the highlight play. I know the glass-half-full analysis that comes out after every draft pick to every team called him a poor man’s Jordan Davis. Color me doubtful given Davis scores a 10 RAS and Martin was closer to 0 than 10. But couple the questionable pick along with trading three late picks to do so is just head scratching. We got Rodrigo and Houston in the 6th round last year, what could three 5ths have turned into? At the same time, Rodrigo and Houston are also probably evidence that I should sit down, shut up, and let Brad cook.