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NFL Open Thread

by John Cole|  October 30, 201112:34 pm| 112 Comments

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Your team sucks. Also, this song has been stuck in my head for three days:

The 80’s were great.

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  1. 1.

    cathyx

    October 30, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    But what if my team is the Steelers?

  2. 2.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 12:39 pm

    The 80’s were great.

    And that song/video is proof of that how, exactly?

    I’ll take the music of the ’70s any day.

  3. 3.

    lamh34

    October 30, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    Geaux Saints!!!!

  4. 4.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    @cathyx:

    Then the refs suck.

  5. 5.

    Suffern ACE

    October 30, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    I’ve got the bye week blues.

  6. 6.

    different-church-lady

    October 30, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    Playing bass with a pick? How gauche.

  7. 7.

    joeyess

    October 30, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    The 80’s were great.

    I suggest you rethink that statement.

  8. 8.

    joeyess

    October 30, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    Oh, and here’s to Tebow getting his grill drilled.

  9. 9.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 12:47 pm

    @Suffern ACE:

    Me, too. I’m using the Packers’ bye week to get something done. What I’ll get done, I’m not sure- laundry, probably, or world peace. I’ll figure it out after I get some food in me.

  10. 10.

    cathyx

    October 30, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): That’s what you pick to represent the 70’s? For shame. This is better:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJBoHa3GArA

  11. 11.

    piratedan

    October 30, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    go my team squadron unit! go!

    I would like to think that both the 70’s and the 80’s have their fair share of musical embarrassments to argue over, hows about we just be happy that we all found some tunes that spoke to us and helped us just get through the day, week, month, year, decade or what have you…

  12. 12.

    DougJ

    October 30, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    I hate 80s culture even though they were a fun time for personally.

  13. 13.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 30, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    Does everyone else have power? I no has power or water. We had more than a foot of snow in western Mass yesterday. I am officially tired of winter.

  14. 14.

    DougJ

    October 30, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I thought you said you lived in Atlanta.

  15. 15.

    The Dangerman

    October 30, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    Since the Rams and Raiders left, I have no team. It’s a professional football vacuum, which most certainly doesn’t suck, but vacuums do suck and…

    …oh shit, I think someone divided by zero.

  16. 16.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 30, 2011 at 12:56 pm

    @DougJ: I have never lived in Atlanta and I have been to Atlanta once in my life for a conference. Whatever gave you that idea?

    ETA: I am mostly a Northeastern elitist kitteh have lived in Maine, Mass, Maryland and New York.

  17. 17.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 12:57 pm

    @cathyx:

    Just the first thing that came to mind that was sort of pop fun…Sorta like using The Sting to talk about the film of the decade rather than, say, Taxi Driver.

    How ya like me now?

  18. 18.

    DougJ

    October 30, 2011 at 1:00 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I must have you confused with another commenter! There’s another commenter with a similar name who is interested in math and physics who I had a long conversation with about Atlanta once. Sorry!

  19. 19.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 1:03 pm

    @DougJ:

    DougJ

    WTF? Are you okay? Get some fiber in your diet or something. You should be “Occupy DougJ” by now.

  20. 20.

    Maude

    October 30, 2011 at 1:06 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:
    The AP says there are about 2 million without power in the NE.
    I have power, but a lot of areas around here don’t. I’m in NJ.
    Tons of tree branches came down.

  21. 21.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    October 30, 2011 at 1:07 pm

    @DougJ: Whatever gave you the idea that schrödinger’s cat was a commenter interested in math and physics?

    Sadly, I know people who would see your comment and ask that question. Sadder still is that one of them spent some years as a HS science teacher.

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I’m worried as well. But I’m sure it will happen soon.

  22. 22.

    losgatosca

    October 30, 2011 at 1:09 pm

    There’s another commenter with a similar name who is interested in math and physics who I had a long conversation with about Atlanta once. Sorry!

    A long conversation about Atlanta with a person who is interested in math and physics? Unless it involved sex at some point, you should be sorry.

  23. 23.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 30, 2011 at 1:10 pm

    @DougJ: No problem! Actually I am quite familiar with your neck of the woods. I have a very good friend who lives about 10 miles outside Rochester and we visit him at least once a year.

  24. 24.

    Reality Check

    October 30, 2011 at 1:10 pm

    Anybody else going to watch the Denver Tebows play in Tebow Stadium on Tebow TV? God I hope he gets his ass sacked by the Lions, I’m sick of hearing about him. I’ll be a Detroit fan just this one week for no other reason.

  25. 25.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 1:14 pm

    @piratedan:

    The difference being that no one ever says, “Oh, yeah, Kung Fu Fighting, what a great song!” the same way they’ll say that about this.

  26. 26.

    piratedan

    October 30, 2011 at 1:17 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): yeah… but I also understand why there’s universal loathing for this….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7movKfyTBII&ob=av2e

    not sure that I buy the argument ;-)

  27. 27.

    different-church-lady

    October 30, 2011 at 1:19 pm

    I have a legal question.

    * Someone posts a music video on the internet, with the comment, “This song has been stuck in my head for three days.”

    * You click on it.

    * Now the song is stuck in your head.

    Who can you sue?

  28. 28.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 30, 2011 at 1:19 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I made a shepherd’s pie and am waiting for it to be ready. I may read and/or clean. I am guessing that reading will win out. Bye weeks are odd.

  29. 29.

    MikeJ

    October 30, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    @piratedan:

    I would like to think that both the 70’s and the 80’s have their fair share of musical embarrassments to argue over,

    Don’t forget the 60s, era of The Stones, The Who, The Singing Nun…

  30. 30.

    Shazza

    October 30, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    Great song, fun group!

  31. 31.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 1:21 pm

    @piratedan:

    I see your Safety Dance and raise you one AEIOU Sometimes Y.

  32. 32.

    4jkb4ia

    October 30, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    That was funny–but “Occupy DougJ” means that we should all descend on Rochester and surround his house as a seat of power, or something.

    /pedant

    ETA: It’s been almost 8 whole minutes and the Saints haven’t scored yet.

  33. 33.

    Amir Khalid

    October 30, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
    Feh. It sounds like the guy ripped off Bruce’s Radio Nowhere.

  34. 34.

    piratedan

    October 30, 2011 at 1:23 pm

    @MikeJ: or the 50’s with Sheb Wooley and his string of musical americana

  35. 35.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 1:23 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    Who can you sue?

    Your parents. Duh.

  36. 36.

    S. cerevisiae

    October 30, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    Skol Vikings! Let’s see if Ponder can outshine Newton.

  37. 37.

    jeffreyw

    October 30, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    You fucking kids get offa my lawn!

  38. 38.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 1:25 pm

    @4jkb4ia:

    I was thinking along the lines of Being John Malkovich.

  39. 39.

    different-church-lady

    October 30, 2011 at 1:25 pm

    @piratedan: Top five music videos of the eighties featuring dwarfs — go.

  40. 40.

    jeffreyw

    October 30, 2011 at 1:25 pm

    You kids get offa my lawn!

    And FYWP!

  41. 41.

    different-church-lady

    October 30, 2011 at 1:26 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): They’re dead. I’ll have to sue their heirs. Oh, wait… DAMMIT!

  42. 42.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 1:30 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    From Wikipedia:

    The song is an up-tempo, electric guitar-driven, modern rocker that features the work of E Street Band members Max Weinberg on drums, Garry Tallent on bass guitar, Clarence Clemons on saxophone, Steven Van Zandt, Clemons and Patti Scialfa on background vocals, and Nils Lofgren on a guitar part underneath Clemons’s sax solo. The opening guitar riff and chord progression are somewhat reminiscent of Tommy Tutone’s 1982 hit “867-5309/Jenny” with Tommy Tutone lead singer Tommy Heath quoted as saying: “Everybody’s calling me about it,”[1] and that, “I think it’s close enough that if I wanted to [take legal action], I could work with it.”

  43. 43.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 30, 2011 at 1:31 pm

    @DougJ:

    Well, I live in Atlanta but I am not overly interested in math or physics and my name isn’t very close to schrodingers cat except they both begin with the letter S and I’ve never had a conversation with you about Atlanta or anywhere else. You’re probably thinking of me.

  44. 44.

    Loneoak

    October 30, 2011 at 1:35 pm

    For a neutral observer, there has never been a more boring lineup than what is currently available in the early games. But Stillers vs Pats has potential.

    EDIT: Aaaand once again, my Sunday is ruined by Bay Area football. Instead of the interesting game with national implications played by professional football teams, I get to watch the Browns at SF.

  45. 45.

    different-church-lady

    October 30, 2011 at 1:35 pm

    @4jkb4ia:

    ETA: It’s been almost 8 whole minutes and the Saints haven’t scored yet.

    Wouldn’t it be a hoot if they got shut out this week?

  46. 46.

    piratedan

    October 30, 2011 at 1:35 pm

    @different-church-lady: cmon now, this is the football thread yknow…. i’ll get back to you in another open thread… someday, someway

  47. 47.

    Amir Khalid

    October 30, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
    I really should learn to indicate when I’m snarking.

  48. 48.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    @piratedan:

    Whoah oh oh…

  49. 49.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 30, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    @4jkb4ia:

    That was funny—but “Occupy DougJ” means that we should all descend on Rochester and surround his house as a seat of power, or something.

    Swell idea! What time do the buses leave?

  50. 50.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 1:42 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Yeah, I wasn’t sure.

    BTW, that’s the least Grammy-worthy thing Bruce has ever recorded. It’s almost like the Lifetime Achievement Best Picture Oscar that Scorsese got for The Departed.

  51. 51.

    different-church-lady

    October 30, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    @piratedan: Cole posted a video. I’m Occupying This Thread.

    1. Safety Dance
    2. Sting — Fortress Around Your Heart

    Uhh… that’s all I got.

  52. 52.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 30, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    @different-church-lady: Listen to ABBA. Replace one annoying ear worm with another.

    ETA: Dancing Queen…

  53. 53.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    @Loneoak:

    Hey, the Niners are really good this year. Outside of the Saints, they’re the one team that, from the perspective of us Packers fans, scares me a bit when I think about the playoffs.

  54. 54.

    HeartlandLiberal

    October 30, 2011 at 1:47 pm

    Sadly, right now my teams DO suck. If you live in Indiana, these are hard, hard times.

    I was at the Indiana University game yesterday. The only consolation was that Indiana ran up a lot of touch downs. The problem was, Northwestern ran up about twice as many by the middle of the third quarter. With 8:30 left on the clock in the fourth quarter, with IU trailing by (ONLY) three full touchdowns, I finished my smoothy and we hit the trail to the parking lot.

    And the Colts? What can I say. I think this years situation speaks for itself. Peyton Manning is one of the greatest quarterbacks ever, but if there were ever a lesson in how one is NOT supposed to put all of one’s eggs in one basket, this is it.

  55. 55.

    different-church-lady

    October 30, 2011 at 1:48 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: I think it may have been on this very site that I learned that any earworm can be defeated by singing the three note audio logo for Mennen.

  56. 56.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 1:49 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    Frankie Goes to Hollywood- Relax

    What an overplayed POS.

    ETA: Oh, wait…Little people…I just thought shitty songs.

  57. 57.

    piratedan

    October 30, 2011 at 1:49 pm

    @different-church-lady: well according to my google fu…. you could use this as a starting point:

    http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2011/06/midgets-in-music-videos.html

  58. 58.

    different-church-lady

    October 30, 2011 at 1:51 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I guess there are certain bits of the 80s I’ve blotted out…

  59. 59.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    October 30, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    @HeartlandLiberal: Supposedly Manning has begged the Colts not to draft Andrew Luck, but after last night’s game with USC. I can’t see why the Colts will bypass him. Peyton we hardly know ye. Oh BTW the ending of the Ohio State-Wisconsin game was sweet. Braxton Miller makes you forget that…that…guy who plays for the Raiders.

  60. 60.

    Amir Khalid

    October 30, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
    I don’t know about that. Any song that gets on one of Weird Al’s polka medleys is all right with me.

  61. 61.

    Loneoak

    October 30, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    Here’s a worthy find over at Sully’s: drunk stump speech by Perry.

    As a fan of debate drinking games (leading to the great tequila disaster of ’08), I want the next GOP debate include a drinking contest between candidates. I bet it comes down to Herman Cain and Marcus Bachmann, who step in as dh for Michele. Herman is the only candidate to advocate for weaker drunk driving laws and Marcus … probably has a few demons to hide.

  62. 62.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    Huge chunks of the decade are missing from my memory- unfortunately they aren’t huge enough. The hardcore punk/alternative music was good, though. Minor Threat, Black Flag, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, The Replacements, Husker Du, Naked Raygun, Big Boys, Pixies…But, ya know, it never got played on any radio you could hear away from a large college campus.

  63. 63.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 2:02 pm

    @Loneoak:

    I’d love to see Mittens get liquored-up/caffeinated with a few Irish Coffees. Two sins at once…

  64. 64.

    different-church-lady

    October 30, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): The funny thing is today you’re probably more likely to randomly hear the Pixies than you are FGTH.

    @piratedan: Thanks. I don’t have any google fu. It’s more like google nojo.

  65. 65.

    different-church-lady

    October 30, 2011 at 2:05 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I bet after that he’d strap himself to the roof of the station wagon.

  66. 66.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    A Nash Rambler, in honor of dad.

  67. 67.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    October 30, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    With the Bears and the Falcons bye week we took an 8 hr drive through the mountains.

  68. 68.

    cokane

    October 30, 2011 at 2:23 pm

    DOWN WITH PISSBURG

  69. 69.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    Ver, ver niiiice. Where?

  70. 70.

    4jkb4ia

    October 30, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    It’s been almost a whole HALF, the Saints haven’t scored yet, and a professional football team appears to be playing them!

  71. 71.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    October 30, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Lake Chatuge on the Georgia-NC border. It’s hard to think that the same state where I fish Cape Hatteras is NORTH of my house!

  72. 72.

    Svensker

    October 30, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Mom and friends’ power is out in northern NJ. They have no cell phone service either (no one believed the weather service so no one bothered to charge their cells!) and no one has a plug in phone so we’re communicating via one guy down the street who has a working phone.

    Listen up, folks. Keep your cell phone charged. Have at least one plug in real phone, keep your car full of gas, and have some bottled water and some food that doesn’t need to be cooked for at least a day or two in case the power goes out. How hard is that?

  73. 73.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    October 30, 2011 at 2:46 pm

    @Svensker: Thank you Mika!

  74. 74.

    cathyx

    October 30, 2011 at 2:47 pm

    @Svensker: What about a car charger for the phone?

  75. 75.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    October 30, 2011 at 2:49 pm

    If they have no cell phone service it doesn’t matter if their phone is charged does it?

  76. 76.

    arguingwithsignposts

    October 30, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): I think svensker means their cell phone isn’t charged. And, as cathyx points out, a car charger would help.

  77. 77.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    October 30, 2011 at 3:02 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: 0

  78. 78.

    4jkb4ia

    October 30, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    Steven Jackson 32-yard run to the New Orleans 3. This game is over, folks. Time to get ready for the parade at 4:00. Amazing what a difference it makes having Jackson back. What was the spread the other way, 13.5 points, almost as big as you can have a spread?

    @different church-lady:
    They should have saved some points for this week.

  79. 79.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 30, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    80% power outage in my area, since we get our water from a well no water either. I have no idea when our power will be restored. I am staying in a hotel tonight since the temperature is going to fall to teens at night. I can’t believe this is October.

  80. 80.

    different-church-lady

    October 30, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    @4jkb4ia:

    They should have saved some points for this week.

    I heard that last Monday the maintenance guys were sweeping up the Colt’s end zone and they found another couple of touchdowns.

  81. 81.

    cathyx

    October 30, 2011 at 3:16 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: One thing to remember when you need power to have water is that you still have 40-50 gallons of water in your water heater you can draw from to drink. Also, too, the toilet tank is potable water, although some are unnecessarily squeamish about that one.

  82. 82.

    MikeJ

    October 30, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    @4jkb4ia:

    Steven Jackson 32-yard run to the New Orleans 3.

    He’s controlled by the comic book collectors who are controlled by the Boy Sprouts who are controlled by the gnomes of Zurich.

  83. 83.

    4jkb4ia

    October 30, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    Vilma returns a fumble for a touchdown. Time to get scared again.

  84. 84.

    S. cerevisiae

    October 30, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    Wow where did the Saints offense go? Are the Colts really that bad?

    ETA: Nice drive by Ponder and the Vikings – AD all the way!

  85. 85.

    burnspbesq

    October 30, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    Music was the only thing that made the Age of Reagan and Thatcher survivable. Other than that, it was a decade of unmitigated suckitude.

    No football for me today. Still recovering from last night. Good luck to Stanford the rest of the way, but I really hate those fuckers.

  86. 86.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    October 30, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    @burnspbesq: My brother was in the endzone with all the OT action.

  87. 87.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 3:34 pm

    With 14:31 to go in the game and the Texans finally about to go up by two scores on the anemic Jaguars, I expect the resident Houston troll to finally show up.

  88. 88.

    burnspbesq

    October 30, 2011 at 3:35 pm

    Correction: the only football for me is Galaxy-Red Bull. 1-0 Galaxy early. Snow piled up along the sidelines at Red Bull Arena.

  89. 89.

    4jkb4ia

    October 30, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    Come on, offense, hang on to the ball for a while.

  90. 90.

    4jkb4ia

    October 30, 2011 at 3:50 pm

    Jeebus, this is self-destruction. 4 penalties on that drive alone.

  91. 91.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    Wait…I feel a stroke coming on somewhere in Texas! 21-14 Texans with 5:15 left!

  92. 92.

    4jkb4ia

    October 30, 2011 at 4:07 pm

    It’s the two-minute warning. It’s over now. Maybe Coach Spags can still have a job.

  93. 93.

    Svensker

    October 30, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    @cathyx:

    What about a car charger for the phone?

    That would be good. No one has one of those, either.

  94. 94.

    S. cerevisiae

    October 30, 2011 at 4:12 pm

    Vikes win with a little luck and a lot of AD. Ponder looks really good for a rookie in his second start.

  95. 95.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 30, 2011 at 4:20 pm

    @S. cerevisiae: What you said. Lucky, really (and a bad whiff by Omare), but we’ll take it, amirite?

  96. 96.

    hamletta

    October 30, 2011 at 4:21 pm

    I loved The Producers.

    I don’t remember much of the ’80s, but I’m pretty sure I saw them at Mainstreet in Murfreesboro, TN when I was in college.

  97. 97.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    Lions 7, Christians 3

  98. 98.

    burnspbesq

    October 30, 2011 at 4:38 pm

    68th minute. Galaxy defense is bending (a lot), but hasn’t broken yet.

  99. 99.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 30, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I will speak up in defense of small college campuses. Radio stations such as WLFM out of Lawrence University played that stuff too. Sizist bastard.

  100. 100.

    S. cerevisiae

    October 30, 2011 at 4:57 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    Lions 7, Christians 3

    OK, I’m going to hell for laughing loudly at that.

  101. 101.

    burnspbesq

    October 30, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    Full time, 1-0 Galaxy. Good that it was 12 against ten. Marquez helped the Galaxy a lot more than he did Red Bull.

  102. 102.

    2liberal

    October 30, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    Your team sucks

    my teams are the patriots and the cardinals. this has not been a good day so far.

  103. 103.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Fuck! I just back-paged after writing up this multi-paragraph thing explaining low-powered college stations that use campus electrical lines as their broadcast antennas (MSU has two of these, one on either side of campus) that you can’t hear just blocks from campus. Suffice to say, if you were near a college of any size that allowed you to hear the student station broadcast at a radius of further than two miles from the broadcast tower, you were very lucky.

  104. 104.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 30, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): WLFM couldn’t be heard far outside of the city limits of Appleton, WI, so I take your point.

  105. 105.

    burnspbesq

    October 30, 2011 at 5:37 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    They used to have one of those arrangements at my undergrad school. A couple of years before I got involved in radio, there was a windstorm that knocked one of the lines that carried the broadcast signal around campus onto a chain-link fence around six tennis courts. The story goes that the station was picked up in Missouri (from upstate New York).

    The administration strongly encouraged the radio station to switch to FM, and put up most of the money for the transmitter.

  106. 106.

    low-tech cyclist

    October 30, 2011 at 6:11 pm

    Your team sucks.

    My team’s the Redskins. Of course they suck.

  107. 107.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 6:17 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    I had a 7am show on Saturday mornings on WBRS at MSU, and I harbored no illusions that anyone was listening. No one would have been listening in Missouri or California, for that matter, had something similar happened to our power lines.

    I used to play the Velvet Underground’s Sister Ray, go outside and smoke a clove cigarette.

  108. 108.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 6:19 pm

    And the Lions have almost completely devoured the Christians. It’s 38-3 with 6:18 remaining in the 3rd quarter.

  109. 109.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 30, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    And Tebow tosses a weak out that goes for a 100-yard pick six by Chris Houston. 45-7, Lions.

  110. 110.

    burnspbesq

    October 30, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    I didn’t think anyone was listening in morning drive on Saturday, either. I found out differently when I played “What Do You Want From Life” by The Tubes at 7:00 a.m. on the day of the MCAT and GMAT, and ten guys wanted to fight me when I walked into the campus pub that night.

  111. 111.

    Joel

    October 30, 2011 at 8:44 pm

    The 80s were the Dark Ages of cocktails. Another reason why that decade was not great.

  112. 112.

    kindness

    October 31, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    The 80’s were a rock era wasteland. Oh, you had a few acts that did OK. Tom Petty held on, The Police did OK. the Pretenders did a couple good albums. Really it wasn’t till the end of the 80’s when grunge came on that rock picked back up again.

    Otherwise, nothing but Flock of Seagulls bullshit….overproduced, introspective and house/trance crap.

    Thank god Jerry Garcia was still alive. The Dead made the 80’s tolerable.

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