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by Brontoburglar
Wed Jan 29, 2025 1:53 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: We Doing This Shit Again? (Trump Admin Meltdown II)
Replies: 1274
Views: 181850

Re: We Doing This Shit Again? (Trump Admin Meltdown II)

this is also the only strategy they have
by Brontoburglar
Mon Jan 27, 2025 11:08 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Conference Championships 2025
Replies: 108
Views: 8019

Re: NFL Conference Championships 2025

if you're talking about the officiating after yesterday's games it's because you simply want to talk about the officiating after yesterday's games
by Brontoburglar
Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:44 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge
Replies: 1830
Views: 229631

Re: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge



I know the guy who brought them into the hardcore fitness mainstream about 12-14 years ago when I started doing them. but even then, they were a relatively niche exercise. even in 2019 and early 2020 pre-covid when I was at the "hardcore" gym I loved going to, there was hardly more than one ...
by Brontoburglar
Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:42 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge
Replies: 1830
Views: 229631

Re: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge

if you have a lacrosse/tennis/baseball/golf ball, see if you can get some relief via this way (or even if you have a theragun or knockoff)

by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 25, 2025 9:56 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge
Replies: 1830
Views: 229631

Re: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge

I know the guy who brought them into the hardcore fitness mainstream about 12-14 years ago when I started doing them. but even then, they were a relatively niche exercise. even in 2019 and early 2020 pre-covid when I was at the "hardcore" gym I loved going to, there was hardly more than one person ...
by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 25, 2025 9:10 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge
Replies: 1830
Views: 229631

Re: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge


So, a benefit of being old is that my Medicare supplemental insurance plan pays for a free* gym membership (*only at participating gyms). So, today I dragged my ass to Bronto's favorite place, Planet Fitness, and signed up. I'm told it will be less busy when folks go back to their jobs and schools ...
by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 25, 2025 9:06 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge
Replies: 1830
Views: 229631

Re: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge

is it achilles pain or pain elsewhere from your achilles?

I dealt with some nasty, nasty plantar fasciitis -- or something similar -- in 2021 or so. it would wake me up at night it was so bad. was my left foot and exacerbated by golf and I couldn't run at all.

figured out that it was a calf ...
by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 25, 2025 7:18 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Conference Championships 2025
Replies: 108
Views: 8019

Re: NFL Conference Championships 2025

Montana is probably the closest a wild grizzly has ever been to Memphis
by Brontoburglar
Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:35 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Black Monday 2025
Replies: 60
Views: 4917

Re: Black Monday 2025

I was figuring it was the NFC East. I had gotten back to 2006, the last season of Gibbs v2 but that was a year before Coughlin's first
by Brontoburglar
Fri Jan 24, 2025 10:38 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Black Monday 2025
Replies: 60
Views: 4917

Re: Black Monday 2025

I need to do some cursory research, but I would guess that the 2025 AFC West is set to be the first division with 3 SB-winning coaches, let alone 4 coaches with SB appearances
by Brontoburglar
Thu Jan 23, 2025 1:30 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: EPL 2024-25
Replies: 631
Views: 114262

Re: EPL 2024-25

those authors just released an F1 book that was also very good
by Brontoburglar
Thu Jan 23, 2025 10:14 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: How are you filtering the noise (aka news)?
Replies: 39
Views: 5366

Re: How are you filtering the noise (aka news)?

obviously you can only argue it in hindsight and in the future, but I think there's a case to be made for regrouping and using the fervor of the early 2017 days 15ish months later before the midterms

will that happen? who knows. but the price of groceries next summer and fall certainly won't be ...
by Brontoburglar
Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:37 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: We Doing This Shit Again? (Trump Admin Meltdown II)
Replies: 1274
Views: 181850

Re: We Doing This Shit Again? (Trump Admin Meltdown II)

sometimes I think those of us who are well-read on current events don't realize just how many people aren't, and how effective the "flooding the zone with shit" strategy works on people who aren't

(and again, that's not excuse making. just a possible simple explanation)
by Brontoburglar
Mon Jan 20, 2025 8:07 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!
Replies: 866
Views: 68712

Re: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!

DSafetyGuy wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:55 pm SkyCast on ESPNews is great. Just the Skycam with no announcers.
All the skycast feeds are like that and it's fun.

I really miss the coaches film room though
by Brontoburglar
Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:41 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Divisional Round 2025
Replies: 164
Views: 23610

Re: NFL Divisional Round 2025

nothing
by Brontoburglar
Sun Jan 19, 2025 9:42 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Divisional Round 2025
Replies: 164
Views: 23610

Re: NFL Divisional Round 2025

The Sybian wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2025 9:38 pm Feel bad for Mark Andrews (gutted if this was the EPL thread), but you gotta think the Bills win anyways with over a minute left. Ravens needed to run off more time on that final drive.
sure, but if you've got an open receiver in the end zone in that situation you're throwing the ball
by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 18, 2025 10:19 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Divisional Round 2025
Replies: 164
Views: 23610

Re: NFL Divisional Round 2025

sancarlos wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 10:05 pm
Brontoburglar wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 10:00 pm it is amusing to see the logic and reason guy so gullible
You saw the part about psilocybin, right?
no I can't read
by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 18, 2025 10:00 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Divisional Round 2025
Replies: 164
Views: 23610

Re: NFL Divisional Round 2025

it is amusing to see the logic and reason guy so gullible
by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 18, 2025 9:43 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Divisional Round 2025
Replies: 164
Views: 23610

Re: NFL Divisional Round 2025



The thing with Mahomes taking advantage of the QB protection rules by waiting until a defender can't completely pull up or slowing down as he approaches the sideline to goad someone into a late hit OB penalty is that you can call it savvy all you want and probably get away with it, but he still ...
by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 18, 2025 9:14 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Divisional Round 2025
Replies: 164
Views: 23610

Re: NFL Divisional Round 2025

go to the fox sports site/app
by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:53 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Divisional Round 2025
Replies: 164
Views: 23610

Re: NFL Divisional Round 2025

I understand why the call on Mahomes sliding is getting all the attention, but the holding call a few plays earlier was just as bad. Smith never engaged with the defender and got pulled to the ground.
by Brontoburglar
Fri Jan 17, 2025 1:23 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: EPL 2024-25
Replies: 631
Views: 114262

Re: EPL 2024-25

he has cramp

he's been sent to hospital
by Brontoburglar
Wed Jan 15, 2025 4:27 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: A non-majors Golf Thread for 2023 and beyond
Replies: 284
Views: 21193

Re: A non-majors Golf Thread for 2023 and beyond

it's also simply simulator golf
by Brontoburglar
Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:41 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Wildcard Weekend
Replies: 215
Views: 14511

Re: NFL Wildcard Weekend

by Brontoburglar
Mon Jan 13, 2025 8:18 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: We Doing This Shit Again? (Trump Admin Meltdown II)
Replies: 1274
Views: 181850

Re: We Doing This Shit Again? (Trump Admin Meltdown II)

sure. but the whole "better country" thing doesn't put us in the scenario in the first place
by Brontoburglar
Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:54 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: We Doing This Shit Again? (Trump Admin Meltdown II)
Replies: 1274
Views: 181850

Re: We Doing This Shit Again? (Trump Admin Meltdown II)


A better country would have settled all family business on 7 January because we watched literal treason happen live on TV, but nah.

This country is going to get to reach its final form because of Biden's presidency. The chumminess of everyone during Carter's funeral confirms it.


Not sure what ...
by Brontoburglar
Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:56 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!
Replies: 866
Views: 68712

Re: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!


I also do find the conversation around players vs. coaches to be kind of fascinating. there wasn't a fraction of this discourse over the past three decades when coaches have been leaving their teams before bowl games for different jobs. granted, the players are the ones playing, so it's obvious ...
by Brontoburglar
Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:08 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!
Replies: 866
Views: 68712

Re: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!

I'll fully admit that I'm immune to it at this point and why nothing popped to mind. the perils of dealing with it constantly. UM and VT were on the higher side for sure, but I don't even blink now if a team like North Texas is starting a kid who hasn't made a start since the ninth grade (seriously ...
by Brontoburglar
Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:31 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!
Replies: 866
Views: 68712

Re: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!

Most schools in non-playoff games have not been missing their top 10-25% of players. I'm struggling to think of even one that was (Marshall an obvious outlier here)
by Brontoburglar
Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:48 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9928
Views: 839588

Re: Random Politics

his thread mentions the absence of "Roberts" ... there's no Senator Roberts
by Brontoburglar
Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:20 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!
Replies: 866
Views: 68712

Re: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!






the kids basically have to leave the team before the bowl game if they want to transfer


Only if they want to enroll in the spring semester. And that doesn't change the point. If you plan to leave your school for another, obviously you aren't really bought in on the team you're still on ...
by Brontoburglar
Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:15 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!
Replies: 866
Views: 68712

Re: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!






the kids basically have to leave the team before the bowl game if they want to transfer


Only if they want to enroll in the spring semester. And that doesn't change the point. If you plan to leave your school for another, obviously you aren't really bought in on the team you're still on ...
by Brontoburglar
Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:01 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!
Replies: 866
Views: 68712

Re: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!




the kids basically have to leave the team before the bowl game if they want to transfer


Only if they want to enroll in the spring semester. And that doesn't change the point. If you plan to leave your school for another, obviously you aren't really bought in on the team you're still on ...
by Brontoburglar
Tue Jan 07, 2025 6:59 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!
Replies: 866
Views: 68712

Re: NCAA Football 2024 - it goes to 12!

the kids basically have to leave the team before the bowl game if they want to transfer
by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 04, 2025 10:05 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Week 18
Replies: 118
Views: 5960

Re: NFL Week 18

Miami's playoff fate is not tied to the Bengals result. Miami is in with a win and a Denver loss.

(Is Miasma a joke that I am unaware of?)
by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 04, 2025 9:32 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Week 18
Replies: 118
Views: 5960

Re: NFL Week 18

He got the timeout back
by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 04, 2025 11:31 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Week 18
Replies: 118
Views: 5960

Re: NFL Week 18

probably a top-15 pick exclusively on one side of the ball
by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 04, 2025 11:04 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Week 18
Replies: 118
Views: 5960

Re: NFL Week 18

I agree that it's very likely being a two-way player consistently in the NFL is not happening. It's remarkable he was on the field so much for Colorado.

But was also a shutdown corner and a No. 1 WR in college. If I had to pick right now, I'd say he'd be a better CB moonlighting at WR and on ...
by Brontoburglar
Sat Jan 04, 2025 9:22 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Week 18
Replies: 118
Views: 5960

Re: NFL Week 18

I'm intrigued at what the casual college fan's argument against drafting Hunter is