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Well, this is gross but feels like its going to be necessary. Pretty famous chef Floyd Cardoz, in NYC today.

https://ny.eater.com/2020/3/25/21193746 ... s-covid-19
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Fuck, I really hope this thread doesn't go too many pages...
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The really famous people will still get their own thread, so no worries buddy!
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Best I can do is pretend to offer to care.



If anything, they could liquidate their board games for cheap, so I'll be on the lookout for that.
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Bobby Hebert, Sr., father of the Saints quarterback, age 81.

He had already survived colon cancer, multiple strokes and a birth defect that required open-heart surgery.
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BFJ is the town wizard who runs a magic shop. He also has a golem that he has trained to attack anti-Semites.
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Fuuuuuuck.

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bfj wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:21 pm Mediocre country singer Joe Diffie
Not that mediocre, apparently...

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brian wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2020 4:40 pm Fuuuuuuck.

Naw, man. I'm not ok with that one.
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Hopefully he pulls through.
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brian wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:52 am Hopefully he pulls through.
Agreed, but older and with a history of lung issues. Not the best combination to fight this.
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Geez, I was afraid this was Papa Bouba Diop, who scored Senegal's goal in their 1-0 win over France to kick off the 2002 World Cup.

Still sad, of course.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Fuck me. And Rand Fucking Paul and Matt Fucking Gaetz are still alive?
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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DaveInSeattle wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2020 9:45 am
This week's On the Continent Football Ramble spent nearly 20 minutes on him. A really good listen.
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The AP's deputy technology editor. I've read his stuff before. Someone who runs a marathon and then hits a craft brewery right after hits close to home.
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It's incredible to look at Dempsey's stats and realize how awful straight on place kickers were compared to the soccer style kickers.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... mpTo20.htm
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Pruitt wrote: Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:11 am It's incredible to look at Dempsey's stats and realize how awful straight on place kickers were compared to the soccer style kickers.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... mpTo20.htm
I wonder how long it took between the discovery that soccer-style kickers were better and the actual use of those kickers league wide. When I started following football in 1977 (thanks Walter), I think all kickers were soccer-style, but it seemed that straight-on kicking was recent enough to be discussed.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:16 am
Pruitt wrote: Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:11 am It's incredible to look at Dempsey's stats and realize how awful straight on place kickers were compared to the soccer style kickers.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... mpTo20.htm
I wonder how long it took between the discovery that soccer-style kickers were better and the actual use of those kickers league wide. When I started following football in 1977 (thanks Walter), I think all kickers were soccer-style, but it seemed that straight-on kicking was recent enough to be discussed.
Mark Moseley was the last one but he won the NFL MVP award (!!) in 1982.
With the retirement of the Minnesota Vikings' Rick Danmeier in 1982, Moseley became the sole full-time straight on placekicker in the National Football League; there has only been one other (Dirk Borgognone, who played two games in 1995) since then. In the 1960s, the "soccer style" of kicking (wherein the kicker approaches the ball at an angle and kicks it with the instep) was introduced by the Hungarian brothers Pete and Charlie Gogolak, and it became increasingly popular and is now universal in the NFL and other levels.
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Fuck...

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Ok so I get it because covid but Prine gets his own thread right?
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Not sure the right place, so I'll put it here and know its not a fully formed thought at all right now: There's something, albeit unintentionally ... short-sighted/selfish ... about the messaging of "this is temporary" or "when this is over" that I fear is going to leave the people most affected behind later on. We lost a dad in my oldest's class yesterday, which is just emotionally shattering, and I find myself offended(?) by all the positive forward looking stuff I've read since. I didn't before. If the quarantine is over in two months, I have a strong suspicion everyone will consider themselves survivors but for many it'll be looked back on with new hobbies or posts about "what I'm grateful for the virus giving me" or whatever. It won't be viewed positively, but almost as a novelty? For his kids and his wife and his family and close friends (myself not included), there's no "when this is over" because now things are irreparably broken and the virus going away can't ever fix it. The community is rallying now and we won't ever forget him, but the overall coming out celebration is going to be really hard to watch given the personal level this has now touched. I don't know.
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mister d wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:51 pm Not sure the right place, so I'll put it here and know its not a fully formed thought at all right now: There's something, albeit unintentionally ... short-sighted/selfish ... about the messaging of "this is temporary" or "when this is over" that I fear is going to leave the people most affected behind later on. We lost a dad in my oldest's class yesterday, which is just emotionally shattering, and I find myself offended(?) by all the positive forward looking stuff I've read since. I didn't before. If the quarantine is over in two months, I have a strong suspicion everyone will consider themselves survivors but for many it'll be looked back on with new hobbies or posts about "what I'm grateful for the virus giving me" or whatever. It won't be viewed positively, but almost as a novelty? For his kids and his wife and his family and close friends (myself not included), there's no "when this is over" because now things are irreparably broken and the virus going away can't ever fix it. The community is rallying now and we won't ever forget him, but the overall coming out celebration is going to be really hard to watch given the personal level this has now touched. I don't know.
Fuck. I'm sorry.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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