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Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
This discussion could rapidly degrade so let’s keep it above board guys.

I won’t post my opinions.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
I personally knew one person that tipped over the edge . Straight A student , very well liked , lots of friends , well on his way to a 4.3+ gpa , an actual honest to God chaple boy (couldn't carry a tune in a boom box) , oldest son from a good family well respected in the town and church . There were 2 girls that had been needling him since 5th maybe 6th grade , we were Juniors . One morning during Bible study he walked in with a 30-30 and announced that he'd had all of their crap he was going to take . I don't know the exact details past that point but I do know he had a change of heart and that the story says the class stared in shock as he turned the 94 on himself , saying "Ronda , Lisa , you caused this and brought it on yourselves."
Fact you can't profile them all .
X's are X-wives . Mine bald face lied to a judge twice . TRO is a temporary restraining order .
I went through a particularly bad stretch with a number of friends or well known friends having passed away just in time for my 2nd wife , I'd have walked though hell for to decide we had reached an impasse we simply couldn't fix . Turns out after about 5 weeks of 3-4 hr of sleep I needed a little help and worked a zero tolerance job when there's any doubt get an OTC script ....... I'm a strict 8 hr guy been that way my whole life ...... The script was a non-narc sleep aid it also carried a mild antidepressant ........ Took me about week of good sleep to figure out the sleep wasn't all that great but it was sleep . Hit me like a truck when I had figured out . That was 8 yr ago .
I just drink my way through the blues these days .
I was never a threat to anybody not even myself .

The job I worked for 22 yr was a job where if someone did something stupid not only could the people in the building be reduced to a DNA smudge under a toe cap of a safety shoe but people over a mile away could be injured or even killed . A little something to think about in the back of a commercial truck with 9.5 tons 60 year old t n t in a pulp wood boxes and a nail gun ......... No stress there that might eventually lead to depression or erratic behavior . Thank God for hunting season .

So I apologise for the derailment . It is unfortunately a bitter subject that touches way to close to home for me . Nevermind the fact that it runs way off out into the weeds of the swamp .
Thank you for the understanding .

How about those Rams ?
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
Didn't watch it at all .
Last one I had any interest in was Green Bay and the Steelers . Loved them both . Then the leagues started this .......... Nope not going there .
Just no interest in the game ......I even missed the Indy 500 last year and that's like one in 35-6 years .... Just kind of losing interest in all of the sports .

It seemed like a safe turn to take though .
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Quit watching professional sports when the players' on-field childlike antics, massive egos, and off-season arrests became common, which was probably shortly after "Hi, Mom" became common place.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
I think it was a college football weekend .... Thanksgiving maybe , I was 6-8 . Anyway several times each game there had been a highlighted player asking "send money please" , it had become kind of college thing . Anyway the pro game was on and I can't remember but one of the super heros , maybe Joe Green , got the camera and mouthed "Mom I sent money" .
Priceless moment . Right there with the 87 instant replays of Joe Green down loading about a half gallon of that nasty bright green Gatorade .

Makes me sad to think of all the heros that just faded away when their stats fell off . Joe Namith (SP) is reduced from Legs to Sr insurance ......
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
When I was a kid we had sports heroes who really could be looked up to, admired, and parents could be comfortable hearing their kids say, 'I want to be like him'.
One of my better childhood memories was a barbecue at my best friend's cousin's house and ending up at their next-door neighbor's house playing catch with the kids and their dad. The dad's name was Don Drysdale. That was 1961.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Los Angeles Dodgers Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax versus San Francisco Giants Willie Mays, Willie McCovey . . . that's when players played for the love of the game. Dodgers had the pitchers, Giants had the hitters, oh, what a rivalry.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
Funny that having lived in an era when it was ok for a white kid to have a "well tanned" sports figure to look up to as a figure of strength , generousity , and honesty , sort of a not a cowboy John Wayne ........ Now well if there are any I can't think of one .......... What's his name on family feud maybe ?
Yes sir times have sure changed .