Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[Adam Sandler]

Ok, I've gotten several responses about my post pertaining to Larry Bird being the GOAT, so I'll address the group as a whole. I appreciate all the opinions that you have shared but you all are just horribly wrong. There's been great players but the Legend stands alone....Larry Bird is the greatest basketball player of all time. If you'll take just 5-10 minutes (depending on your reading level) to look at the attached article, you'll see that whatever "facts" you try to bring into the discussion will be dissolved by the following journalist.....

Larry Bird is the Greatest of All-Time - The Grueling Truth

Larry Bird: The greatest of all-time? It's amazing how infrequently a guy more dominant against better teams is compared to Michael Jordan & Lebron James......

thegruelingtruth.com

We've wasted years in here arguing over "MJ or LeBron", when the discussion should have been either "Bird or MJ". Michael Jordan was great but the competition he played against was sub par compared to the Bird/Magic era. That's why you have to drop back a decade to find anyone to compare Jordan to. If you look at all the facts and listen to interviews of players from the 80s (the greatest generation of the NBA), you'll see there's really no discussion at all.

LARRY BIRD IS THE GREATEST BASKETBALL PLAYER EVER.
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*Michael Jordan was never NBA Coach of the Year or NBA Executive of the Year. NEVER. Bird was a total basketball player. He played, coached, and managed at the highest level Truthfully, if you do some research, there is no Air Jordan or really.... no NBA without Larry Bird.... and Magic Johnson was also important but to a much, much lesser extent.

Yeah it’s MJ, but nice try.

Also, coach and executive of the year? The question is greatest player, not greatest overall nba contributor or whatever this is supposed to prove.

 

[Adam Sandler]

Klatt is a gigantic toilet bowl fart

Good one! Might use that in the future.

 

[Adam Sandler]

I’m ok with this.

Pfff not if he stays with the Titans he wont

 

[Adam Sandler]

But how many years is that predicted with the Titans?

Probably has him being traded before fall camp.

 

[UTSuave’]

 

[Weezer]

Lots of things I hope happen this season. Lots of things I'm afraid happen this season. Truthfully, I think it could go either way.

 

[Lloyd_Christmas]

Weezer and Glitch

Insulting.

 

[Adam Sandler]

Lol. Not wheat or corn or the starch of either. Not any viable food or food product. Not gas. Not precious metals. Not raw materials or land. Not trade treaties or foreign policy promises.

They wanted… soda. And they gave… junk to recycle.

Weird.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Have you seen a full size, uncropped picture of the Hindenberg?

 

[SoilVol]

Vol Men's Tennis heads to super regionals. One of our guys was down 5-0 to Duke and had a legendary comeback to win.

 

[rikberry31]

I'm gonna go ahead and call BS on your comment. I was a meat cutter for 10 years, in a grocery store, in Memphis.

Packaged sausage is made in a processing facility, not a grocery store, and it's made under strict USDA inspections. Carry on

Well my good sir you would be incorrect. You we what is called a "meat cutter"(meat slicer), it doesn't sound like you were breaking down sides or quarters. Being a butcher is something altogether different. My uncle owned a butcher shop in a small town and made his own sausage, I still do to this day. He also made a lot of his cold cuts, roasted a round or two just about every day. There was a time before Walmart, my friend.

 

[rikberry31]

Blue font. Sorry the sarcasm wasn’t too forward.

I was just playing along. I love sarcasm gone too far.

 

[DD4ME]

Happy Chooseday.

May 6, 2025: Take time today to get organized and tie up loose ends. There are things you have worried about that need to be released to God for His intervention--things you have no real control over. Let go, and trust the Lord to do for you what you cannot do for yourself. Jesus is with you and will show you the way. 1 Peter 5:6-7 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

 

[Adam Sandler]

I think I need to stop watching horror movies. The nightmare I just woke up from was beyond terrifying. Like… no that’s tmi. It was just really bad.

 

[Carp]

Ok, I've gotten several responses about my post pertaining to Larry Bird being the GOAT, so I'll address the group as a whole. I appreciate all the opinions that you have shared but you all are just horribly wrong. There's been great players but the Legend stands alone....Larry Bird is the greatest basketball player of all time. If you'll take just 5-10 minutes (depending on your reading level) to look at the attached article, you'll see that whatever "facts" you try to bring into the discussion will be dissolved by the following journalist.....

Larry Bird is the Greatest of All-Time - The Grueling Truth

Larry Bird: The greatest of all-time? It's amazing how infrequently a guy more dominant against better teams is compared to Michael Jordan & Lebron James......

thegruelingtruth.com

We've wasted years in here arguing over "MJ or LeBron", when the discussion should have been either "Bird or MJ". Michael Jordan was great but the competition he played against was sub par compared to the Bird/Magic era. That's why you have to drop back a decade to find anyone to compare Jordan to. If you look at all the facts and listen to interviews of players from the 80s (the greatest generation of the NBA), you'll see there's really no discussion at all.

LARRY BIRD IS THE GREATEST BASKETBALL PLAYER EVER.
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*Michael Jordan was never NBA Coach of the Year or NBA Executive of the Year. NEVER. Bird was a total basketball player. He played, coached, and managed at the highest level Truthfully, if you do some research, there is no Air Jordan or really.... no NBA without Larry Bird.... and Magic Johnson was also important but to a much, much lesser extent.

TF outta here with this BS.

Bird had Kevin McHale, Robert Parrish, and Dennis Johnson for most of his career. And during the prime of his career, they added Bill Walton. They literally walked out a HOF starting 5 for 2 straight years in the mid 80s.

Not only that, but Bird himself says that MJ is the GOAT.

 

[rikberry31]

Maybe you can verify or refute what I was once told by a friend who’s a butcher,”retail stores can’t sell meat graded by the FDA below a D but Taco Bell can use meat graded down to H” Would explain a lot if true

You would be correct, there is a lot of "meat" and meat by-products in the American diet.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

I think I need to stop watching horror movies. The nightmare I just woke up from was beyond terrifying. Like… no that’s tmi. It was just really bad.

Sleeping in late?

I have some weird dreams, especially if I eat before bed. I always thought it is crazy how we can have a dream and our brains will erase it in just a few minutes after we wake up, no matter how wild it was. Must be a pretty nutty dream if you can remember it for a long time.

Have you ever had a crazy dream, forget it, then years later go somewhere and have like déjà vu that reminds you of the place in your dream?

 

[Old Man Orange]

Well my good sir you would be incorrect. You we what is called a "meat cutter"(meat slicer), it doesn't sound like you were breaking down sides or quarters. Being a butcher is something altogether different. My uncle owned a butcher shop in a small town and made his own sausage, I still do to this day. He also made a lot of his cold cuts, roasted a round or two just about every day. There was a time before Walmart, my friend.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Do any of you ride a motor cycle? I'm buying one today from a guy that Johnny Blaze got his from. Just need to sign the paperwork. . .

 

[Jackcrevol]

Do any of you ride a motor cycle? I'm buying one today from a guy that Johnny Blaze got his from. Just need to sign the paperwork. . .

 

[Jackcrevol]

Do any of you ride a motor cycle? I'm buying one today from a guy that Johnny Blaze got his from. Just need to sign the paperwork. . .

Yes, and no.

 

[Volsdeep4]

Didn’t see posted anywhere but softball pitcher Karlyn Pickens got pitcher of the year. 221 k and a .96 era.

 

[Billy Antrim]

View of a snowy white Sierra Blanca this morning! Photo taken from our rental house in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

 

[Batman1948]

Well my good sir you would be incorrect. You we what is called a "meat cutter"(meat slicer), it doesn't sound like you were breaking down sides or quarters. Being a butcher is something altogether different. My uncle owned a butcher shop in a small town and made his own sausage, I still do to this day. He also made a lot of his cold cuts, roasted a round or two just about every day. There was a time before Walmart, my friend.

I did break down sides of beef and just because your uncle did sh*t doesn't mean that's the way the industry does it today. I can almost guarantee he never made packaged sausage like Tennessee Pride for resale.

He may have ground it in his shop and put saw dust in it for extra profit. I just hope he didn't cause any serious illnesses by cutting corners for profit. That's not the industry today. I retired from the meat business after 43 years. But your little a$$ is going on ignore for being stupid.

 

[Batman1948]

Do any of you ride a motor cycle? I'm buying one today from a guy that Johnny Blaze got his from. Just need to sign the paperwork. . .

I had two in my lifetime, and I can honestly say I almost sh*t my pants when I had to avoid a head on collision with a car. The guy was coming around a curve and not paying attention and was drifting into my lane on a two-lane highway.

You can't come back from something like that. They're fun to ride but you can't control what other people around you do. Just ride responsibly and enjoy it.