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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Need a ruling (shitty people related thread)
« on: September 29, 2014, 03:46:04 PM »
So were these his friends or her friends?
And is "KCFD mom" your mom or your wife?
And is "KCFD mom" your mom or your wife?
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Kansas State Football / Re: Sean (no gE'ing in this thread)
« on: September 29, 2014, 11:00:58 AM »
Watching it again, it was a pretty big screw up by everyone involved. We had multiple players that could have recovered even catching the original out of the air. Also, Prewitt didn't think he could recover it after it was on the ground. The official called it a block right away and I have no idea why the whistle was blown so late. After rewatching I take back much of what I said; it was dumb by our guys not to recover it, but really dumb by whatever official decided to blow the whistle before we tackled the UTEP guy with the ball.
Good find. Looks like the guy who blocked it did realize he did pretty quickly. Looks like 9 and 57 were trying to get it after the first bounce and got in each other's way.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Sean (no gE'ing in this thread)
« on: September 29, 2014, 10:57:00 AM »If he's well coached, isn't the player that blocked it yelling his ass off so the rest of his team mates know? And if the block is on, aren't those team mates listening and keeping an orientation as to where they are on the field?
I agree that's blaming too much on Sean and a bunch of 20 yr olds when the officials were just as clueless.
I'm sure they practice what to do when the ball barely glances off your helmet all the time. Player may not have even felt/realized it himself.
I was yelling at them to get on the ball, but I had the benefit of a tv camera focused on the ball glancing off the helmet with the officials in the background giving the tip signal. I wonder if they're taught to look to the officials for the tip sign if they're unsure?
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Kansas State Football / Re: Sean (no gE'ing in this thread)
« on: September 29, 2014, 10:24:37 AM »While I agree it was a pretty big mistake, I did explain here why I did give the refs a bit of a break because of the strange nature of what happened on the play.
I'll give the players more of a break (see below), but for me it really comes down to the fact that high-level officials shouldn't be there to make the right call in the easy situations but to make the right call in the tough situations--and especially not to deliberately end a play when it should continue. And I'm saying this more as somebody who's officiated than as a disgruntled fan. That sort of thing makes officials look bad.
The ball landed quite a ways behind the los didn't it? I honestly don't remember. But there is such a big difference in what a player should do if the ball lands behind the los vs. beyond the los, that a good coach dedicated to special teams would emphasize that point to his punt block unit so that his team is prepared to react properly when the play achieves its intended out come. But...the refs clearly didn't know either.The strangest part of the blocked-punt-that-wasn't was how none of our players went for the football. They just stood there and watched it drop, and then seemingly thought UTEP touching it would down it and just let them pick it up. Why we didn't dive on it was the most frustrating part, then the ref blowing his whistle second.
It seems like everyone involved assumed the ball was beyond the line of scrimmage. You definitely don't want to touch the ball in that situation if you blocked the kick/punt. The strange way it went high and came back down seemed to throw everyone off.
I'm sure for most of the players it was tough to tell whether the ball was actually touched--it only glanced off the helmet and went way up into the air...and that's assuming they were actually looking at the ball before it wound up high in the air. It probably looked to most of them like a really terrible punt, and they've all been drilled on punts with punt defenders all around you to just get out of the way and not risk getting hit by the bounce (and that's to the extent that any of the rushers [who were the ones down in that area] have been drilled at all on what to do when fielding a non-blocked punt).
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Kansas State Football / Re: Sean (no gE'ing in this thread)
« on: September 29, 2014, 09:12:35 AM »Also, the officials were completely correct on the blocked punt, inadvertent whistle call.
"Completely correct" may be going a little overboard here. After observing a phantom fumble and phoning a friend for 90 minutes, they ultimately correctly ruled an inadvertent whistle and down replay...cause entirely by a massive screw-up on their own part in blowing the whistle prematurely.
Officials hired to work in college and the pros aren't hired because they can spot a guy moving before the snap. They're hired because they're supposed to have the experience and poise to be able to correctly handle uncommon situations. When you lose your cool and blow your whistle intentionally and incorrectly, negating a red-zone turnover, you should never work another game at that level.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Has Bill's new jacket been discussed?
« on: September 29, 2014, 09:03:22 AM »greatest TV intro to a game in history
The fact that it's Harlan doing it makes it all the better.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: September 29, 2014, 08:59:10 AM »
Just took a look at the prices on StubHub for the seats around mine. Holy cow, kinda wish I wasn't #BeRoyal and #1Royal. My seatmates better enjoy the crap out of our seats. 
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: goEMAW encounters
« on: September 27, 2014, 07:25:36 AM »Encountered slimz and it was great. True gentleman.
Indeed. Bragged about that encounter at a subsequent encounter tonight with Pete, CF3, j-dub, kitten mittons, and kmgf.
And AJ! (Wasn't there when I was bragging.)
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: September 27, 2014, 12:24:38 AM »Tonight was pretty great. Quaff passing out bottles of champ to the crowd is good times.
oh i get it know. the royals clinching was some kind of cute excuse for a party/boys night out for the kansas citians. cinco de royals.
Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Yankees Baseball is hurting
« on: September 27, 2014, 12:22:26 AM »Jeter was good, not great. He just played for a long rough ridin' time.
This is a great point. I mean, give Scott Elarton enough time, and he could have put up some nice totals, too.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: September 27, 2014, 12:20:40 AM »Congrats on making the "playoffs", hopefully you'll make the playoffs.
So fitting that the Captain's last year was all about him instead of the Yanks making any kind of postseason whatsoever. #1Jeter
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: goEMAW encounters
« on: September 27, 2014, 12:16:35 AM »Encountered slimz and it was great. True gentleman.
Indeed. Bragged about that encounter at a subsequent encounter tonight with Pete, CF3, j-dub, kitten mittons, and kmgf.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: How is everyone doing this morning?
« on: September 26, 2014, 11:10:47 PM »
Just noticed I responded to mocat's thread instead of AJ's, but thanked AJ. 
Great to meet AJ tonight, BTW. Even got to respond "great, AJ, thanks for asking" when he asked how it was going.
Great to meet AJ tonight, BTW. Even got to respond "great, AJ, thanks for asking" when he asked how it was going.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: September 26, 2014, 09:47:04 PM »
PeanutPak just led rousing "Let's go Royals" and "Here we go, Royals" chants. Pete was the instigator of the latter.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: September 26, 2014, 05:03:49 PM »I'm going to be tied up until probably 7 but will be at the OP Peanut ASAP after that.
I will save a spot.
Awesome.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: September 26, 2014, 04:28:45 PM »
I'm going to be tied up until probably 7 but will be at the OP Peanut ASAP after that.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: September 26, 2014, 02:38:59 PM »I wonder if the Peanut sells champagne?
If not, Big Dave's is just across Santa Fe.
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Kansas State Football / Re: My Trip Report - Auburn vs Kansas State
« on: September 26, 2014, 09:55:56 AM »
sak reviews other destinations:
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NYC:
Some reasonably tall buildings, at least from what I could see from Newark. Was having such a good time there we didn't actually get to Manhattan. About what I expected, overall. Did stop by a Dominos in Queens on the way to the airport, didn't seem that special, for all I'd heard about New York pizza.
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DC:
Walked around the Mall a bit, Smithsonians, Archives, etc. It was nice, but too spread out. Seemed like there was almost too much green space between buildings. Passed the President on his morning run, and naturally a few people were starstruck but from what I gather he is a semi-regular fixture around DC so it wasn't that big of a deal.
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Hawaii:
Folks kept telling my family we should go to the beach, but it just looked like plain old water and sand to me. I mean, it was reasonably scenic, but we wound up sticking around our hotel pool. Water was just as wet, and didn't have to worry about brushing off the sand.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: How is everyone doing this morning?
« on: September 26, 2014, 09:40:56 AM »
Great, AJ, always appreciate the ask. Royals about to clinch playoffs, Cats gonna whup UTEP tomorrow, and starting to look like multiple gE encounters this weekend.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: September 26, 2014, 09:33:56 AM »The Peanut in Old OP
That's likely where I'll be...
That's my WildWildQuatz game-watch joint!
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: The Royals
« on: September 26, 2014, 07:50:24 AM »Any KC area Roy Boys want to gather to watch the game tonight?
Yes.
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Kansas State Football / Re: My Trip Report - Auburn vs Kansas State
« on: September 26, 2014, 07:48:21 AM »
The Topeka Denny's and P&L? Man...he was just a stop by the Bonner Springs Walmart away from an Alabaman's dream vacation.
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Essentially Flyertalk / 2014 goEMAW Fall Concert Season
« on: September 25, 2014, 09:47:02 AM »
(Mods, merge with 2104 summer concert series thread for master concert thread, if appropriate.)
Anyway, Belle Brigade, Glass Animals, The Head and the Heart, last night. Glass Animals basically plays variations on one song for 45 minutes (no surprise if familiar).
Anyway, Belle Brigade, Glass Animals, The Head and the Heart, last night. Glass Animals basically plays variations on one song for 45 minutes (no surprise if familiar).
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Kansas State Football / Re: How awesome is Cantele? Let's talk about it.
« on: September 24, 2014, 01:05:43 PM »Lockett kinda gave up 6 points too, tho. (6, not 7. Missed xp)
This. Lockett deserves just as much blame.
Well, 6/9 as much
No, 2/5. At some point, the offense takes blame for settling for field goals over touchdowns, too, but whatever.
Can we compromise on 3/5? The Truth, your opinion?
Spracne going all James Wilson.