The EPIC Turkey Day.. ZOMG & THE EPIC XMAS D.T BOOM ROASTED!

In other news: Karmic Justice!

My ex-wife came by to pick up Li'l Bandit about an hour ago (Totally unannounced, by the way), and she let her two rat-dogs in, completely uninvited (I don't allow furred animals in my house. That's one of my only rules).

One of her rat-dogs had pissed on me a couple of years ago, and I've held a grudge against him ever since.

When my ex showed up, I was handling Tenga, my oldest Ball Python. The rat-dog that pissed on me immediately shoved its nose where it wasn't wanted, ie: in Tenga's face, AND SHE BIT HIM SQUARE ON THE NOSE! HE YELPED LIKE THE LITTLE BITCH THAT HE IS!
(he's used to bossing around the other dogs at her house, but when she brings him to my place, Dixie and my old mutt Spike put him in his place every time. My ex doesn't let that chihuahua run around with them anymore, because he gets his ass handed to him by dogs 5X his size.)
I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.
For the record, Tenga has never bitten a human, ever; just mice and young chicks (baby chickens).

Now here's some nice music:

 

I feel the thinking behind that is that kickers are pretty easy to find/make and they are replaceable. When you have limited time and resources for recruiting finding someone who can make your offense or defense really click is put at a higher premium.

I'm not saying that should be the case, but I think that is the general thought behind it.

 

Fucking kids and their weak immune systems. The New Years Party I went to had a couple sick kids and now I can feel it growing in the back of my throat. I can't wait for tomorrow.

Did coke at said party for the first time in about 5-6 years. Glad I quit because after a couple bumps my mind was already saying, "more".

 

I have lived a sheltered existence, but that seems weird as fuck.

 

Because they are very interchangeable. There are a ton of kickers out there who can boot it from 50-60 yards. The only thing that really sets them apart is their ability to perform under pressure. Unfortunately, that is something you can't really figure out before-hand. Even after the fact it is hard to disentangle luck and pressure.

 

We weren't blowing it off the kids. Kids and parents(Moms and a guy or two) were upstairs while we were playing poker downstairs. One guy brought some coke. A few sniffs each and it was gone.

 

I think you're underselling the ineptitude of college kickers.

Major programs that have enormous, wide-spread recruiting efforts are routinely trotting out kickers who cant even make 75% of their kicks. For example, the kicker for Georgia today only made 62% of his kicks all season. Just looking at BCS conference schools, the kickers for Notre Dame, Tennessee, Georgia Tech, Baylor, Rutgers, and Missouri all made less than 2/3 of their field goal attempts, and several of those have season longs in the 40s. Misses inside of 35 yards are not at all abnormal at the elite college level. Is it really the case that kicking is so incredibly difficult that this is the best they can do? Perhaps it is, but you have to wonder.

Perhaps the skill gap between elite college players and the pros is no more than at other positions, but it's more quantifiable at kicker.

 

Troof. Kickers get up to bat only X amount of times a year, they only have one thing to do, and it's very easily measured.

I was at an OSU bar when that kicker went wide left, and then went deaf, and then deaf again when they won. I think it was harder to miss that than it was to hit it, what was it, a 20 yard field goal?

 

Ice-T is a lucky man.

 

Being a kicker on our high school team and being recruited by a few D1 schools, I can put some info forward.

1. Kicking, while seemingly easy, really isn't. Distance is easy. Just about anyone with a background in soccer could be converted to a kicker in about half an hour (which is what happened to me). Someone who never kicked a football in their life and is athletic could probably kick 40+ yards consistently in a day or two. Accuracy is the problem. Repetitive accuracy at that. Kicking isn't much different from being able to throw a fastball for a strike. Lots of guys can hit 90 on the gun. Probably half of them can hit 90 and throw it for a strike on a consistent basis.

2. Being that you are on the sideline for 99% of the game, you don't get the benefit of draining some pent up adrenaline throughout the game. You are basically rushed in during some of the most pressure packed situations. It takes nerves of steel to calm down to the point of being able to execute like you have been taught.

3. High school goalposts are 5 feet wider than college ones. Although not a huge factor, unless you are playing on a college field all of the time, it's going to take a while to "re-learn" how to be accurate. To bring back the baseball analogy, it's like having to switch from an aluminum bat to a wooden one. You have to almost completely change how you approach things.

4. Who really wants to be the kicker? Seriously. Unless you are retarded good, you are basically completely forgotten and shit on. There is no upside. Even if you make the game winning kick one week, next week you are the slug who missed from 32.

 

Hey another football player on this board. We should start a football team. I bet we would kick 4chans ass! Also if the non playing TiBettes were willing we would easily have the hottest cheerleaders on the sideline at every game.

 

Never played before but I'm game. Played plenty of Rugby and various other forms.

 

Lots of Aussies trade AFL or Rugby league skills for a kicker spot on a US team. Almost all AFL players and most league kickers are accurate, tough, used to pressure play sports, and have charming accents. And you can usually fit their names on their jerseys. I know a few guys who've gotten college rides that way.

 

I call running back.

 

You can have it. I want weak, or left side d-end on defense. Fullback on offense.

 

I call massage therapist. Rawr.

 

I'm prone to groin injuries.

 

Its all starting to come together. Those hacks at cracked better watch out!

 

I just dug out my recruitment video...wow... To be young, in shape, and still have college eligibility left.

I'd be on board to go to another forum and call them out. It'll be like Al Bundy playing against Andrew Johnson High School all over again.