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step.eng69

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I didn't realize anyone who shifted from Rivals to On3 was simply one of Tom's bootlicking toadies, according to one guy anyway. That makes me laugh for some weird reason. I imagine they think Pied Piper McAndrew lured everyone away with that sweet, mesmerizing flute music he plays. I don't know Tom. Never met him. If his avatar is accurate, I assume he looks like William Penn. But I never knew he was such a villain.
 

Moogy

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that depends.

If it's a plain hot dog, then I use ketchup on it.

If it's a hot dog with sauerkraut, then I use mustard on it.

These details are important. :ROFLMAO:
This might be the most offensive thing ever posted on this board.
 
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Sweet guy, Bayline. I remember @MaryAnne getting a collection going for flowers for his funeral.

Two other posters who added a lot: Shrink (RIP) and Front Range. Another: Bob Anderson.
It was nice to see @MaryAnne participating in the B&W game thread.

I’ll never forget her story about getting chased away from the PSU practice fields by…..I think Joe Sarra. 🤷🏼‍♂️
 

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CVLion

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that depends.

If it's a plain hot dog, then I use ketchup on it.

If it's a hot dog with sauerkraut, then I use mustard on it.

These details are important. :ROFLMAO:

I’m with you on the mustard + kraut combo.

If I’m putting ketchup on a hot dog though, I’m most definitely also putting mustard on… kind of as a condiment chaperone
 
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Marshall2323

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It was nice to see @MaryAnne participating in the B&W game thread.

I’ll never forget her story about getting chased away from the PSU practice fields by…..I think Joe Sarra. 🤷🏼‍♂️
I love Coach Sarra. But, he took football very serious. Back in high school, if a car pulled into the parking lot during practice....he would ask us if we recognized who it was. He would always tell us to watch out for "lime salesmen."
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Yep! He was paranoid about opponents spying on practice.
After some of the stuff I’ve witnessed in 25 years of doing this and I’m sure you’ve had the same, I can’t blame him.

In a regional semifinal playoff baseball game last year, we were playing the neighboring school who is five minutes down the road. Instead of coming to the park early and hitting we took BP and ran through some defensive situations before driving over. We had parents of the other team Drive over to our field and try to video everything we were doing.

They didn’t leave until I intentionally had my team overthrow balls into the parking lot at their cars.
 

Marshall2323

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After some of the stuff I’ve witnessed in 25 years of doing this and I’m sure you’ve had the same, I can’t blame him.

In a regional semifinal playoff baseball game last year, we were playing the neighboring school who is five minutes down the road. Instead of coming to the park early and hitting we took BP and ran through some defensive situations before driving over. We had parents of the other team Drive over to our field and try to video everything we were doing.

They didn’t leave until I intentionally had my team overthrow balls into the parking lot at their cars.
Being involved in athletics can take you to places others could never imagine. Coach Sarra, starred in my life like John Wayne. He was sometimes quirky and unpredictable.....yet his example is part of my core today, 58 years after playing for him.
My senior year at Southern Columbia, we played a rare day game vs. Juniata. The field had been marked with lime. I guess that was a somewhat common place thing back then. We had some rain, and most of the guys on both teams ended up with some pretty serious burns. To make matters worse, we lost the game. The whole team was herded into the gang showers where we were instructed to scrub any potential chemical burns. Coach stood outside the showers telling us that the loss was the real "burn." LOL....We didn't practice the final week of the season, as we were bussed to the team doctor who would inspect the scabs and open them to prevent damage under them. To my knowledge, no one even thought of filing a law suit. More importantly, we still beat Milton in our final game that week.
I recall rushing to school one day after receiving a letter from Bob O'Dell at Penn and another from Harry Gamble at Lafayette. Coach wiped the smile off my face and bluntly said, "Burke, you can't play there!" LOL, my world crumbled. But, he was 100% correct and I needed that. Today a coach would be suspended or fired for causing "emotional harm."
Despite moving onto college coaching and mentoring thousands of more talented football players than I could ever hope to be, he never deserted me. Battling Parkinson's himself, he called me twice a week (42 years after playing for him) to see how I was holding up as my wife began to lose her fight with cancer.
He was a major reason I went on to coach. Still drawing a check for the 52 consecutive year.
 

Moogy

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Being involved in athletics can take you to places others could never imagine. Coach Sarra, starred in my life like John Wayne. He was sometimes quirky and unpredictable.....yet his example is part of my core today, 58 years after playing for him.
My senior year at Southern Columbia, we played a rare day game vs. Juniata. The field had been marked with lime. I guess that was a somewhat common place thing back then. We had some rain, and most of the guys on both teams ended up with some pretty serious burns. To make matters worse, we lost the game. The whole team was herded into the gang showers where we were instructed to scrub any potential chemical burns. Coach stood outside the showers telling us that the loss was the real "burn." LOL....We didn't practice the final week of the season, as we were bussed to the team doctor who would inspect the scabs and open them to prevent damage under them. To my knowledge, no one even thought of filing a law suit. More importantly, we still beat Milton in our final game that week.
I recall rushing to school one day after receiving a letter from Bob O'Dell at Penn and another from Harry Gamble at Lafayette. Coach wiped the smile off my face and bluntly said, "Burke, you can't play there!" LOL, my world crumbled. But, he was 100% correct and I needed that. Today a coach would be suspended or fired for causing "emotional harm."
Despite moving onto college coaching and mentoring thousands of more talented football players than I could ever hope to be, he never deserted me. Battling Parkinson's himself, he called me twice a week (42 years after playing for him) to see how I was holding up as my wife began to lose her fight with cancer.
He was a major reason I went on to coach. Still drawing a check for the 52 consecutive year.

Hah! That's nothing. Our coach cared about us so much he lit us on fire and made us do drills to put it out. Nobody even thought of filing a lawsuit, because we were real men.

And he loved us to the point where, when a college coach would approach us, he'd punch them right in the face, and pull a gun on them while telling them we sucked and could never be good enough to play for them. He was so right.

He was so paranoid, he'd tase everyone, just to make sure they weren't lizard people here to spy on us.

He ensured everyone had no outside opportunities, so they stuck around and became a townie, repeating the cycle.

The molder of men, that guy was.
 
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bbrown

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If you could tolerate MCE you could learn a lot. He got increasingly shrill and argumentative as time went on. Pat Devlin, that was not pretty. He was a real fan, loved his Lions, on that we can all agree.
I was in an email group with he and some others in the late 90’s. He went off the rails bat💩 crazy after the Minny loss in ‘99 and became a Joe hater to the max. He became insufferable.
 
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Hah! That's nothing. Our coach cared about us so much he lit us on fire and made us do drills to put it out. Nobody even thought of filing a lawsuit, because we were real men.

And he loved us to the point where, when a college coach would approach us, he'd punch them right in the face, and pull a gun on them while telling them we sucked and could never be good enough to play for them. He was so right.

He was so paranoid, he'd tase everyone, just to make sure they weren't lizard people here to spy on us.

He ensured everyone had no outside opportunities, so they stuck around and became a townie, repeating the cycle.

The molder of men, that guy was.
There is no need for you to be an ahole. But to your credit, you are at least consistent.
 

Moogy

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There is no need for you to be an ahole. But to your credit, you are at least consistent.

What the freak? Marshall gets a like and my similar tale gets a "hey, you're an ahole"? You wouldn't have made it on our football squad, that's for sure.
 

LionJim

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Sweet guy, Bayline. I remember @MaryAnne getting a collection going for flowers for his funeral.

Two other posters who added a lot: Shrink (RIP) and Front Range. Another: Bob Anderson.
And Massimo Manca, he would come up with the most outrageous jokes.