20thStDad

I like it. I hate it when people go all conference-homer on teams they actually hate. I am an LSU guy, but screw it, I want Auburn and Alabama to lose no matter how bad it makes the SEC look. Stats don't make a Heisman winner, just ask Graham Harrell or Colt Brennan. And he did a great job on the last drive to seal the deal. But as an impartial observer last night, I didn't feel like I was watching the best player in the country last night. Beanie Wells was more impressive, and that's hard for me to say. There were several plays with players in motion last night. Most players come set before the snap though. It depends on the style of offense. Some teams use a tight end in motion on run plays. If you have a superstar wideout/flanker like Percy Harvin, you get him moving just to shake things up and to give the option of handing off or shovel pass. Anyway, it's not against the rules. One player can be in motion during the snap, as long as they aren't moving forward.

AAA (starter of this thread) is a master prankster...I guess they knew this would spark endless circles of "debate", so they just posted and ran to watch the fire burn.

Bottom line Ohio St was average as expected, but Texas looked very average. No way anyone can make an argument for them being #1 after that, or Colt for Heisman. He looked like crap I thought. He turned an easy TD into an easy INT, he doesn't do that and they don't need a last minute drive. It would be very interesting to see all the big 12 south top dogs fall...only 1 more to go. In the mean time let's all revel in the greatness that is Ball St vs Tulsa!!! And why the hell is that game this late in the bowl season? EDIT: Obviously Texas won...not sure where my head was in that comment about all going down. Oh, I must have been thinking that UT's goal for the bowl game was to assert that they deserve to be in the title game. In that regard, FAIL. Yeah that's what I was thinking.

People who get offended at anything need better hobbies.

Thanks for that, it was awesome. I needed a good laugh after having to go back to work. All the people that come visit us here just get freaked out about how big it is and that everyone driving is a maniac. And then of course how much we know about the city, mostly due to HAIF.

Yeah I don't dig the park IN my house look. But I do agree with whoever said that replacing the shacks that are in that area is a good thing. I'm talking the real shacks, not the decent old ones, which are fewer on this end of the Heights. Still, I run and bike around this area all the time and have never felt unsafe. Whoever thinks this area is that bad needs to head east down Cavalcade for some perspective.

I think it's good whenever the big 10 loses, so almost every year. The Texas-Michigan game was good, whenever that was. VaTech rolled Cincy...yes, Cincy. Not that impressed. And if you watched the game, it was sad.

Honestly I just hope it's a good game. I don't despise Oklahoma so if they pull it out in a close, fun game I'll be just as happy. Oh, LSU is my team by the way. We are only the champions of the Peach Bowl this year. I'll take it, based on how we closed out our regular season!

I am with you here. The Orange Bowl hasn't been interesting since Miami and FSU were top 5 teams. I'm sorry, but VT and BC just don't cut it. Looking at the BCS bowls, with the conference ties you have the Rose Bowl (big 10/Pac 10) which is good most of the time, the Fiesta Bowl (Big 12 + other) which is good most of the time, the Sugar Bowl (SEC + other) which is good most of the time, and then the Orange Bowl, which I think only has an ACC tie to it. I think that's the problem, but really all the decent conferences are already tied to BCS bowls, so you can't do much about it. I think the ACC tie-in might help with selling tickets (not this year apparently) but it's not creating high-rating telecasts. Fortunately, it's in Miami so it's a place people wouldn't mind traveling to even if it's pretty far. I think the Big East should lose its automatic bid. I think the ACC just needs to get some good recruiting classes and have Miami, FSU, and UNC (Butch Davis knows what he's doing) get to the top tier again.

Upon further inspection, I picked Cincinnati in this contest! Why? I picked Va Tech in my other one. I don't know if that one pick would have gotten me the lead though. Eh, both teams are boring anyway. I mean, not as boring as Oregon St 3, Pitt 0, but what is?

The Prairie View A&M band was in the Rose Parade...not sure if that happens every year but it was nice to see some local play.

Yeah that must be why there's such high bidding to carry their games, and why there's a national network SEC game every week (no other conference, just Notre Dame can say that, and they aren't even every week). And it also must be why the SEC has the last 2, 3 of the last 5, and possibly this year's championship.

Damn! Same picks as Hizzy, all I can do is lock up 2nd.

No worries about that paying off. This was a down year for the SEC, and I bet they still made their money off of telecasts. Then again I have no evidence of that. I just know that even when their teams are bad, the SEC fans will still watch. I think the SEC has as much or more of a national audience than other big conferences as well. The big 10 really is crap to people outside the midwest, ACC is very east coast, PAC 10 very west coast. The SEC is spread out more and with recent high quality teams and champions are a better draw tv-wise. I think it's the only conference with a weekly national network broadcast - I know we don't get big 12 games every week in LA. All of this according to my rambling at least. I really wish CBS would let the SEC games go to someone else, I hate their production of games from the music to the announcers, it just seems like it's aimed for a bunch of 70 year old dudes.

Southeast of Missouri City. South of Hwy 6, west of Almeda/521. BFE. They have gators!

Not likely gonna get a response on that! Hell the way we (LSU) came out, it might have been even worse if Tech got us. Then again we had our Atlanta/Georgia Dome magic working, we don't have the same luck in the Cotton Bowl.

Wait, I picked Ole Miss. And Bama. 1 for 2, but happy with both.

Me...I picked them, it's called defense. The big 12 didn't have much of that this year, ergo ridiculous offensive numbers.

The feeder roads do ugly up the freeway, because it becomes lined with shopping centers and other crappy types of businesses that don't mind being on freeways. No feeder, no addresses, no businesses right there. Or at least maybe they don't stack up so densely, thus demanding annoying signage to make their business stand out amongst the hundreds of others... I'm not even talking about billboards, I think a ban on those could pass. Those are pure advertising. But companies who put signs up to indicate their location? Never gonna happen. Fast food joints need that, and those are big companies that will fight the hell out of anything like that trying to get passed.

Why? The game was on Fox. I think the losers are the false-sense-of-entitlement bama fans. I really think they have dragged out these bowl games way too far past new year's this time. Why the hell are there 2 pointless bowls after new year's day? Why do I have to wait until next Thursday for the real deal? It should be done by Jan 1, or at most the weekend following Jan 1 if it's in the middle of the week.

Anyone else have fun watching Bama get beat? I loved it. I know I'm supposed to be an SEC homer, but as the game went on I found myself being more and more satisfied that they were losing, and looking really bad doing it. JPW sucks, their play calling sucked, tackling sucked, and their attitude showed that they really might be a couple years ahead of themselves when it comes to deserving to be where they are. I only hope the sucking carries over into next year, while my boy Les at LSU reels in the #1 recruiting class.

I agree. The frontage roads might do well for traffic, but they really fugly up the freeways. I doubt there's any alternative to it now. As for excessive signage, I can't imagine an ordinance like that ever passing. I can see a start-up community trying to pull that from day 0, but the cost and amount of trash it would create to de-sign all the junkiness is astounding. Litter, however, is something that I think can be addressed. I believe that half, if not more, of it comes out of the back of pick up trucks as they drive. I know some people chuck stuff out the window, but I doubt it's enough to account for all of the trash out there. The city should start a massive volunteer/prisoner (maybe not on the same day!) campaign to clean up what's out there now, and then start fining the dickens out of all offenders. 2nd offense warrants jail time. And this includes the pick up truck litterers. Most purposeful litterers are either kids or poor (just an assumption based on observations of where I've seen the most trash), so a nice $1000 minimum fine is really going to hit home. As for old buildings, I bet we have a lot fewer run-down areas than, say, Detroit. And I would say most decent sized southern cities are as bad or worse than Houston. The only cities that maybe don't have those areas have geographical limitations, so their space is at a premium and not worth wasting.

There are a bunch of 2-1 duplexes for that price range in and around Montrose. Up to the owner whether pets are allowed. Some are never listed on HAR, they just put signs up. I preferred that type of living way more than the complex/garage parking life. Depends on what you like.

Whoever thought setting up stores like mazes is a a-hole. I absolutely hate all of them, HEB, Ikea...all they do is piss me off. Just let me go where the hell I want to. I will not go to Central Market ever again. I already said that about Ikea after the first time I went there 8 years ago.

I do them by hand for fun, then I use TaxACT's website because it just happens to be the one I got referred to a few years ago, and it's super easy especially since it has past return info saved.