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    Future Raptor Pilot

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    Respectfully disagree Beaver. There is a large difference between aggressive and arrogant. It seems like the guys that are doing their best Maverick impressions are the guys that have the smallest confidence. It's the guy who is able to flip the switch and become a killer when he needs to that is the best fighter pilot. Perfect example of someone like that is Cael Sanderson (Only person to never lose a college wrestling match and 2004 Olympic Gold medalist). But I digress...

    Future Raptor Pilot

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    Posted

    Anyone considered the 1% chance that the dude wrote an over the top bio on purpose?

    I say it's standard USAFA grad trying to be funny and doesn't realize that he really isn't funny. Saw several bios like that when I went through SPS. And we recruited the power tools from the zoo at EN.

    *Disclaimer - I have zero problem with Academy grads. But you gotta admit, some of them are huge tools when they get to UPT.

    WTF? (**NSFW**)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted · Edited by Danger41

    Their second single off the new album is called "She's the Woman" and sounds a lot better than "Tattoo" IMHO. However, it still sounds eerily similar to "Mean Street". Stoked on the new album! Love VH!

    Tim Tebow (NSFW)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Interesting philosophical argument here...unless you have personally experienced a thing you should not comment on any aspect of it.

    Didn't say don't comment on any aspect. Just don't comment on the "how to" if you have never done. IMHO, it's just like a guy commenting on the best way to provide airlift in a C-17 if all he's done is fly Hogs.

    Tim Tebow (NSFW)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Using Steve Hutchinson as an example of "douche" like play, you could make a case. On similar grounds, any good offensive lineman can be clarified as a douche if they play with his level of intensity and violence between the whistles. He is one of the best (if not the best) run blocking guards in the league and finishes each of his blocks with some nastiness (so to speak). That's what makes him great. The difference between him and a guy like James Harrison is that Hutchinson does his job within the bounds of the rules. Harrison knows what the rules are, knows that people are looking for him to break them, and breaks them anyway. Then calling the commissioner a "faggot" in an interview is a bad technique. Not as bad of a technique as repeatedly calling out Rainman while being a teenage girl commenting on the NFL, but close.

    I don't think that anyone should comment on how to play a game if they have never played it before. Commenting on professionalism is one thing, but talking about how to play the game is asinine. This is why I think that the drive to get more women into a football broadcasting booth is stupid as hell. There is SO MUCH more to football than most fans know, and learning that is done by spending hours and hours on a practice field and in meeting rooms and in film study. Not watching a football game or two a week. In college, I spent almost 40 hours a week just on football stuff. That is why former players make the best broadcasters and can give actual good insight to the game instead of "nice run!"

    Let me ask a serious question then. When some of you played football, how did they teach you to tackle? Saying someone cannot comment on the unprofessionalism in the NFL in regards to tackling because they have never played football is a nonsensical argument. Players have gotten to be thugs like the NBA. Also, football is a team sport. Going for the "big hit" does not necessarily mean you will get the guy down and you can almost bet on a penalty. Look at the number of broken tackles in the NFL and NCAA football for that.

    I played Division 1 football, and they teach you to tackle the exact same way the teach you to tackle when you're 6 years old. Good base, eyes on his belt buckle, drive THROUGH the ball carrier (most often screwed up), fire your hands up and THROUGH the guy, and grab onto anything you can get a hold of (including stupid ######ing dreadlocks), and swarm to the ball carrier so that 10 other teammates drive him into the ground. Here's a perfect example of a big hit coupled with good form tackling by the best (IMHO) Middle Linebacker in the league, Patrick Willis.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VHCdAGccOg

    Tim Tebow (NSFW)

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    Posted

    I love that Dilfer analyzes QB's and Matt Millen covers the NFL draft.

    For all the shit I've seen you write about unified field theory or whatever other crazy, Stephen Hawkingesque stuff you pontificate upon, this is the smartest/funniest thing I've ever seen you write.

    And a Steve Hutchinson reference Rainman? Respect.

    Tim Tebow (NSFW)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted · Edited by Danger41

    Here is a very interesting article on why people hate Tebow. Very interesting perspective how if he was a Muslim that he would be praised for being brave and all this other stuff but is instead vilified for his public religious displays.

    http://msn.foxsports...hate-him-110211

    Why the heck do we hate Tim Tebow?

    What if Tim Tebow were a Muslim?

    Imagine for a second, the Denver Broncos quarterback is a devout follower of Islam, sincere and principled in his beliefs and thus bowed toward Mecca to celebrate touchdowns. Now imagine if Detroit Lions playersStephen Tulloch and Tony Scheffler mockingly bowed toward Mecca, too, after tackling him for a loss or scoring a touchdown, just like what happened Sunday.

    I know what would happen. All hell would break loose.

    Stinging indictments issued by sports columnists. At least a few outraged religious leaders chiming in on his behalf. Depending on what else had happened that day, they might have a chance at becoming Keith Olbermann's Worst Person In The World.

    And there would be apologies. Oh, Lord, would there be apologies — by players, by coaches, possibly by ownership with a tiny chance of a statement from NFL commish Roger Goodell.

    You cannot mock Muslim faith, not in this country, not anywhere really.

    It is primarily a respect issue, because religion is sacred and should be off limits. Yet when Tulloch and Scheffler dropped to a knee to mock how Tebow prays — an action known as “Tebowing” that has gone viral among the public, too — we yawned and told Christians to lighten up. We blamed Tebow for making a show of honoring God rather than himself in moments of joy. We excused them because Tulloch said he was mocking "Tebowing," not God.

    Because ridiculing a man who chooses to honor God is so much better, right?

    His religious fervor is an easy target for the vitriol spewed from those who dislike him, but the reasons are much deeper than that. From his advocacy of abstinence to his infamous “You will never see another team play this hard” speech at Florida, it is like he is too good to be true. He is too nice, and thereby we want him to trip up so we can feel better. We want him to be revealed as a hypocrite, and when that fails to happen, we settle for gleefully celebrating his failures on the football field. And why? Because he dares to say thanks?

    I keep telling myself I am done with this Tebow debate only to be drawn offside, this time by a Lions player I had never heard of and a viral web meme that sprouted this week that had fans flooding an ESPN story’s comments section with viciously funny, yet downright mean and very sacrilegious quips of the “X > Tebow” formula.

    What this whole repeating cycle of Tebow — rip his game, mock his faith, rise to his defense, repeat — has revealed about religious discourse in America is ugly. We have become so enamored of politically correct dogma that we protect every minority from even the slightest blush of insensitivity while letting the very institutions that the majority holds dear to be ridiculed. And this defense that Tebow invites such scrutiny with his willingness to publicly live as he privately believes calls into question what exactly it is we value.

    One of the things Boomer Esiason got right earlier this week in his vicious, radio-show takedown on Tebow as a quarterback was how personal the criticism is. A good many NFL players and fans seem to be rooting for this guy to be a massive failure.

    I could not figure out what was causing this onslaught of venom for a guy almost everybody claims to like, and I finally decided it is more about us. He makes us uncomfortable. He is a reminder that the blue-red, liberal-conservative fight over taking God out of everyday life is intellectually dishonest. He is too good.

    Tebow is proof that God goes comfortably into whatever arena of your life you wish to take Him. I used to work with a great guy, Simon Gonzalez, a very devout Christian, and he prayed before every meal. Others would be killing free press meals and he would stop, bow his head and silently say thanks. He was not making a spectacle of his beliefs. He believed that God deserved thanks for what was before him, and not just when convenient for Simon. And people would squirm — not because what he was doing was wrong but because it was right. It is the same for Tebow.

    There is no organized prayer led by Goodell before every game and no mandate for a post-touchdown prayer. Players such as Tebow — and he certainly is not alone in his belief and faith in the league — do so because consciences request it.

    That others chose to mock — and Tulloch is in good company with many journalists I call friends and web posters with a wicked sense of humor — reminds me very much of the final line of The Paradoxical Commandments so often attributed to Mother Teresa. “You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.”

    And everybody is getting dropped in the grease on this one.

    The defenses of Tebow, by Christians, are so ugly it defeats the point. This is where Christianity so often loses people, the ardent preaching of the gospel of “I'm Right, You're Wrong” and the demand for tolerance and the unwillingness to grant it. Because if Tebow were Muslim and did celebrate by bowing to Mecca, that would deserve respect too. Same for a Jewish player, yet why do I see that blowing up into an ugly mess as well? The level of discourse about religion in this country is frankly embarrassing, a bastard child of political discourse.

    The only one who looks good in all this — maybe too good for some — is Tebow.

    I find it especially telling that Tebow rarely lectures and does not fight back. He did not create Tebowing, nor is he responsible for it blowing up hipster style. It was kind of cool, I thought, after hearing a kid had said he was “Tebowing” while getting chemo.

    Tebow is just a guy with the good sense to say thanks. Instead of taking his cue, we mock his faith.

    And that says more about us, none of it good.

    *EDIT for article quote add

    Tim Tebow (NSFW)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    The dude is 7-1 since taking over and all but one of those wins have been in dramatic fashion. No doubt the Denver defense is playing great and their special teams play has been lights out, but what is your opinion on Tebow?

    Centrifuge info

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Thread revival extrordinaire:

    What is the policy of a dude who can't pass a higher g fuge profile (Viper, Eagle, etc) going to a Hog? To my understanding, Hog assigned guys don't even go to the fuge since their 38 qual is the same profile (correct me if I'm wrong).

    Queen decorates Nepali for Afghanistan heroics

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Awesome job, and I would've thought deserving of the VC. Anyone ever met these guys ? To a man the most polite, good-natured soldiers you'll ever meet, until they're told to turn on the hate.

    The hajjis could've had it worse though; if they'd really annoyed him he would've gone for his knife.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri

    Another example of Gurka insanity with the Kukri

    http://badassoftheweek.com/shrestha.html

    Bin Laden dead!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    An old but appropriate toast:

    "###### Osama Bin Laden, that son of a bitch.

    May his dick fall off from the seven year itch.

    May we bang on his balls with a big, brass hammer,

    Until his asshole whistles the Star Spangled Banner!"

    I honestly think the most motivating part of the story was the gathering of all the people at the White House and Ground Zero and all over the country waving flags and chanting "USA! USA!" and such. That was great.

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